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Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library The Faculty Current Awareness Bulletin is published periodically by the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library for the faculty and staff of the Law School. The Bulletin contains selected announcements of symposia, conferences, requests for articles and requests for research proposals. If you have any questions concerning the material which appears in the Bulletin, or any suggestions on the types of materials you would like to see included in the Bulletin, please contact Michael J. Slinger, Law Library Director at (216) 687-3547, or Leslie A. Pardo, Circulation & Faculty Services Librarian at (216) 687-6885. Additional information and some registration forms may be obtained by contacting Leslie A. Pardo. SYMPOSIA & CONFERENCES The American Society for Law, Medicine & Ethics presents DNA Fingerprinting and Civil Liberties National Symposium from May 11-13, 2006 in Atlanta, GA. The Practising Law Institute presents the Sixth Annual School Law Institute on May 12, 2006 in New York, NY. The Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition will take place May-21-26, 2006 at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop presented by the Northwestern University School of Law and Washington University will be held May 22–24, 2006. The 2006 Canadian Law and Society Association presents Legal Intersections at the 75th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences: The City: A Festival of Knowledge. The conference will take place at York University May 27- June 3, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario. 30th Annual Health Law Teachers Conference co-sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Law & The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics will be held June 1-3, 2006 in Baltimore, MD. The Institute for Law School Teaching Annual Conference, Inspiring Students and Facilitating Learning will take place June 2-3, 2006 at the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, IL. Baldy
Center for Law & Social Policy at the University at Buffalo
Law School presents
The Police Power Reconsidered: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern
Governance from June 10-11, 2006 in Buffalo, NY. Other AALS Workshops and Conferences Conference on New Ideas for Law School Teachers: Teaching Intentionally, June 10-14 Workshop on Criminal Law and Procedure: Lessons from Other Disciplines and New Realities, June 14-16 AALS Workshop on Intellectual Property, June 14-16 Workshop for New Law Teachers, June 22-24 Workshop for New Clinical Teachers, June 24-25
The Business Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research presents its 3rd International Conference on Industrial Organization, Law & Economics from June 12-14, 2006 in Athens, Greece. The 2006 University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property 6th Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property, Copyright at a Crossroads: The Impact of Mass Digitization on Copyright and Higher Education will be held June 14-16, 2006 in Adelphi, MD. CALI, The Conference for Law School Computing will be held June 15-17, 2006 at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The Law & Society Association's Annual Meeting will be held July 6-9, 2006 in Baltimore, MD. The
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting, “Pioneering
Change,” will be held July 8-12, 2006 in St. Louis,
Missouri.
CALL FOR PAPERS, PROPOSALS, AND GRANTS The inaugural First Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas from October 27-29, 2006. The conference will feature presentations of original empirical and experimental legal scholarship by leading scholars from a diverse range of fields. There is no charge to academics and interested students to attend the conference. Submissions of papers in all areas of empirical and experimental legal scholarship are welcome. To submit a paper for consideration for the Conference, send as an email attachment to: CELS- 2006@law.utexas.edu with copy to: bblack@law.utexas.edu. Submission deadline is June 30, 2006. The Association of American Law Schools is sponsoring its Twenty-Second Annual Call for Scholarly Papers. Those who will have been full-time law teachers at an AALS member or fee paid school for five years or fewer on July 1, 2006 are invited to submit a paper on a topic related to or concerning law. Submission deadline is August 18, 2006. American Society for Legal History Call for Papers: The Kathryn T. Preyer Memorial Committee of the ASLH invites submissions for the Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars Competition. The competition is named in honor of the late Kitty Preyer, a distinguished historian of early America and beloved member of the Society. The two winners of the competition will be named Kathryn T. Preyer scholars. Each will present the paper that he or she submitted to the competition at the Society's annual meeting in Baltimore on November 16-19, 2006. The deadline for submission is June 15, 2006.
