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Last news: March 20, 2008 07:55:00

The War in Afghanistan In Afghanistan, there have been 772 coalition deaths — 483 Americans, four Australians, 89 Britons, 81 Canadians, two Czech, 12 Danes, 14 Dutch, two Estonians, one Finn, 12 French, 22 Germans, 11 Italians, three Norwegians, three... - [Read more]

The Law Library of Congress has prepared a Legal Research Guide for Russia. The Russian Guide includes an introduction to the legal system, official sources of law, print resources, and web resources. Check it out. [JH] - [Read more]

Antitrust Handbook for Franchise and Distribution Practitioners List Price: $169.00 Publisher: ABA Publication Date: March 2008 Page Court: 250 ISBN: 978-1-60442-048-7 Book Description: Franchising forms a major sector of the economy, and businesses engaged in selling goods and services through... - [Read more]

From the press release: "The Committee on Codes of Conduct of the Judicial Conference of the United States seeks public comments on proposed revisions to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges. The proposed revisions are based in large... - [Read more]

The National Association of Blind Lawyers (NABL) will be conducting a day-long training seminar for blind and visually impaired attorneys and law school students in Baltimore on April 10, 2008 as part of the 2008 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium:... - [Read more]

Library Associate Senior - 4987 The University of Akron Law Library Conduct receipt, distribution and maintenance of library serials in on-line environment and provide administrative support for library. Required qualifications: minimum of two years experience with library policies and procedures,... - [Read more]

Brian Leiter has just published Top Producers of New Law Teachers, 2003-2007, a ranking of feeder schools for the legal academy, on Brian Leiters Law School Rankings [his blog post]. I thought it might be interesting to create a table... - [Read more]

The Judicial Conference of the United States has approved the first-ever binding, nationwide set of rules for handling conduct and disability complaints against federal judges. The new 29 Rules for Judicial Conduct and Judicial Disability Proceedings, which take effect in... - [Read more]

Jane C. Ginsburg (Columbia Law School) has deposited Separating the Sony Sheep From the Grokster Goats: Reckoning the Future Business Plans of Copyright-Dependent Technology Entrepreneurs in NELLCO. Heres the abstract: U.S. and many other national copyright systems have by statute... - [Read more]

Reporters Without Borders has published a new edition of its Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents (pdf). It offers practical advice and techniques on how to start up a blog, how to blog for anonymously, and how to circumvent censorship. [JH]... - [Read more]

From the site: "CapNews.Net is an Internet News Service covering Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court and executive agencies. In 2008 CapNews.Net will launch its full operations and begin offering news video syndication services to media organizations and others,... - [Read more]

LawLibTech is conducting a poll of law firm librarians on IM practices in preparation for a presentation at TRIPLL next month. [JH] - [Read more]

Time is conducting a perfect hump-day diversion, a poll of their best and worst covers Vote for Best Covers | Vote for Worst Covers | View Poll Results (regularly updated) See also Times Person of the Year, 1927-2007 Gallery of... - [Read more]

A transcript of today’s argument in District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290) is now available from the Supreme Court. C-Span is also rebroadcasting the oral arguments of this potentially far-reaching gun-control case. [RJ] - [Read more]

This story comes from the Visalia Times-Delta (CA) where a librarian, Brenda Biesterfeld, claims she was terminated for reporting to police a patron who was viewing child pornography. The library denies the reporting is the cause of her termination. Another... - [Read more]