How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship
am 04.06.2006 von Handakte WebLAWgThe Beckman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School held a symposium in late April on “How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship.” Here is the …
How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship?
Handakte WebLAWg / Web logs (”blogs”) are transforming much of American society, including government, politics, journalism, and business. In the past few years, blogs have begun to affect the delivery of legal education, the production and dissemination of…
Bloggership Conference at Harvard Law School
Jurabilis / There will be a symposium on Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship at Harvard Law School on Friday, April 28. The symposium is sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and will be held in the Ames Courtroom. …
Wall Street Journal on Blogs and Law Reviews
Law & Justice / Brandt Goldstein at the Wall Street Journal has an article today addressing the current debate in the legal academy regarding the relative merits and demerits of law reviews and academic blogs. He challenges the legitimacy of law reviews as much as …
Blogging: Legal Scholarship or Distraction?
Law & Justice / The annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools discussed about the issue Blogging: Scholarship or Distraction?. The programme (pdf) described the session as follows: One of the most salient developments in the Internet revolution is b…
Taxonomy of American and Canadian Legal Blogs
Law & Justice / Another update of my post What Legal Rules Are Applicable to Blogs?: Ian Best, a third-year law student at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, has made a taxonomy of American and Canadian legal blogs. He has done thorough job. The catego…
UK Legal Blogs
Law & Justice / If you are interested in UK Legal Blogs, take a look here. Background reading: What Legal Rules Are Applicable to Blogs? …
The Hazards of Academic Blogging
Handakte WebLAWg / Interesting series of articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education on The Hazards of Academic Blogging, including two by Law Profs (and participants in our recent Bloggership Symposium at Harvard Law School): Exposed in the Blogosphere, by Ann Altho…
Internet Law: Search or Research?
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Telemedicus is a German blog run by several students at Münster University Law School whose area of concentration is Internet law. Highly regarded Prof. Thomas Hoeren holds the Internet chair. In an April 8, 2007 entry, …
Irish law blogs
Handakte WebLAWg / Being the home soil and having practiced in Ireland for a year, you gotta share the list of Irish law blogs from the Irish Legal Fiction Blog. Irish Legal Fiction - Legal News & Information from an Irish Perspective; Maintained by Abhc…
The 2007 Blawggies: Dennis Kennedy’s Best Law-related Blogging Awards
Handakte WebLAWg / Once again Dennis Kennedy has recognized the importance of law librarian blogs with the 2007 Blawggie Award in “Best Legal Blog Category” (tied with Non-US Legal Blogs and Solo Lawyer Blogs). Dennis writes: I have to be one of the bigges…
Seltsames Stipendium
neues aus schwabenheim / A college student whose younger sister was murdered more than a decade ago was presented Tuesday with a scholarship from an unlikely source — death row inmates from around the country.…
A New Law-School Curriculum
Handakte WebLAWg / On WSJ.com, Jeremy Blachman, a 2005 Harvard Law School grad and the author of the novel, Anonymous Lawyer, weighs in on his alma mater’s recent announcement that it’s revamping its first-year curriculum. Harvard will lighten the hours spent on tr…
Internet newsletter for lawyers/Internet-Newsletter für Juristen
Transblawg / Delia Venables' Internet Newsletter for Lawyers has a new look and is now produced jointly with Nick Holmes of infolaw. It costs money, so many readers will say there is enough to read out there. However, it's always excellent and now it has…
Lawyer Blogs Are Not Advertising
Handakte WebLAWg / Julie Hilden, a lawyer who now writes both fiction and non-fiction full-time, contends that expanding lawyer advertising rules to cover blogs would be a mistake. “Rules regulating attorney advertising are pernicious and elitist to begin with;…
UK law and legal blogs
Handakte WebLAWg / Infolaw, a UK legal resource, has added a list of UK legal and law blogs to its blogs section. Though Nick Holmes, Managing Director of Information for Lawyers Ltd and webmaster and principal consultant for InfoLaw, reports there’s still no sur…
Düsseldorf Language and Law conference/Konferenz zu Recht und Sprache in Düsseldorf
Transblawg / The Language and Law Conference will be held from May 17 to 19, 2006 in Duesseldorf, Germany. It is an interdisciplinary joint-venture of the University of Duesseldorf and the University of California, Los Angeles. The full programme should be onlin…
