TOP STORIES: U.S. Supreme Court Supreme Court Rules Guantanamo Detainees Have Habeas Rights Jun 12, 2008, 09:49 am CDT “The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a stunning defeat to the Bush administration in a ruling that gives detainees at Guantanamo Bay a right to challenge their detention in federal courts……
From Goro Toshima: I wanted to alert you to my award-winning documentary, A Hard Straight, which shows what it’s really like to make the radical transition from prison life to society, by following the post-release stories of three people in close and unflinching detail … …One spent his childhood in…
” Let’s face it, during the reign of Bill Gates, Microsoft hasn’t exactly been Xerox Parc when it comes to inventing and creating new technologies. For the most part, Microsoft has been content to buy or copy new technologies and focus on incremental improvements to its products. But that doesn’t…
From the Introduction: “On the Record, the report from the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, describes a new technological environment in which libraries have exciting opportunities for making information resources available and useful to new and demanding audiences. The Working Group has spent a year studying how…
[From an article in the March 17, 2008 The National Law Journal by Tony Mauro of the Legal Times] There’s a video out there you may want to see – a web site called “LawProse Inc” on which 8 of the 9 U.S. Supreme Court justices speak about answering questions,…
From: “This Week’s News”, Library Journal.com (May 29, 2008). Close to 200 attendees took part in a May 20 Library Journal webcast Deep Indexing: A New Approach to Searching Scholarly Literature, sponsored by ProQuest. While a majority of those participating were from the United States, librarians and electronic resource coordinators…
From: “This Week’s News”, Library Journal.com (May 29, 2008). Last week, Harvard University professor Stuart Shieber made history-he was named the first director of Harvard’s newly minted Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC). In his new role, Shieber will oversee the implementation of the university’s groundbreaking open access mandate, which he…
Top Stories of the Week: Layoffs Sonnenschein Acknowledges Layoffs of 37 Lawyers, 87 Staffers May 28, 2008, 05:29 am CDT “Updated: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal is laying off 37 lawyers and 87 staff members, spread across practice groups and offices. Twenty-seven of the lawyers are associates, six are partners and…
May 2008 issue: The May 2008 Pro Se Newsletter, the newsletter of the New York State Unified Court System Newsletter, is being distributed because it contains at least two articles of possible interest. One article “Web-Based Services at the Supreme Court Criminal Term Library New York County” by me describes…
CHORLEY LECTURE 2008 The 37th of a series of annual public lectures given under the auspices of The Modern Law Review, in honour of the late Lord Chorley of Kendal GUNTHER TEUBNER University of Frankfurt Professor of Private Law and Legal Sociology London School of Economics Centennial Visiting Professor Self-subversive…