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Traffic Ticket “Amnesty” in California Starts in January 2012. But Is It Too Good to Be True?
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Dec
SOPA Goes to Mark-Up Today in the House Judiciary Committee
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Dec
On OpenCongress Blog, Donny Shaw reports ahead of [today’s scheduled] meeting the [House Judiciary Committee] chairman, Rep. Lamar Smith [R, TX], has pulled a neat little trick. Smith has come out with a manager’s amendment that eliminates the most insanely…
Can Your Dean, Your Law School, Handle the Truth?
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Dec
Following the example set by Yale Law School, the University of Chicago Law School has published fairly detailed recent graduate employment data. Yale Law data here, U of Chicago Law data here. ATL’s David Lat would like to know if…
"What would James Madison do if he was staring down a four-hour, closed book Constitutional Law final?"
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Dec
“I mean besides, you know, not writing the Constitution. I like to think he would have just broken down and started destroying stuff rather than confront the reality of his own intellectual inadequacy and poor post-graduate educational decisions.” Quoting again…
Adapting Constitutional Values to Plausible Technological Developments Circa 2025
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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…
December Law Practice Today Issue Focuses on eLawyering
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Dec
The latest edition of the ABA’s Law Practice Today webzine has good articles on elawyering and virtual practice and a really innovative piece by Marc Laurtisen titled, Dancing in the Cloud, and an introduction to the elawyering concept by Stephanie Kimbro — Getting Started With eLawyering).
I also wrote a short article on Document Assembly Over the Internet , which as readers of this Blog will know is an old theme for me.
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Debt To Earning Ratios and Comfort For Law School Grads
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Dec
I theorized in Monday’s post about Cooley Law School whether the debt load a student takes on is worth it compared to the progressive income levels one may make in a regular job. Coming via JD Journal is a story…
On Frustration and Source Code
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Dec
So this is somehow law if not law librarianship related, right? Citing dissent across the Middle East, Europe and even the US in terms of OWS, Time has named “The Protester” as “person of the year.” From Person of the…
Supreme Court Action This Week
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Dec
The Supreme Court issued two opinions on Monday of this week. One overturned a practice of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that had been in place for decades. The Court viewed the application of the “comparative grounds rule” as…
Televising SCOTUS Proceedings: Serious Issues While Tossing in a Cynical 2-Cents Perspective and a Bit of Power Broker History
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Dec
On Dec. 5, 2011, S. 1945 was tossed in the bill hopper (OK, I’m old school!), quickly read twice, because, well, the text really is brief, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings were held by the Subcommittee…
