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Ideoblog

L&C Law Professor Geoffrey Manne, fresh off a blogging turn at Conglomerate and in anticipation of his own soon-to-be-live Truth on the Market blog venture, is filling in for a month at Ideoblog.

Ideoblog’s Larry Ribstein is heading out of country for a while, so Professor Manne is leading this group of bloggers in his stead: “His dad Henry Manne, Kate Litvak (Texas), Bill Sjostrom (Northern Kentucky, who’s been blogging at the Business Law Prof Blog), Josh Wright (GMU), Keith Sharfman (Rutgers), Thom Lambert (Missouri) and one person named Pseudonym on the Market.”

Read Professor Manne’s introduction, then make Ideoblog a regular stop between holiday events. Expect rich content and conversation, with posts already covering such topics as risk allocation, payola & price-fixing, SSRN & law faculty hiring, Google, exam software & the law of unintended consequences, the SEC and antitrust immunity, the NYSE, legal valuation and even a bit of Larry Ribstein travelogue.

Ideoblog is at http://busmovie.typepad.com/ideoblog/, and does provide a RSS feed.

Lewis & Clark Law Review Paper Symposium: Federalism After Gonzalez v. Raich

Lewis & Clark Law Review has released pre-publication versions of its forthcoming Paper Symposium, Federalism After Gonzalez v. Raich, weeks before the articles are due in print. The Symposium contains articles from a distinguished list of law professors and is receiving positive mention among legal and nonlegal bloggers alike (see below).

Symposium Articles

• Foreword: Limiting Raich by Randy E. Barnett
• Morrison Dead? Assessing a Supreme Drug (Law) Overdose by Jonathan H. Adler
• Why Not Heighten the Scrutiny of Congressional Power when the States Undertake Policy Experiments? by Ann Althouse
• Raich and Judicial Conservatism at the Close of the Rehnquist Court by Eric R. Claeys
• Rescuing Federalism After Raich: The Case for Clear Statement Rules by Thomas W. Merrill
• “Society Must Be [Regulated]”: Biopolitics and the Commerce Clause in Gonzales v. Raich by John T. Parry
• The Medical Marijuana Case: A Commerce Clause Counter-Revolution? by Robert J. Pushaw, Jr.
• What Hath Raich Wrought? Five Takes by Glenn H. Reynolds & Brannon P. Denning

The Symposium is already generating positive reviews: Professor Randy Barnett, who argued Raich before the Supreme Court and is author of the Symposium’s foreward, Limiting Raich (pdf), has called the symposium “a superb collection of papers.” Professor Ann Althouse says it’s “a big, exciting symposium.”

Many other bloggers have been picking up on the Symposium’s release, including Instapundit, OrCon Law, Of Arms & the Law, Famous Last Words, The Daily Brief, Dispatches from the Culture War, The Parlance of Our Times and Collateral Evidence. Find more blog comments on the Symposium via this Technorati search.

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. Subscribe to our L&C Law Review RSS feed and find out as soon as issues become available. We also provide feeds for our other Lewis & Clark law reviews, Environmental Law [RSS feed] and Animal Law Review [RSS feed].

THOMAS – Legislative Information from the Library of Congress

THOMAS, the leading U.S. Congressional information site on the web — think in terms of legislative history, current legislation, bill tracking, full-text searching and links to document images, all for one low price (free) — is greeting the holiday season with a new improved look and more nuanced navigation scheme.

Among the changes:

• A revised home page to match the Library of Congress home page and American Memory, the multimedia Web site that presents more than 10 million items of American history and culture. The revised look incorporates such persistent features as consistent headers and footers, as well as “breadcrumbs” that help users easily determine the path that leads from the home page to a page they are viewing.
• A left-side menu for quick access to major sections of the site. This menu provides direct links to “Bills, Resolutions,” “Congressional Record,” “Government Resources” and information “For Teachers,” among others.
• The ability to “browse” legislation by sponsor from the THOMAS home page.
• Links in presidential nomination records to Senate hearings.
• Links to related Library of Congress resources, such as the Law Library and Webcasts of public-affairs lectures and other events held at the Library.
• Links to the full text of treaties from treaty records.
• Easy access to improved and more-intuitive multi-Congress searching from the home page.

Read even more about the new THOMAS via this press release.

Source: the indomitable Law Dawg Blawg

Wex

The Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute (LII) has gone and created Wex, a “collaboratively-edited legal dictionary and encyclopedia.”

