Policy Update: Including CJS Recommendations Going Before the HOD in Feb. 2008 Nominations for 2008- Positions Weekly Criminal Justice News Round-Up Blawg Directory: Criminal Justice New Award: Frank Carrington Crime Victim Attorney Award
The John Marshall Award was established to honor those dedicated to the improvement of the administration of justice. The 8th annual Award will be presented at the 2008 ABA Annual Meeting in New York, NY. For additional information on the Award and how to make a nomination, please visit the…
Monday, December 3, 2007 AALL Election Results This year we received 1597 ballots (33% of total dues paying members). Darcy Kirk, AALL Secretary, has just notified all the candidates running for office, so I am now pleased to announce the results of the AALL election for 2008. Vice President/President-Elect: (July…
We were happy to receive the following in an e-mail from Karen Selden and would like to share it with our readers: University of Colorado Law Library Cataloguing Philosophy Titles are catalogued into the collection of the University of Colorado Law Library to meet the Law Library Mission: The primary…
On Monday December 3, 2007 the U.S. Intelligence agencies released a new National Intelligence Estimate which concludes that Iran halted a nuclear weapons program in 2003, though it continues to enrich uranium, ostensibly for peaceful purposes. For the convenience of our readers we are posting below without any editorial comment…
Source: LLRX.com http://www.llrx.com **Criminal Resources: False Confessions, by Ken Strutin http://www.llrx.com/features/falseconfessions.htm **Australian Trade Marks Law: The Madrid System, by Nicholas Weston http://www.llrx.com/features/madridsystem.htm **Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets, by Barbara Fullerton, Sabrina I. Pacifici and Aaron Schmidt http://www.llrx.com/features/gadgets2007.htm **Locating Lawyers (including Corporate Counsel): A Brief Overview of Attorney Directories and a 50 State…
BY: Theodore Pollack Senior Law Librarian New York County Public Access Law Library The United States Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal….” Perhaps no more beautiful words have ever been written. However, self-represented litigants who are attempting to protect…
We received the following letter from William H. Neukom President of the American Bar Association on December 3, 2007 and are forwarding it for your consideration: Dear Fellow Lawyer, Each day, evidence mounts that pressure brought by Americans and people of other nations is forcing Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf to…
David Badertscher “Why we need to move from thinking about Web pages to thinking about the information on those pages.” http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/45477.html The above quote and link refer to a recent posting by Joab Jackson in which he discusses an idea recently put forward in a posting by the “father of…
As many of you already know, significant changes, both stylistic and substantive, are being made to the federal judicial procedure and rules. We understand these changes will become effective on December 1. Recently we have received some e-mails from the publisher Thomson West alerting us to the changes and providing…