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From John P. Joergensen, Rutgers University School of Law – Camden Law Library, news about the launch of a searchable online collection of U.S. Congressional documents, hearings and prints that are being scanned from their holdings. This is an ongoing project, and the collection will expand over time. In addition, see also the New Jersey …
“The CorporateAffiliations.com database provides corporate linkage information on nearly 200,000 of the most prominent parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions – down to the seventh level of corporate linkage…[the] database is compiled and updated from information supplied by the listed companies themselves, as well as from research gathered from business publications and annual …
Hosted by Wikipedia, this List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States is a collaborative work in progress, may contain errors and never be complete, but is interesting nevertheless.
Kudos to Kathy Biehl, whose short story, Accounting for the Stars, was awarded third place this year. The list of 2006 Short Story Fiction Writing Contest Finalists is here.
Press release: “The study presents data from a survey of 84 law libraries; data is broken out for law firm, university, government and private company law libraries, and by size of the librarys content budget. The study has approximately 300 tables of data summarizing a broad range of developments in law library policies regarding personnel …
“Eigen’s Political & Historical Quotations is the world’s largest collection of memorable quotes about and by historians, politicians and other public figures. The collection is designed for the use of students, journalists, teachers, historians, political scientists and the many other people who are interested in politics and political history. Use the quotation search to look …
The Law Professor as Public Intellectual, by Cynthia Cotts, The American Lawyer, June 1, 2006 Blawgs on a Roll – Legal reporting is sometimes decried as boring and inaccurate. But a band of savvy law professors have changed all that, by Dahlia Lithwick, The American Lawyer, June 1, 2006 Related article, New York Times, October …
What Ashcroft Was Told, By Murray Waas, National Journal, June 8, 2006 “Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft continued to oversee the Valerie Plame-CIA leak probe for more than two months in late 2003 after he learned in extensive briefings that FBI agents suspected White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of trying to …
AP reported that JFK archvist Allan Goodrich announced a huge digitization project to be completed by the end of 2007, which would provide web access to “48 million pages of documents, 400,000 photos and 1,200 hours of video..” NARA press release: “Twenty-nine years after participating in the formal groundbreaking of the Kennedy Presidential Library and …
“The United States Patent and Trademark office will be hosting an EFS-Web briefing on June 8, 2006. EFS-Web is the USPTO’s new electronic patent filing system, which allows users to file patents online safely and securely by attaching files as PDF’s.”
The American Bar Association Board of Governors decided reportedly “unanimously…to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office.”
“The Freedom of Information Act Guide & Privacy Act Overview contains the “Justice Department Guide to the Freedom of Information Act,” a detailed discussion of the FOIA’s substantive and procedural aspects that has become the primary FOIA reference volume; the “Privacy Act Overview,” an overview discussion of the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 …
