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19 Aug 2009, 10:52 am
Concurring Opinions just announced that it will serve as a forum for book reviews - law professors, attorneys, law students, and academics from non-law fields are all welcome to submit "serious yet short" reviews on law-related books to the blog's authors. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 10:02 am
Greg Lambert of 3 Geeks and a Law Blog has a thoughtful post on the future of legal research and the role of "free versus fee" sources:The good and bad thing about legal research today is the fact that information is a commodity. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 6:03 pm
The New Yorker's August 24 issue features a Jeffrey Toobin piece on Richard Leo's efforts on behalf of the wrongfully-convicted Norfolk Four. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 1:25 pm
At this time of year, as the new law students arrive, we at ZiefBrief can feel the anxiety in the air, as 1Ls wonder if they'll be able to cope with law school. [read post]
12 Aug 2009, 10:18 am
Google announced this week that it is testing a new search engine, code named "Caffeine. [read post]
6 Aug 2009, 4:37 pm
Professor Connie de la Vega, who recently filed a Supreme Court amicus brief on the issue of life without parole for juvenile offenders, continues her advocacy on behalf of prisoners. [read post]
28 Jul 2009, 5:42 pm
Professors Connie de la Vega and Michelle Leighton recently filed an amicus brief with the U.S. [read post]
27 Jul 2009, 10:16 am
Best of luck on the bar exam to all of our recent grads - you're going to do just fine! [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 9:40 am
The Wall Street Journal reported today on several higher education initiatives designed to test student reaction to e-textbooks. [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 4:08 pm
From above the 49th Parallel, our colleague Library Boy alerts us to the latest entry in the "read and analyze all of Judge Sotomayor's opinions" sweepstakes. [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 1:43 pm
Today we heard that the National Archives has just added 122 Clinton-era emails mentioning Sonia Sotomayor [ginormous 310 MB zip file… took us over 20 minutes to download at T1+ speeds] to its collection of documents related to or mentioning the Supreme Court nominee.These emails join the previously released: "5,032 pages of [Clinton Library] Presidential records relating to the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 11:35 am
The New York Times Magazine just released a very candid and far-ranging interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [read post]
7 Jul 2009, 1:57 pm
We are reaching that time of year when bar studiers need a little humor and something to distract them -- something that doesn't have anything to do with contracts, community property, con law, civ pro, corporations, crim law, crim pro, evidence....you get the idea. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 10:05 am
I'm a child of the seventies, and I freely admit that, during fifth grade, my career goal was to become a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader. [read post]
29 Jun 2009, 10:30 am
Some of SCOTUS candidate Sotomayor's judicial opinions have been analyzed in a Congressional Research Service report, "Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Analysis of Selected Opinions. [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 5:14 pm
We at ZiefBrief were saddened to learn that Michael Jackson, the self-anointed "King of Pop", died today at the age of 50. [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 12:15 pm
Law students lucky enough to have landed summer jobs or internships in these tough times are working harder than ever to make a good impression on their employers.One sure bet is to get known as a great researcher. [read post]
5 Jun 2009, 10:44 am
The Senate Judiciary Committee has released the questionnaire prepared by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.The questionnaire comes with a raft of varied and fascinating attachments which include: news stories going back to the 1970s; speeches; minutes of the State of New York Mortgage Agency; reports of the New York City Campaign Finance Board; course syllabi from Columbia, New York University, and the University of Puerto Rico; the Report of the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and… [read post]
4 Jun 2009, 1:00 pm
The New York Times recently ran a short article about a practice that is proving profitable even during the current economic meltdown. [read post]
3 Jun 2009, 9:34 am
Microsoft released a new search engine this week, bing. [read post]
