Archive for November, 2006
November 30th, 2006
Native America, Discovered and Conquered
Lewis & Clark Law School Associate Professor Robert Miller has joined the ranks of blogging law professors with Native America, Discovered and Conquered.
The blog shares the name of Professor Miller’s new book, Native America, Discovered and Conquered Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny (Greenwood Press, 2006). It has been called “the most comprehensive and thoughtful analysis of the American version of the Doctrine of Discovery to date, its role in the voyages of Lewis & Clark, and its continuing importance in the field of federal Indian Law today.”
Professor Miller is utilizing the new blog to discuss Indian Law, the journey of Lewis & Clark, the doctrine of discovery and manifest destiny. It joins Jack Bog’s Blog, The Fire of Genius, and Truth on the Market in our law school’s collection of faculty blogs.
November 29th, 2006
British History Online
British History Online, created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, is a “digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.”
Researchers will find full-text searchable images of the original texts of debates and proceedings from the House of Commons during the 16th through 19th centuries, Journals of the Parliament of Elizabeth I, court, tax, estate and other records, diaries, charters, local histories, guides, gazetteers, maps and more. New material is added weekly.
Search the full text of individual or multiple sources, or browse by place, subject, period (11th – 19th centuries), sources or maps.
An excellent resource, British History Online is a fine complement to two subscription databases now provided by the Boley Law Library to the Lewis & Clark Law School community:
- Early English Books Online (EEBO)
A brand new addition, EEBO is a digital library containing over 100,000 English texts from 1475-1700. Search by keyword, author, or title, or browse by subjects such as history, literature, and religion. Results contain the complete, digitized images of original pages from all the works.
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
Full text of the official records of the meetings of the English Parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485- 1509).
Source: The Ten Thousand Year Blog
November 29th, 2006
New CALI Lessons
CALI – provider of over 500 interactive, computer-based lessons covering more than 30 legal education subject areas – has added a number of new lessons in the last few months. All are excellent for exam prep.
Many of these lessons are in Family Law, authored by the law professors serving as CALI Family Law Fellows. Other new lessons include ones on remedies, torts and copyright.
There are also two new lessons concerning legal writing, and CALI’s first game – a potential exam study break which will still keep you in the legal game, so to speak. Our friends at Law Dawg Blawg write so well that it’s best we tactfully quote their post on these new lessons & game:
Punctuation and Grammar: Advanced covers the correct use of colons, hyphens and dashes, passive voice, parallelism, and placement of modifiers. If you are not yet ready for advanced punctuation and grammar, you may want to start with Punctuation and Grammar Basics for Law Students, which “reviews the most common writing errors students make and explains the basic rules that will help you avoid mistakes.” Both lessons were written by Wayne Schiess, Director of Legal Writing, University of Texas School of Law.
The Supreme Court Justice Game has two levels. At the first level, players match the names of the nine Justices to their likenesses in the portrait. At the second level, you must choose which of three short quotations from Supreme Court decisions was not written by each Justice.
Disclosure: As a member of the CALI editorial board, I may be slightly biased. Check out these lessons and the game for yourself; I think you will agree with my recommendation.
Lewis & Clark Law Students will find links to CALI, and our all important authorization code for new registration, at our CALI Lessons page.
Source: Law Dawg Blawg
November 27th, 2006
RSS Feeds From UN Bodies
The UN Pulse – the blog of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library – provides a handy list of the growing number of RSS feeds and podcasts provided by various UN bodies.
From the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to many other internationally-known acronyms, these links are a convenient way to keep up on these bodies’ latest activities.
References: What are RSS feeds? What are Podcasts?
Source: Law Librarian Blog
November 21st, 2006
Talking Turkey about the Thanksgiving Break
The Law School Academic Support Blog provides some solid advice on how law students may wish to use their Thanksgiving break to their studying advantage.
Still a bit down? Try this seasonal pep talk.
Now go out there and, as the very many editors of this very BoleyBlogs! universally recommend, take Thanksgiving off and refresh those study batteries.
Source: Law Librarian Blog
November 21st, 2006
Judicial Interments, A-L
Judicial Interments, M-Z
Remember how you’ve long been searching for a visual guide to the final resting places of U.S. Supreme Court justices? Lost too many bar bets on which justices were buried furthest to the East (Nathan Clifford in Portland, ME) and West (Wiley Rutledge in Boulder, CO, narrowly beating out Byron White in Denver, CO)? Planning a structured trip this holiday season?
Well good news! Oyez, home of rich U.S. Supreme Court media of all types, including audio of almost every high court oral argument since 1994, is now providing Google Map mashups of the final burial sites of Supreme Court justices.
Broken-up into two maps based on the last names of the justices – A-L and M-Z – the Oyez Judicial Interments pages allow you to find the resting places of your favorite justice by name or by place. Hours of sober fun, sure to best the most enticing football or Apples to Apples game this holiday season.
Source: How Appealing
November 9th, 2006
The Anti-Anti-Federalist
BoleyBlogs! gives a hearty welcome as Publius lives at the latest blog run by L&C Law School students, The Anti-Anti-Federalist.
Powered by three L&C 2Ls who prefer to remain anonymous in the great American tradition – Hamilton, Jay and Madison – The Anti-Anti-Federalist represents “The Conservative Underground at Lewis and Clark Law School.”
Here at The Anti-Anti-Federalist, we represent the “underground” conservative community at Lewis and Clark Law School. Anyone familiar with the school knows there is a severe bias to the left side in political and social thought. We have no problems with liberals or democrats per se, what we do have a problem with is including this bias in legal arguments and allowing it to set public policy. These things we believe should be based upon real economic and statistical analysis and theory.
Find out more About The Anti-Anti-Federalist. Readers are encouraged to submit articles for posting. (Anonymously, of course, as Philo Publius.)
The Anti-Anti-Federalist is now listed in our LC Law blogroll just to the right —>
As always, do you have an L&C Law School-related blog that you would like to see listed? Let us know! Just email lawlib@lclark.edu with your address and we’ll do the rest.
November 7th, 2006
BoleyBlogs! is quite sure that we no longer need await the top-of-the-hour radio newscasts for election results. Searching all corners of the web, your very many editors have uncovered the following links for tracking the November, 2006 election.
[Oh, you haven’t voted yet? There’s still time at these ballot drop sites: Oregon | Washington]
National
Oregon
Washington State
Other
November 6th, 2006
Get in the Pod
Jack of All Trades
Two new-to-BoleyBlogs! Lewis & Clark Law School student blogs:
- Get in the Pod provides an important service to the community as the self-described “National Enquirer of L&C Law School.”
- Jack of All Trades is by Rick Dyer, a “2L at Lewis and Clark Law School, blogging about life as a law student – while managing family, my business, school, and a clerkship.” He’s been blogging for a while, but a recent upgrade seems to have made the archives disappear. Start reading now and feel like you are getting in on the ground floor.
Both blogs are now listed in our LC Law blogroll just to the right —>.
Have an L&C Law School-related blog and want to get listed? Let us know! Just email lawlib@lclark.edu with your address and we’ll do the rest.
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