Dec 22
2010
 5:00 PM
Dec 22
2010
 8:47 AM

Law Professors Rewarded for Not Publishing

The Pennsylvania Eastern District Court has awarded Professors David Rudovsky of the University of Pennsylvania law school and Leonard Sosnov of Widener School of Law in Delaware $90,000 in compensatory damages and $2,500,000 in punitive damages from West Publishing Company. The professors are the authors of Pennsylvania Criminal Procedure: Law, Commentary and Forms, first published in 1991, with a second edition published in 2001. The professors provided annual updates until 2008, when they rejected West's compensation offer and ceased producing updates. West issued an update anyway, still bearing their names. The professors sued, contending that their reputations were damaged by the issuance of an update with only three new cases in it. West plans to appeal. RL

Dec 20
2010
 12:28 PM

New Web Resource: SCOCAL: The Supreme Court of California, Annotated « Legal Research Plus

From the Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford Law School, and Justia, Inc.:

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Supreme Court of California website, SCOCAL (http://scocal.stanford.edu).

SCOCAL is a joint project between the Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford Law School, and  Justia, Inc.

The site provides free access to the full text California Supreme Court opinions from 1934 to the present, along with detailed annotations of selected cases written and edited by students in our Advanced Legal Research class here at Stanford.

… [Read more] -JML


Dec 17
2010
 8:25 AM

Supremes Using E-readers

C-SPAN's interview with Associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan will air Sunday, December 19, at 3:30 P.M. In the interview, she remarks:

 I have a Kindle that my briefs are on. You know I saw Justice Scalia, he said that he had them on an iPad and I thought, huh, maybe I should have them on an iPad. But mine are on a Kindle and I also of course you know sometimes truck them around just on hard copy. So I do both.

RL

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2010
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2010
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Dec 9
2010
 2:19 PM

Professional Legal Skills Said to Be Neglected in the Law School Curriculum

Steven C. Bennett is a partner at Jones Day and has also taught as an adjunct law professor for twenty years at several New York area law schools. In When Will Law School Change? 89 Neb. L. Rev. 87 (2010), he offers what most practitioners and law students, if not the legal academy, would consider some readily apparent and certainly not difficult to implement ways to integrate neglected fundamental professional legal skills into the law school curriculum. RL

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2010
 9:51 AM
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2010
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2010
 3:07 PM