Archive for February, 2005
February 25th, 2005
Federal Judges Biographical Database
The Federal Judicial Center’s already solid Federal Judges Biographical Database continues to expand and improve.
The databases provides updated “information about all judges who have served on the U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the Supreme Court and other life-tenured courts since 1789.” The core information remains available by name at the database’s home page, Judges of the United States Courts.
Now, by clicking through the link titled The Federal Judges Biographical Database, researchers can create lists of U.S. judges based on multiple categories:
- Chief Judges
- Court
- Court Type
- Nominating President
- Party of Nominating President
- Nomination Date
- Confirmation Date
- Commission Date
- Retirement from Active Service Date
- Termination Date
- Termination Reason
- Gender
- Race or Ethnicity
- Limit Query to Sitting Judges
That last category, adding the ability to limit the search to sitting judges, makes this database particularly useful for researchers seeking aggregated information about the makeup of the current federal judiciary, as well as a handy tool for students looking to clerk at federal courts.
More information is available from this Federal Judiciary Center press release.
Source: ResourceShelf
February 8th, 2005
Google Maps
New from Google Labs, Google’s technology playground, is Google Maps.
Here’s what Lewis & Clark Law School, the home office of BoleyBlogs!, looks like on Google Maps, albeit shrunk a bit to fit on this page:
(Click here for full map)
Why not Mapquest, Yahoo Maps, or MapsOnUs? The Google Blog points to:
- Crisp maps (they really are clean – with much more crisp than either our snipped sample or most children’s cereals)
- Ability to search for places of interest near a known location (such as, say, Breweries near the Law School)
- Click-and-draggable map
- Intuitive step-by-step directions. Nifty feature: click on a particular part of the text directions and the map provides a magnified view of the area
- Keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys to pan or the +/- keys to zoom in and out)
Source: the wonderful WisBlawg
February 8th, 2005
Blogs of War: A Review of Alternative Sources for Iraq War Information
On the off chance that any of our humble readers are searching for a wee bit more perspective on the Iraq War than the U.S. media makes readily available, Searcher magazine today publishes an excellent guide to alternative sources for Iraq War information, Blogs of War.
I hear you asking, “whence the legal link, oh you many editors of BoleyBlogs!?” Two law-related blogs are among the fine collection of Iraq War sites highlighted:
One, Intel Dump, written by L.A. attorney and former U.S. Army officer Phillip Carter, has appeared in BoleyBlogs! and Law in the News many times. New to BoleyBlogs! is Dagger JAG, “A Lawyer’s life in Iraq with the 1st Infantry Division’s, 2nd (DAGGER) Brigade.”
February 8th, 2005
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society: Citechecking Just Got A Little Easier
“The flagship law reviews of Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford, Texas, U. Penn., Virginia, and Yale have joined the following statement regarding the growing length of legal scholarship…”
Read the statement, outlining the power-journals’ reasons for reigning in article length, at ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society
February 7th, 2005
SCOTUSblog
Today brings news that SCOTUSblog, the premiere source for bloggy goodness on all things U.S. Supreme Court, has a new look. ScotusBlog is the creation of Goldstein & Howe, P.C., the nation’s “only Supreme Court litigation boutique.”
Source: How Appealing
February 2nd, 2005
TDR – Trademark Document Retrieval
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has released the results of their latest digitization efforts, TDR – Trademark Document Retrieval.
TDR allows researchers to “view and download any or all documents contained in the electronic file wrapper of all pending trademark applications, as well as many registrations.” This amounts to over 460,000 trademark applications totaling more than eight million document pages already available online. During the next five years the USPTO plans to digitize and make available via TDR the paper files of the remaining 1.2 million active trademark registrations, along with all new applications as they are filed.
Combined with TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System) and TARR ( Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval), and online filing via TEAS (Trademark Electronic Application System), the Patent and Trademark Office has a fully stocked library of digital services and, said with appreciation, accompanying acronyms.
For more information visit the TDR page, TDR Questions and Answers, and the USPTO’s press release.
Source: beSpacific
February 2nd, 2005
Lewis & Clark Law School Professor Ronald Lansing tells the story of Alice Gantenbein and how she helped the Northwestern School of Law and its students make it through World War II. Much of the tale is told in Alice’s own words from the letters she wrote to her husband serving oversees, John Gantenbein, co-owner and Assistant Registrar of the law school.
Read Alice in Law School Land: A Story of Love and Law, in this month’s Oregon State Bar Bulletin.
New L&C Law Scholarship is a regular feature of BoleyBlogs!. Here we announce new content from the law reviews of Lewis & Clark Law School, along with the latest publishing ventures of our own faculty, students, and staff.
February 1st, 2005
LexisNexis Research Task Pages
LexisNexis has improved and expanded on its offerings of Research Task Pages. LexisNexis describes them as pages “tailored specifically for your information needs, offering you quick accessibility to the material you need all in one handy location.”
It may be easiest to understand these pages by viewing them yourself. Here’s how:
- Log into LexisNexis
- Click Research System tab
- Click the Research Tasks tab to the right of the Search tab.
Check out some of the better Research Tasks, such as Environment or Federal Litigation. You’ll see that the pages easily allow you to search in combined sources, offer quick links to the latest news in that area of law or practice, provide easy methods for searching specific areas of law, tracking laws and regulations, finding related sources, and linking to specific subpages with more links to primary and secondary sources in the area. There’s more, such as links to forms and pleadings, depending on which task you choose. These are particularly valuable when dealing with an unfamiliar area of law or practice task.
Source: Law Librarian Blog
February 1st, 2005
Lewis & Clark Law School Professor Robert Miller will be speaking March 13 at the Portland Art Museum on the Doctrine of Discovery and Lewis & Clark. Find out more about Professor Miller’s speech, Lewis & Clark’s “Discovery” of Indian Nations Redefined, complementing the museum’s special exhibition, People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory.
New L&C Law Scholarship is a regular feature of BoleyBlogs!. Here we announce new content from the law reviews of Lewis & Clark Law School, along with the latest publishing ventures of our own faculty, students, and staff.
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