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Is the crisis in attorney hiring due to the failure of legal education?
Image by ZaNiaC via Flickr Jordan Furlong at Slaw.ca suggests that the current trend of big firms paying associates not to work for them is indicative of a larger crisis, created by an educational system that doesn’t provide new lawyers … Continued
Thomson Reuters Lawsuit Against Zotero Dismissed
Image via Wikipedia Sean, a Zotero co-director, announced yesterday that the lawsuit filed by Thomson Reuters (makers of EndNote) was dismissed yesterday: I’m delighted to announce that this morning the Fairfax Circuit Court dismissed the lawsuit filed against Zotero by … Continued
Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls
Study: Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls – ReadWriteWeb: The study also found that users will go to great lengths to route around corporate networks and often use tools like Gbridge, encrypted tunneling applications, and various private … Continued
Lawyers and Technology: The Mystery of Metadata
Image by StarrGazr via Flickr Jim Calloway writes about a new opinion by the New Hampshire Bar Ethics Committee: The New Hampshire Bar Association issued Ethics Committee Opinion 2008-2009/4 on April 16, 2009. I’ve written at length on this subject … Continued
Will the Internet Replace Universities?
Image by Wonderlane via Flickr Will the Internet Replace Universities? | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine: Via Brad DeLong, an article by Kevin Carey in the Chronicle of Higher Education starts with the obvious — the Internet is killing newspapers … Continued
Who Could Be Hired Today?
Who Could Be Hired Today? (Concurring Opinions): The trend in hiring law professors with graduate training in other disciplines as well as law degrees is not new; it’s been underway at least since I was a student (1988-1991). Some of … Continued
SSRN Papers Dealing with IP, Development and Innovation
Image via Wikipedia The Patent Lottery: Exploiting Behavioral Economics for the Common Good by Dennis Crouch Lotteries are immensely popular. Players are willing to give the organizer a large monetary cut of every ticket purchase in return for a chance … Continued
Reflecting on Darwin
As many are probably aware, the 12th of February was the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. It seems appropriate, then, to reflect on the latest attempts to challenge evolutionary biology through a belief in what is called “intelligent design.” But … Continued
"Universities should not be in the social justice business"
This is a quote from Stanley Fish in an editorial in the New York Times, entitled Think Again. I highly recommend the discussion. It’s a well-reasoned and articulate argument for thinking over feeling in the classroom, for compartmentalization and intellectual … Continued
Web-based Classroom Tools
From MakeUseOf.com by David Johannes: Online collaboration between schools, teachers, and students has become increasingly apparent as our everyday routines become more and more connected via the internet. Of course, there are paid solutions that satisfy this need through Learning … Continued
Law Reviews Get a Bad Review
Law Blog – WSJ.com – Law Reviews Get a Bad Review: The institution of law reviews has always been a great source of puzzlement to the Law Blog. As a 2L, the sunny afternoons we labored away blue-booking articles were—we’re … Continued
MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
Wired News – MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study: Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of … Continued
Fair use of copyrighted material benefits US economy: report
JURIST – Paper Chase: Fair use of copyrighted material benefits US economy: report: The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) released a report Wednesday saying that fair use exceptions to US copyright laws create more than $4.5 trillion in revenue … Continued
Mandate for Public Access to NIH-Funded Research Poised to Become Law
ATA – Mandate for Public Access to NIH-Funded Research Poised to Become Law: The U.S. Senate last night approved the FY2008 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Bill (S.1710), including a provision that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to … Continued
The UC Irvine Fiasco
Belle Lettre writes: Prominent constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke) was hired to be the inaugural dean of the new law school at UC Irvine. . . . UCI began a nationwide search for an inaugural dean, and Chemerinsky was one … Continued
