I’m stuck at CVG, waiting for my repeatedly rescheduled flight to Des Moines for Peter Yu’s 2008 IP Scholars Roundtable. (The weather’s been bad here, and all the outbound Des Moines flights between my originally scheduled one last night and right now have been canceled). If I eventually do make it, it will [...]
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I gave a short talk earlier today to my colleagues about the open access movement in legal scholarship, about which the three of us here at Info/Law have blogged from time to time (check out our open access tag for more). I used the occasion to go public with my own minor contribution to improving [...]
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The passing of the Reverend Jerry Falwell will no doubt be a cause for sincere mourning among a set of individuals that, as it happens, does not include me. But on the principle that the three of us can find an Info/Law angle on practically anything (from the Super Bowl to baby naming to [...]
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Jacob Katz Cogan, my friend and colleague here at the University of Cincinnati, has launched a new blog: the International Law Reporter, which already features 14 19 posts in the first 72 hours of its existence (indeed, at the rate he is going, he has probably added three more posts in the time it has [...]
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Tim wrote here recently about how the library at his home institution, the University of Cincinnati, has (mis)handled its approach to Wikipedia.
I’m proud to report that librarians at my undergraduate alma mater, Carleton College, seem to have a much more balanced attitude. As the local paper here reports:
Reference librarians are making their peace [...]
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The University Libraries here at UC have just published “Wikipedia: Friend or Foe?,” proffered as a resource to “help you start some interesting class discussions” about the free online encyclopedia. And the list certainly provides food for thought! I can envision some very interesting discussions resulting in my fall Computer & Internet Law [...]
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My colleague, Professor Adam Steinman, has written widely and thoughtfully on federal civil procedure. Like certain other law professors, however, Adam is a (frustrated?) musical artist. Adam recently found a potentially lucrative outlet for his creativity: he entered Intuit’s clever TurboTax Tax Rap contest, and a shot at a $25,000 payday, with the [...]
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The Student Bar Association here at the University of Cincinnati College of Law has launched a new blog, the Daily Taft, thus creatively disproving the conventional view that our school has run out of things to name after our most celebrated alumnus. The postings so far combine campus news and events with helpful lists [...]
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The estimable Jessica Litman, one of my personal heroes, has compiled this set of links to freely accessible online syllabi for computer and internet law courses at more than thirty law schools. For newbie cyberprofs such as myself, this is truly a gold mine. In the coming months, I’ll have to begin working [...]
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