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• iPhone Apps for Law Students

  
  Technology at Albany Law School — Authority: 113
  LexisNexis has released its first iPhone App. It is called “ Get Cases and Shepardize ,’” and allows users to get cases from Lexis.com and Shepardize them to make sure what they have found is still good law. Users must have a current account with Lexis.com and a valid password to use the application. The app ...
  12 hours ago

• West Puts Law Books On Kindle

  
  Technology at Albany Law School — Authority: 113
  West recently announced that it is releasing e-book editions of 29 of its most popular law books. West is offering the titles for electronic download to be read on Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader. You can learn more and review the 30 titles via this news release . Recently, Amazon dropped the price of the U.S. ...
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• LL.M. degree feature in Financial Times

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 468
  Full-page “Global Legal Education” feature in today’s Financial Times on the growing popularity of the LL.M. degree.
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• Society of American Law Teachers—SALT What’s New?

  
  clinicians with not enough to do — Authority: 136
  · New Orleans—A Full SALT Agenda · SALT Thanks These Generous Law Schools for Supporting the SALT Annual Dinner · Deadline for purchasing an ad in the SALT dinner journal is December 11th · AAUP...
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• The Give Blog

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 695
  As we enter Thanksgiving week and the time of Christmas and year-end giving, I want to give a shout-out to a new blog started by Illinois Law Prof Suja Thomas and her husband Scott Bahr, The Give Blog: Conscious Living and Giving. From their mission statement: We’re doing this blog...
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• Public University Rankings by % of Out-of-State Students

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 695
  U.S. News & World Report has published a ranking of the public universities in its 2010 ranking of the Best National Universities by the percentage of out-of-state students in the freshman class that entered in Fall 2008. Of the 67 public universities in the First Tier of Best National Universities,...
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• TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 695
  Saturday: Tax Notes to WaPo: "We Are Not an Obscure Journal" Madoff: Estate Tax Reform to Protect Family Farms and Business ($10m Exemption), Not Wealthy Heirs ($1-2m Exemption) IRS Issues Rules Implementing 5-Year NOL Carryback Federal Judicial Clerkship Applications Up 66% Closing the Tax Gap: Encouraging Voluntary ...
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• Court Refuses 2Ls Request to Change "C" Grade or to Order NYLS to Adopt Pass/Fail Grading System

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 695
  The New York Supreme Court has refused a New York Law School 2Ls request to change his "C" grade in Legal Writing II and to order New York Law School to change its letter grading system to a pass-fail grading system like Yales. Keefe v. New York Law School, No....
  2 days ago

• Is a low mark a breach of contract?

  
  cearta.ie — Authority: 422
  For a low grade to be a breach of contract, there must first be a contract, and courts are slow to find the existence of such a contract, in part because they are reluctant to get involved in grading disputes. Thus, for example, in Keefe v New York Law School (17 November 2009) (hat tips: [...]
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• Federal Judicial Clerkship Applications Up 66%

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 695
  The Blog of the Legal Times, Online Federal Clerkship Applications at All-Time High: The federal judiciary saw a huge spike in online applications for clerkships from last year, according to a release from the judiciary. The Web site used by about two-thirds of all federal judges to find clerks saw...
  3 days ago

• Gender Diversity in the Law Stories Series

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 695
  Following up on Wednesdays post, Foundation Press Publishes 30th Law Stories Book, in which I expressed my pride in serving as series editor and helping to recruit 50 incredibly talented faculty to edit books in the series: Tax Prof Bridget J. Crawford (Pace) highlights another point of pride in this...
  4 days ago

• Galle Receives Honorable Mention in AALS Scholarly Paper Competition

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 695
  Brian D. Galle (Florida State) received honorable mention in the 2010 AALS Scholarly Paper Competition for his paper, Foundation or Empire? The Role of Charity in a Federal System, 88 Tex. L. Rev. ___ (2010). Brian will present the paper at the AALS Annual Meeting on Friday, January 8, at...
  5 days ago

• More Super Lawyer Per Capita Law School Rankings

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 695
  Following up on my prior post, Law School Rankings by Super Lawyers, which blogged the Top 50 law schools by the number of "Super Lawyers" that are graduates of each school, as well as Super lawyer ranking of the 50 largest law schools as well as the 50 smallest law...
  5 days ago

• Mainstreaming International Law in Legal Education

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 431
  This week is “International Education Week”, a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote “programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States.” ...
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• Metadata

  
  Feminist Legal Theory — Authority: 468
  While filling out a professor evaluation the other day, I noticed that the evaluation wasn’t completely anonymous. The form didn’t ask for a name, class year, age, or area of legal emphasis, but it did ask for each student evaluator to bubble in one of two gender boxes. At first, I was ...
  6 days ago

• Americas First $60k/Year Law School?

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 695
  Last month, I asked Is UC-Hastings Americas Most Expensive Law School? Its $50,310 nonresident tuition for 2010-11 was higher than that at the top law schools (which ranged from $43,900 to $50,140). Proposed tuition increases at Californias four public law schools would blow the top off and create Americas first...
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• Allison Christians Named Teacher of the Year at Wisconsin

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 695
  Tax Prof Allison Christians has been named Teacher of the Year at Wisconsin. From the press release: Allison Christians was chosen Teacher of the Year from among all eligible tenure-track professors at the Law School by a poll of the three most recent classes (excluding the graduating class). Christians joined...
  6 days ago

• Google Scholar Now Includes Case Law

  
  Technology at Albany Law School — Authority: 113
  I asked a 3L to try it out for me.  He put in a term for reserach is doing for a class  and replied: “THIS IS AWESOME!!” Westlaw and Lexis:  Watch out….
  6 days ago

• Instituto Família Legal - Helping local families in need

  
  Blue-fronted Amazon Project — Authority: 100
  On Dec 12th and 13th I had a chance to meet with the artisans, children, and teens from the Instituto Família Legal ( http://www.familialegal.org.br/ ), at Bonito ( http://www.portalpublicobonitoms.com.br/ ), Mato Grosso do Sul, and lecture about the Blue-fronted Amazon Project. Walkiria, the coordinator of ...
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• Faculty as Smoking Police?

  
  clinicians with not enough to do — Authority: 136
  Karen Sloan from the National Law Journal reports: Faculty members at Widener University School of Law will have a new role to play next academic year: smoking police. They wont have matching...
  6 days ago

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