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March 2009 Archives

March 4, 2009

Westlaw PeopleMap Launched

Westlaw PeopleMap is a new background research service based on public records information. See Westblog for more information or view a demo

Faculty Publications Fairfield

Anti-social Contracts: The Contractual Governance of Virtual Worlds,53 McGill L.J. 427 (2009).

March 9, 2009

Faculty Publications Brion

Denis J. Brion, Trial Argumentation: The Creation of Meaning, 22 Int'l J. Semiotics L. 23 (2009): available at Springer

March 10, 2009

LSN (Legal Scholarship Network) Announces Two New eJournals

Two new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Sponsored Subject Matter eJournals -- European Private Law, sponsored by the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law at the University of Amsterdam, and Law, Politics, & the Media, sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, & the Media at Syracuse University.

Faculty Publications Jost

Is Health Insurance a Bad Idea? The Consumer-Driven Perspective, 14 Conn. Ins. L.J. 377 (2007-2008).

March 11, 2009

Legal Education Analysis & Reform Network Outlines Initial Projects

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's report entitled Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law has generated enough interest in the legal academy that the Foundation working with Stanford Law School has assembled a group of legal educators to engage in further efforts to reform legal education. The project has been named LEARN, which stands for Legal Education Analysis and Reform Network and ten law schools are represented at this phase of LEARN's development: CUNY, Dayton, Georgetown, Harvard, Indiana-Bloomington, New Mexico, NYU, Southwestern, Stanford, and Vanderbilt. Recently LEARN released an outline of the initial projects it plans to launch.

The OpenCongress Wiki

The beta version of the OpenCongress Wiki is now online. Check out the project's description.

March 18, 2009

Trials Tainted by Twitter

It was just a matter of time, really. As many as nine jurors in a recent federal drug trial disregarded a Florida judge's instructions not to do their own research. Today's NYT has the story, Mistrial by iPhone: Juries' Web Research Upends Trials.

March 19, 2009

Judicial Conference Adopts Revised Code of Conduct for Judges

The Judicial Conference adopted a new revised Code of Conduct for U.S. judges at its biannual meeting yesterday. This is the first substantial revision of the Code of Conduct since 1992. The Code of Conduct which addresses judicial impropriety, disqualification, and extra-judicial activities, has also been reworded into plainer, clearer English. The Conference also asked Congress to create 63 new federal judgeships (permanent and temporary). The announcement from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts here.

March 23, 2009

Faculty Publications Jost

Timothy S. Jost, Value-Based Purchasing In Traditional Medicare: Legal Issues, available at New America Foundation

Faculty Publications Bond

Johanna Bond, Multiscalar Civil Society?: Legal Pluralism and Inequality, 10 Or. Rev. Int'l L. 391 (2008).

Faculty Publications Jost

Timothy S. Jost, The Regulation of Private Health Insurance available at the National Academy of Social Insurance

Faculty Publications Jost

Timothy S. Jost,Health Insurance Exchanges: Legal Issues available at the O'Neill Center

March 24, 2009

Faculty Publications Wilson

Robin Fretwell Wilson, Sandra Johnson, Joan Krause and Richard Savor, Eds., Health Law and Bioethics: Cases in Context (Aspen Pub. 2009).

March 26, 2009

Faculty Publications Smolla

Rodney A. Smolla, Classic Revisited Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 892 (2009).

March 27, 2009

Faculty Publications Osofsky

Hari M. Osofsky, Is Climate Change "International"? Litigation's Diagonal Regulatory Role, 49 Va. J. Int'l L. 585 (2009).

Free & Low Cost Legal Research Guide

Georgetown Law's Free & Low Cost Legal Research Guide has been posted on the Georgetown Library's web page. It's a must-have for library users who do not have access to Lexis or Westlaw because the guide lays out resource options in an easy to understand way.

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