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Constitutional Chiffhangers: Learning the "hard way" or fixing some ahead of time

02 Feb

Last month, Brian C. Kalt, Harold Norris Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at Michigan State Univ., published a series of The Volokh Conspiracy posts devoted to topics addressed in his new work Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents…

 

Constitutional Chiffhangers: Learning the "hard way" or fixing some ahead of time

02 Feb

Last month, Brian C. Kalt, Harold Norris Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at Michigan State Univ., published a series of The Volokh Conspiracy posts devoted to topics addressed in his new work Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents…

 

For the Love of It: On why law profs write fiction

27 Jan

Actually, on why one law prof writes fiction. See Ohio Northern Univ. law prof Scott Douglas Gerber’s article, Why a law profressor writes fiction in the January 2012 issue of The National Jurist at 14. Gerber admits the reason is…

 

New Legal Skills Textbooks from Carolina Academic Press

13 Jan

Federal Legal Research by Mary Garvey Algero, Spencer L. Simons, Suzanne E. Rowe, Scott Childs, Sarah E. Ricks Forthcoming January 2012 Federal Legal Research explains how to conduct research in the U.S. Constitution and in federal cases, statutes, and administrative…

 

Top Ten Evidence Issues for 2012 and 2011 (Could provide issues for ALR assignments)

12 Jan

For litigators at the federal trial level, is there anything more important that evidence issues? Federal Evidence Blog has published two posts covering Top Ten Evidence Issues for 2012 and 2011, retrospective and prospective. After assigning the 2011 recap analysis,…

 

Adapting Constitutional Values to Plausible Technological Developments Circa 2025

15 Dec

NPR’s Interpreting The Constitution In The Digital Era featured Jeffery Rosen on Nov. 30th to discuss Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change (Brookings Institution Press, Nov. 29, 2011)[Amazon] he co-edited with Benjamin Wittes. From the blurb for the book: Technological…

 

TR/Westlaw China Gobbles Up iSinolaw

22 Nov

Sadly, I must report about the latest so-called merger of online publishers. I just received a letter from Stephan Yao, CEO or Thomas Reuters Legal, China and Gordon Wong, Business Director of iSinolaw. According to this letter, the two companies…

 

Hello Catalogers of Graham’s Federal Rules of Evidence in a Nutshell (2011)

22 Nov

Hat tip to NKU Law’s Carol Bredemeyer for calling attention to the fact that “evidence” was omitted from the title page for the latest edition of TR Legal’s Federal Rules of Evidence in a Nutshell. Quoting from her recent lawlib…

 

Are Law Schools Facing a Crisis? NLJ launches new blog on legal education

02 Nov

Quoting the “About the Blog” Statement Rising tuition. Misleading employment statistics. Inadequate skills training. Law schools have faced plenty of criticism for their role in the struggles of young lawyers today. The National Law Journal has assembled a panel of…

 

2012 Men of the Stacks Calendar

13 Oct

The Blog Widow loves the gallery on the calendar’s website. (Hum… .) Proceeds are going to a good cause, the It Gets Better Project. See the New Yorker’s The New Sexy Librarian for details. Hat tip to LISNews. [JH]