From LexisNexis, by way of the Tax Prof Blog, a list of the top twenty tax blogs for 2011. The Tax Prof Blog is on the list. The Texas State and Local Tax Law blog, which also made the list, may be of limited interest outside the lone star state. The most recent posting is about out-of-state purchases of veterinary drugs and medicines. Read More ...

List of Resources on International Commercial Arbitration from Georgetown and the D.C. Bar Read More ...

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Two ABA Journal articles to read when you're tired of studying Read More ...

New blog from the Law Librarians of Congress Read More ...

Wage and Hour Division releases fact sheet on Internship Programs Read More ...

An online supplement to Harvard's Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review Read More ...

Webpage comparing legislative proposals Read More ...

Colin Miller, an assistant professor at John Marshall School of Law, has recently finished a new "census" of blogs written by legal educators. Available via SSRN, the article "contains a listing of blogs by anyone who might be involved in the education of students at law schools in the United States: full time professors, adjunct professors, deans, legal writing instructors, law librarians, etc." Interestingly, the list sorts blogs both by title and by the law school from which they are affiliated. Read More ...

Law Library of Congress collection Read More ...

Articles by Eric Goldman Read More ...

Electronic supplements to law journals Read More ...

Cornell Law Library has improved InSITE and the Legal Research Engine Read More ...

Eric Goldman is today's Featured Blawger on BlawgSearch from Justia.com Read More ...

New Law Professor Blog. Read More ...

The latest census of blogging law professors includes three Santa Clara University School of Law professors. Read More ...

SCU Law School's own Prof. Eric Goldman explores the liability issues and the state of the law for co-bloggers in his SCU Legal Studies Research Paper on SSRN. Read More ...

Links to international and transnational law blogs. Read More ...

September 1st premiered the Consumer Law and Policy Blog. The blog is sponsored by the Consumer Justice Project, part of Public Citizen's Litigation Group. Read More ...

You're in casual conversation with a fellow faculty member, or being interviewed for a position as a subject specialist and someone asks, "Well, of course, you have read the work of Prof. X in this area, right?" This is the scenario that the "Research Canons" Project, underway on Prawfsblawg this week, is trying to correct. Read More ...

This week on TortsProf Blog, academics, practitioners, and at least one judge have been submitting guest posts on the topic “What should be taught in torts?” Information about these and other recent postings on a variety of law blogs is noted in Juris Novis, Legal Headlines and News, an online aggregator created by Greg Smith.

My husband brought my attention to Richard Cauley’s blog, The Art of IP War.  Cauley is a partner in the Newport Beach law firm of Wang, Hartmann & Gibbs, and he specializes in (surprise!) patent litigation.  Read his blog for keen insights about the latest patent battles.

CALI’s Pre-Law Blog has been getting lots of mentions from other law school bloggers lately, so I wanted to put in my own plug for it.  Don’t be fooled by the blog’s name!  The name "Pre-Law Blog" might make you think that the blog only has information for those who are contemplating law school.  But there’s a lot of good material here for current law students as well (particularly first-years).  I particularly like the regular features on the latest podcasts from law school professors.

3L Epiphany continues to explore the impact of blogging on legal scholarship with this post, which lists law review articles that cite to blogs as well as the blogs cited most frequently by law review articles. 

Heafey Headnotes was thrilled to find two blogs by our new SCU Law professor, Eric Goldman, during a recent Talk Digger search.  You can find Professor Goldman’s observations about Internet law and marketing at his Tech & Marketing Blog.  Goldman’s Observations Blog is a more eclectic compilation of thoughts on teaching law, moving to California, and the latest legal headlines. 

When I practiced law, I spent a good portion of my practice on Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse and False Claims Act matters, so I was pleased to see that there is a blog devoted to news about qui tam cases.  The appropriately-named False Claims Act/Qui Tam Blog is authored by attorneys at the firm of Phillips & Cohen LLP, which specializes in representing whistleblowers.  The blog isn’t limited to health care matters -- it covers all kinds of qui tam litigation, which makes it a good current awareness resource for lawyers and academics interested in this area.  Thanks to Inter Alia for the tip.

Georgetown Law’s faculty have been busy this summer, joining the ranks of law professors who are working collaboratively on one blog.  This new venture is logically called the Georgetown Law Faculty Blog, and the faculty have started out with several lively posts about the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hamdan decision.  Thanks to PrawfsBlawg, another collaborative law prof blog, for the heads-up.

