Friday, April 28, 2006

Out of the Jungle: Electronic Frontier Foundation Challenges Patent on Internet Test Taking

Out of the Jungle: Electronic Frontier Foundation Releases Paper Studying Inintended Consequences of Digitial Millennium Copyright Act

beSpacific: Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws in Electronic Format

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Slashdot | Judge Creates Own Da Vinci Code For all you hackers out there.

The Illinois Trial Practice Weblog: So You Can't Think of a Reason Why Law Libraries Are Useful?

beSpacific: NARA Audit of Docs. Removed From Website for Classification Purposes

Ernie The Attorney: Interview with a Judge about blogging

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Out of the Jungle: Should Lawyers and Bar Applicants Be Required to Disclose Their Depression?

beSpacific: 60 Day Gas Tax Holiday Proposed. Dream on.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

BetaNews | Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Released.

Out of the Jungle: Law School Clinics

Slashdot | Judge Rules in Favor of Websurfing at Work

Google Cheat Sheets
(Props to TVC Alert)

Monday, April 24, 2006

Slashdot | New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame. Just say NO to this one.

Out of the Jungle: The ABA is requesting Comments - ALDA deans will probably speak

Out of the Jungle: Some Baylor law students irked after prom dinner closes part of library. What was that Dean thinking? I'm surprised he wasn't tarred and feathered.

Friday, April 21, 2006

beSpacific: New on LLRX.com

beSpacific: Google Scholar Adds Citation Feature

Out of the Jungle: Bar Passage Blues Something else you 3L's have to worry about.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

beSpacific: Papers of Columnist Jack Anderson Cannot Be Made Public Until Cleared By FBI. Res Ipsa.

beSpacific: Release of Foreign Relations Volume.

beSpacific: Center for Technology in Government Launches XML Toolkit

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

beSpacific: Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA.

Since today is tax day - beSpacific: 47 AGs Submit Letter to IRS On Sharing Personal Info on Tax Returns.

Monday, April 17, 2006

Law School Events for Monday, April 17:

UB Alumni Are Everywhere: Coast to Coast
Noon and again at 5:30 p.m., Venable Baetjer Howard Moot Court Room.


The program will feature Aaron Brown, J.D. '96, who is from Seattle, WA, and an assistant regional counsel at the Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services, Jill Green, '94, who is from Portland, ME, and a visiting clinical professor at the University of Maine and former assistant attorney general for the state of Maine and Steve Nickel, J.D. '01, founder and president of Sports Tickets Unlimited, Towson, Maryland. For more information, email External & Alumni Relations or call 410.837.6797."

beSpacific: FTC Issues 28th Annual Report on Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

Out of the Jungle: About Students and Laptops

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Law School Events for Thursday, April 13
Noon–1 p.m. Room 510, 5th floor, UB Student Center.
The Legal and Psychological Aspects of Asylum based on Torture
Presented by The University of Baltimore School of Law's Immigrant Rights Project and UB Amnesty International. For more information, please contact Helen Harnett, Clinical Fellow, at 410.837-5732. View flyer. (pdf)"

Out of the Jungle: Distinguishing Between Research and Analysis

American Civil Liberties Union : With Patriot Act Debate Over, Government Drops Fight to Gag Librarians From Discussing Objections to Controversial Law

Law.com - Maryland Blocks Online Access to Victim Identification

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Today's Events:

• Wednesday, April 12, 5–6:15 p.m. Venable Baetjer Howard Moot Court Room.

Maryland Board of Law Examiners Q & A Session
Representatives from the Maryland Board of Law Examiners will be on hand to answer students questions about the bar exam. For more information contact Linda Cortez.

beSpacific: WIPO Marks E-Renewal System

beSpacific: Windows Launches Live Academic Beta

Monday, April 10, 2006

Today's Events:
• Monday, April 10 @ noon
UB Democrats Speaker Event with Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger
Venable Baetjer Howard Moot Court Room
Lunch provided.

beSpacific: Series of Articles Addresses Critical Issue of Government Secrecy and Public Access to Information

beSpacific: Practical Guide to Recognizing and Responding to Phishing Attacks

Friday, April 07, 2006

Updated guide from the folks at the Virtual Chase: Legal Research Guide: Legal Reference

Out of the Jungle: Timing. A nice reflection on West/Lexis billing practices.

Thursday, April 06, 2006

TODAY's EVENTS:
• Thursday, April 6
Maryland Legal Services Collaboration Conference
A meeting of Maryland Legal Services providers, sponsored by the Clinical Programs. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Poe's, Law Center. For more information contact Yoanna Moisides at 410.837.5618.

EXPLOR Orientation (1L's only)
Noon–1:30 p.m. and 5:15–6 p.m. Venable Baetjer Howard Moot Court Room. For more information, contact Career Services, 410.837.4404.

See how well you can write laws:Wikocracy

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Out of the Jungle: MacCrate Languishes, Lawyers wonder, Where are the Schools?

Slashdot | Self-Parking Cars Coming To U.S.

Ernie The Attorney: Abolish the bar exam?

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

It's that time of year again: USNews.com: America's Best Graduate Schools 2007: Top Law Schools

Monday, April 03, 2006

Slashdot | Copyright Study Group Seeks Comments

beSpacific: A Taxonomy of Legal Blogs