Summer time, and the reading is easy.
June 27, 2008 at 9:14 am | Posted in General Interest, Just for Fun | Leave a commentTags: books of interest, crime stories
Need some fun, entertaining books to read this summer? Come to the Schaffer Law Library and discover the law thrillers, stories and novels it has to offer. Here are a couple picks:
Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation
(Michael Connelly)
PS648 .D4158 2005
Criminal Seduction
(Darian North)
PS3557 .I25 C74 1993
The Client
(John Grisham)
PS3557 .R5355 C57 1994
Presumed Innocent
(Scott Turow)
PS3570 .U754 P7 1988
2nd amendment and Heller
June 26, 2008 at 10:31 am | Posted in Law in the News | Leave a commentTags: cases decided, U.S. Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court has decided District of Columbia v Heller. You can read the opinion here.
No more plastic knuckles
June 26, 2008 at 9:54 am | Posted in Law in the News | Leave a commentTags: NYS Assembly, NYS Senate, penal law
The New York State Senate and Assembly have introduced bills (S7528 & A10522) to add plastic knuckles to the category of ”deadly weapons” in the Penal Law. The amendments to the Penal Law will affect sections 10.00 and 265.01.
US Supreme Court decisions
June 25, 2008 at 1:59 pm | Posted in Law in the News | Leave a commentTags: cases decided, U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has decided Kennedy v Louisiana and Exxon v Baker.
Want to win your case? Hire a psychic.
June 25, 2008 at 1:55 pm | Posted in General Interest | Leave a commentTags: juries
At least that’s what one attorney did to help pick a jury. You can read more about it here. Thanks to Legal Blog Watch.
New Books
June 25, 2008 at 10:55 am | Posted in New Books | Leave a commentTags: New Books
Here is a list of new items added to our collection this week:
Internet Gambling and Addiction
(Howard J. Shaffer)
RC569.5 .G35 S33 2004 (printout)
Interim Report of the Outcome Measures Committee
(ABA)
KF273 .A376 2008 (printout)
Multiple-Choice/Essay Question Drafting and Grading Workshop
(Albany Law School)
LB3060.65 .M85 2003 (gift) Continue Reading New Books…
Are lawyers unhappy?
June 25, 2008 at 9:10 am | Posted in General Interest, Just for Fun | Leave a commentTags: job satisfaction, lawyers
From the WSJ Lawblog: One lawyer’s take on “What Holds Unhappy Lawyers Back from Leaving?” You can read the article here.
Hiring in DOJ honors program and summer law intern program
June 25, 2008 at 8:55 am | Posted in General Interest, Law in the News | Leave a commentTags: internships, Office of Professional Responsibility’s, Office of the Inspector General’s
From bespacific.com: “This report describes the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) and the Office of Professional Responsibility’s (OPR) joint investigation concerning whether the political or ideological affiliations of applicants were improperly considered in the selection of candidates for the Attorney General’s Honors Program and the Summer Law Intern Program (SLIP) from 2002 to 2006. The Honors Program is a highly competitive hiring program for entry-level attorneys in the Department of Justice (Department or DOJ), while the SLIP is a competitive paid summer internship program in the Department.” You can read the report here.
Law school in 2 years?
June 23, 2008 at 9:39 am | Posted in General Interest, Law in the News | Leave a commentTags: law school, Northwestern Law School
From the WSJ Law Blog and InsideHigherEd.com: Northwestern Law School is offering a 2-year law school program. According to InsideHigherEd.com “Starting next year, some Northwestern law students will begin their courses the summer immediately after they are admitted, rather than in the fall. Then students would enroll in the regular fall and spring semesters for the next two academic years, leaving time for the traditional law internship between the two full years. Students would complete the same number of courses and credits in the two- and three-year programs, with accelerated students simply taking an extra course most semesters.”
Thanks to Law Librarian Blog
Cases that changed Britain
June 23, 2008 at 9:32 am | Posted in General Interest, Legal History | Leave a commentTags: British law, Times Law Reports
From the Times, “It is a question to excite the repressed student in every lawyer: which cases have most shaped British law over the past 200 years? To celebrate the launch of The Times Archive, we asked Gary Slapper, Professor of Law, and director of the Centre for Law, at the Open University and long-time Times Law columnist, to trawl through more than two centuries of Times Law Reports (which, thanks to the Archive, you can now read as they originally appeared) and to pull out the 100 most important, influential and colourful cases since the newspaper began publishing in 1785.”
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