Archive for April, 2005
April 29th, 2005
The very fine LawMemo.Com, publishers of three electronic advance sheets – Employment Law Memo, NLRB Law Memo, and Arbitration Law Memo – as well as an employment law Caselaw Database (subscription required), is now sharing some of its employment law knowledge in everyone’s favorite format — blogs:
These two new services are just getting started. If they follow the pattern already established by the rest of LawMemo.Com, these blogs will grow to become required reading for any employment, labor, or arbitration law practitioner.
Lewis & Clark Law School provides its students, faculty, and staff with full access to LawMemo.Com’s subscription email alerts/electronic advance sheets and caselaw database. Go here to subscribe (L&C Law School community only).
Source: LawMemo.Com
April 27th, 2005
Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left
Harvard this week introduces its latest legal journal, Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left, “an online journal of the legal left at Harvard Law School— and also the community of left-affiliated students, professors, and practitioners who publish it.” Find out more about Unbound.
Unbound, to be published online-only and available for free, was only recently accepted on a probationary basis by Harvard after a two-year journal-approval oddysey. It’s mission: “To implement an interdisciplinary, external approach that analyzes the underlying assumptions and consequences of the legal system and attempts to suggest alternatives.” (from The Record, 04/21/2005)
Showing a sensitivity to one of the more pressing criticisms of student-edited legal journals — that editors place too much emphasis on citation checking, and too little attention to the substance of the article published – Unbound states in its submission guidelines that, “Writers are responsible for their own citations, and student editors will provide substantive feedback on the arguments made. We’re interested in intellectual interaction— not housekeeping for authors.”
Read 1 Unbound __ (2005) at http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/unbound/
Source: Legal Periodicals (citing Unbound for its “refreshing approach, and one, in my view, that should be taken by far more U.S. legal journals.”)
April 27th, 2005
The Angry Gator
Self-described as a “blog aimed at educating students contemplating attending the University of Florida Levin College of Law” (”We report, you decide.”), The Angry Gator publishes the complaints of “a group of jaded” UF law students. Go here for more of the who, what, and why of the Angry Gator.
Top five complaints? Parking (!), IM Shrillness, WiFi Nazis, Limited Class Selection, and the Closed Cafeteria.
[BoleyBlogs! in no way endorses anonymous criticism of local law schools, their modest legal information blogs, or of the modest legal information blogs' very-many editors, thereof.]
Source: JD2B
April 26th, 2005
Trial Advocacy Blog
The very good folks at Law Librarian Blog have spotted the Trial Advocacy Blog, created by the Temple Law Library to support that school’s excellent trial advocacy program.
This may remind avid readers of a somewhat similar law school program blog, Trial Ad Notes, noted, we daresay, in this previous BoleyBlogs! posting.
Source: Law Librarian Blog
April 25th, 2005
The Journal of the Business Law Society
Students at the University of Illinois College of Law have created a unique blog, The Journal of the Business Law Society, whose purpose is to “provide the casual reader with information on recent developments affecting business law.”
Why unique? The students have organized themselves as a journal, complete with an Editor-in-Chief, Section Editors (Banking and Financing, Corporate, Entertainment, Entrepreneurship, International Business, Labor, Mergers and Acquisitions, Partnerships and LLCs, Real Estate, Securities, Sports, Tax, Technology), and Faculty and Research Advisors.
Sure, they miss out on the joy of law reviews that is cite checking, but this looks to be an excellent model for a specialized legal blog, and an excellent blog to follow in its own right.
Source: Inter Alia
April 25th, 2005
GATT Digital Library
Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have cooperatively created the GATT Digital Library, 1947-1994, providing access to over 30,000 documents and 300 publications.
GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, is the treaty that provided the structure for international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers for almost 50 years, until the WTO was created by the Uruguay Round of negotiations.
The GATT Digital Library provides access to derestricted GATT and early WTO documents and publications through either Browsing the series collections, or via full-text or field Searching. The library provides excellent documentation on using the digital library, including this required entry on deciphering the GATT symbols.
Source: BarclayBlog
April 25th, 2005
Blawg Review #3
This week’s best of the legal blogs – featuring topics such as lying law school officials, crime and punishment, Islamic law, food pyramids, blogs, trials, sexism, and more – is now available at Blawg Review #3, brought to you by the very hard working bloggers at Appellate Law & Practice
April 22nd, 2005
Intellectual Property and Social Justice blog
The U.C. Davis Law School Intellectual Property and Social Justice student group this spring launched a very interesting blog called, accurately, the Intellectual Property and Social Justice blog.
Why pair IP & SJ? IPSJ explains it here:
“Intellectual Property and Social Justice: They may seem like an odd pair. Yet there is a growing recognition that cultural empowerment, distribution of wealth, and even public health are fundamentally implicated in intellectual property policy.
“While intellectual property has traditionally been understood and analyzed in terms of economic incentives, the last decade has given rise to a new movement that views intellectual property, like real property, through the lens of social relations. IPSJ aims to promote critical exploration of how intellectual property laws can be used as tools for recognition and redistribution, while also allowing for a dynamic free culture to flourish.”
Source: Library Juice
April 20th, 2005
The first issue of Lewis & Clark Law School’s Lewis & Clark Law Review will soon be out.
Here are the articles to be published in Volume 9, Number 1 of Lewis & Clark Law Review, complete with links to the abstracts:
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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.
April 20th, 2005
James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer, Lessons for Patent Policy From Empirical Research on Patent Litigation, 9 Lewis & Clark Law Review 2 (2005)
This Article reviews empirical patent litigation research to reveal patent policy lessons. First, the Article presents facts about patent litigation. Next, it analyzes the patent premium. Patent litigation research reveals little about the magnitude of the patent premium, but the research reveals the strategies firms use to capture the patent premium and the patent policy instruments that determine the patent premium. Next, the Article evaluates the patent prosecution process and notes that making efforts to refine a patent application can affect the value of the patent. The Article then identifies reforms for improving PTO performance. Finally, the Article discusses policy changes that patent litigation research suggests would improve procedural fairness and reduce patent litigation costs.
(abstract from Lewis & Clark Law Review)
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