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Students and others who wish to publish in Sidebar, Unbound, First Impressions, CONNtemplations, PENNumba, Yale Law Journal Pocket Part, and several other online law review supplements, will find this new 7-page submission guide to be extremely helpful.  It lists the types of submissions accepted, from whom submissions are accepted, how to submit, and more [...]

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The Day Wall Street Exploded: a Story of America in Its First Age of Terror by Beverly Gage. Published by Oxford University Press in 2009.  Find at HV6432.44.N7 G34 2009
 
The black and white plates tell the story—cars upended, bodies covered in white sheets,  crowds milling and being restrained by police—a bomb exploded on the corner [...]

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Guanajuato Summer Law Institute (May 31-June 28, 2009)
Guanajuato, Mexico
Supported by a consortium of law schools of the Universidad de Guanajuato, University of New Mexico, Southwestern University, and Texas Tech University courses in Mexican and International Law.
Spanish language proficiency not required.
Details and application instructions: http://mexicanlawclasses.unm.edu/

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Stealing MySpace: the Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America, written by Julia Angwin, a journalist for The Wall Street Journal. Published by Random House in 2009. Find at HD9696.8.U64 M973 2009.

Okay, a disclosure—I used to have a MySpace account, but after I read this book I cancelled it! I had no idea [...]

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The new program will enable students who pursue public service during the deferral of professional practice to access certain LexisNexis services free of charge
 
The LexisNexis ASPIRE (Associates Serving Public Interests Research) program allows qualified graduates to access a specified menu of LexisNexis services during the deferral period.  To be eligible for LexisNexis access via this [...]

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