Archive for April, 2006
April 24th, 2006
Two excellent fellow law library blogs have provided posts – Surviving Finals and Exam Prep Advice – which point to a number of sources of law school exam-taking tips.
We’ve collected them into this list, adding a few of our own. Our local resources are marked BB!, short for BoleyBlogs!* Be sure to read the original posts, and follow the links cited in these resources.
Sources: ZiefBrief and Heafey Headnotes
* BB! is short for BoleyBlogs!, which is this blog named after the Boley Law Library. It’s a verb/noun mashup; quite popular earlier in this century.
April 24th, 2006
Patent Prospector
Patent Prospector is “an open forum of patent information & opinion.” One-year old, but new to us here at BoleyBlogs!, the Prospector (if we may) has a broad coverage, with categories covering Claim Construction, Damages, International, Litigation, Patents in Business, Prosecution, and the Patent System.
It also finds time to cover the quirkier patents and patent applications, such as this recent favorite of ours.
The Prosecutor is authored by Gary Hawk, a patent technical consultant, David McFeeters patent licensing and IP strategy expert, and Portland patent attorney Peter Haas.
The Patent Prosecutor provides both an RSS feed and an email subscription option for the blog (form is 1/3 down page). Contributions are welcome.
Source: Inter Alia
April 21st, 2006
In one week the symposium, Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship, will be taking place in Boston, hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
A number of papers on the topic, including one by our old friend Gordon Smith, are now available at this special SSRN Bloggership page.
The conference, being held April 28, is free for those in the neighborhood. The rest of us may enjoy the proceedings via this live webcast (RealPlayer).
See the Bloggership conference site for details and schedule.
April 19th, 2006
Rankings of Law Schools by Student Quality, 2006
Leiter’s Law School Rankings is the premier site of law school rankings and ranking analysis by University of Texas Law School professor Brian R Leiter.
This week Professor Lieter posts a new rankings list, Rankings of Law Schools by Student Quality, 2006, which has our law school in the top 40, well above our U.S. News cumulative rank of 77.
Want more? We’ve previously posted about the U.S. News rankings and ranking links here.
Source: Law Librarian Blog
April 14th, 2006
Eric T. Freyfogle, Goodbye to the Public-Private Divide, 36 Environmental Law Review 7 (2006)
Private and public land ownership are far more similar and intertwined than we realize, contends Professor Eric Freyfogle in this wide-ranging exploration of property rights and land use in the West. In the case of both types of ownership, Freyfogle urges, our land-use problems would diminish if we could say goodbye to the presumed public-private divide and find new ways of blending private and public interests on all lands, thereby gaining the best of both ownership forms.
(abstract from Environmental Law Review)
April 14th, 2006
David J. Hunnicutt, Oregon Land-Use Regulation and Ballot Measure 37: Newton’s Third Law at Work, 36 Environmental Law Review 25 (2006)
In his essay, Mr. Hunnicutt traces the history and evolution of Oregon’s unique and controversial experiment in statewide, centralized land-use planning, and the impact of that system on property owners in Oregon. The essay discusses the failure of the Oregon appellate courts to provide clear and definable legal standards for regulatory takings, and the efforts of Oregonians to protect their own property through the adoption of Ballot Measure 7 (2000) and Ballot Measure 37 (2004), each of which have been declared unconstitutional. The essay analyzes the recent Marion Court Circuit Court decision invalidating Measure 37, predicts the outcome of that litigation, and concludes with suggestions for changes to Oregon ’s land-use system that would make it more equitable and insure its future in light of voter discontent.
(abstract from Environmental Law Review)
April 14th, 2006
Caroline E.K. MacLaren, Oregon at a Crossroads: Where Do We Go from Here?, 36 Environmental Law Review 53 (2006)
Ms. MacLaren contends that Measure 37 threatens to unravel Oregon’s accomplishments utilizing land use planning as a tool to plan for the state’s future, and removes communities’ ability to engage in future land use planning efforts.
(abstract from Environmental Law Review)
April 14th, 2006
Steven Geoffrey Gieseler, Leslie Marshall Lewallen, and Timothy Sandefur, Measure 37: Paying People for What We Take, 36 Environmental Law Review 79 (2006)
Ms. Lewallen, Mr. Sandefur, and Mr. Gieseler argue that Oregon’s Measure 37 is a necessary—and constitutionally proper—mechanism to protect the rights of property owners. The authors detail both the theory of regulatory takings and the history of land use regulation in Oregon, and the intersection of the two that became Measure 37.
(abstract from Environmental Law Review)
April 14th, 2006
William K. Jaeger, The Effects of Land-Use Regulations on Property Values, 36 Environmental Law Review 105 (2006)
Dr. Jaeger argues that two distinct economic concepts are being confused and used interchangeably in the context of landowner compensation laws like Oregon’s Measure 37. As a result of this confusion, both land-owners and local governments have mistakenly concluded that compensation is due for a reduction in property values, even though land-use regulations may have actually increased property values in many cases.
(abstract from Environmental Law Review)
April 14th, 2006
Edward J. Sullivan, Year Zero: The Aftermath of Measure 37, 36 Environmental Law Review 131 (2006)
Professor Sullivan discusses the features of Measure 37, and how Oregon public entities have dealt with the first claims brought pursuant to the measure. He also suggests how the measure might be altered in the near future and how it will impact Oregon’s statewide land-use system.
(abstract from Environmental Law Review)
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