Category «Education»

90% of millennials and Gen-Z do not want to return to full-time office work post-pandemic

Business Wire: “Today’s young employees are the engines of the knowledge economy and tomorrow’s business leaders. And according to The Born Digital Effect, the latest research from Citrix Systems, Inc., they’re primed to deliver an extra $1.9 trillion in corporate profits. But they’ll need some help to pull it off. Made up of Millennials (born …

Subjects: Economy, Education

The Evolving Network of Legal Scholars

Hayashi, Andrew T., The Evolving Network of Legal Scholars (April 25, 2021). Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-25, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-12, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3833993 “The law professoriate is a network connected by scholarly interactions of various types, including co-authorship. I study the evolution of the …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Activist Archivists Are Trying to Save the ‘Pirate Bay of Science’

Vice – Facing lawsuits and legal trouble, archivists are working to save 77TB of freely available scientific data.  It can be hard to access scientific articles, which are often hidden behind expensive paywalls. For 10 years, Sci-Hub, the “Pirate Bay of Science” has hosted scientific papers free for anyone who wanted them. But it hasn’t …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

What the ephemerality of the Web means for your hyperlinks

Columbia Journalism Review: “Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away. But hyperlinks are a double-edged sword; for all of the internet’s boundlessness, what’s found on the Web can also be modified, moved, or entirely vanished.  The fragility of the …

Subjects: E-Records, Education, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

UPDATE: Comparative Criminal Procedure – A Select Bibliography

Lyonette Louis-Jacques: “This bibliography lists selected English-language resources on comparative criminal procedure. It focuses on journal articles, book chapters, and treatises covering comparative criminal procedure generally, criminal procedure in multiple jurisdictions, and specialized research topics in comparative criminal procedure such as: arrest, pre-trial detention, criminal investigation, criminal evidence, interrogation, right to counsel, legal assistance for …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Legal Research

The Human Library

“The Human Library Organisation is a registered international not for profit with our administrative headquarters located in Copenhagen, Denmark…The HLO is dedicated to ensuring a global implementation of the Human Library as a learning platform. We are at current operational on six continents and we host or are involved in activities in more than 80 …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management

The Law Student’s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well

George, Shailini, The Law Student’s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well (May 2021). Carolina Academic Press, Forthcoming May 2021, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3834474 – “The ABA and most state bar associations have identified a wellness crisis in the legal profession, and called for educating students on how to better cope with the challenges of …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Recommended Books

Ten Tips to Create a Legal Writing Course That Prepares Students for The Real World

Lamparello, Adam, Ten Tips to Create a Legal Writing Course That Prepares Students for The Real World (April 29, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3836328 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3836328 “In the past year, COVID-19 has transformed how legal education – and legal writing – is delivered to students. Online instruction replaced in-person instruction, professors and students were forced …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management