Archive for November, 2004
November 30th, 2004
The Becker-Posner Blog, a blog by Judge Richard A. Posner and Nobel laureate Gary S. Becker, has started a law blog buzz (blawg buzz?) with this first note of things to come.
Judge Posner, by the way, will be sitting by designation as the district judge presiding over the Amazon patent case.
Source: Ernie the Attorney
November 30th, 2004
The OCLC Top 1000 Library Titles
OCLC, a worldwide library cooperative, has put together a fascinating (you’ve read that right my friend, “fascinating.” We librarians know a good book list when we see one.) list of the top 1000 items held by its 52,000 libraries in 95 countries.
C’mon, we dare you, guess more than one of the top three (the very many editors of BoleyBlogs! only got 1/3). How many of the top ten have you read (7/10)? Which most concerns you, for any reason, in the top 20 (#18)?
Did we mention that the very many editors of BoleyBlogs! is a librarian…
November 29th, 2004
PielBlog…My Life In Interesting Tidbits, “all about my experiences studying environmental law,” is the brand-new blog of one of our very own Lewis & Clark Law School students.
Pielblog (Public Interest Environmental Law blog) is off to a fine start with three posts under its belt. BoleyBlogs! welcomes it’s latest L&C blogpal.
November 24th, 2004
BoleyBlogs! is taking its full Thanksgiving break. Hey, even blogs need some time to unwind, watch some football, do some shopping, hang out with the family, get through all 15 levels of Halo 2, etc.
Nevertheless, BoleyBlogs!, today billing itself as the hardest working blog in law business, will return Monday, November 29, 2004.
Have a great holiday!
November 18th, 2004
Google Scholar
Google, friend of web researchers everywhere, is working on expanding its network of friends to include people searching for scholarly material. People in the academic community. Like law students. And professors. And librarians. And good-hearted editors of legal research blogs and the people who love them.
Today Google announces Google Scholar, a search tool which, in Google’s words, “enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.”
How does it work? Go to Google Scholar at http://scholar.google.com/, and enter a search such as salmon “endangered species act”. Your results will include links to full-text articles in journals and online that you may or may not have access to. If you are on-campus, and the library has a subscription to that publisher, you will generally be able to access the article.
If nothing else, Google Scholar has now provided you a citation to with which to work. Members of the Lewis & Clark Law School and College community can gain access – online or in print – to many of these articles by turning to our Journal Title Search. Your own academic or public library may provide similar access. Still no direct access? There is always interlibrary loan.
Results come in two flavors: Direct links to articles (note the author limit we added to this sample search) and links to articles in which your search was cited (another finely-honed author search).
Find out more:
Source: ResourceShelf
November 16th, 2004
Tierney’s WeblAG is a brand new blawg covering the world of state attorneys general.
WeblAG is the creation of James Tierney, Director of the National State Attorneys General Program, at Columbia Law School.
At the Columbia AG Program site you’ll find an archive of Newsletters, as well as a very useful interactive map with links to the websites of all state Attorneys General.
November 15th, 2004
10×10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time
10×10 is fascinating “info visualization tool” that provides a snapshot of the news every hour. Each new snapshot is made up the images from the top 100 stories of the last hour as posted in Reuters News Service, BBC World Edition, and New York Times International News.
Check out the latest 10×10 “postcard” (click the image to get to larger display, then click individual pictures for brief info and links to stories).
SearchEngineWatch has more at An Hourly Visualization of the News
Source: Inter Alia
November 15th, 2004
New this month: The TTABlog, “Occasional Observations re the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board,” by Massachusetts attorney John Welch.
Source: LawSites
November 15th, 2004
How time flies. Why, it seems like just yesterday that the Oregon Supreme Court adopted the Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct (ORPC) to replace the Oregon Code of Professional Responsibility (ORPR). Come to think of it, it actually seems more like October 26, 2004, that the Supreme Court took this action…
Tricks o’the memory aside, BoleyBlogs! has been on this important story from the beginning, and is now darn ready to start posting about it. The Oregon State Bar provides the following links to help you prepare for the January 1, 2005 effective date of the new ORPC:
November 12th, 2004
Lewis & Clark Law School Professor Michael Blumm has recently published this paper:
Michael C. Blumm, Retracing the Discovery Doctrine: Aboriginal Title, Tribal Sovereignty, and Their Significance to Treaty-Making and Modern Natural Resources Policy in Indian Country, 28 Vt L. Rev. 713 (2004).
Download the full-text article here (pdf).
An abstract of the article follows:
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