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Center for Citizen Media Blog

Covers issues related to grassroots media and citizen journalism. From the Center for Citizen Media, affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism & the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

http://citmedia.org/blog

Jun 5
Citizen Media Business Issues: Traffic Rankings, Search Engines, and Search Engine Optimization

Citizen Media Business Issues: Traffic Rankings, Search Engines, and Search Engine Optimization

(This is the seventeenth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent…
Jun 3
Citizen Media Business Issues: Web Statistic

Citizen Media Business Issues: Web Statistic

(This is the sixteenth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent…
Apr 23
Investigative Blogger Raising Fund

Investigative Blogger Raising Fund

Firedoglake is raising money to pay for investigative blogging.

Rank this Week: 2097

Citizen Media Law Project Blog

Covers defamation, anonymity, copyright, trademark, SLAPP and other online journalism legal topics.

http://www.citmedialaw.org

May 22
Massachusetts Courts Mull Right of Access to Deceased Family Members' E-mail

Massachusetts Courts Mull Right of Access to Deceased Family Members' E-mail

A case in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals, Ajemian v. Yahoo!, Inc., decided on May 7, is the latest case dealing with ownership of digital assets after death. Plaintiffs, Marianne Ajemian and Robert Ajemian, are co-administrators of…
May 15
Justice Dept.'s Media Investigation Policy Falls Flat Compared to Other Protections Against Press Intrusion

Justice Dept.'s Media Investigation Policy Falls Flat Compared to Other Protections Against Press Intrusion

As has been widely reported, the U.S. Department of Justice has disclosed that it has obtained two months' worth of telephone records from 20 separate phone lines assigned to the journalists and offices of the Associated Press. The Associated…
May 10
3D Printed Guns and the First Amendment

3D Printed Guns and the First Amendment

Several news organizations are reporting today that the U.S. Government, through the Department of State, through the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), sent a letter to the organization Defense Distributed, requesting the…

Rank this Week: 1334

Credit Slips

Discusses credit and bankruptcy. By Professors Bob Lawless, Angela Littwin, Katie Porter, John Pottow, Deborah Thorne and Elizabeth Warren.

http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/

May 21
Non-exempt Exempt IRAs and Undercompensated Chapter 7 Trustee

Non-exempt Exempt IRAs and Undercompensated Chapter 7 Trustee

Some chapter 7 trustees have found a problem that could affect thousands of IRAs, leading to the first post in a two-post series on unintended consequences. A better reading of the law is that these IRAs should remain exempt from...
May 17
MLEA at the University of Illinoi

MLEA at the University of Illinoi

On October 11 & 12, the University of Illinois College of Law will host the 12th annual Midwestern Law & Economics Association conference. The event consists of law professors and economists presenting papers with varying degrees of…
May 10
On the Valuation of Hedge Funds (or Hedge Fund Managers)

On the Valuation of Hedge Funds (or Hedge Fund Managers)

So Felix Salmon has taken a justifiable swipe at some oddish Bloomberg articles on Citibank's spinoff of its internal hedge fund, as required by the Volcker Rule. But in doing so, it seems as though he may have hit his...

Rank this Week: 36

Et Seq. - The Harvard Law School…

Et Seq. - The Harvard Law School Library Blog

Covers library legal issues, legal information sources, and notices for the Harvard Law community. From the law librarians of Harvard Law School.

http://etseq.law.harvard.edu/

Nov 26
852 RARE: A Unique and Heartfelt Tribute to Sir Edward Coke

852 RARE: A Unique and Heartfelt Tribute to Sir Edward Coke

Title page, The Recorde of Honor and Vertue ...
Nov 20
Thanksgiving – A Round Up of Link

Thanksgiving – A Round Up of Link

As you get ready to depart for Thanksgiving, take some time to learn a little bit about the laws surrounding this holiday:
Nov 14
Financial Times now Online at Harvard

Financial Times now Online at Harvard

The Financial Times (FT) is now available to the Harvard community. Sign up for premium accounts to FT.com, which include: Unlimited FT.com article access The LEX column Unlimited mobile and tablet access ePaper access 5 year company…

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Harvard JD Admissions

The Official JD Admissions Blog at Harvard Law School.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/admissions

Apr 19
Update on ASW

Update on ASW

We are relieved that the situation in the Boston area today has come to a close. The no-travel advisories that were issued by law enforcement authorities earlier today have been lifted. Accordingly, Harvard Law School will reopen on…
Apr 19
Further Update on the ASW

Further Update on the ASW

We have continued to monitor the events in the Boston and Cambridge area all morning and Harvard University remains closed at this time. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing uncertainty of the situation, we are asking that you cancel any travel…
Apr 19
Status of the ASW

Status of the ASW

We are closely monitoring the unfolding situation in the Boston and Cambridge area. Harvard University is currently closed. We will send updated information about the status of the Admitted Students’ Weekend as soon as it is…

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Harvard Law & Policy Review Blog

