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The Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) has created a link to the LawCite citator  for case law from Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Search results list subsequent cases that cite your case. For selected cases, a table of authorities is also provided. The citator database is [...]

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Imagine having to read an entire casebook in just half a day…Well, Congress only had 13 hours to read the 1100 page stimulus bill.
The good folks at the Sunlight Foundation have started the Read the Bill project:
“Readthebill.org is a commonsense solution – we want Congress to post all bills online for 72 hours [...]

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Carolina Academic Press (CAP), a publisher for over 20 years of titles in areas such as anthropology, archaeology, classics, criminal justice, education, history, medicine, politics, sociology, sports and law, has a convenient and useful paperback Legal Research Series covering legal research in — to date — 19 states:

Arizona
Arkansas
California
Connecticut (forthcoming)
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Kansas
Louisiana (forthcoming)
Michigan
Missouri
New York
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas (forthcoming)
Washington

The titles, authored by [...]

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Bussu offers free software and social networking features to help learn Spanish, French and German.  Requires registration.
http://www.busuu.com/

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The Law Library is providing access to the IsinoLaw database until April 9, 2009. Please stop by by the second floor reference desk for access.
Insinolaw provides bilingual access to over 200,000 laws and 5,000 judicial opinions. CIETAC arbitration awards are also included. 
http://www.isinolaw.com

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Starting Friday, March 13th through Friday March 20th, law library study space will be limited to law students only.  Other members of the Stanford community can still borrow library materials during this time period, but only law students can sit and study in the library.
It is very  important that you bring your ID with you [...]

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“Law, Journalism Students Team Up to Cover Trial” according to a new posting on LegalBlogWatch:
“Law, meet journalism. Journalism, meet law. The Grace Case Project is an innovative joint undertaking of the schools of law and journalism at the University of Montana. Students from both schools have teamed up to blog and tweet [...]

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In an AP story today by Roxana Hegeman, “Twitter Boosts Public Access to Federal Courtrooms.”
The lead paragraph reads:

“In a victory for news technology in federal courts, a judge is allowing a reporter to use the microblogging service Twitter to provide constant updates from a racketeering gang trial this week.”

Thanks to Bob Ambrogi  for tweeting [...]

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“Index of Bush-Era OLC Memoranda Relating to Interrogation, Detention, Rendition and/or Surveillance” is a newly updated chart available at the ACLU website.   The “Status” column in the chart details if the memoranda are still secret or public.  And, if a memo has been repudiated, there are details in the “Notes” column.
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The library has just added some fresh BNA content.
Intellectual property scholars may be interested in World Intellectual Property Report, previously only available in print at the library.
Meanwhile, tax fans (and who isn’t a fan of taxes?) will find additional materials within the Tax & Accounting Center, as well as  the Tax Management Weekly and Weekly [...]

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