Buffalo Wings and Toasted Ravioli
This blawg covers technology issues affecting legal researchers and provides information about symposia on this topic.
Author: Jim Milles is associate dean for legal information services and director of the law library at the University of Buffalo Law School. He also contributes to Out of the Jungle and Projecting Law.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Libraries • Law Professors • Law Schools • State University of New York at Buffalo • Librarian
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How the social brain experiences empathy, Part 3
More from the Empathy and the Brain conference. The Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis: Issues and Implications Daniel Batson (University of Kansas) “I came to empathy by the back door.” Interest in motivation for helping: whether, when we…
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How the social brain experiences empathy, Part 2
Relations of Children’s Empathy-related Responding to Their Regulation and Social Functioning Nancy Eisenberg (Arizona State University) Empathy is often assumed to be a “moral” emotion, and to have a broad moral relevance. However, a 1982…
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How the social brain experiences empathy, Part 1
I’m in Chicago at the “How the social brain experiences empathy” conference sponsored by the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. I’ve developed an interest in the implications of cognitive…
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Buffalo Journofail and the “Victory” of Steven Kurtz
The piece by Colin Dabkowski in today’s Buffalo News ArtsBeat section is entitled “A clear case of injustice ends in victory for free speech.” Remember Steven Kurtz? The University at Buffalo professor of art who…
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Journalistic “Objectivity” as Marketing Ploy
From Nancy Nall Derringer: I’m not one of those journalists — and lately, I should add, I don’t consider myself much of one; I feel like I’m on a floe that has broken away from the main…
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On Not Dismissing Threats
Jesse Taylor at Pandagon observes: It’s often said that we shouldn’t dismiss the opposition to Obama as racists, or crazy, or potentially violent. And the thing is, we aren’t dismissing them. We’re accurately describing them,…
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Goodbye, AALL
This year, for only the second time in 24 years, I’m not attending the AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) Annual meeting. Since I decided to change careers, resign from my position as law library…
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Has the time for listservs passed?
Greg Lambert asks (as reported by Joe Hodnick) on the Law Librarian Blog: “Is it time to retire listservs”? Not yet, according to Greg Lambert, library and records manager for King & Spalding LLP in…
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Downturn in the legal market: temporary blip or end of an era?
An article in last week’s Wall Street Journal Blog featured an interview with legal consultant Peter Zeughauser, who predicted a grim outlook for law firm hiring for the next few years: It’s not going to…