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Legal Ethics Forum

By Professors John Dzienkowski, Brad Wendel, John Steele, David Hricik, Andrew Perlman, David McGowan, Laura Appleman, Steve Lubet, Anita Bernstein, Don Burnett, and Steve Berenson..

http://www.legalethicsforum.com/blog/

Jun 19
Regulatory appointee criticizes staff lawyers in speech "hypo" (aftermath of San Bruno pipeline explosion)

Regulatory appointee criticizes staff lawyers in speech "hypo" (aftermath of San Bruno pipeline explosion)

We previously covered the interesting story of the dispute between staff attorneys at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the political appointee, Frank Lindh, who oversees the lawyers. Following the catastrophic pipeline…
Jun 19
"Most Leading Law Firm Insurers See Rise in Malpractice Claims Frequency, Severity"

"Most Leading Law Firm Insurers See Rise in Malpractice Claims Frequency, Severity"

Ames & Gough has another of their surveys out. Excerpt from press release: What’s driving the claims volume? “The key impetus is the recession of 2007 to 2009,” said Ms. Garczynski, although many of these claims are…
Jun 19
"Justice Department Fought to Conceal NSA’s Role in Terror Case From Defense Lawyers"

"Justice Department Fought to Conceal NSA’s Role in Terror Case From Defense Lawyers"

Story at Wired. Excerpt: "When a senior FBI official told Congress the role the NSA’s secret surveillance apparatus played in a San Diego terror financing case today, nobody was more surprised to hear it than the defense attorney who…

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Verdict

Provides legal analysis and commentary on topical legal news and cases.

http://verdict.justia.com/

Jun 19
What Should We Think Now About the IRS? We Are All Paying the Price for Republicans’ Underfunding and Vilifying of the Tax Agency

What Should We Think Now About the IRS? We Are All Paying the Price for Republicans’ Underfunding and Vilifying of the Tax Agency

Justia columnist, George Washington law professor, and economist Neil Buchanan argues that the recent IRS flap should really be considered a non-scandal, for reasons he explains, although he notes that the agency did make a significant…
Jun 18
The Supreme Court Rejects Arizona’s Requirement That Voters Prove Their Citizenship—For Now

The Supreme Court Rejects Arizona’s Requirement That Voters Prove Their Citizenship—For Now

Justia columnist and Cornell law professor Michael Dorf comments on Monday’s Supreme Court ruling, Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona. There, as Dorf explains, a mostly united Supreme Court rejected Arizona’s efforts to…
Jun 17
No Unpaid Interns Need Apply: Why a Federal Court Got It Right in Finding Unpaid Interns to Really Be Employee

No Unpaid Interns Need Apply: Why a Federal Court Got It Right in Finding Unpaid Interns to Really Be Employee

Justia columnist and U. Washington law professor Anita Ramasastry comments on a recent ruling from a New York-based federal district judge regarding the legal status of unpaid internships. In the wake of the ruling, which held in favor of a…

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Dorf on Law

By Cornell Law School Professor Michael Dorf and his friends.

http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

Jun 19
Handicapping Arizona's Next Lawsuit

Handicapping Arizona's Next Lawsuit

By Mike Dorf My latest Verdict column discusses Monday's SCOTUS ruling in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona. I make three main points: 1) The breakdown is refreshingly non-political; 2) The Court's rejection of a presumption…
Jun 18
Law, Politics, Right Answers, and Basketball

Law, Politics, Right Answers, and Basketball

By Mike Dorf Yesterday's ruling in Alleyne v. United States produced an interesting division on the Court. The majority opinion by Justice Thomas was joined by the Court's liberal wing, whereas the four other conservatives…
Jun 16
"All Deliberate Speed" for Same-Sex Marriage?

"All Deliberate Speed" for Same-Sex Marriage?

By Mike Dorf Although it's always tricky to predict outcomes of SCOTUS cases, the betting among the cognoscenti is that the Court will invalidate DOMA in the Windsor case and either uphold Prop 8 in the Perry case or find some way to duck…

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Covers emerging empirical legal scholarship, conference updates and empirical claims. Edited by Professors Michael Heise, Theodore Eisenberg, William Ford, Sara Benesh, William Henderson, Frank Cross, Carolyn Shapiro, anbd Christopher Zorn

http://www.elsblog.org/the_empirical_legal_studi/

Jun 13
UCLA's Outstanding Stats Resource

UCLA's Outstanding Stats Resource

Those looking for either introductory or mid-level instructional on-line resources should visit UCLA's idre site. The site's resources are both deep and wide. Particularly helpful is an array of on-line classes and workshops (some with…
Jun 10
When Independent Variables Reverse Sign

When Independent Variables Reverse Sign

Andrew Gelman (Columbia--Statistics) has an interesting post about a nettlesome little topic -- How to make sense of an independent variable that "flips" signs (that is, goes from negative to positive or vice-versa) across model…
Jun 3
Helpful SPSS Resource

Helpful SPSS Resource

Though most of our stats software package-related posts skew towards Stata, we remain mindful that folks' tastes vary across the most popular packages (e.g., Stata, SPSS, R, SAS). With this in mind, we recently stumbled across a helpful and…

