“As Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg observed: ‘In working as a lawyer, law teacher, and now judge, I have discerned no distinctive male or female styles of thinking or writing. And I agree with Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Jeanne Coyne, who said, when asked whether women judges decide cases…
QUESTION: I am interested in finding out the types of assignments that other Heads of Tech Services (or equivalent titles) are responsible for, besides just running the tech services dept. I’m wondering if there is a future for those of us in this position. Is this position part of the…
NEW YORK (AP) – Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced Wednesday that he is resigning, completing a spectacular fall from power for a politician whose once-promising career imploded amid allegations that he paid thousands of dollars for high-end prostitutes. “I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might…
Tammy Raum is: Senior Research Librarian, New York City Law Dept. Library and may be contacted at: tammyraumprof@gmail.com Research Information for State Administrative Code: NYCRR and Litigation Protocol Consultation of the complete unofficial New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR) is now available on a complimentary basis on the New…
BY: Ruest, Danielle and Nelson Ruest. ‘Windows Vista Virtulization: What You Need to Get Started,” Informationweek.com News. (March 10, 2008). “Running Vista in a virtual machine gives users access to all of the operating system’s features while avoiding hardware and application-compatibility obstacles. Here’s a primer to get you started, with…
BY TAMAR RAUM* March is Women’s History Month, and a wealth of historical, social, political, and cultural knowledge is available on the internet. The following internet page of the NWHP (National Women’s History Project) highlights notable achievements of outstanding women. http://www.nwhp.org/whm/test.php To really appreciate the nature and scope of Women’s…
The following was contributed by Bill Graham* The Internet Society played a significant role in the second meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio de Janeiro in December, 2007. ISOC hosted an Open Forum on ISOC’s work and worked with partners to organize or participate in nine other…
[From an article by Tony Mauro in the January 29, 2008 issue of Legal Times] “One way to get a rise out of usually reticent federal judges is to ask them about the sentencing mess — and particularly, the Supreme Court’s role in muddying the waters with a series of…
[From “The History of an American Obsession: The Lie Detectors” by Ken Alder.] “Despite this warning, the search for Momus’s window has continued down the centuries. The Greeks developed a science of physiognomy to assess people’s character from their facial features and gestures. On the assumption that anxious deceivers generated…
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world’d largest developer and publisher of international standards. Many of these standards relate to matters of interest and concern to law libraries and law librarians. Part of their process for standards development is to prepare drafts to various interested groups for comment and…