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14 Jan 2010, 2:19 pm
The latest issue of Lewis & Clark Law School's Environmental Law Review is now out. Here are the articles published in Volume 39, Issue 4 of Environmental Law Review, complete with links to the abstracts and full-text articles: Articles "Steel in the Ground": Greening the Grid With the iUtility by Joseph P. Tomain Restructuring a Green Grid: Legal [...] [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 7:37 pm
Sebastien Gay, Companion Animal Capital, 17 Animal Law 077 (2011) This Article presents a theory of the economic value of companion animal life. Under the existing United States torts regime, the standard damages award available to an owner for an action arising from a companion animal death is its fair market value. This approach implicitly [...] [read post]
14 Jan 2010, 2:27 pm
David M. Driesen, Capping Carbon, 40 Environmental Law Review 1 (2010) This Article discusses cap setting for a cap-and-trade program, a key problem in pending legislation addressing global climate disruption. While the literature often suggests that trading automatically solves the problems associated with Best Available Technology (BAT) regulation, regulators often use a BAT approach to [...] [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 7:37 pm
Katherine Hutchison, Should They Go The Way Of The Horse And Buggy? How The New York City Horse-Drawn Carriage Industry Has Survived Thirty Years Of Opposition, 17 Animal Law 171 (2011) This Comment reviews the history of the horse-drawn carriage industry in New York City and details legislative efforts to regulate the business. Many cities [...] [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 8:25 am
Last month James M. Donovan, Law Library Director and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, and Carol A. Watson, Law Library Director at the University of Georgia School of Law, published the findings of their study on open access legal scholarship in Citation Advantage of Open Access Legal Scholarship. Their study was the first to research the actual impact of open access on legal scholarship and provides empirical support for publishing in open access law… [read post]
8 May 2013, 5:00 am
Last week we ran a post about how to teach the topic of "Law and the 'War on Terror,'" part of my series of posts on teaching the U.S. Legal History survey for the first time. In response to my question about useful readings, both for assignments and background knowledge, reader Patrick S. O'Donnell (Santa Barbara City College) sent us two terrific bibliographies, one on terrorism and the other on torture. He gave us permission to post them in full, after the jump.Read more » [read post]
6 May 2012, 9:30 pm
Teemu Ruskola, Emory University School of Law, has posted The East Asian Legal Tradition, which is forthcoming in the Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law (Mauro Bussani & Ugo Mattei eds., Oxford University Press 2012). Here is the abstract:This essay is a chapter in the Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law. It provides a brief description of an East Asian legal tradition - namely, what I call the classical legal tradition of East Asia, or by way of analogy, a kind of East Asian ius… [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 7:34 pm
Joel Marks, Live Free Or Die: On Their Own Terms: Bringing Animal-Rights Philosophy Down To Earth By Lee Hall, 17 Animal Law 243 (2011) This book review examines Lee Hall's new book, which presents an innovative animal rights theory: wild animals, due to their autonomous nature, are endowed with rights, but domesticated animals lack rights [...] [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 1:03 pm
John Joergensen, creator of the Rutgers-Camden Law Library Digital Collections, has posted Law Reviews: Scanning the Backfile, at the Hacked Librarian Blog.
The post describes his scanning methods, and also gives a detailed example of the Dublin Core metadata, marked up in RDF, used to describe the digital files. The post also reflects input from Staffan Malmgren, creator of the Swedish free access to law service lagen.nu.
