Sunday, February 18, 2007 6:34 AM
Blawg's Sunday Paper, a quick spin through the blawgosphere and the week that was.
Microsoft standards attorney David Rudin wrote the post Floor Lamps are Not Software , in which he referenced and commented on IBM’s Rob Weir...nice piece about the standardization of electrical fixtures and the benefits those standards bring to consumers.
Dennis Kennedy referenced a number of diverse articles and posts he has written lately in his post, Wikis for Lawyers, Email Vaults, and Legal Tech Trends in the UK. Dennis always stays on top of technology trends in legal, so you won't go wrong adding him to your subscription list.
Likewise, his occasional co-author/collaborator Tom Mighell, offers a great service via Inter Alia, continually highlighting new blawgs, technologies and websites. Hit the link above or dive directly into this sampling of posts from last week: Google gets into patents Time to Get Wiki-ed The end of snail mail?
At The Journal the Business Law Society's weblog, Christopher Minelli wrote on the subject of Admiralty The Classical Legacy of Admiralty: The Pre-Roman World (Part One of a Two-Part Series). This publication, apparently run entirely by students at the University of Illinois College of Law, continues to offers posts from a variety of authors on myriad subjects.
Mary L. Dudziak at Legal History Blog reported that John Monohan, University of Virginia, has a new essay forthcoming in a symposium issue of the Cincinnati Law Review, Tarasoff at Thirty: How Developments in Science and Policy Shape the Common Law. From the post: Monohan on Science, Mental Health Policy and the Law since Tarasoff
Professor A. Benjamin Spencer's always informative Split Circuits, which tracks developments concerning splits among the federal circuit courts, continued to do just that: N.D. Ohio Notes Circuit Split Re: Whether Jury Trial Applies to Both Claims Where Admiralty Claim Joined with Non-Admiralty Claim.
If you have not yet seen the Law School Academic Support Blog, you might stop by some time. The site is a clear indication of the growing breadth and depth of the blawgosphere. An example of the types of useful information provided regularly (and often uniquely) was Friday's post Great Idea:
Suzanne Schmitz, at Southern Illinois University School of Law, sent a description of a great program for 1Ls; and I thought our readers should hear about it:
At Southern Illinois University School of Law, in early February, we experimented with a program for all one Ls, designed to inspire them to improve their performance. On a late Thursday afternoon (with Friday being a light day), we gathered all 1Ls in the auditorium and began by showing the DVD trailer for All About Law School. It runs about 2 minutes and ends with the law students in the video starting to share their secrets and then being silenced with the suggestion that the watcher buy the DVD. At this point, we had four 2Ls come to the mike and say “ I am a 2L and I improved my grade point average and I will share my secret.”
I won't spoil the rest. Hit the link above (or here: Great Idea) to read the full post.
Law Student Luis Villa at First Movers said: I just attended a small forum on the creation of a research agenda. I'll skip naming the profs involved because I'm sure my notes will be atrociously misrepresentative of what they actually meant and said, but I thought it would be worth sharing my notes on their talk, and asking for contributions and tips from others who are starting or have started down the road towards academia. From the post creating an academic research agenda
Professor Frank Pasquale at Concurring Opinions gave light to a nice interview with Jack Balkin on the new role of blogs in legal scholarship in his post Balkin on Blogs.
At her International Lawyer Coach Blog, Janet Moore highlighted this recent writing: Continue Lifting Foreign Restrictions, Ken Siegel, the managing partner of Morrison Foerster’s Tokyo office, describes the history of, and calls for Japan officials to lift further, the restrictions on foreign lawyers practicing in Japan. From the post Call for Japan to Lift Restrictions on Foreign Lawyers
And, finally, as I always like concluding on a lighter note, Bonnie Shucha at WisBlawg pointed out a March of the Librarians Mockumentary on YouTube: If you've ever been to a convention, especially a librarian convention, check this out! I know I'm going to be thinking about this at the next AALL Annual Meeting.
Enjoy Your Sunday...