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If you are interested in international buiness transactions and international arbitration, you may  wish to participate in the Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition. The 2009 competition will be held in Germany. Feel free to contact the law library for help locating materials to assist with your memorials and oral arguments,
 Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition
http://www.fdimoot.org/index.php

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Join us for a reading/discussion of
The Race Card:
How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
by author Professor Richard Thompson Ford

Co-hosted by Robert Crown Law Library and Black Law Students Association.
TOMORROW, November 20th from 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Lunch Served
Robert Crown Law Library, 2nd floor Reference Lounge

“Richard Ford has come along and done [...]

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UNESCO has created a portal of free conversational language courses. The site contains about two dozen languages, including some Native American languages.
UNESCO Conversational Language Courses
http://opentraining.unesco-ci.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Categories%2FLanguage%2FConversational_languages_courses_%2Findex.html;d=1

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[Cross posted on LegalResearchPlus.]
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “The Wired Campus” reports today on an interesting effort to Out-Google Google. See Librarians Want to Out-Google Google With a Better Search Engine.

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[Cross posted on LegalResearchPlus]
As mentioned in today’s Law Librarian Blog, it appears — per a helpful investigatory audit of Public.Resource.org, an organization headed up by Carl Malamud, who recently (October 20, 2008) presented to the Advanced Legal Research class at Stanford Law School — that Social Security Numbers (SSNs) and other confidential and sensitive personal [...]

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VersusLaw is a low cost legal research tool that has lots of primary materials.
And, now Versuslaw provides free access to law students.  The best part: once you register, you get access even during the summer!
To register for this free account, go the the Versuslaw.com site.  At the bottom of the page, there is a section [...]

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