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James T. Campbell reviews two new books on the Underground Railroad in this Sunday's Washington Post: I'VE GOT A HOME IN GLORY LAND: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad, by Karolyn Smardz Frost (Farrar Straus Giroux), previously noted on the Legal History Blog, and ESCAPE ON THE PEARL: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad by Mary Kay Ricks (Morrow). He find the books

Barbara Campbell, past President of the California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners, passed away. She inspired the CALTAC board and members for as long as I can remember. She was also the library director at the Santa Clara County Library, where I worked some years after she'd retired. Her famous funding formula lived on: branch library budgets were based on an equitable mix of population, taxation and circulation. It continued to work well. She will be remembered. The Rev. ...

... on the existence of pour patterns to conclude that an accelerant was used. The State also called David H. Campbell, a firefighter and veteran cause-and-origin investigator, who disagreed with Hurst that flashover inevitably negates preexisting ... of furnishings or other combustible material or objects in the hallway to generate the heat required for flashover. Ultimately, Campbell opined that "the fire was intentionally set with the aid of combustible liquid and multiple fire sets." The District ...

... jails. *Studying the use of correction officers in the jails, instead of deputies, to reduce costs and increase staffing. Supervisor Bill Campbell said he was shocked that there weren't video cameras in place to monitor deputies, which would also be a way to ensure their safety, he said. "It's surprising to me that we didn't have that in place already," Campbell said. Campbell asked Anderson would the new cameras would be put in place, to which Anderson replied, "It's not going to be ...

... in the 1999 Guatemalan Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico Report, by Emily Rosser of York University in Toronto► The Gender of Transitional Justice: Law, Sexual Violence and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, by Kirsten Campbell of the University of London► A book review of What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations (Ruth Rubio-Marín ed., 2006), by Katie Zoglin, a Bay Area-based colleague now working for the American Bar ...

... sciences -- from matching shoeprints to DNA analysis -- and how they are treated by courts. They offer cautions, particularly about the forensic "sciences" that don't use basic science (e.g., shoeprint matching and even fingerprint analysis). Jane Campbell Moriarty & Michael J. Saks, Forensic Science: Grand Goals, Tragic Flaws, and Judicial Gatekeeping, Judges J., Fall 2005, at 16. Here's the abstract: First, this article exhaustively but briefly reviews the variety of forensic sciences and ...

... of Survey on Attitudes Toward State Courts (with Panel II) Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center 12:35 – 2:15 p.m. Lunch and Program "Report from the Trenches: Judicial Election Stories" Mary Campbell McQueen, President and CEO, National Center for State Courts Ted Goldman, Roll Call Emilie Lounsberry, Philadelphia Inquirer 2:25 – 3:25 p.m. Panel III "Outreach by Courts: Should the Courts Speak to ...

On March 24, ... ... 1890, Agnes Campbell Macphail (right) was born at Proton Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada. While a schoolteacher Macphail became an activist on behalf of farmers in her community. In 1921, the year that women 1st were permitted to vote in federal elections, She became the 1st woman elected to Canada's Parliament. An MP until 1940 and a member of Ontario's provincial legislature for 2 terms thereafter, Macphail worked to establish pension protection and equal pay ...

... seen as the West's best hope for Africa, but assassinated in 1969. By crossing borders, the book is part of historians' efforts to examine American history on a global terrain. It engages an issue explored in recent works by James Campbell, Kevin Gaines and Saidiya Hartman: the way race and national identity are configured in African/American encounters. As a transnational legal biography, the book integrates foreign and domestic narratives, treating an international sojourn not as a vacation ...

David Kairys writes in the opening of his new memoir: IT WAS AN OVERCAST EVENING in late February 1972, and mist rose above the Delaware River as I crossed the Ben Franklin Bridge, the ornate suspension bridge between downtown Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey. As I slowed for the tollbooth on the Camden side, I could see the waterfront and the idle Campbell's Soup factories. I had driven