Explores law and policy from new angles, and aims to make unique contributions to discussions unfolding in the national media, local news, and the blawgosphere. Bloggers are progressive law students and lawyers from around the country. The Harvard Law & Policy Review is the official journal of the American Constitution Society.

http://hlpronline.com

Apr 30
Hawaii reporter’s shield bill would protect a narrow class of traditional outlets, journalist

Hawaii reporter’s shield bill would protect a narrow class of traditional outlets, journalist

Follow me @jonathanwpeters on Twitter. A panel of Hawaii lawmakers approved last week a reporter’s shield bill that would eliminate all protections for free newspapers and magazines and for newspapers that distribute content…
Apr 6
Panel 3: The Future of Law and Policy

Panel 3: The Future of Law and Policy

2:20 — Jacqui Bowman of Greater Boston Legal Services kicks off the final panel of the day with a picture of a day at GBLS. 2:24 — Bowman: GBLS makes difficult choices between serving people in dire circumstances, gives example of…
Apr 6
HLPROnline Symposium, Keynote Address: Lessons from Gideon and The Struggle for Access to Justice, by Gene Nichol

HLPROnline Symposium, Keynote Address: Lessons from Gideon and The Struggle for Access to Justice, by Gene Nichol

1:50: Gene Nichol, setting a modest tone for his address: “If George Bush taught us anything, it’s the importance of diminished expectations.” 1:52: Nichol won’t be measuring things, “The bigger I get, the less…

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Info/Law

Covers information, law, and the law of information. By Professors William McGeveran, Derek Bambauer and Tim Armstrong.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw

May 15
Search and the First Amendment

Search and the First Amendment

Jane and I are in Arlington, Virginia, for a conference on Competition Policy in Search and Social Media at George Mason University. Jane, Neil Richards, Dawn Nunziato, and Stuart Benjamin will discuss the interplay of the First Amendment,…
May 1
Reporting Fail: The Reidentification of Personal Genome Project Participant

Reporting Fail: The Reidentification of Personal Genome Project Participant

Last week, a Forbes article by Adam Tanner announced that a research team led by Latanya Sweeney had re-identified “more than 40% of a sample of anonymous participants” in Harvard’s Personal Genome Project. Sweeney is a…
Apr 19
Smoke If You Got ‘Em

Smoke If You Got ‘Em

I’m here in rainy, lovely Eugene, Oregon watching the Oregon Law Review symposium, A Step Forward: Creating a Just Drug Policy for the United States. (You can watch it live.) Jane is presenting her paper Defending the Dog –…

Rank this Week: 1642

John Palfrey's Blog

Covers intellectual property, politics and teaching. By Harvard Law Professor and Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society John Palfrey.

http://jpalfrey.andover.edu

May 9
Khan Academy meets Phillips Academy

Khan Academy meets Phillips Academy

Sal Khan and his traveling team of six teachers and developers from Khan Academy are on campus at Phillips Academy this morning. We are delighted to welcome them to a special faculty meeting this morning. We are also pleased to…
Apr 18
The Launch of the Digital Public Library of America

The Launch of the Digital Public Library of America

My favorite tweet in a long time, courtesy of @electriclit: It’s going to be a good day. The Digital Public Library of America opens at noon: j.mp/15hTf0w // @dpla Today is launch day for the DPLA. Hooray! So many people…
Mar 26
“Super late to the party: Dan Cohen & the DPLA”

“Super late to the party: Dan Cohen & the DPLA”

Super late to the party: Dan Cohen & the DPLA. An enthusiastic take by Sarah Barbrow on Dan Cohen’s appointment as the founding executive director of the Digital Public Library of America, which I share.

Rank this Week: 2949

Law School Innovation

Covers teaching, curriculum, and classroom technology. Edited by Professors Douglas A. Berman, Anupam Chander, Gene Koo and Mark W. Osler.

http://lsi.typepad.com/lsi/

Oct 20
Unkind Cuts: Shrinking the law school budget

Unkind Cuts: Shrinking the law school budget

Legal education is under strain: Fewer people are applying to law school, and those who apply are less qualified. One result of this dynamic is that law schools are admitting fewer students, in order to keep qualifications up, but that...
Sep 19
Mentoring-- innovative, practical, and achievable

Mentoring-- innovative, practical, and achievable

One of the things we do well here at St. Thomas is establish mentor relationships for our students with lawyers in the community-- every student has a mentor. Neil Hamilton and Verna Monson have done some significant and important work...
Aug 16
Dean searches and new idea

Dean searches and new idea

It appears that there are about 30-some dean searches going on this year, which strikes me as a high number. I suspect that every single candidate for every one of those searches (a group that I am, thankfully, not a...

