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The Iraq Study Group Report is now available from GPO Access . It can be downloaded here .

The Washington & Lee Law Library has updated its law journal submission and rankings information . The stated purpose of the webpage "is to allow authors to find law journals by subject, country, or journal rank (where available), to display journal editorial information, and to facilitate an author's article submission to those journals." From BarclayBlog .

CALI has podcasts with law professors discussing their advice for studying for and writing final exams. These podcasts include: Tips for Multiple Choice Exams in Law School Top 10 Tips for Successfully Writing a Law School Essay Conversations With Law Professors About Preparing For and Taking Exams From Law Librarian Blog .

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) have just released their joint report, Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2006 . According to the report, "[t]he rate of serious violent crime –– rape, sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault –– at the nation's schools fell from six victimizations per 1,000 students in 2003 to four per 1,000 in 2004." Read the press release or download the full report . From beSpacific .

New Online Digitized Document Capability Offered by Supreme Court of Ohio : Digital images of case documents filed with the Supreme Court of Ohio will be available starting Friday, Dec. 1, on the Supreme Court of Ohio's Web site. This new feature is accessible through the Clerk of Court's online case docket search. All case documents filed with the Court as of Dec. 1 will be available online, however, some case filings from earlier dates also will be online as they were scanned in the last month while the software was being tested. Case documents are expected to be posted within one business day of being filed with the Court. To view case documents online, visit the Clerk of Court's Web page and search the case docket. Filings can be accessed by clicking on an icon next to a docket entry, which denotes that a corresponding digital document is available to view as a PDF file. “Scanning will allow for quick and easy access to public case filings,” said Marcia Mengel, Supre

Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer has announced a "new model" for legal education : Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer said the pedagogical changes the school is spearheading are focused on the second and third year curriculum. He hopes Stanford’s reform—which began last year and should be fully implemented by 2009—will provide a model for legal education generally. “Talk to any lawyer or law school graduate and they will tell you they were increasingly disengaged in their second and third years,” Kramer said. “It’s because the second and third year curriculum is for the most part repeating what they did in their first year and adds little of intellectual and professional value. They learn more doctrine, which is certainly valuable, but in a way that is inefficient and progressively less useful. The upper years, as presently configured, are a lost opportunity to teach today’s lawyers things they need to know. Lawyers need to be educated more broadly—with courses beyo

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