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Should we study Kelsen?
Quite honestly, I had never heard of Kelsen before. Perhaps this is unsurprising, considering the almost complete lack of theory in the law school curriculum. I also never encountered him in my studies of history, philosophy or literary theory, but then again, I’m hardly a specialist in such matters. So I found the following discourse […]
October 2007 / 3 min.
Tinkering with Billable-Hour Requirements
WSJ Law Blog - Tinkering with Billable-Hour Requirements: In the perpetual race to recruit new attorneys from top law schools, mid-tier firms are feeling squeezed. The biggest firms recently increased starting salaries for first-year associates to as high as $160,000, and they’re recruiting more and more attorneys each year. So what’s a mid-tier firm to […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
ACLU appeals domestic wiretap challenge to US Supreme Court
JURIST - ACLU appeals domestic wiretap challenge to US Supreme Court: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a certiorari petition Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court to hear a challenge of the government’s domestic surveillance program that was rejected by the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in July.
October 2007 / 1 min.
Is the Golden Age of Patent Litigation Coming To an End?
WSJ Law Blog - Is the Golden Age of Patent Litigation Coming To an End? That’s the weighty question keeping us up last night as we contemplated In Re Stephen Comiskey, the latest in a string of rulings that has chipped away at patent holdersaEUR™ rights and reflects the growing concern over the patent-litigation boom. […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
EEOC Accuses Bloomberg LP Of Flunking Pregnancy Test
WSJ Law Blog - EEOC Accuses Bloomberg LP Of Flunking Pregnancy Test: Bloomberg, the media company not the mayor, was sued yesterday by the EEOC for allegedly engaging in a pattern of discrimination against women who became pregnant and took maternity leave. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan, the EEOC alleged the […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
CanLII - Canadian Legal Information Institute
I am very impressed by CanLII - Canadian Legal Information Institute search service: “CanLII is a non-profit organization managed by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. CanLII’s goal is to make Canadian law accessible for free on the Internet.” The service is similar to the U.S.-centric Westlaw or Lexis-Nexis, although limited to only Canadian […]
September 2007 / 2 min.
The Right to Bear Ar-, Or Is It Access the Internet?
The Right to Bear Ar-, Or Is It Access the Internet?: All of these events [in Burma a.k.a. Myanmar] make we wonder whether the Bill of Rights would explicitly state that there is a right to free access and distribution of information over the Internet had the American Revolution occurred today. Now before everyone gets […]
September 2007 / 1 min.
Fewer women are seeking law degrees
NLJ - Fewer women are seeking law degrees : Now an analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York, Dadd, 22, went so far as to take a prep course for the Law School Admission Test before she decided that pursuing a juris doctor degree was not the right move for her. ‘It was something I […]
September 2007 / 1 min.
Why the Verizon/NARAL flap matters
Susan Crawford blog - The big picture: Why the Verizon/NARAL flap matters: We have to decide what model for communications regulation we want. Do we want the carriers to decide what we do online, or do we want the carriers just to be carriers? ‘Online,’ ‘cell phone,’ ‘telephone,’ and ‘cable’ all feel the same to […]
September 2007 / 1 min.
Judge Rules Parts Of Patriot Act Unconstitutional
cbs5.com - Judge Rules Parts Of Patriot Act Unconstitutional: (AP) PORTLAND, Ore. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended […]
September 2007 / 1 min.