A New Age: Law Reviews Publishing Through Digital Commons
Digital Update: Many law reviews and journals are now publishing through Digital Commons. How long until print is dropped altogether? Or will there continue to be a residual “vanity” value to print...
View ArticleFlashback Case of the Day: State v. Boyce
Flashback Case of the Day: State v. Boyce (1849): Supreme Court of North Carolina In this case, it was held by the court that a homeowner/slaveowner was not guilty of “keeping a disorderly house”...
View ArticleThe Explosion of the Student Loan Volcano
Most law students now graduate with fairly limited prospects and many do so having a student debt level befitting indentured servitude. I am glad to have finished in 2005 before Buffalo doubled tuition...
View ArticleNY Assembly Candidates: These Rules for Us and Those Rules for Our Subjects
A New York assemblyman who voted against a medical marijuana bill has been caught with marijuana in his car after being stopped for speeding. Unsurprisingly, he is not ashamed of his hypocrisy in...
View ArticleShould Reed Elsevier Sell LexisNexis?
Robert McKay touches on that and other publishing industry issues in today’s column.
View ArticleThomas Sowell on Writing and Editing
To continue this informal series on what great writers have said about the writing and editing process, we will look at comments made on this subject by conservative economist Thomas Sowell: “To say...
View ArticleRevising Tax Law Content Amidst the Administrative Sculpting of the...
See the U.S. Treasury’s fact sheet on proposed regulations implementing, among other provisions, the minimum essential coverage requirements.
View ArticleHalsbury’s Laws of Canada Encyclopedia Set Completed in 2013
We hear frequently that print publications are fading which makes what Simon Chester wrote about recently an even more astounding development. Considering that it is 2013 and digital content, mobile...
View ArticleThe Death of the Mens Rea Requirement Via “Public Welfare” Offenses
Case in Point: Florida v. Adkins. In 2012, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the state’s drug law, which does not require the prosecution to establish criminal intent, is constitutional. What other...
View ArticleSupremes Reach Only Sane Conclusion in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
The Court holding other than it did would have made a mockery of the notion of copyright and rightfully encouraged more to question many of the more extreme protections copyright owners seek under...
View ArticleIs the New First to File Patent System a Gift to the Corporate Lobby?
Florida attorney David Shestokas tweeted earlier today on the issue of whether the patent law amendment to a “first to file” system favors large corporations over small businesses. I believe that it...
View ArticleNew York Fed Blog: Is Disappearance of Routine-Based Middle Class Jobs...
“The share of routine occupations declined from 60 percent in 1976 to 40 percent in 2012, resulting in job polarization.” Read more about it here. I’m not convinced that the Fed’s routine/non-routine...
View ArticleEditing Law and Writing on the Law: Crime of Affray
Revising a treatise article on a legal topic provides an opportunity to examine how the law changes over time and the differing concerns of various legal eras. I am currently having the opportunity to...
View ArticleBook Note: The Not So Wild, Wild West
Terry Anderson and Peter Hill combined forces to write this book on the development and definition of property rights on the frontier. It is, in essence, a case study on how well-defined property...
View ArticleLexis and Thomson Crunch Numbers for Q1
Sean Hocking at Slaw writes that the only “exciting” legal publishing news of the last month revolves around the perennial springtime custom at Lexis and West whereby “number crunchers and management...
View ArticleEdward White Copyright Suit Makes a Good Case Against Copyright Protection
This summary of the proceedings and case may be biased but the case is, I believe, just about as ludicrous as it appears.
View ArticleWhat Does JCPenney Disaster Portend for Law Publishing?
“Don’t destroy your old revenue model before you have proved your new revenue model.” So said one CEO in response to the J.C. Penney disaster. One comment to the above Forbes article ridiculed the...
View ArticleAre Publishers Dawdling on Shift to Ebooks?
So says Michael Drew. Are the publishers’ pricing models causing them to stall and delay on ebooks? When will reality set in? Probably when there is no choice left and it is far too late.
View ArticlePublishing History: National Archives’ Document of the Day Commemorates Tax Day
The National Archives posts what could be called an “historical document of the day” on its website. Today’s document is Form 1040 for 1913. It is not quite as Byzantine as a 1040 for 2012 but it is...
View ArticleDwelling Under Mercury: The Editor’s Office Cave
This writer in his office overlooking the Genesee River-almost directly under Mercury.
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