The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship: A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley July 25, 2009 Georgetown University Law Center Georgetown Law Library About The Future of Today’s Scholarship: A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley The time to debate the role of blogs in legal scholarship has passed. As…
The Internet in 2009 is undergoing the most significant set of changes of its entire history, ccording to one of the men who helped create it, Dr. Vint Cerf. At the official opening of the Internet Society’s (ISOC) new offices in Geneva, on 26 February, Dr Cerf explained that technical…
RICHARD ZORZA As you may know, the economic crisis is having a major impact upon courts, self-help programs, and indeed litigants. A major focus of selfhelpsupport in the next year will be working to make sure that courts and their access partners continue to innovate in access to justice, even…
To be held on April 3-4, 2009 in Tempe, Arizona. The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University will host an international conference, Forensic Science for the 21st Century: The National Academy of Sciences Report and Beyond,” on April 3-4 in Tempe, Ariz. The focal point of…
Martha L. Foote M.S.L.I.S, Chair of the SLA Legal Division has sent the following announcement which we are glad to post here for the benefit of some who might not otherwise see it: The preliminary program for the 2009 SLA conference is now available on the web site at http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2009/09PCP_web.pdf.…
Volume 13, Number 2 of this Newsletter is being reproduced in full on this posting with the permission of its Editor and Publisher, Lesley Ellen Harris. I am grateful to her for granting us this permission. FROM THE OFFICES OF LESLEY ELLEN HARRIS Copyright, New Media Law & E-Commerce News…
We recently received the following information regarding a legal information and legal informatics workshop being held in Poznan, Poland on April 28, 2009, thanks to Robert Richards of Philadelphia, PA.: Call for Papers: Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology, Poznan, Poland, April 28, 2009. Submission details are at…
The following is from a letter we received this morning from Phyllis C. Borzi, Chair of the American Bar Association Joint ommittee on Employee Benefits. It is being posted for the benefit of those who would have an interest in responding: Dear Employee Benefits Practitioner: Every year, the Joint Committee…
George Prager, Head of Cataloging at New York University Law School Library has sent his summary of the ALA Midwinter MARBI meetings to members of the American Association of Law Libraries Technical Services Special Interest Group. With his permission I am also posting it here along with his opening comments:…
The ABA Criminal Justice Section Juvenile Justice Committee and The Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants and The Council on Racial & Ethnic Justice Present; The New Paradigm of Juvenile Justice Complementary CLE Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, a top advisor to President Elect Barack Obama, is known…