New UN Data Portal

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) has launched a new seach component for UN statistical information called UNdata. UNdata is replacing the United Nations Common Database (UNCDB) which is being discontinued.

From Harvard's Et Seq.

Open Access at Harvard Law School

The Harvard Law School faculty has voted to make faculty articles freely available online. Read the press release here.

From WisBlawg.

How to Commit Career Suicide

Words of warning for new attorneys from Attorney Steven C. Bennett in The National Law Journal (via Law.com).

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

The current issue of InSite discusses several resources:

• GLIN: Global Legal Information Network
• PLoL: Public Library of Law
• Trade Observatory
• Tribal Law Journal
• United Nations Scholars' Workstation

For a good explanation of each of these sources, check out InSite.

Law Professor Sues Students

This is going to get very ugly.

From Barco 2.0.

Nationmaster

There is a new web site called Nationmaster that allows users to view various statistics from countries all over the world. The statistics collected cover a great many topics, including crime, employment, education, and immigration, just to name a few. The data can be organized into charts, which makes it easy to compare countries in the statistical categories.

From Heafey Headnotes.

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

The current issue of InSite discusses several resources:

• International Action Network on Small Arms
• Secrecy News
• Small Arms Survey
• Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
• UC Berkeley Library's Congressional Research Tutorials

For a good explanation of each of these sources, check out InSite.

Law School Visiting Professors 2008-2009

A law school visiting professor list for the 2008-2009 academic year as been posted on the Faculty Lounge blog. The list is incomplete, but I'm sure folks will find it interesting nonetheless.

From BarclayBlog.

Scalia 60 Minutes Transcript

A written summary of Justice Scalia's 60 Minutes interview is available here.

50 Most Powerful Blogs

The Guardian (UK) has issued its list of the "The world's 50 most powerful blogs." The rankings are certainly debatable, but it's a great list of blogs.

From ZiefBrief.

Oregon Claims Statutes Are Copyrighted Material

The State of Oregon is claiming that the Oregon Revised Statutes are protected, copyrighted material. The State has sent cease and desist letter to sites like Justia and Public.Resource.Org that have been posting copies of Oregon laws. More information is available from BoingBoing.

From WisBlawg.

HeinOnline Journals Being Indexed by Google Scholar

From the HeinOnline Weblog:

Google Scholar is indexing the Law Journals inHeinOnline to make the more than 1,100 titlessearchable in the Google Scholar interface. Theindexing is still ongoing, as Google Scholar has notfully indexed all of the titles in the Law Journal Collection as of yet. Over the next 30 days or sothey should near completion of the indexing at whichpoint the entire HeinOnline Law Journal collection will be searchable in Google Scholar.

Via BarclayBlog.

Justice Scalia to be on 60 Minutes

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will appear on the April 27th episode of 60 Minutes on CBS. He will be discussing his new book (co-written with Bryan Garner), Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges.

How Technology Is Redefining the Attorney Client Relationship

Carolyn Elefant has posted an interesting article about her experiences at the ABA Tech show.

From Stark County Law Library Blog.

Advice for Rookies on Their First Time in Court

Advice for new lawyers going to court. From Texas Lawyer (via Law.com).