George Mason University School of Law hosts the 40th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy September 21-23, 2012. Conference organizers seek abstracts of papers, proposals for panels and tutorials, demonstrations, and student papers. Submission opens on March 1, 2012. Deadlines are as follows: March 31, 2012: Main conference abstracts, and proposals for panels, tutorials and demonstrations. April 30, 2012: Student papers. mm Read More...

George Mason University School of Law hosts the 40th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy September 21-23, 2012. Conference organizers seek abstracts of papers, proposals for panels and tutorials, demonstrations, and student papers. Submission opens on March 1, 2012. Deadlines are as follows: March 31, 2012: Main conference abstracts, and proposals for panels, tutorials and demonstrations. April 30, 2012: Student papers. mm Read More...

Santa Clara Social Justice Anthony Ricco (Law Office of Anthony L. Ricco) presents “The Practice of Law: Saving Lives and Fighting Injustice.” This paper is not publicly available. Texas Robert Bone (Texas Law) UCLA Legal Theory Benjamin Zipursky (Fordham Law) Yale Law and Economics David Yermack (NYU Business) Read More...

Wanita Scrogg’s review for the AALL Spectrum of Micheal Ariens’s Lone Star Law is here. Timothy Sandefur laments the state of California’s constitutional history on the Pacific Legal Foundation’s PLF Liberty Blog. Philip Hamburger has posted the essay Judicial Office and the Liberty Protected by Law on the Library of Law and Liberty blog  Stephen Presser and James Stoner respond. On January 30, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m, the Washington History Seminar of the Read More...

In addition to the Summer Institute on Archival Research posted below, here are a few other opportunities and upcoming deadlines for graduate students. Miller Center National Fellowship.  Applications for the Miller Center National Fellowship aredue February 1.  The Miller Center awardsfellowships to those completing dissertations in American politics, foreignpolicy, and world affairs, or on the impact of global affairs on the U.S. “Crossing Boundaries, Workshopping Read More...

Hundreds of Hispanic farmers who had been represented by Howrey in a suit against the federal government alleging discriminatory lending practices, have asked a federal judge to ensure that they aren’t left without representation. Howrey’s bankruptcy trustee filed a motion last month to allow the estate withdraw from the case, but the farmers don’t want Howrey to go. Earlier this month the judge approved the request. Stephen Hill, a former antitrust partner who has been working on the Read More...

Updated at 5:23 p.m. The National Park Service alerted Occupy D.C. demonstrators today of its intent to begin enforcing a no-camping rule starting on Monday, and also filed notice (PDF) with the federal judge overseeing the protesters’ case against the agency about the warning this afternoon. Attorneys for the Occupy D.C. demonstrators and the U.S. Department of the Interior are due in court Jan. 31 to argue over a preliminary injunction motion. The demonstrators have sued to keep the Read More...

* The people at the Department of Justice really don’t want you to see Osama bin Laden’s death photos, but don’t they realize that the internet needs pics or it didn’t happen? [Blog of Legal Times] * Déjà vu: Hustler Magazine’s nude photo spread of Nancy Benoit was back on the Eleventh Circuit’s docket this week. The porn purveyors face damages of $0, $250K, or $19.6M — what’ll it be? [ABC News] * Poor Justice Clarence Thomas. He used to be such a “lonely Read More...

   The average cost of a data breach is $7.2 million per event, or roughly $214 per compromised record. A breach puts a strain on every department in an organization. Learn how these costs can be easily avoided by maintaining valid SSL Certificates. www.symantec.com Ads by Pheedo Read More...

Thanks to Patricia E. Infanti, PP, PLS, NALS President 2010-2011, for taking the time to answer The Paralegal Mentor’s Thirteen Questions! Patti was a terrific guest on this episode of The Paralegal Voice where she discussed the value of professional association membership with her and Kathleen Amirante, PP, PLS, NALS President Elect. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Where do you work and what is your job title?  I am a Legal Administrative Assistant with Ballard Spahr LLP in Read More...

The latest edition of The Paralegal Voice, “A Fun Dose of Paralegal Ethics” co-hosted by Lynne DeVenny and me, is now available at Legal Talk Network. Can paralegal ethics be fun? On this podcast, lawyer/humorist Sean Carter, founder of Lawpsided Seminars, shares his comedic approach to legal education, the biggest challenges for legal staffers today, and his thoughts on his popular talk, “Thou Shalt Not Lie, Cheat and Steal: The 10 Commandments of Legal Read More...

When President Obama announced Tuesday night that he was forming a task force to crack down on “mortgage fraud,” what he and many of his like-minded supporters had in mind are the robo-signing, document-falsifying, parrot-stealing large lenders and the keystone cops who work for them. Yet, the traditional understanding of “mortgage fraud” has a different emphasis, one we’ve been talking about since long before this crisis was a crisis. It’s typified by Read More...

The Society of American Law Teachers, in partnership with the 10th Annual LatCrit-SALT Junior Faculty Development Workshop, has issued a call for papers for its conference on October 5-6, 2012 at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. The theme of this year’s conference is “Teaching Social Justice, Expanding Access to Justice.” ae Read More...

Albany Law School’s Center for Excellence in Teaching (CELT) will host a national conference on “Setting and Assessing Learning Objectives from Day One” on March 29-30, 2012. Please see the conference website for more information about registration. ae Read More...

Civil legal aid groups that receive money from the Legal Services Corp. estimated that they will cut 163 lawyers and 230 other employees this year after Congress trimmed the agency’s budget by 14% for fiscal 2012, according to an LSC survey released Thursday. The projected reductions among 132 of the 135 LSC-funded organizations follow a loss in 2011 of 833 positions. The groups in 2010 had 9,059 employees, including 4,351 lawyers. In 2012, the organizations expect to have 7,833 workers, Read More...

Updated at 5:10 p.m. Steptoe & Johnson on Wednesday notified Congress that former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston (D-La.) and his son, N. Hunter Johnston, have stopped advocating for Jefferson Parish, La., after the duo lobbied for the municipality for at least a dozen years. The firm ended its government advocacy relationship with Jefferson Parish on Dec. 31, according to a lobbying termination report filed with Congress. Steptoe received $120,000 last year for lobbying related to funding for Read More...

The Meaning of Laws: A History of Legal Interpretation and Legal Reasoning has been posted by Benoit Frydman, Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy, Free University of Brussels. It is an excerpt from his book, LE SENS DES LOIS: HISTOIRE DE L’INTERPRETATION ET DE LA RAISON JURIDIQUE, p. 708, Paris-Bruxelles, 2005.The SSRN posting and the book are in French.  Here’s the short abstract: This book provides a history of legal thinking and reasoning. It focuses on the tools, Read More...

University of Pennsylvania DEMOCRACY, CITIZENSHIP AND CONSTITUTIONALISM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP in the Social Sciences and the Humanities 2012-2013 The Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism (DCC) invites applications for one (1) one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the social sciences or the humanities.  Applicants’ research should be relevant to the DCC Program’s 2012-2013 theme, “Constitution Making.” The DCC Fellow will teach one undergraduate Read More...

Being a justice of the United States Supreme Court is a pretty great gig. You get to attend glamorous events like Tuesday night’s State of the Union address. You get to wear a snazzy black robe on said occasions. Sure, there’s some work involved. SCOTUS opinions can be loooong! But at least the justices have their trusty Supreme Court clerks, three dozen or so of the nation’s brightest young legal minds, to help get everything done. Thanks to everyone who responded to our Read More...

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