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b-screeds

By Thomas R. Bruce of the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.

http://blog.law.cornell.edu/tbruce

Jun 15
A quick (and inadequate) reader’s guide for open-access legal information startup

A quick (and inadequate) reader’s guide for open-access legal information startup

After yesterday’s #calicon13 session on open access operations, I decided that it might be nice to throw together a quick resource guide for folks thinking about going into the business. This is pathetically inadequate, but…
Jun 14
PDF: re-stitching the blanket

PDF: re-stitching the blanket

A few weeks ago I made a characteristically intemperate remark via Twitter, which drew this response from a friend of mine: I was struck by your tweet during the Legislative Data Transparency Conference from a couple of weeks ago:…
Jun 10
GitHub: it ain’t magic pixie dust

GitHub: it ain’t magic pixie dust

These days, people are sticking legislation into GitHub at a furious pace. It is all the rage among the legal-information smart set. The whole thing seems to have started about fifteen months ago with a quote from a…

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The Competitive Edge

Musings from the librarians of the Cornell Law Library on library resources, research tips and news.

http://blog.law.cornell.edu/library

Jun 12
Trial Pamphlets Collection receives AALL Law Library Publications Award

Trial Pamphlets Collection receives AALL Law Library Publications Award

“The False Prophet!” shrieks one cover. “Confession of Ann Walters, the Murderess!” proclaims another. “Death in the Mail” is the lurid title of a third. These are all pamphlets digitized in the…
Jun 3
HeinOnline Law Journal Library now available for Cornell Alumni

HeinOnline Law Journal Library now available for Cornell Alumni

The Law Library is pleased to announce that HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library is now available to Cornell alumni. This database contains more than 1,700 law and law-related journals with a broad range of coverage. Alumni can search…
May 21
A big thank you to Cornell Companions for their volunteer program

A big thank you to Cornell Companions for their volunteer program

As our readers know, at exam time each semester we offer a pet visitation event. Our pet guests come to us courtesy of Cornell Companions, a pet visitation service sponsored by Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The…

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VoxPopuLII

Offers new and interesting views of law on the Internet.

http://blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop

May 31
6 Goals for Public Access to Case Law

6 Goals for Public Access to Case Law

In March, Mike Lissner wrote for this blog about the troubling state of access to case law – noting with dismay that most of the US corpus is not publicly available. While a few states make official cases available, most still do not,…
May 15
Visual Law: What Lawyers Need to Learn from Information Designer

Visual Law: What Lawyers Need to Learn from Information Designer

For decades, words have been lawyers’ tools of trade. Today, we should no longer let tradition force us to think inside the text-only box. Apart from words, there are other means available. It is no longer enough (if it ever was) to…
Apr 29
Taxonomies make the law. Will folksonomies change it?

Taxonomies make the law. Will folksonomies change it?

Take a look at your bundle of tags on Delicious. Would you ever believe you’re going to change the law with a handful of them? You’re going to change the way you research the law. The way you apply it. The way you teach it and, in…

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LII Announce

Features announcements, featured content and legal information factoids. From the Legal Information Institute.

http://blog.law.cornell.edu

Nov 2
Supreme Court Oral Arguments for Week of November 5

Supreme Court Oral Arguments for Week of November 5

SCOTUS hears six cases this week involving trademark, securities litigation, antitrust, attorney’s fees, criminal law, directed verdict and double jeopardy (I’ll take Legal Information for 100, Alex). Here’s the schedule with links to…
Oct 26
Supreme Court Oral Arguments for Week of October 29

Supreme Court Oral Arguments for Week of October 29

This week, the court hears six cases on topics ranging from firearms, deportation, and surveillance, to copyright and drug-detecting dog sniffs (!). Here’s the oral argument schedule with links to the LII Bulletin Previews. Subscribe to get…
Oct 8
Supreme Court Oral Arguments for Week of October 8

Supreme Court Oral Arguments for Week of October 8

It’s a short week for the Supremes this week — Monday is a legal holiday — but they’ll be hearing 4 new cases on Tuesday and Wednesday: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 RYAN, DIR., AZ DOC v. GONZALES, ERNEST V. TIBBALS, WARDEN v. CARTER,…

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InfoBrief

A Cornell Law Library current awareness service for the Cornell Law School faculty.

http://infobrief.blogspot.com/

Jun 28
Dear Readers A

Dear Readers A

Dear Readers, As you may know, the Cornell Law Library has been maintaining two blogs, InfoBrief and Competitive Edge. We have decided to merge the two blogs under the banner of InfoBrief. To stay current with InfoBrief, you will want to…
Apr 18
New Books at Cornell Law Library

New Books at Cornell Law Library

The latest list of New Books is available on the Law Library web site. Click here to view the entire list. It includes all new books at the Law Library as well as law-related books at other libraries on campus. Here are a few titles…
Mar 28
New Law Books at Cornell

New Law Books at Cornell

The latest list of New Books for February 16-29 is available on the Law Library web site. Click here to view the entire list. It includes all new books at the Law Library as well as law-related books at other libraries on campus. Here…

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