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The UN Office of Legal Affairs, Codification Division has launched several new online resources:

* Official Records of Diplomatic Conferences;
* A new portal for all legal publications;
* UN Legal Publications Global Search; and
* RSS feed for the Audiovisual Library of International Law.

Bankruptcy Bondage, 2009 U. Ill. L. Rev. 191 available at Westlaw.

The Day the Earth Stood Still: Reading Jurgen Habermas' Essay "February 15" Against Ian McEwan's Novel Saturday, 10 German L.J. 81 (2009) available at Westlaw

Escape into the Panopticon: Virtual Worlds and the Surveillance Society, 118 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 131 (2009) available at PocketPart

If you go to google.com/alerts and type in the title of your article and an email address, you'll get an alert every time the article is mentioned in a web page that's indexed by Google, e.g. as a reference in a paper. Just repeat for every article you've written. Not entirely fail safe, but pretty good.

The Journal of Legal Analysis, a new open-access law journal co-published by HUP and the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School is up and running. The inaugural issue's articles include

* Adrian Vermeule's Many-Minds Arguments in Legal Theory Abstract,
* Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati and Eric A. Posner's Are Judges Overpaid? A Skeptical Response to the Judicial Salary Debate, and
* Edward L. Glaeser and Cass R. Sunstein's Extremism and Social Learning. Access at
JLA

States, Markets and Gatekeepers: Public-Private Regulatory Regimes in an Era of Economic Globalization, 30 Mich. J. Int'l L. 125 (2008).

The GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) is an innovative content management system containing files submitted by Congress and Federal agencies, information harvested from Federal agencies' websites and scans of previously printed publications. FDsys is now online and migration of information from GPO Access into FDsys will be complete in mid-2009

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has put together 56 new, "plain English" forms, both civil and criminal. You can find them among 126 forms listed here.

Robin Fretwell Wilson and Michael Clisham, American Law Institute's Principles of The Law of Family Dissolution, Eight Years After Adoption: Guiding Principles or Obligatory Footnote?, 42 F. L.Q. 573 (Fall 2008)

A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise (FY10 Budget Overview Document) is now available from the U.S. Government Printing Office. This document provides a description of the Obama Administration's fiscal policies and major budgetary initiatives. This document is an overview of the full Fiscal Year 2010 Budget, expected to be released this spring. Available at FDsys Latest Resources.