In a previous post, we discussed the controvery sparked by David Segal’s commentary on law schools. Bloomberg Law has made available a video interview in which David Segal shares more of his views regarding the “crazy” business of law schools.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Managing Your Public Profile on Facebook
Legal Skills Prof Blog has some useful links to help students manage what potential employers are able to find out about them on Facebook. Especially with the new Timeline and Open Graph, these links are worth a look.
What is a Primary Source for the President’s State of the Union Address?
President Obama’s State of the Union Address appears in the same document as other activities on the House floor: the Congressional Record.
Learn more about finding congressional documents in our recently updated Sources of Legislative History Documents attached to our Federal Legislative History Guide.
Learn More About Bloomberg Law
A representative from Bloomberg Law will be visiting the law school tomorrow. Stop by the Bloomberg Law table between 10:00am and 3:00pm to learn more about this product.
Bloomberg Law
GMUSL students should have received an email from Bloomberg Law on January 18 with a username and password. You may reset your password once you login to the Bloomberg Law Website.
If you did not see this email (be sure to check junk/spam folders), please contact Instructional Services Librarian Melanie Oberlin.
An introduction to Bloomberg Law is available here.
Stevens v. Colbert
Two years ago today, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 809 (2010). Justice John Paul Stevens read his blistering dissent from the bench.
Be sure to watch Stephen Colbert’s hilarious interview with Justice Stevens where they discuss this decision and other topics.
The Congressional Record: There’s an App for That!
The Daily Edition of the Congressional Record is now available, at no charge, on itunes. The app has been made available by the Library of Congress.
According to the itunes Preview page, the Congressional Record App will allow you to:
- Browse editions of the Congressional Record by date: January 4, 1995 (the 104th Congress, 1st Session) to the present
- Perform keyword searches within individual documents or sections within documents
- Share documents via email
- Save documents to your preferred iPad PDF reader
- Identify the latest bills and resolutions considered daily on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Identify the latest bills, resolutions, treaties, and nominations considered daily on the floor of the U.S. Senate
Google “Blackout”
Check out today’s Google home page. Google has joined the internet blackout (sort of ) to oppose SOPA and PIPA (see yesterday’s post).
Catching this post after today . . . here’s an image of the Jan. 18 Google logo.
Wikipedia Fades to Black
The English edition of Wikipedia will be blacked out tomorrow. According to a press release, the blackout is to protest two bills pending in Congress focused on piracy and copyright violations by websites based offshore: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (H.R. 3261) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) (S. 968). The Wikipedia community asserts that this ”legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States.”
Several other websites— including BoingBoing and Reddit—are also participating in the blackout. Google, Facebook, and Twitter are not blacking out their sites but have expressed opposition to SOPA and PIPA in a letter to Congress printed in the New York Times.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
On Monday, January 16, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Law Library will have limited hours: noon-10:00 PM. The Reference Office will be closed.
In 1983, fifteen years after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law. The holiday was first observed in January, 1986. It took another 17 years for every state to recognize the holiday. In 1994, the holiday was designated a day of service under the direction of the Corporation for National and Community Service.
For resources about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., visit the King Center Website.