Archive for February, 2006
February 20th, 2006
Empirical Legal Studies
While this latest of collaborative legal blogs (you sure don’t see too many single-author law blogs anymore) does not have the catchiest of subtitles:
www.elsblog.org – advancing productive interdisciplinary discourse among empirical legal scholars
The Empirical Legal Studies blog does promise to provide interesting and enlightened discussion of the role of empirical scholarship in the study and evaluation of law. Its goals:
The ELS blog serves as an online forum to discuss and provide links for emerging empirical legal scholarship, provide conference updates, discuss empirical claims that have emerged in public and political discourse, facilitate discussion for guest empirical scholars and assess current empirical findings and methodologies.
The authors, Professor Jason Czarnezki of the Marquette University Law School, Professors Michael Heise and Theodore Eisenberg of the Cornell Law School, and William Ford, Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, are active researchers and authorities on empirical legal studies. They have lined up a long list of academics to visit as guest bloggers.
The new blog also includes scheduled “blog forums” on Law Clerks as Research Subjects, Law & Political Science: Revisiting Interdisciplinary Ignorance and the Great Divide, and The Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School. It also provides ELS links, lists of upcoming conferences, and a RSS feed.
Source: Conglomerate
February 17th, 2006
IELP Waterton-Glacier Petition Project
The International Environmental Law Project (IELP) of Lewis & Clark Law School has petitioned the World Heritage Committee to list Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park as a World Heritage Site in Danger due to the effects of climate change on behalf of 12 conservation groups from Canada and the United States.
“The effects of climate change are well-documented and clearly visible in Glacier National Park, and yet the United States has not taken action to protect the world heritage of the park by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to its obligations under the World Heritage Convention,” notes Erica Thorson, a clinical professor with IELP at the Law School and lead author of the petition.
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February 15th, 2006
Fraud Update
Two U.S. law schools have combined forces to create a web site, Fraud Update, to track “government actions against fraud & other practices victimizing consumers, businesses & government.” It is a project of the Center for the Study of Economic Crimes, a collaborative endeavor of Florida State University College of Criminology and the St. Thomas University School of Law (which, in addition to being lauded here on BoleyBlogs!, just today received the further good news of ABA accreditation).
The Center has created Fraud Update to serve as
as an early warning system for both consumers and consumer fraud enforcers and litigators. For the first time, Fraud Update consolidates, in near real-time, fraud-related information from across the nation, transcending jurisdictional and geographic barriers.
The service provides highlights of recent state and federal cases, a section containing the latest alerts and warnings for consumers, listings of recent reports and initiatives by state attorneys general and the FTC, and updates on recent legislation and rule-making, in addition to the Center’s own research bank. Plus, Fraud Update groups its items by topic (Charities, Mobile Homes, Sweepstakes, etc), region, state/fed or issue, and it has an RSS feed. Good works all around.
Source: Robert Ambrogi’s Lawsites
February 10th, 2006
Trial of Saddam Hussein
The Law Library of Congress has created a new resource for tracking the twists, turns and legalities of the the Saddam Hussein war crimes trial currently underway.
Add it to your Saddam Hussein trial blog suitcase, alongside the invaluable Groatium Moment: The Saddam Hussein Trial Blog, the eclectic The Trial of Saddam Hussein blog, news coverage by Jurist and Guardian Unlimited, and the other excellent resources highlighted in our Saddam Hussein Trial: News & Resources post of October 2005.
The Law Library of Congress’ Trial of Saddam Hussein site describes itself in these words:
This website is intended to provide the viewer with essential information related to the relevant trials. It will also set out a selection of reference materials that will further explain important aspects of the trials. In making this selection, the Law Library of Congress does not endorse or attest to the authenticity of any such referenced materials or information.
In addition to viewers in general, the following of the development of the trial of Saddam Hussein, which started in October 2005, may be of special interest to legal scholars of international criminal law and the seekers of universal justice.
Source: email announcement
February 6th, 2006
InSite, a current awareness service of the Cornell Law Library
One of our favorite resources for discovering online legal resources is InSite, provided by the good law librarians of the Cornell Law Library. They evaluate and provide a handful of valuable Web sites every two weeks. And they have been doing so since 1996.
Will InSite replace Google, FindLaw, or even Cornell’s own LII as great starting points for legal web resources? Nah, but that’s not the point. Rather, InSite is the work of librarians providing high quality, useful web sites of potential interest to the legal community. Better yet, they are stored in a searchable database – a great way to track down key resources on a particular topic.
Starting with this post we’ll try to remember to post the InSite sites as published. Be sure to go to InSite itself to read the rich descriptions. You can also subscribe to their email notification service (see the InSite homepage), or their new RSS feed.
Feb. 6 InSite:
Source: The very many editors of BoleyBlogs! – longtime fans of InSite.
February 1st, 2006
TaxProf Blog: Indiana Law Journal Publishes Symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings
Papers from the April 15, 2005 symposium The Next Generation of Law School Rankings have been published in the Indiana Law Journal (v. 81, n.1, Spring, 2006).
Paul Caron, co-organizer of the symposium, has provided links to the full-text of all the papers on his TaxProf Blog. Contributors include Richard Posner, Cass Sunstein, Brian Leiter and many others.
BoleyBlogs! quite naturally points its very many readers to this particular paper.
Source: email announcement
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