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Please send updates to me via the message system or to behrens@law.duke.edu.

Originally posted May 20, 2008. Last edited Feb. 6, 2013.

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Added by Jennifer L. Behrens on February 6, 2013 at 10:32am — 10 Comments

coauthored an extended article ‎of 61 pages:

Bilingual and Multilingual Legal Dictionaries in the European Union: An Updated Bibliography. Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 30(03), pp. 149 - 209.
DOI: 10.1080/0270319X.2011.601715 by Gerard-René de Groot & Conrad J. P. van Laer.

Added by Conrad van Laer on September 19, 2011 at 10:03am — No Comments

About the Law Libraries and Librarians Ning Network (Update)

The Law Libraries and Librarians Ning was started by Jim Milles over two years ago. He posted a notice about it on the law-lib list on May 11, 2008.



http://lawlibraries.ning.com/



The Ning administrators are:



Connie Crosby

Lyonette Louis-Jacques

Roger…

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Added by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on November 23, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Conflict of Laws in a Federation: The Nigerian Experience

The Foreign, Comparative & International Law (FCIL) SIS invites you to attend a 2010 Annual Meeting event:


FCIL-SIS Executive Committee Presents


Conflict of Laws in a Federation: The Nigerian…
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Added by Lucie Olejnikova on July 7, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Support FCIL Efforts and Help Make the AALL’s Annual Meeting a Global Event!

Hello:


While many of us are in the process of preparing for the 103rd AALL Annual Meeting in Denver, the FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians Committee is in the process of selecting its 2010 FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians recipient. As perhaps you know, the grant provides financial assistance to one foreign law librarian each year for purposes of attending the AALL Annual Meeting. We kindly request that you take a moment to read…
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Added by Lucie Olejnikova on April 22, 2010 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

What are the most read sources by Law firm attorneys?

I am conducting research on the daily readings of law firm attorneys and I am interested in your feedback, I am looking for the top 5 most read journals, magazines or newspapers by attorneys today.

Thank you.
Susana Vazquez, Ph.D

Added by Susana Vazquez on March 12, 2010 at 9:33pm — 1 Comment

BRIDGE THE GAP LEGAL RESEARCH PROGRAM

On behalf of LLAGNY, the 15th annual Bridge the Gap Legal Research Program is scheduled for Friday, March 26, 2010 from 8:30 am - 4:00 pm in the New York City Bar Association.



This year's event will include programs aimed at legal career development and will be open to recent graduates who may have their employment offer deferred or who are still looking for work.… Continue

Added by Lucie Olejnikova on February 22, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

2010 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians

The Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries is now accepting applications for the 2010 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians.



The FCIL Schaffer Grant for the July 10-13, 2010 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado provides a waiver of the AALL Annual… Continue

Added by Lucie Olejnikova on February 5, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

About the Law Libraries and Librarians Ning Network

The Law Libraries and Librarians Ning was started by Jim Milles over a year ago. He posted a notice about it on the law-lib list on May 11, 2008.



http://lawlibraries.ning.com/



The Ning administrators are:



Connie Crosby

Lyonette Louis-Jacques

Roger Skalbeck

Elizabeth Farrell



Becoming a… Continue

Added by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on January 4, 2010 at 9:56pm — No Comments

CFR in XML Available for Bulk Download from GPO

The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) for 2007-2009 is now available for bulk download in XML from U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) FDsys. Click here for the user guide.

Why is this of potential…

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Added by Rob Richards on December 28, 2009 at 12:36am — No Comments

Legal Educational Methods & Technology: Special Issue of JILT

The new issue of JILT: Journal of Information, Law & Technology is a special issue devoted to legal educational methods & technology, and contains a number of articles that may be of interest to law librarians:

  • Simon Ball & Helen James,…
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Added by Rob Richards on December 28, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Monday - join us for The Law Librarian roundup of the past year!

Join us for the Year in Review on The Law Librarian Dec. 21.



Guests include: Connie Crosby, Marcia Dority Baker, Margie Maes, Tracy Thompson Pryzluki, Roger Skalbeck and Richard Leiter discussing this year's legal information developments on BlogTalkRadio's The Law Librarian Monday morning December 21 at 11:00 AM Eastern



Thanks to the Law Librarian blog for noting this and other discussions in… Continue

Added by Connie Crosby on December 18, 2009 at 1:57pm — No Comments

Libraries of Health Records

What do people think about the new hospital libraries? They are getting all info such as heart surgery and short term health insurance records recorded in a data base for retrieval in health care situations. Is it legal for all personal information to be… Continue

Added by marty on November 1, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Legal Research Instruction: Recent Developments

Colleagues,

Greetings.

I've gathered information about recent developments in legal research instruction, in a new post at Legal Informatics Blog. Comments are welcome.

Happy holiday weekend, and best wishes for the new semester/quarter,

Rob

Added by Rob Richards on September 6, 2009 at 2:22pm — 1 Comment

Trying out Ning

As part of AALL's Web 2.0 Challenge, I am getting up to speed on social networking sites, and Ning is one I wanted to try out.

Added by Betsy Chessler on August 21, 2009 at 7:54pm — 3 Comments

Law School Admission Project & Legal Research

Colleagues,



Professor Marjorie Shultz of Boalt Hall just gave me permission to distribute a report explaining the methodology used in developing the "effectiveness factors" utilized in the The Law School Admission Project: Looking Beyond the LSAT. Those factors include "Researching the Law." The report also includes a useful literature review of empirical… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on August 17, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Susskind on The End of Lawyers

Colleagues: I've put together, over at Legal Informatics Blog, links and cites to a number of resources (including lectures, interviews, commentary, and reviews) related to Dr. Richard Susskind's book, The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (2008), which is being widely discussed by lawyers and… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on August 7, 2009 at 5:50pm — No Comments

Building Law Library After 30 Years of War

The Foreign, Comparative & International Law (FCIL) SIS invites you to attend an Annual Meeting event …



FCIL-SIS Executive Committee Presents



The Past, Present, and Future of the Law Library and Librarianship in Afghanistan: The Challenges and Rewards of Building a Library After 30 Years of War



Please join the recipient of the 2009 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians, Mr.… Continue

Added by Lucie Olejnikova on July 10, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Law Student Learning Styles: Boyle et al., Law Students Are Different from the General Population

Colleagues:



Jim Milles recently pointed us to the following new article on SSRN, which may be of interest:



Robin Boyle et al., Law Students Are Different from the General Population: Empirical Findings Regarding Learning Styles, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1416866. Abstract:



"The authors conducted an empirical study comparing the learning styles of law students with young adults at other educational… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on July 1, 2009 at 5:12pm — No Comments

Greening the Legal Profession (and Law Libraries)

In the "it's never too late" department, I just finished listening to the "Greening the Legal Profession" webinar co-sponsored by AALL for Professional Legal Management Week (PLMW), September 2008. The .wmv file is here:



http://bit.ly/pOSIC



The PowerPoint file is here:



http://bit.ly/wJxwA



Related files from AALL are here:



Spending… Continue

Added by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on June 26, 2009 at 12:15pm — No Comments

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