Criminal Law Library BlogAt a ceremony on May 21, 2008 at the New York Supreme Court Criminal Term New York County, David Badertscher Principal Law Librarian was presented a Distinguished Service Award for his years of “dedicated service to the Unified Court System.”.
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The FTC Franchise Rule: Analysis and Commentary
Susan Grueneberg and Ann Hurwitz, Editors
Available at the end of May!
2008 Annual Margaret Brent Women Lawyers Achievement Awards Luncheon
The ABA Comission on Women in the Profession will be holding the 18th annual Margaret Brent Awards luncheon on August 10th in New York, NY:
2008 Honorees:
Hon. Ruth Cooper Burg, Judge (Retired), Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, Washington, DC
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter May 23, 2008
TOP STORIES:
Legal Ethics U of C Law Grad Accused of Submitting Phony Grades to Sidley Austin
May 20, 2008, 03:30 pm CDT
New York Senate Bill S7995 Would Limit Office Of Court Administration (OCA) Use of Court Recording Devices
“Legislation being carried by the chairman of the [New York] state Senate’s Judiciary Committee would set limits on the Office of Court Administration’s now unfettered authority to allow the mechanical recording of proceedings in any state courts in New York….”
To see complete article, New York Senate Bill S7995 and Sponsor’s Memorandum Click here
From: Stashenko, Joel. “Senate Bill Would Limit OCA’s Use of Court Recording Devices,” New York Law Journal. (May 19, 2008). p. 1,8.
Electronic Hein Sites 05-16-08
Dahl’s Law Dictionary: French-English
Third Edition
By: Henry Saint Dahl & Tamera Boudreau
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter May 15, 2008
Top ten stories:
Family Law
Harvard Law School Faculty Approves Open Access Policy for Scholarly Publications
The May 13, 2008 issue of the Library Journal Academic Newswire reports that Harvard University Law School (HLS) has adopted an open access policy for making its scholarly publications available online. Quoting from the Academic Newswire report:
“The Harvard University Law School (HLS) faculty last week followed the lead of their colleagues in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences by voting unanimously to make their scholarly articles available online for free, making HLS the first law school to commit to a “mandatory open access policy” via an institutional repository. ”
“Under the new policy, HLS will require that articles authored by its faculty members be placed in an online open access repository. The measure comes just months after the Harvard FAS approved its landmark mandate, after which, university librarian Robert Darnton, an architect of the policy, said he would be talking to Harvard’s professional schools immediately about adopting similar measure. HLS is the first professional school at Harvard to approve the measure. “That such a renowned law school should support Open Access so resoundingly is a victory for the democratization of knowledge,” Darnton said.”
AALL Presents the Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award to Edward Grosek*
AALL presents the Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award to Edward Grosek for his work, The Secret Treaties of History. As the title states, the book indexes treaties that nations entered into secretly. Some treaties trace back as early as 499 A.D. The result of the longtime effort of Grosek, this work includes 110 nations involved in secret treaties. The book annotates 973 secret treaties and includes an annotated bibliography, as well as an important country index. It is a unique resource that researchers in a variety of disciplines-from history to law to political science-can use.
Grosek is currently associate professor at Northern Illinois University and is in charge of the United Nations collection at the Founders Memorial Library. He has published a number of articles on government information.
______________________________________ “From: Ann Fessenden, AALL President, May 15, 2008.
ABA Criminal Justice Section 2008 Spring Conference
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