Faculty Awareness Bulletin

The Policy Archives is a new comprehensive digital library of public policy research.  It contains over 12,000 documents from over 220 think tanks and other research organizations.  Read the press release here.

Topics: Technology Trends

Beth Simone Noveck, Prof of Law at New York Law School wrote an interesting piece that was recently published in the Journal of Legal Education.  Her article promotes the use of Wikipedia in legal education. 57 J. Legal Educ. 3 (2007). 

Topics: Legal Education; Technology Trends 

Jay Brown from Denver Law posted this article to SSRN.  Here’s the abstract:

The paper discusses the evidence that blogs enhance reputation and surveys the way that scholars at law schools outside the top tier are already harnessing blogs to enhance their reputations. The paper also discusses what it takes to create a successful blog, from the search for content to the benefits of advertising. The paper finishes with a brief history of The Race to the Bottom, a corporate governance blog.

Law School Rankings, Technology Trends

Take a look at this survey that details law student podcast use.  The study was conducted between March - May 2007.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Technology Trends; Legal Education

A Wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove and edit content. You’ve probably used Wikipedia  — a wiki encyclopedia.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit recently launched the first wiki federal judiciary web site.  Lawyers and judges use it to post and change notes on practice and procedure in U.S. Courts. The National Law Journal  ran an article about this new wiki on May 10, 2007.

Topics:Technology Trends

The following 5 blogs were recently added to the Law Professor Blogs Network: Administrative Law Professor Blog, Civil Procedure Prof Blog, International Environmental Law Professor Blog, Mergers & Acquisitions Law Professor Blog & Poverty Law Professor Blog.  To access these and countless others, go to the main Law Professor Blogs website.

Topics: Technology Trends; Environmental Law

Law Blog Metrics (A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network) has a great list of new state law blogs. The blogs cover a wide range of practice areas from the California Family Law blog, The Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawyer Blog,  & The New York Employment Lawyer Blog.

Topics: Technology Trends

Gene Koo, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, has conducted a study entitled “New Skills, New Learning: Legal Education and the Promise of Technology.”  His study is rich with statistical data.  Read the full article here.

Topics: Technology Trends; Legal Education

The University of Richmond has put together a really neat database that allows you to access an impressive number of country constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents.  Simply select the country your interested in and click go. 

Topics: Constitutional Law, International Law, Technology Trends 

The Energy and Environmental Security Initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law has unveiled an online global database of international energy treaties called the International Sustainable Energy Assessment. The database contains in-force energy treaties from all 192 countries in the world dealing with 45 energy-related subject areas.