For those of you looking for some law-related literature for your beach reading or as a distraction from studying for the bar, Daniel Solove has thoughtfully compiled a list of literature about the law.  If you’re interested in law and humanities, check out Professor Solove’s group blog, the Law and Humanities blog as well as The Law and Humanities Institute.

Georgetown Law professor Susan Scafidi confesses that she keeps "a file on the clothing/textile industry in my office and the latest Vogue hidden in my briefcase," and now she’s blogging about her interest in fashion and law at Counterfeit Chic.  Thanks to Inter Alia for the tip.

With the proliferation of free blogging software, it seems like everyone has a blog devoted to their personal trials, tribulations, and triumphs. The singular experience of preparing for and taking the bar exam is a particularly popular blog topic, and for those of you steeling yourselves for the next two months of bar prep, we've prepared a mini-guide to blogs about the bar exam experience. Read More ...

Folger Levin & Kahn, a firm with offices in SF and LA, has a year-old IP law blog called IP Law Observer, which covers breaking developments in patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and privacy law.  The blog also strays into general business and commercial law from time to time, which also makes it an excellent read for corporate attorneys who don’t necessarily specialize in IP.  Thanks to Inter Alia for the tip.

Because there seems to be growing interest in health care law at SCU Law, I thought I'd feature a few blogs today that explore health care law. If you're curious about a career in health care law, reading blogs by practitioners can be an excellent way to find out more about this specialty. Read More ...

Once again, 3L Epiphany has created a useful list for legal researchers.  This time, Ian Best has compiled a list of law review articles that cite blogs.  Some might jump to the conclusion that citations to blogs will only appear in law review articles about blogging, but I was pleasantly surprised to see blogs cited in articles about a host of legal topics, including human rights, legal ethics, Medicare’s prescription drug benefit, international law, evidence, and more.  Also, highly-respected law reviews aren’t afraid to include articles that cite to blogs.  Ian Best’s list reveals that the University of Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and Michigan Law Review have all published articles that cite blogs.  Thanks to PrawfsBlawg for the pointer.

Since I began blogging at Heafey Headnotes last November, I’ve highlighted blogs authored by many other schools’ law professors, but I’ve neglected to feature SCU Law’s sole law professor blogger, David Friedman.  Professor Friedman’s succinctly -named blog, Ideas, doesn’t just focus on the law.  He’s also blogging about current affairs and cultural issues. 

Postscript:  For those of you who are wondering about the meaning of the Latin title for this post, it means "a voice crying in the wilderness," which seems appropriate since SCU Law has just one faculty blogger (if there are more, please let us know!).  It’s the motto of my undergraduate alma mater, Dartmouth College.

Beyond the Ramp is a relatively new blog, which is designed to increase awareness about disability issues.  The blog is co-authored by a group of five law students from New York City.  According to the student authors, the blog is intended to serve as "a forum to educate people about the legal issues affecting people with disabilities."  The best thing about this blog is that the authors don’t just cover legal matters.  In addition to highlighting recent developments in disability law, Beyond the Ramp also publicizes upcoming conferences and media stories about individuals with disabilities.  Thanks to Inter Alia for the tip. 

Professor A. Benjamin Spencer at the University of Richmond School of Law has a blog that’s a must-read for law students trying to find paper topics.  The blog is called Split Circuits, and it features nothing but Professor Spencer’s commentary on splits among the federal circuits.   Professor Spencer discusses circuit splits on a wide variety of legal topics, so there’s something for everybody on Split Circuits.  Thanks (again) to Inter Alia for the tip! 

Launched last January, the International Economic Law and Policy Blog concentrates on international trade law (thanks to Inter Alia for the tip!).  The blog features commentary from an impressive array of over 20 trade law experts from law schools around the world. 

One of the most frustrating things about Internet resources -- at least for librarians -- is that they are not neatly cataloged like the items in a library.  Sure, Google has the "similar pages" function on its search results page, but it’s never yielded anything that’s relevant to my research topic when I’ve used it.  Most of the time, I focus on trying to find frequently-updated meta-pages about different legal research topics (for those of you wondering, a meta-page is a Web page that compiles links to lots of different Internet resources on a particular topic.  See the library’s Internet Resources pages for examples of meta-pages).  I’ve just found an excellent legal blog meta-page, compiled by Ian Best, the author of 3L Epiphany.  Ian has created an extremely useful taxonomy of legal blogs, which categorizes blogs according to jurisdictional focus, author/publisher, legal specialty, and a bunch of other categories.  There’s even a collection of other blawg meta-pages! 

