Lawtopic
am 09.08.2006 von http://log.handakte.de/The UCLA Law Library and Law Prof Eugene Volokh have launched Lawtopic, a Web-based clearinghouse for student article ideas. The theory is that law professors, lawyers, law clerks, and judges would submit such ideas to this site, and students would pick …
Law Professor Blogs
Handakte WebLAWg / Law professors’ blogs are getting a lot of attention on college campuses across the country. We all know the blog is a powerful tool. And postings reach people around the world in seconds. Tech savvy law professors have already joined the blogging …
French and Yiddish in American law
Transblawg / Is it correct to translate ‘Quel jeu doit-on jour vis-à-vis des autorités de Californie?’ as ‘What game must we play with the California authorities?’ This question came up for consideration by a United States D…
Research in Germany Land of Ideas
MarkenBlog / Der Verein Deutschland - Land der Ideen e.V. aus Berlin hat die Wort-/Bildmarke Research in Germany Land of Ideas (Registernummer: 306 41 677) übernommen. Die Marke genießt mit Priorität vom 07.07.2006 Schutz in den Nizzaklassen 35, 36, 41 und…
Perlentaucher.de goes English
Transblawg / Signandsight, Perlentaucher’s English site went online on March 1. It is subtitled ‘Arts, Essays, Ideas from Germany’. Perlentaucher.de is a site that collects, summarizes and links to German-language books and reviews. The English…
Lawsuit, Shmawsuit/Yiddisch
Transblawg / Judge Alex Kozinski and Eugene Volokh on the use of Yiddish in court decisions: Searching through the LEXIS legal opinions database reveals that chutzpah (sometimes also spelled chutzpa, hutzpah, or hutzpa) has appeared in 231 reported court de…
Translation, literature and Atari emulation
Transblawg / Waggish writes about the translation of Proust and the emulation of computer games. I enjoyed his put-down of Hofstadter’s version of Eugene Onegin: I’d also direct true believers to Douglas Hofstadter’s translation of Eugene Onegin…
Misguided ideas about the law / Rechtsirrtümer
Transblawg / Why Germans who book loungers with their towels are not in the right. I must have forgotten to recommend Ralf Höcker’s Lexikon der Rechtsirrümer, an interesting paperback for those who want to read some legal German. Interesting and n…
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