Projecting Law
This blawg "aims to discuss the interplay between law and the entire spectrum of digital media, from blogging, podcasting, and videoblogging to feature-length filmmaking."
Author: This blawg has three contributors: Teresa Miller, law professor at the University of Buffalo; Kevin Lim, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Buffalo School of Informatics; and Jim Milles, associate dean for legal information services and director of the law library at the University of Buffalo Law School. Milles also writes Buffalo Wings and Toasted Ravioli and contributes to Out of the Jungle.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Schools • Media & Communications Law • State University of New York at Buffalo • Law Professor • Librarian
Recent Posts from Projecting Law
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New from Richard Sherwin on Visual Legal Studies
Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, has published “What Screen Do You Have In Mind? Contesting the Visual Context of Law and Film Studies,” in STUDIES IN LAW, POLITICS AND SOCIETY, Austin Sarat, ed.,…
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Digital Anthropology
From Inside Higher Ed: Evoking associations with musty, forgotten archives and spiral notebooks in the field, anthropology doesn’t immediately come to mind as a discipline fully situated in the modern, wired world. On the contrary,…
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YouTube Suspends Account of Prominent Egyptian Blogger and Anti-Torture Activist
From Sam Bayard at Citizen Media Law Project: I’ve blogged before about Wael Abbas, an Egyptian blogger and political activist who has gained renown by, among other things, posting videos on YouTube revealing brutal scenes…
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New documentary series, “Encountering Attica”
The Projecting Law Project at the University at Buffalo School of Law has undertaken a year-long project that takes a small group of first year law students out to Attica Correctional Facility, a men’s maximum…
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Law School Documentary
Via Rebecca Tushnet at Georgetown Law Faculty Blog: The Trials of Law School, a documentary film on the U.S. Law School system, will premiere at the 20th Annual Dallas Video Festival. The film will screen…
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Silbey on Filmed Confessions
Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, will publish “Criminal Performances: Film, Autobiography, and Confession,” in the New Mexico Law Review. Here is the abstract. This article questions the criminal justice emphasis on filmed confession as…
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Big Dreams, Small Screens: Online Video for Public Knowledge and Action — Publications — Center for Social Media at American University
Here is a new report from The Center for Social Media at American University: Big Dreams, Small Screens: Online Video for Public Knowledge and Action. From the Executive Summary: This study describes ways in which…
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Guantanamo Detainee on YouTube
This notice comes via Michel-Adrien Sheppard, AKA Library Boy: The Parisian daily Le Monde reported last week that lawyers representing an individual being detained by U.S. authorities at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp have produced…
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More on the UCLA video and citizen journalism
This from ACRLog: The Whole World is Watching - On YouTube by Barbara Fister Sometimes academic libraries hit the news in a big way. In the case of campus police using a Taser on a…
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YouTube at UCLA
(Updated below.) From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Cellphone Photographers Capture a Harrowing Incident at UCLA YouTube may help end the careers of a few police officers at the University of California at Los Angeles…