Filed under: Applications Tagged: Digitizing law journals, Dublin Core and… [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 3:07 pm
Lesley K. McAllister, The Enforcement Challenge of Cap-and-Trade Regulation, 40 Environmental Law Review 1195 (2011) The enforcement of a cap-and-trade program requires that the government know the mass emissions of all capped facilities?the whole quantity of their emissions over a given compliance period. An economy-wide cap-and-trade program addressing greenhouse gas emissions in the United States [...] [read post]
3 May 2013, 9:30 pm
Jonathan Levy's Freaks of Fortune pretty much killed it at the OAH awards ceremony this year. Check out the other winners here. From the Historical Society: a thoughtful post on "John Adams and the Rule of Law in Boston." Repayable taxes: An ancient fiscal technique worth revisiting? Read on at HNN. From the OUP blog: Susan Ware on "the challenges and rewards of biographical essays." (Hat tip: Historical Society) From the New York Times: a story on preserving historical artifacts in the… [read post]
4 Dec 2010, 8:17 am
A colleague who chairs the board of Law and Contemporary Problems [http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/] asked me to post the notice below. L&CP has, in the past, primarily relied on word of mouth to generate symposium proposals, but this year have the good judgment to use The Faculty Lounge to get the word out. An example of a recent issue, of which I was the special editor, and that includes contributions from law, philosophy, sociology, and economics is here. A full list of past issues… [read post]
5 Dec 2012, 4:53 pm
Professor Dr. John Bell of the University of Cambridge has published The Future of Legal Research, Legal Information Management, 12(4), 314-317 (2012).
Here is the abstract:
This article is based on a presentation given by John Bell at the annual conference of The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) held in Bristol in September 2012. His talk reflects the immediate challenges facing law schools, academic lawyers and the legal publishing industry in the light of the recent Finch Report and the subsequent… [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 5:19 am
I love this photo. Took it near the South Dakota and Nebraska border several years ago. Makes me yearn for wide open spaces (and baldy Simmental cows)...
The New York State Bar Association Committee on Animals and the Law will be having its 5th Annual Student Writing Competition. Papers must be postmarked no later than June 29, 2012 and cannot be more than 25 pages, including footnotes. One hard copy and one electronic copy must be submitted to Kim Hojon, New York State Bar… [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 12:00 pm
Kenneth W. Mack, Harvard Law School, has recently posted Bringing the Law Back into the History of the Civil Rights Movement, a review essay that originally appeared in 2009. Here is the abstract:This paper uses a review of Nancy MacLean's Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (2008), to challenge historians to re-integrate law and legal institutions into the civil rights history. It critiques recent work in the social history of the civil rights movement for ignoring… [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 9:00 am
Continuing our coverage of latest issues of the American Historical Review --In the April 2012 issue, you'll find an article by Alison Frank on "The Children of the Desert and the Laws of the Sea: Austria, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and the Mediterranean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century." Book reviews include: Gary P. Leupp on Philip C. Brown, Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press).Stephen Robertson on… [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 3:03 pm
It seems that in a number of areas of legal scholarship (intellectual property, privacy just to name some that I follow), law profs are increasingly writing about extra-legal issues - such as the power of norms. I have read a lot of good legal scholarship (and written some hopefully passable scholarship myself) that talks about extra-legal means of regulation and that focuses on things like norms and market forces as regulators. But recently I've wondered if this is the appropriate role for lawyers?… [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 9:30 pm
Via PrawfsBlawg, we have word that the latest issue of the Green Bag is out. Here's the TOC:Ex AnteMistakes • Bad Paterno • Justice Precedent • York v. Yale • Cumulative ConfessionalTo the BagPeter Owen • Nicholas FrankovichArticlesJustice Owen J. Roberts on 1937, by Edward L. Carter & Edward E. AdamsIt’s Now the John Roberts Court, by Erwin ChemerinskyWhat Were They Thinking: The Supreme Court in Revue, October Term 2011, by John P. Elwood & Eric A. WhiteWho Shot Charles… [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 8:38 am
Anyone interested in using reference management tools should check out the comparison guides recently posted by Georgetown Law Library. From its Citation Tools page, you can connect to a Detailed Feature Comparison and a Quick Overview Chart. The products compared include RefWorks, for which CSU faculty and students can create accounts, and Zotero, a freely available browser extension. We’ll add these Georgetown links to our Law Library Reference Management Software for Legal Scholarship… [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 9:30 pm
Fans of Barbara Babcock’s Woman Lawyer, a biography of Clara Foltz, can find the stops of her book tour this fall here. A thoughtful story about Daniel Sharfstein’s The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White appears in the on-line magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Sharfstein will appear at George Mason University’s annual fall book festival, September 18-23, and the Southern Festival of Books, October 14-16, in Nashville, Tennessee. The… [read post]