Day archives: August 3rd, 2017

By August 2, 2017 we used more from nature than our planet can renew in the whole year

“Global Footprint Network, an international research organization, is marking Earth Overshoot Day with the launch of a new mobile-friendly Footprint calculator at www.footprintcalculator.org. Earth Overshoot Day is the date when humanity’s annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate over the entire year. This year Earth Overshoot Day falls on August 2, the earliest …

Subjects: Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Law, Knowledge Management

JournalTOCs current awareness service for updates on latest subject matter specific articles

“JournalTOCs is a Current Awareness Service (CAS) where you can discover the newest papers coming directly from the publishers as soon as they have been published online. JournalTOCs is for researchers, librarians, students and anyone who’s looking for the latest or most current papers published in the scholarly literature with international coverage. JournalTOCs is a …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Legal search provider Judicata posts repository of case search benchmark data

“Today [August 2, 2017] Judicata is publishing data and information that we hope will seed a benchmark for legal search and drive qualitative improvements across the industry. Just as the ImageNet dataset helped drive dramatic improvements in computer vision and deep learning, we’d like to see a growing collection of legal data be used to …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Digital Planet 2017: How Competitiveness and Trust in Digital Economies Vary Across the World

“Every day, billions of people around the world use the internet to share ideas, trade with one another and keep in touch with family, friends, and colleagues. With worldwide internet penetration at nearly 50 percent, the global digital economy has become a space of immense opportunity. Similarly, it’s clear that both business and consumer transactions …

Subjects: Uncategorized

Disrupting Mass Incarceration at the Local Level: A Guide to Mapping Reform

Oregon Justice Resource Center: “Public awareness and concern about over-criminalization and over-incarceration has grown significantly in recent years but much of that attention is focused in the wrong places. What happens at the national level tends to be in the spotlight much of the time, despite the fact that most people entering our prisons and …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Legal Research

WSJ exclusive – Grand jury impaneled in DC to investigate Trump campaign and Russia

WSJ: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury in Washington to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, a sign that his inquiry is growing in intensity and entering a new phase, according to people familiar with the matter. The grand jury, which began its work in recent weeks, signals that Mr. Mueller’s …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research