Law Library Blog

[cross-posted on LegalResearchPlus]
China Labor Watch, a New York based NGO, posts English language translations of Chinese labor and employment statutes and regulations, as well as the constitution and some local Shanghai regulations. These are unofficial versions.
Examples of statutes and rules available:
Trade Union Law
Labor Law
Law of Assemblies, Processions and Demonstrations
Regulations of the Compositionof Gross Wage
China Labor Watch
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/index.htm
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A Right to Discriminate? How the Case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association by Andrew Koppelman with Tobias Barrington Wolff. Published by Yale University Press in 2009.
 
James Dale was active in the Boy Scouts throughout his childhood, remaining in the organization as an assistant Scoutmaster after he [...]

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From the publisher’s announcement:
The Journal of International Criminal Justice, published by Oxford University Press, is pleased to announce the establishment of the Antonio Cassese Prize for International Criminal Law Studies. This biennial prize will award €10,000 (ten thousand euro) to the author of the most original and innovative paper published in the Journal of International [...]

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[Cross-posted on Legal Research Plus]
New ways to visualize information make the research so much more interesting.  And, so it is very appealing to see what the Palm Center at U.C. Santa Barbara does for the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell debate.
“Using the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC)’s Public concept mapping or Cmap Tools, the [...]

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A new Brief Guide to Low/No Cost Online American Legal Research has been posted in the law library’s Online Research section.

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Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music / Greg Kot. Published by Scribner in 2009.
 
Greg Kot is the music critic at the Chicago Tribune and writes a blog called “Turn It Up”–a guided tour through the worlds of pop, rock, and rap. Ripped tells how the Web popularized bands and music that would have been [...]

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Free access to some two million eBooks — through August 4, 2009 — is available at the Fourth Annual World eBook Fair (underway since July 4).
See:
Resource of the Week: Roundup of Recent Posts About eBooks…and Some Kindle Stuff
Hat tip to ResourceShelf.
Cross-posted on LegalResearchPlus.

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Law Librarian Blog today features an interesting post about items missing from the U.S. National Archives, likely through employee theft.
See Missing Items from US Archive, Found Item in UK Archive.
See also the National Archives webpage Missing Historical Documents and Items.
And see the U.K. National Archives news item Lost Page of American History Found at The [...]

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