Check it out. Note its similarity to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ‘that anyone can edit.’ Unlike its more famous cousin, Wex doesn’t let just anyone contribute – you have to volunteer and be selected to be a Wex editorial contributor.

Interested? Go request to be an editor! Wex looks to be a grand experiment in applying collaborative technology to the law, and one aimed at the general public. Nice job, LII.

Source: CALIopolis

Picker MobBlog

L&C Law Professor Lydia Loren, writing regularly at her innovative class blog LC Cyberblog, is appearing this week at the Picker MobBlog for a conversation on copyright law.

Professor Loren is joining a distinguished group of experts to discuss Professor Julie Cohen’s forthcoming paper The Place of the User in Copyright Law.

What is a “MobBlog?” The host of the Picker MobBlog, Professor Randy Picker of the University of Chicago Law School, describes it this way:

Think of this as a “smart mob” blog (or not so smart, you tell me). The idea is to bring together a group of interested people to blog on a particular topic, do so, and disband. I will post on the blog intermittently between mobs, but the mobs will be the heart of the blog. I think of this as an online reading group or an online workshop.

Read Professor Loren’s first post, How Can The Situated User Help Copyright Law?, and follow the discussion all week at the Picker MobBlog.

Concurring Opinions: Law Professor Blogger Census (Version 3.1)

Today’s release of an updated Law Professor Blogger Census by the legal blog Concurring Opinions reveals that (1) plenty of law professors are using blogs, many from the Top 20 law schools, depending on which top 20 list you use; and (2) L&C Law School is well represented by three professors – Jack Bogdanski, Lydia Loren and Joseph Miller (with more to come…).

Also revealed today: The identity of ‘Article II Groupie,’ author of the very popular and delightfully gossipy Underneath Their Robes. Turns out that she is David Lat, a Newark-based U.S. Attorney.

Kind of.

So much for the theory that A3G was really Judge Kozinski. Visit How Appealing for the latest updates in this breaking news.

Source: SCOTUSblog

Washington and Lee University, School of Law Library – Most-Cited Legal Periodicals: U.S. and selected non-U.S.

John Doyle of the Washington and Lee Law Library has updated his rankings of law reviews, Most-Cited Legal Periodicals: U.S. and selected non-U.S..

This fascinating tool allows one to view law reviews and other legal periodicals in order of various rankings. You can choose which rankings to sort the list, and also limit the results by subject (such as by journals focusing on Animal Law or Environment, Natural Resources and Land Use law), type of journal, and country.

Be sure to review the Explanation and Ranking Methodology page. It does a fine job in pointing out the many extras hidden on the page (including links to article submission info) and in explaining what the ranking options are and their inherent drawbacks. There are a few. Briefly:

• Impact Factor: The average number of citations (citations to articles in a journal) per article. This is the default ranking.
• Immediacy Index: Measures how rapidly an article will be discovered and cited.
• Journals: Number of periodical citations to articles in a journal in the last eight years.
• Cases: Number of cases citing to articles in a journal.

Still reading? Ah, you must share the very many editors of BoleyBlogs’ interest in journal ranking and citation analysis. Let us then recommend you read Doyle’s recent post on Impact Factors and Cost of Citation (which journal provides you the best bang for the buck?) from his Legal Periodicals blog.

Source: Legal Periodicals

madisonian.net

Joe Miller, Associate Professor focusing on intellectual law property issues, is Lewis & Clark Law School’s latest faculty blogger. Professor Miller is now a regular member of madisonian.net, “a blog about law, society, and technology.”

Professor Miller joins our other blogging faculty: Jack Bogdanski, whose well-known site is Jack Bog’s Blog (and is today profiled in the Portland Tribune); Lydia Loren, with her innovative class blog LC Cyberlaw; and Geoff Manne, this week guest blogging on Conglomerate.

Leiter’s Law School Rankings

Today marks the launching of Lieter’s Law School Rankings, “the premier site of law school rankings for prospective, current, and former law students; law school faculty and administrators; and practicing lawyers in law firms, government, and public interest organizations.”

You’ll find two new rankings, including the Student Quality Rankings (Lewis & Clark Law School is in the top 40) , along with other student, faculty and job placement rankings previously on Professor Leiter’s own site.

Also available: Discussion of the U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings, archives, and links to law review articles on law school rankings.

Leiter’s Law School Rankings is a service of Law Professor Web Services, LLC, parent limited liability company of the quite valuable Law Professor Blogs network.

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