http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool The latest news brought to you by MySpace! Sat, 17 May 2008 06:00:56 GMT http://newscdn.myspace.com/web.2.14/content/springwidget/lawschool.xml http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17467295 Although research should end by finding a primary authority (case or statute) that answers your research question, the best place to start is with a secondary authority or even at the reference desk. Secondary authorities include treatises, hornbooks, law Top Law Student Fri, 16 May 2008 17:13:41 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17467295 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17462292 Worse still, a band called The Cuban Boys released a song called “Cognoscenti Versus Intelligentsia,” which consisted mostly of that irritating Hamster Dance sound loop and high pitched yodeling you might recognize as the sped up voice of Satan. Life of a Law Student Fri, 16 May 2008 15:16:08 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17462292 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17427836 As noted yesterday (see the Update), Chancellor Mark Wrighton of Washington University, St. Louis has defended, in a letter to the university community, the decision to award know-nothing bigot Phyllis Schlafly an honorary degree. Following the public Brian Leiter's Law School Reports Thu, 15 May 2008 15:52:09 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17427836 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17431890 Although many of you have already celebrated graduation, we here at VLS are gearing up for graduation this weekend. I was warned we live under something of a weather curse here at VLS; a dean was just reminiscing with me about the "one great (weather) graduation", back in 2003, when the Law School Academic Support Blog Thu, 15 May 2008 17:21:49 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17431890 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17430849 The Department's regulations define the area affected by an agency's action -- the "action area," in ESA parlance -- to include "all areas to be affected directly or indirectly by the Federal action and not merely the immediate area involved in Georgetown Law Faculty Blog Thu, 15 May 2008 17:18:49 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17430849 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17433790 Last month, the Law School's Law and Economics Program hosted a conference entitled "Contested Commodities: Reframing the Debate on Financial Incentives in the Supply of Genetic Materials." The conference, which was organized by Visiting Professor The University of Chicago Law School: The Faculty Blog Thu, 15 May 2008 18:40:19 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17433790 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17316296 In a recent discussion moderated by Professor Noah Feldman, five student veterans drew on their range of experiences in Iraq, including the Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004, counterinsurgency operations, and the challenges they faced. When probed by Harvard JD Admissions Mon, 12 May 2008 14:12:11 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17316296 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17416506 A legal blog that covers personal injury law, including news, and events dealing with accident and injury law in Canada. A legal blog that covers Georgia product liability Law, including news and events dealing with defective drugs, and medical devices. A legal blog that covers Washington injury 3L Epiphany Thu, 15 May 2008 07:51:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17416506 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17321462 We’re unveiling something new here at Law Vibe that has the promisings to be a regular feature: the hottest law school related books that you, the LawVibe community, have been buying over the last three months! The LawVibe team is able to get a sneak LawVibe.com Mon, 12 May 2008 17:00:24 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17321462 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17229754 Thanks to Marc Randazza linking to my blog post from last month about whether libertarian paternalism is libertarian, I feel obligated to make the promised follow-up post on whether libertarian paternalism is consistent with paternalist values. But is the First Movers Fri, 09 May 2008 01:47:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17229754 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17446056 WHY YOU’RE NOT COOL: I’ve done some research and iPhone is actually a Japanese word that means “something that’s not able to be put in a pocket and instead must be carried in your hand at all times or set on the table in front of you so that any one around Life of a Law Student Fri, 16 May 2008 01:33:56 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17446056 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17440818 Jorg Fedtke (European Union law, comparative law, torts, public law), Professor of Law at University College London, has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Tulane University, where he will start in January 2009. We had the pleasure of having Professor Fedtke as a visiting professor for Brian Leiter's Law School Reports Thu, 15 May 2008 21:42:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17440818 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17245146 Andrea Saenz, a 3L and board member of the Harvard Immigration Project, filled us on a recent event at which Jeanne Butterfield, Executive Director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, spoke on the topic of immigration and national security. Harvard JD Admissions Fri, 09 May 2008 14:09:46 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17245146 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17231362 Suppose that many white homeowners resist integration not because they dislike living near people of another race, but because they fear the reactions of prospective buyers to an integrated community (or because they fear the reactions that prospective buyers The University of Chicago Law School: The Faculty Blog Fri, 09 May 2008 03:08:15 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17231362 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17265035 Some of my colleagues at UMKC School of Law have created a "self-editing" device to help students with their writing. I find one of the most frustrating things in critiquing papers is finding basic mistakes or just typos that the drafter should have Law School Academic Support Blog Sat, 10 May 2008 01:11:11 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17265035 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17380196 The Semantic Web, a knowledge-centric model for the Web's future, supplements human-readable documents and XML message formats with data that can be understood and processed by machines. SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) is to the semantic Web as SQL is to a relational database. It 3L Epiphany Wed, 14 May 2008 07:45:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17380196 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17461673 Ian Ayres (Yale) weighs in in support of Chicago's recent move to ban Internet access from the classrooms Brian Leiter's Law School Reports Fri, 16 May 2008 14:32:43 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17461673 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17392140 Not only because you are now viewing your environment through new lenses of thoughts and emotions but also because the change within can allow you to take action in ways you wouldn’t have - or maybe even have thought about - while stuck in your old Life of a Law Student Wed, 14 May 2008 15:50:29 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17392140 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17220670 I hope to return to blogging more regularly now that the college-hunting process is over for my high-school senior son—our family’s first time through what is an amazingly-daunting (and time-consuming) process—and I still have a backlog of other work to clear The University of Chicago Law School: The Faculty Blog Thu, 08 May 2008 20:25:39 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17220670 http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17223052 Duties will include: teaching the Bar Strategies course; assisting students with completion of bar exam and character and fitness applications; facilitating Bar Prep and Academic Success workshops; administering diagnostics; collecting and evaluating data; implementing interventions; providing Law School Academic Support Blog Thu, 08 May 2008 21:09:53 GMT http://news.myspace.com/education/lawschool/item/17223052