A recent press release announced: “Proceedings of the Supreme Court . . . can now be watched live over the internet, in a significant development for the transparency and accessibility of the highest court in the land.” “[Now] legal professionals, students and members of the public interested in the work of the Supreme Court do not have to …
Do you dream of a comprehensive digital public library that would make online access to knowledge available to all? The Digital Public Library of America Steering Committee does, and today invites you to submit your ideas to a beta development phase of their undertaking. The committee looks forward to receiving ideas, models, and prototypes, whether clearly practical or a …
Amrit Dhir, a 1L at Harvard Law School, has been working with the library on open access activities. He recently had an opportunity to interview Subbiah Arunachalam of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in India. Check out the interview on the Berkman website.
March 9, 2011 5:00pm Harvard Law School, Austin North The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review is hosting a colloquium tonight. Professor Libby Adler from Northeastern University School of Law will be presenting her paper “Gay Rights and Lefts: Rights Critique and Distributive Analysis for Real Law Reform” and will respond to remarks on the piece that were …
Our colleagues at the Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford Law School and Justia (with some help from the folks at Fastcase and Stanford Law students) recently teamed up for SCOCAL, an exciting project to provide open access to California law. From a description on its fabulous Legal Research Plus blog, the website “provides free access to the …
The Genocide Archive of Rwanda opened last week. Below is an excerpt from a press release about the project: Established by the Aegis Trust in association with Rwanda’s National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide (CNLG), the Genocide Archive of Rwanda will become the unified repository where all information relating to the genocide can be found. Its physical …
This week is Open Access Week, a global event that allows the “academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.” In celebration of the week, …
David Hoffman of Temple University Beasley School of Law recently had his research assistant update a 2006 study on citation of law-related blogs in law reviews and court opinions. He has posted the findings at Concurring Opinions. Among the top 20 cited in law reviews since 2006 are Lessig Blog by HLS professor Lawrence Lessig (which went in …
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–As National Preservation Week Begins, the Chesapeake Project, the First Collaborative Digital Archive of Its Kind in the Law Library Community, Expands with the Addition of a New Library Partner– As the first annual National Preservation Week begins, the Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive is pleased to announce that its digital preservation efforts are expanding with the addition …
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Our colleagues Roberta Shaffer and Mark Strattner at the Library of Congress were recently on Federal News Radio discussing their project to digitize Haitian law. Check out their library’s guides to legal sources in Haiti. You might also want to visit LC’s collection in the Internet Archive where you can already find some Haitian legal material.