Restorative Directions Journal, a Canadian based, internationally focused, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, is presently seeking submissions on topics of Restorative Justice. This edition of Restorative Directions Journal will focus specifically around issues relating to Indigenous Peoples, the Law and Restorative Justice. If you wish to find out more, or contribute a submission, explore the journal's web site at www.rdj.ca or contact the editor, John Charlton at john@rdj.ca The
Fulbright Scholar program is offering 91 lecturing, research or
combined lecturing/research awards in Law during the 2007-2008 academic
year. In addition, specialists in Law may apply for one of the many awards
in all disciplines, open to specialists in any field. You can find details
on the new awards, check eligibility guidelines, and download materials
at www.cies.org. The deadline
for the traditional Fulbright Scholar program worldwide is FOR YOUR INFORMATION Truth on the Market, a new business law blog, has been started by five young law professors who teach and write in the business law area, broadly defined. Truth on the Market was launched in January 2006. Its goal is to comment on law, business, economics and more. The Law Professor Blogs Network has added four new blogs and one expanded blog. ImmigrationProf Blog edited by Kevin R. Johnson (UC-Davis),Bill O. Hing (UC-Davis) & Jennifer Chacón (UC-Davis) http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/ PropertyProf
Blog edited by Ben Barros (Widener) http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/property/
Nominations are now open for the 16th Annual E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Awards, recognizing law schools, bar associations, law firms and non-profit organizations for projects that enhance professionalism among lawyers. Information about the award can be found in the attached announcement. Questions about the award can be directed to Kathleen Maher at (312) 988-530. The Law Teacher is the Institute for Law School Teaching's semi-annual newsletter. It contains brief articles that provide practical tips and innovative ideas on law teaching. The Institute distributes The Law Teacher free of charge to all full-time faculty in the United States at ABA-accredited law schools and to all faculties of law in Canada. Religion Clause is a web blog which tracks current legal and political developments relating to freedom of religion and separation of church and state. Maintained by Howard M. Friedman, distinguished University professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Toledo College of Law, Religion Clause features news items on judicial, legislative and administrative developments and on new scholarship in the field. Religion Clause tracks developments in the United States and follows parallel issues from other nations. Each posting attempts to link not only to a news story, but also to the relevant primary source documents that are available online. The blog also contains permanent links to resources, academic centers, advocacy organizations, journals and listservs that deal with free exercise and establishment clause issues. The Activist Scholarship is a listserv for academics dedicated to putting their scholarly work at the service of progressive movements, including anti-racist, feminist, environmental justice, economic justice, disability rights, anti-globalization and immigrant rights movements. The listserv is unmoderated. Postings on the roles, dilemmas, costs, pedagogies and methodologies of activist scholarship are welcomed. LLRX.com is a unique, free Web journal dedicated to providing legal, library, IT/IS, marketing and administrative professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools, since 1996. Law Professor Blogs is a network of web logs ("blogs") by law professors for law professors designed from the ground up to assist law professors in their scholarship and teaching. Each site focuses on a particular area of law and combines both regularly-updated permanent resources and links, and daily news and information of interest to law professors. The editors are leading scholars and teachers who are committed to providing the web as the destination for law professors in their fields. Their goal is for law faculty to visit the Law Professor Blog in their area (or areas) as part of their daily routine. American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States: Communications scholar Michael Eidenmuller's web site provides extraordinary online access to speeches. There is an index to a growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two. There is a searchable database of the100 most significant American political speeches. There is even a full text, audio and video database of some 80 Hollywood movie speeches, as selected by audiences of American Rhetoric. Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is a single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies. The US Department of Health and Human Services is the managing partner for Grants.gov. The American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution web site lists upcoming ADR events, conferences and symposiums. The site also has featured resources such as articles, books published by the section, CRInfo Resources, Dispute Resolution Magazine and much more. The Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (OACDL), founded in 1986, is a professional association with over 525 members around the state. OACDL is an advocate of progressive criminal laws and policies that are consistent with constitutional principles, limited government intrusion into the lives of Americans, and a free society. There is a list of OACDL sponsored seminars on their web site. The International