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Lawfare

Coveres actions taken or contemplated to protect the nation interact with the nation’s laws and legal institutions, including cybersecurity, Guantánamo habeas litigation, targeted killing, biosecurity, universal jurisdiction, the Alien Tort Statute, and the state secrets privilege. By Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith and Robert Chesney.

http://www.lawfareblog.com/

May 22
The Attorney General’s Letter to Congress on Anwar Al-Aulaqi

The Attorney General’s Letter to Congress on Anwar Al-Aulaqi

In advance of the President’s speech tomorrow, the Attorney General has just sent this letter to Senator Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, describing the Administration’s legal basis for killing Anwar al-Aulaqi…
May 22
AG Holder Letter on Targeting

AG Holder Letter on Targeting

Yesterday, Bobby and I wrote this post about what the President could say in his speech tomorrow on counterterrorism, and we highlighted as one important element the President’s repeated pledges of greater transparency on targeting. As…
May 22
An Explainer on the Espionage Act and the Third-Party Leak Prosecution

An Explainer on the Espionage Act and the Third-Party Leak Prosecution

The press scandals keep on coming for the Obama Administration. Hot on the heels of revelations that the administration subpoenaed the Associated Press’s phone records as part of a leak investigation, the Washington Post reported on…

Rank this Week: 18

Less than the Least

Covers crime and criminal justice (Stuntz), corporate governance, credit, and bankruptcy (Skeel), the culture wars, politics, literature and the arts, and other topics. By Professors David Skeel and William Stuntz.

http://www.law.upenn.edu/blogs/dskeel/

Feb 26
Less than the Least

Less than the Least

This blog nearly didn’t begin.  Right after we first started talking about the blog four years ago, Bill got his cancer diagnosis.   Bill already had endured eight years of excruciating back problems, and…
Feb 26
The Latest on Bill and his Work

The Latest on Bill and his Work

Here is a lovely article in the Boston Globe about Bill's rush to finish The Collapse of American Criminal Justice in the final months of his life.Adam Gopnik discusses Bill's book in some detail in the a New Yorker piece...
Feb 26
Odds and Ends--2012

Odds and Ends--2012

In case anyone might be interested, here are a few recent op-eds and articles:Op-Eds:A recent op-ed on the mortgage settlements is here.An op-ed from the beginning of the contraception crisis (before the more recent…

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MediaBerkman

Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society Podcast.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman

May 14
Timothy H. Edgar on Addressing Cyber Conflict While Protecting Privacy and Internet Freedom

Timothy H. Edgar on Addressing Cyber Conflict While Protecting Privacy and Internet Freedom

What does talk of cyber war mean for our liberties? The United States has a new military command for cyberspace, with the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) as its commander. At the same time, the Secretary of State has announced…
May 14
Timothy H. Edgar on Addressing Cyber Conflict While Protecting Privacy and Internet Freedom [AUDIO]

Timothy H. Edgar on Addressing Cyber Conflict While Protecting Privacy and Internet Freedom [AUDIO]

What does talk of cyber war mean for our liberties? The United States has a new military command for cyberspace, with the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) as its commander. At the same time, the Secretary of State has announced…
May 7
Justin Reich on Personalized Learning, Backpacks Full of Cash, Rockstar Teachers, and MOOC Madne

Justin Reich on Personalized Learning, Backpacks Full of Cash, Rockstar Teachers, and MOOC Madne

For decades, policymakers and futurists have heralded digital tools as essential to the the future of learning. Has the moment of disruptive transformational revolution finally arrived? If we are at a watershed moment, what futures are…

Rank this Week: 986

Meg Kribble

Covers law librarianship and technology.

http://megkribble.net/

Apr 13
Professor Katherine Porter on the CFPB

Professor Katherine Porter on the CFPB

I went to a great brownbag talk today by Professor Katherine Porter (visiting HLS this year from the University of Iowa) on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Because I know this is a topic of interest to many--and because I was…
Nov 3
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

This is a quick post on a topic I intend to write about in more detail later.
Jul 19
Lessons from AALL2010: Keep It Real, Vendor

Lessons from AALL2010: Keep It Real, Vendor

Imagine you're at the AALL 2050 Business Meeting in San Francisco, CA: A librarian no one in 2010 has met, because he hasn't started his career yet, presides as president. After the treasurer's report, it's time to award the president's…

Rank this Week: 3533

The Harvard Law School Corporate…

The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog

Covers boards of directors, corporate elections, executive compensation, practice insights, legal developments, securities regulation, and Sarbanes-Oxley. Sponsored by the HLS Corporate Governance Program.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov

May 22
SRP Mid-Proxy-Season Results: 19 Boards Declassified, 13 Precatory Declassification Proposals Passed

SRP Mid-Proxy-Season Results: 19 Boards Declassified, 13 Precatory Declassification Proposals Passed

Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the Director of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), Scott Hirst is the SRP’s Associate Director, and June Rhee is Counsel at the SRP. The SRP, a clinical program operating at Harvard Law School,…
May 22
The Case for an Unbiased Takeover Law

The Case for an Unbiased Takeover Law

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Luca Enriques, Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School and Professor of Business Law at LUISS University (Rome), Ronald J. Gilson, Charles J. Meyers…
May 22
Exit Consents in Restructurings – Still a Viable Option?

Exit Consents in Restructurings – Still a Viable Option?

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from David J. Billington, partner focusing on international financing transactions and restructuring transactions at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. This post is based on a Cleary…

Rank this Week: 126

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