European Libraries Fight Google-ization|

beSpacific: The Public Papers of the Presidents, 1929-2001

On Monday, May 2, U.S. Congressman Elijah E. Cummings will host a field hearing in the School of Law's Moot Courtroom on the issue of witness intimidation. Congressman Cummings, the ranking member on the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, has scheduled a two-hour Subcommittee hearing on the topic beginning at 10 a.m. The hearing will examine the role of the federal government in stopping incidents of witness intimidation.

Members of the Unitesd States Congress, Maryland's state and local elected officials will participate or present testimony on efforts to address this issue.

The UB community is welcome to attend and observe this public hearing. However, space is limited and admission is not guaranteed.

Maryland Law: Uniform Laws

beSpacific: Wave of Public Comments on RFID In Passports Results in Possible Change of Course

beSpacific: Reviews of Norton's New Antispyware Beta

Thomson West Launches West BriefTools

beSpacific: Lessig's Book On Cyberspace Law Updated Via Open Source Wiki

beSpacific: Justice Kennedy Is In Good Company With Millions of Americans Using Internet For Research Daily

Slashdot | EU Rapporteur Publishes Software Patent

beSpacific: Senate Intelligence Cmte. Hearing on PATRIOT Act

beSpacific: GAO Identifies Personal Data Security Issues at IRS

Maryland Law: New MD Code Display

Wired News: Surprises Lurk in Satellite Snaps

Slashdot | Munich Court Again Enforces GPL. My home town comes through.

In honor of Tax Day: beSpacific: Denial of FOIA Request for Portions of IRS Manual Results in Lawsuit

Introducing Open Access News, a blog highlighting news items of interest to the open access movement. And what is the open access movement? As this blog puts it, the open access movement is about:

Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet. Making it available free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Removing the barriers to serious research.

InternetCases.com: Court upholds admissibility of weblog evidence used to convict

Slashdot | Free/Open-Access Academic Journals Growing

Law Library Subscriptions: Paper or Electronic?

Slashdot | LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Believed

beSpacific: Applications to Special Court Hit Record Hight

Google Web Search Features.

Transcript of Oral Arguments in P2P Case Heard by Supreme Court March 29

Copyright, copy wrong or just copy, right? Cute.

SSRN-Searches and Seizures in a Digital World by Orin Kerr

SSRN-A Model Regime of Privacy Protection (Version 2.0) by Daniel Solove, Chris Hoofnagle

beSpacific: Hearing on Digital Music and Interoperability

Robert Ambrogi's LawSites: More than 6,200 lawyers sanctioned in 2003, survey says

YaGoohoo!gle This search engine hack shows Google and Yahoo results side by side. Way cool.
(link caged from Shell Extension City)

Due to illness, Professor Borek has cancelled this evening's Trusts and Estates class (Tuesday, April 5th).

Open Access Law: SSRN

Robert Ambrogi's LawSites: Mass. high court today begins webcasting oral arguments

For those faculty members nogotiating a contract with law reviews: Open Access Law: Really Model Contract

Open Access Law: Good and Bad Law Reviews

This one's for Prof. Oppenheimer: beSpacific: Review of Desktop Search Tools.

beSpacific: How to Guide on RSS

Japanese-American Who Fought Internment Dies