http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey From the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:16:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the past nine months or so, a group of us have worked on a Harvard-wide Task Force to consider our library systems.  The report is being issued today by Harvard's Provost, Steven E. Hyman, who chaired our Task Force.  Over the next year-plus, we will be working to implement ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/11/12/harvard-library-report/ Dawn Nunziato, a law prof at George Washington University Law School, has written a helpful and interesting new book, entitled Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age. Her focus in "Virtual Freedom" is -- as the subtitle suggests -- free speech on the net, framed primarily for ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/10/30/dawn-nunziatos-virtual-freedom-net-neutrality-and-free-speech-in-the-internet-age/ The Harvard Law School Library invites students to come visit today during this year's "Love Your Library Fest."  In addition to everything you'll learn about the HLS Library, come over for free movie tickets and a raffle to win an iPod Touch. [caption id="attachment_1427" align="alignnone" width="539" caption="Visit the HLS Library on ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/09/23/love-your-library-fest-today-2-5-p-m-at-hlsl/ At a workshop at Oxford University, HLS Prof. David Wilkins has convened the managing partners of some of the world's leading law firms.  Ted Burke of Freshfields, Simon Davies of Linklaters, Wim Dejonghe of Allen & Overy, Neville Eisenberg og Berwin Leighton Paisner, and Cyril Shroff of India's Amarchand & ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/09/11/managing-partners-weigh-in-on-impact-of-the-global-financial-crisis-live-blog/ Amid all the noise of the start of fall semester, Eszter Hargittai and I are launching a new experiment: a course taught jointly (and separately) at Northwestern University and at Harvard University on research methods in Internet & Society.  We'll post as much of the material as makes sense to ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/09/04/graduate-seminar-on-research-methods-on-internet-society/ Over the past year, I've worked with my colleagues at the Harvard Law School Library, our Library Committee of faculty members, and many others to develop a new organizational design for the HLSL.  It goes into effect today.  The description of our new organizational form is posted to the Library's ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/08/10/new-harvard-law-school-library-organizational-design/ Join us in-person or online for the GBS Settlement Workshop at the Berkman Center today.  There's a webcast: webcast, Twitter stream (#gbsworkshop09), and IRC chat, with vibrant conversations going on.  Lessig talking now, with an unadvertised-wow-we-are-lucky mini-keynote. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/07/31/google-books-search-settlement-workshop/ This summer I've been occasionally doing video/audio Skype sessions with Steve Bergen's Summercore program for teachers. It's the first time with "distance ed" that I've felt the process is natural. The sessions are about a half-hour, focused mostly on issues related to youth media usage, with teachers on ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/07/28/skype-ing-into-summercore/ Tonight, the Boston Public Library is hosting an event on the GBS: July 21 at 6:00 p.m. at the BPL, moderated by Maura Marx of the Open Knowledge Commons. On July 31, we at the Berkman Center are hosting an open workshop on alternative futures for digitizing of books in the ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/07/21/google-books-settlement-two-events/ One of the new efforts underway at the Harvard Law School Library is providing support for the growing number of faculty who perform empirical research.  It's something that a few other libraries have begun to do, and we think it's a great idea.  After a successful pilot this past year ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/07/17/hiring-empiricists-at-hls-library/