Professor Rick Bales at Salmon P. Chase College of Law maintains a list of upcoming law school symposia, which is a handy reference source for law faculty and law review editors.  Professor Bales also blogs at Workplace Prof Blog -- an excellent current awareness tool for those who need to stay abreast of breaking labor and employment law developments.

The law librarians at Zimmerman Law Library (University of Dayton School of Law) just unveiled Vox Bibliothecae, a new legal research blog devoted to social justice and human rights topics.  You can find detailed information about the blog’s focus in this post.  For those of you who enjoy reading law library blogs, you can find a very useful list of blogging law libraries here, which has been maintained by Bonnie Shucha at the University of Wisconsin.

Given the high volume of posts about legal scholarship and blogging, I suppose it was inevitable that a law school would host a symposium on how blogs are transforming legal scholarship.  And who better to organize such an event than Harvard Law School?  The symposium, "Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship," will be held on April 27-28 at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.  The discussion promises to be lively because the scheduled speakers include both blogging enthusiasts (a sizable portion of the Volokh Conspiracy profs are participating) and folks such as Kate Litvak who scoff at the idea that blogs offer serious scholarly content.  Stay tuned for posts from attendees who are live-blogging the event.

We have just 3 entries for the Heafey Headnotes contest, so we’re extending the contest deadline a full two weeks to Friday, March 24.  Download a copy of the contest here or pick up a copy at the library Circulation Desk or Reference Desk, fill it out, and turn in your completed entry at the Reference Desk.  We’re giving away two $50 Barnes & Noble gift certificates, four $25 Starbucks gift certificates, and six $10 Starbucks gift certificates.  Right now, the odds of winning are pretty darn high, so turn in your entry!  NOTE:  An alert contestant just told me that there is a dead link in the post that you need to read to answer Question 9 (it deals with a case regarding appropriate sources of California legislative history).  That’s been fixed.

Professor James Edward Maule of Villanova University School of Law has written a thoughtful post about blogging and law professors, in which he argues that "it appears that the so-called traditionalists are beginning to sense the threat to their way of academic life that blogs, and technology generally, pose."  Professor Maule also authored an earlier post on blogging in academia if you're interested in his earlier musings on the topic.  The National Law Journal also has a lengthy article on blogging and law professors entitled "Blogging Law Profs Assault Ivory Tower."  According to the article's author, at least 182 law professors are also blog authors, and the law schools at University of Chicago and UCLA have the highest number of blogging law professors.

Enter our Heafey Headnotes trivia contest for a chance to win Barnes & Noble or Starbucks gift certificates!  Simply open and print the contest from this page or pick up a copy in Heafey Law Library.  Complete all of the questions, then submit your entry at the Reference Desk by Friday, March 10.  Remember to include your name and email address on the contest form. Once we determine that you've submitted complete and correct answers, we'll enter your name in a drawing for exciting prizes!

The ever-useful Inter Alia highlights blackprof.com in its Blawg of the Day category this week, which is a blawg co-authored by African-American law professors from across the country.  This blawg tackles both legal and cultural issues, and also features an advice column, Ask Mom!, just for professors or wannabe professors.

Several family law professors have teamed up to offer Family Law Prof Blog, which covers a range of family law topics, including adoption, custody, family violence, and civil rights. Bloggers include Barbara Glesner Fines from the University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Law as well as Robert Oliphant and Nancy Ver Steegh, both from the William Mitchell College of Law.  Thanks to Inter Alia for highlighting this blog in its "Blawg of the Day" offerings.

Rob Hudson, a librarian at St. Thomas University School of Law, has written a fun little piece for the ALL-SIS Newsletter that compiles quotes about law libraries from law students’ blawgs.  If you’re curious about what Santa Clara law students have to say about their law school experiences, you can find blawgs authored by SCU law students by going to TalkDigger and entering the SCU Law URL, http://www.scu.edu/law, in the "Dig It!" search box. 

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The Recorder and CalLaw.com have created Legal Pad, a California law blawg.  Although this blawg is just getting started, it promises to be an excellent source of information on recent developments in California appellate law, law firm news (including the latest on associate salaries), and the judiciary. 

Continuing today’s theme of international criminal law resources, we’re featuring a relatively new blog from Pace Law School faculty called Jus in Bello.  The blog concentrates on the International Criminal Court, other international criminal tribunals, and the law of international criminal prosecutions. Thanks to Out of the Jungle for the tip.

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