Out of the Jungle
"Thoughts on the present and future of legal information, legal research, and legal education."
Author: Contributing law librarians: Betsy McKenzie of Suffolk University; Gail Daly of Southern Methodist University; Linda Ryan of St. John's University; Marie S. Newman of Pace Law School; Jacqueline Cantwell of the Brooklyn Supreme Court Law Library; and James Milles of the University of Buffalo Law School. Milles also writes Buffalo Wings and Toasted Ravioli and contributes to Projecting Law.
Blawg Related Categories: Pace University • Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law • St. John's University • State University of New York at Buffalo • Librarian
Recent Posts from Out of the Jungle
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Celebrating Independence Day -- Happy Fourth!
Dear OOTJ, Happy Independence Day! As an officially Grumpy Old Librarian, I had considered publishing a diatribe about the many ways in which our wonderful country has gone off the tracks. However, after reading…
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Salute to Texas Lawyers
Note to readers: Raymond Ward, picked up this post and got comments from some lawyers in the know. This pleading was a joke, a hoax that got loose on the internet. See Ray's post at…
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Academic Writing Meets Web 2.0
Follow the link in the title to this post to visit "Criminal Law Conversations" hosted at U. Penn by Prof. Paul H. Robinson. Law profs are participating in this experiment by nominating and voting for…
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Guantanamo Detainees
Today's Boston Globe reports on one of the law firms representing Guantanamo detainees, pro bono here. On June 12, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion stating that the detainees have a right to…
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Curricular Changes at Northwestern
Inside Higher Education is reporting on curricular changes at Northwestern Law School that could potentially have important repercussions for legal education in the United States. I am reproducing the article below because the computer I…
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Profiling at the Reference Desk
I contributed the above article, "Profiling at the Reference Desk," to the latest issue of the SCCLL newsletter. My article is on page 13. In the article, I call for improved data collection to improve…
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Registration for the CS-SIS Web 2.0 Challenge opens today!
Are you interested in learning about applications like blogs, wikis, and Second Life, but don’t have a lot of time? Take the Computing Services-SIS Web 2.0 Challenge! The Web 2.0 Challenge — a free, comprehensive,…
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Good-by for Now
I will be on vacation from tomorrow until July 7. I probably won't have access to an Internet connection while I am away, but will look forward to catching up with OOTJ when I return.
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Yet Another New Law School?
I blogged last week about the possibility of a number of new law schools around the country, including three in New York State alone. Today comes another story (see below) from the New York Lawyer…
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Pecking Order
Check out this story in today's New York Times. Entitled "Now Professors Get Their Star Rankings, Too," the article discusses the history and significance of the Social Science Research Network, or SSRN, as it is…