Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library

Faculty Current Awareness Bulletin

September-October 2007

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 Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian at (216) 687-6885. Additional information and some registration forms may be obtained by contacting Amy Burchfield.

SYMPOSIA & CONFERENCES

The reference department of the Gallagher Law Library of the University of Washington School of Law has developed a blog that makes keeping up with legal conferences a whole lot easier. Legal Conference Watch tracks upcoming events from a wide area of interests and includes deadlines for paper proposals.

The Ohio Judicial Conference presents its 2007 OJC Annual Meeting with the theme "The Pursuit of Justice." The Annual Meeting will be held September 6 - 7, 2007 in Dublin, Ohio.

The ALI-ABA's Emerging Issues in Biotechnology Law course will be held on September 6 - 7, 2007 in Washington, D.C.

A Patent Prosecution conference will be held September 7, 2007 in Los Angeles, California. The event is presented by Loyola Law School Los Angeles.

The American University Law Review and the American Civil Liberties Union present "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America." The symposium will be held September 20 - 21, 2007 in Washington, D.C.

The William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law hosts the Fourth Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference on October 5 - 6, 2007 in Williamsburg, VA.

In cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Vanderbilt University Law School will be sponsoring a Conference on Collective Management of Copyright & Related Rights in North America. The conference will take place October 17 - 19, 2007 in Nashville, TN.

The American Branch of the International Law Association's 2007 International Law Weekend will be held October 25 - 27, 2007 in New York City. The theme of this year's event is "Toward a New Vision of International Law."

The American Society for Legal History is hosting its 2007 annual meeting from October 25 - 28, 2007 in Tempe, Arizona. The preliminary program is varied and includes topics such as grassroots lawyering in the 20th century, the legal history of the Southwest, crime and punishment in Britain, the Dred Scott case, and the development of insurance law.

The AALS Annual Meeting: Reassessing Our Roles as Scholars and Educators in Light of Change will held January 2 - 6, 2008 in New York City.

CALL FOR PAPERS, PROPOSALS & GRANTS

The University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the University of Washington School of Law have collaborated in publishing the Legal Scholarship Blog. This blog tracks the latest conferences and lists numerous publishing opportunities.

The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution is soliciting proposals for programs to be presented at the Annual Spring Conference. The deadline for proposals is September 4, 2007.

CALI has announced its CALI Criminal Procedure Law Fellowship program, which seeks to assemble a team of five faculty to author CALI lessons. CALI Fellows will receive $6,250 for their participation. The application deadline is September 10, 2007.

Sustainable Development Law & Policy ("SDLP"), a publication of American University Washington College of Law, is now accepting articles for consideration for its Fall 2007 issue. The Fall 2007 issue will focus on Sustainable Development and US Federal Policy, particularly focusing on what challenges the next administration will face and what strategies and frameworks the government should adopt toward Sustainable Development Law. Submissions will be accepted until September 20, 2007.

The AALS Section on International Law will sponsor a panel entitled "A Century of Humanitarian Law (Hague 1907-Darfur 2007): Successes and Failures-'A Report Card'" at the 2008 AALS Annual Meeting in January 2008. The Section has issued a call for brief commentaries on any of the issues encompassed within the broad of scope of the planned panel with a deadline of October 15, 2007.

The Journal of Accounting Research is extending a call for papers for their May 2008 Journal of Accounting Conference. Scholars from accounting, economics, finance and law are encouraged to submit papers. The submission deadline is November 15, 2007.

The Journal of Policy History and the Institute for Political History are cohosting a Conference on Policy History in spring 2008. Proposals for all topics concerning the history, development and implementation of public policy, American political development, and comparative historical analysis will be considered. The call for papers deadline is December 3, 2007.

The Law Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research is soliciting papers for its 5th International Conference on Law, to be held July 17 - 20, 2008 in Athens, Greece. Papers (in English) from all areas of law are welcome. The deadline for paper abstracts is December 12, 2007.

The San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review is devoting its 2008 edition to legal issues relating to global climate change and agriculture, particularly in light of the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in Massachusetts v. EPA, __ U.S. __, 127 S.Ct. 1438 (2007). The call for papers deadline is December 13, 2007.

The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Research Grant Program funds empirical research on legal training and legal practice broadly viewed. This includes the study of precursors to legal training (including demographic variables), all varieties of legal training itself and the work that lawyers, judges, law teachers, and other legal professionals do after they complete their training. The Grants Subcommittee encourages collaborations between those who know legal education most intimately (i.e., legal educators and administrators) and those who know most about how to design and conduct empirical research. No specific deadline stated.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

The Supreme Court of Ohio's Oral Argument Streaming Video Archives lets you watch live or archived video of oral arguments on your computer. Videos go back to March 2004 and are updated regularly. To view the oral arguments, you must have the latest version of RealPlayer installed on your computer.

The Seventh Circuit has a Wiki that allows practitioners to add and edit content. Non-registered users can browse the contents of the wiki by clicking "random page" in the left-hand navigation. Currently, the Sixth Circuit remains wiki-less.

Tired of checking to see if a journal is available on both LexisNexis and Westlaw? What if the journal's on some other database that you don't know exists? The Journal Finder helpfully list all of the places to look for online full-text access to journal articles. It'll also point you to the print holdings in the Library.

You probably know you can get PDFs of journal articles (including articles that are too old to be on LexisNexis or Westlaw) from HeinOnline. But did you know that HeinOnline offers a whole lot more? For example, the Legal Classics Library includes dozens of classic legal treatises from the likes of scholarly greats such as Story, Langdell, Holmes, Lauterpacht, Pound and others.

Tax researchers will like having on-campus access to RIA Checkpoint for codes, regs, cases, rulings and more. Contact Amy Burchfield if you are interested in access from home.

GlobaLex is a research portal for international, comparative and foreign law research. Here scholars will find research guides written by legal information experts from around the world. New guides are added periodically.

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was the precursor organization to today's WTO. GATT documents were once hard to find, but now Stanford's GATT Digital Library brings them together in one easily accessed source.

The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics recently released updated statistical data on Deaths in Custody and Homicide Trends in the U.S. The BJS's website is a good place to look for statistics on drug use, firearms, prisons, capital punishment, individual crimes, victims and more.