Association of Law Libraries International Calendar lists events hosted by law library associations, bar associations, law schools, legal technology institutes, library organizations, publishers, etc.of interest to legal and information professionals worldwide. Washington & Lee Law School Most-Cited Legal Periodicals: The "most-cited" legal periodical site at has been enhanced with the addition of an article submissions process. This allows authors to sort the journal list in citation-rank order, to select down to a limited list of journals, to submit an article, and then to have the site produce a page with a link to the journals that accept e-mail submissions, or otherwise a list of editorial addresses. Currently the data is only about a third complete, but that's still a substantial number of journals (roughly 300). To date there are 128 journals that could simultaneously be emailed. The Salmon P. Chase College of Law of Northern Kentucky University hosts the Law Review Electronic Submissions web site. The site lists law reviews which accept submissions via email. Subscribe to the American Bar Association Continuing Legal Education listserv by sending the following message to listserv@abanet.org subscribe cle-calendar Your Name. You will be added to the distribution list for announcements of the American Bar Association Continuing Legal Education offerings. FirstGov ™ is an official United States Government web site consolidating some 20,000 separate Federal web sites FirstGov provides the public with easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources. FirstGov is a Project of the President's Management Council and is managed by the FirstGov Team. For more information contact: FirstGov c/o GSA, 1800 F Street, N.W. Room 5240, Washington, D.C. 20405-0002 The U.S. Supreme Court web site features biographies of the justices, information about the court's rules and procedures, and opinions from the current term. The ABA's Supreme Court Preview draws upon expert writers and the official briefs filed with the Court to provide an accurate, plain English explanation of the issues, facts, background and significance of every case before oral argument. The National Center For State Courts provides links to state court, federal court, and international court web sites. The NCSC Publications Catalog is also listed on its web site. The University Law Review Project offers full-text searching of law journals on the Internet. The National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s (NITA) mission is to provide training in legal advocacy skills and techniques for resolving legal disputes and to foster professionally responsible behavior emphasizing ethics, candor, civility, and judicial economy. To achieve its mission, NITA uses various teaching methods, programs, faculty, and materials. They have a web site listing CLE courses they offer and a listing of the types of reference books, case files, and audio/video materials they have available, as well, as information about NITA. The American Association of Law Schools is a non-profit association of 164 law schools. The purpose of the association is "the improvement of the legal profession through legal education." It serves as the learned society for law teachers and is legal education's principal representative to the federal government and to other national higher education organizations and learned societies. The AALS holds an Annual Meeting every year in January and five or six workshops and conferences throughout the year. The AALS publishes a Directory of Law Teachers and a quarterly newsletter, as well as other publications. Much of the learned society activities are done by the 78 AALS Sections, which plan programs at the Annual Meetings and publish newsletters throughout the year. The American Bar Association’s Events and Education web site lists a calendar of National Institutes, Satellite Seminars, TeleConferences, and On-Line Seminars and a full range of continuing legal education programs, including live conference-style programs, telephone seminars, national telecasts, online seminars, videotapes, audiotapes, and course materials. The American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education, ALI-ABA, have been providers of continuing legal education in the United States since 1947. It offers members of the profession a comprehensive curriculum of post-admission legal education -- live courses, course materials, video and audio tapes, satellite broadcasts, books, computer disks, and magazines, etc. The Ohio CLE Institute, a non-profit organization, was created as a tripartite entity in 1960 by The Ohio State University, the Ohio State Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Foundation "in furthering a joint program of legal research and continuing legal education with the College of Law." The mission statement for the Institute includes: to provide quality educational programs and services to Ohio attorneys, judges and related professionals at the lowest practical cost. JURIST is an authoritative legal news and real-time legal research web site powered by a team of over 20 law student reporters, editors and web developers led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. JURIST is produced for the legal education of its readers and law student staffers, and uses the latest Internet technology to track important legal news and materials and present them rapidly, objectively and intelligibly in an accessible, ad-free format. Prepared by Leslie A. Pardo, Circulation & Faculty Services Librarian, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library, Cleveland State University. Please contact me know if you have questions, comments, or suggestions.
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