Sunday, April 30, 2006

Law Dog of the Week

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This week's SIU Law Dog is Coolhand Luke, who belongs to 3L Nate Strickler and his wife, Ava Kamm. Coolhand Luke currently lives with Ava's parents.

Don't forget to submit your dog photo to Law Dog of the Week. We will feature each SIU law dog whose photo is submitted. To see photos of all previous Law Dogs of the week, visit our Gallery of SIU Law Dogs, which you can find under Related Links in the sidebar.

Monday, April 24, 2006

Blogs and Legal Scholarship

The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School is hosting the "first scholarly conference on the impact of blogs on the legal academy," on Friday, April 28, 2006. "Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship" will feature more than twenty of the nation’s leading law professor bloggers, addressing such topics as
  • The Role of the Blog in the Dissemination of Legal Scholarship (Larry Solum, Univ. of Illinois; Legal Theory Blog)
  • Cheap Speech and What It Has Done (Eugene Volokh,UCLA; The Volokh Conspiracy)
  • Why a Narrowly Defined Legal Scholarship Blog Is Not What I Want: The Joys of Well-Rounded Blogging (Ann Althouse, Univ. of Wisconsin; Althouse)
  • Pre-Tenure Blogging: Is It Worth It? (Christine Hurt, Univ. of Illinois; Conglomerate; & Tung Yin, Univ. of Iowa; The Yin Blog).

A live streaming webcast of the event will be available at http://hlssun3.law.harvard.edu:8888/ramgen/encoder/2006_04_28_berkman_bloggership.rm.

And a number of the conference's papers are now available via the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at its page for the bloggership conference.

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Law Dog of the Week

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This week's SIU Law Dog is Otto, a 3-year-old pug. He lives with 2L Matt Winfield.

Don't forget to submit your dog photo to Law Dog of the Week. We will feature each SIU law dog whose photo is submitted. To see photos of all previous Law Dogs of the week, visit our Gallery of SIU Law Dogs, which you can find under Related Links in the sidebar.

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Law Dog of the Week

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This week's SIU Law Dog is Murphy, who lives with 3L Mary Lock and cats Mickey and Malorey. To see a photo of Murphy's cats, click on his photo on the Gallery of SIU Law Dogs, which you can find under Related Links in the sidebar.

Don't forget to submit your dog photo to Law Dog of the Week. We will feature each SIU law dog whose photo is submitted. If your dog hasn't appeared here yet, it is only because other photos were submitted before yours.

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Recommended Website

Check out Remember Segregation, a site created to help educate visitors about the life and mission of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Not only is the site noteworthy for its educational content, but it also uses web media and technology to excellent effect. It is best viewed over a high-speed internet connection.

Remember Segregation has been nominated for Webby awards in the categories of Activism, Best Home/Welcome Page, and Best Visual Design – Aesthetic.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

CRS Report on Patriot Act Reauthorization

The Congressional Research Service's March 24, 2006, 70-page report, USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005: A Legal Analysis, is now available in PDF format on the website of the Federation of American Scientists.

SOURCE: BarclayBlog

U.S. Supreme Court: Citation to "Unpublished" Opinions in Federal Courts Possible with Rule Change

Law.com reported today that "The Supreme Court on Wednesday [4/1/2/06] adopted a historic rule change that will allow lawyers to cite so-called unpublished opinions in federal courts starting next year. The new rule takes effect unless Congress countermands it before Dec. 1." See full report here.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Congratulations to Student Authors

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Congratulations to 3L SIU students Barbara Jean Bailey and Brian A. Peterson, whose commentaries have been published in the March 2006 issue of the Journal of Legal Medicine. Although the Journal is available in the library, on Westlaw, and on LexisNexis, this issue is currently only available on the publisher's website.

Barbara Jean Bailey, Congress Ignores the Parameters of the Health Exception: Judicial Responses to Congressional Evidence and Partial-Birth Abortion in the Wake of Stenberg v. Carhart, 27 J. Legal Med. 71.

Brian A. Peterson, The Malpractice Surcharge: A Simple Answer to Rising Malpractice Rates or a Greater Threat to Quality Patient Care? 27 J. Legal Med. 87.

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Law Dog of the Week

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This week's SIU Law Dog is Ginger, a golden retriever. Ginger resides at the home of Rusty Allen and Susan Williams, who is a faculty secretary.

Join us next week for another Law Dog of the Week. We will feature a dog each week until we run out of photos.

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Law Dog of the Week

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This week's SIU Law Dog is Chedda Winsday, who joined the family of David Wood (2L) just before the start of fall semester. Dave tells me that Chedda, a miniature Schnauzer, has much in common with law students.

Above, Chedda encounters her first snow with the trepidation of a 1L student trying to understand a new legal theory.

Below she faces a time management dilemma with which most law students can identify, too much to do and not enough time to do it. Many 2L students feel pulled in two directions as they try to juggle work and school.

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Join us next week for another Law Dog of the Week. We will feature a dog each week until we run out of photos.