In the press release for its annual ranking of countries based on an assessment of country-by-country freedom of the press track records, Reporters Without Borders reports: This year’s index sees many changes in the rankings, changes that reflect a year…
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Reminder: LawLibCon’s 2011/2012 Year in Review Set for This Afternoon
LawLibCon regulars, Rich Leiter, Roger Skalbeck and Marcia Dority Baker, along with today’s guests, Ken Hirsh, Sarah Glassmeyer and Elizabeth Farrell, will be discussing last year’s developments in legal bibliography and law librarianship as well as prognosticating about about what…
Law School Scamblogging Law Prof is ATL’s Lawyer of the Year for 2011
Staci Zaretsky announced the winner of ATL’s 2011 Lawyer of the Year contest yesterday: Congratulations to Paul Campos, the tenured, top-tier law professor behind Inside the Law School Scam! He is ATL’s Lawyer of the Year for 2011. If you’re…
Chief Justice Roberts on SCOTUS Ethics Procedures
“Some observers have recently questioned whether the Judicial Conference’s Code of Conduct for United States Judges should apply to the Supreme Court. I would like to use my annual report this year to address that issue, as well as some…
LLB Turns Seven Years Old Today
Happy New Year’s Day to all and happy anniversary to all the co-editors, contributing editors and readers of LLB since we started publishing on Jan. 1, 2005. [JH]
Getting in the New Year’s Eve Spirit, Lady Gaga-Style
From France: allegedly the largest flash mob ever of Lady Gaga. Oh boy, now I’m really ready to celebrate New Year’s Eve! [JH]
Gawker’s 2011 Year in Review: The Year of Lies
Recommended as one of the best year-end lists by ALT’s Elie Mystal. That works for me. See Gawker’s The Year in Lies. [JH}
Sarah Glassmeyer, Recipient of Two Very Prestigious LLB 2011 Awards
In the spirit of “Best 2011 ‘Something’ Awards,” LLB is delighted to announce that Sarah Glassmeyer’s has been awarded LLB’s 2011 Best Recap of the Year Blog Post again. Actually we didn’t have an official LLB award last year, so…
Bruce Carton’s 10 "Go-To" Law Blogs in 2011
This is the second year Legal Blog Watch’s Bruce Carton has identified his 10 “Most-Watched” legal blogs. Carton writes “not all legal blogs are created (and maintained) equal, and some always grow to be favorites of mine during the year.”…