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“Janet Reno, the first female Attorney General of the United States, who served for eight years after being nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993, has died at the age of 78 from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. Here, six milestones in the no-frills lawyer’s legacy…” See also New York Times obituary by Carl Hulse
Alice Ross – The Guardian – “Authors will join hundreds of protesters in the first national demonstration to protect library services held in London on Saturday, in response to a string of closures over the past five years. The children’s laureate, Chris Riddell, and the former children’s laureate Michael Rosen as well as the shadow …
Old Photo Archive: “Abraham Lincoln was the first President to experience the upswing in popularity of photography during the late 1840’s through the 1860’s. We are lucky enough to have around 50 distinct portraits of the great man during his life, and we wanted to put together a list of our favorites in chronological order. …
Dahr Jamail, Truthout – Report: “…September of this year saw Earth pass a dramatic threshold — one that signifies our entrance into a new era of anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD). September 2016 will now be remembered as the month that Earth passed the threshold of 400 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere permanently, according to …
Farhad Manjoo, New York Times: “Next week, if all goes well, someone will win the presidency. What happens after that is anyone’s guess. Will the losing side believe the results? Will the bulk of Americans recognize the legitimacy of the new president? And will we all be able to clean up the piles of lies, …
“The United States choses its next president on 8 November, with implications for international relations, security, trade and fight against climate change. The vote follows an acrimonious campaign, which analysts say points to a deeply divided nation on issues such as the US international role, immigration, social protection, taxation as well as trade and industrial …
“1984 amendments to the New Jersey Safe Drinking Water Act (Act) at N.J.S.A. 58:12A- 20, established New Jersey’s Drinking Water Quality Institute (DWQI) as well as the drinking water standard setting process. The DWQI is responsible for developing Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCL) or standards for hazardous contaminants in drinking water and for recommending those standards …
Everything You Wanted To Know About Transparency (But Were Afraid to Ask Twitter): “With so many hot takes being offered on Wikileaks these days, we thought it would be good to clear the air with a simple primer on the difference between information obtained via the Freedom of Information Act and information obtained from leaks… …
CRS report via FAS – Recent State Election Law Challenges: In Brief. L. Paige Whitaker, Legislative Attorney. November 2, 2016. During the final months and weeks leading up to the November 8, 2016, presidential election, courts across the country have ruled in numerous challenges to state election laws. For example, there have been recent court …
Aletras N, Tsarapatsanis D, Preoţiuc-Pietro D, Lampos V. Predicting judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights: a Natural Language Processing perspective. Peer J Computer Science 2:e93 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.93 “Recent advances in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning provide us with the tools to build predictive models that can be used to unveil patterns driving …
fedscoop: “The Obama administration launched Thursday Code.gov, a new repository for government open source code now featuring nearly 50 open source projects from more than 10 agencies. Coders can expect to see more projects on the site in the coming months as agencies implement the recently released Federal Source Code Policy, U.S. CIO Tony Scott said …
Rowe, Margie and Tang, Stephen and Foley, Tony and Holmes, Vivien and James, Colin G. and Hickie, Ian, Being Well in the Law: A Guide for Lawyers (November 3, 2016). Being Well in the Law (2016) The Law Society of New South Wales. Available for download at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2861586 “Being Well in the Law is …
