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Sunday, June 04, 2006
Law - How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship
The Beckman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School held a symposium in late April on "How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship." Here is the agenda. Here are links to all the papers.
The event was streamed live. An MP3 was to be available "a week" later, but has not yet appeared. When, or if, it is posted, it will be available at this link.
While on the topic of law professor's blogs, my vote for the best by far is Prof. Douglas A. Berman's Sentencing Law blog. He is the William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University.
Take a look at this entry from yesterday. A quote:
I was thinking about Judge Rakoff's decision this past week to give an enormous variance — the largest I have seen — to a corporate president who apparently faced a life sentence under the guidelines after a fraud conviction that resulted in $260 million in losses. [He quotes from the AP: "The president of a health care company that once was a Wall Street darling was sentenced Tuesday to three and a half years in prison by a judge who rejected arguments that he deserved a much lengthier term."]Or this entry, also from yesterday, that reflects his enthusiasm for his topic (a sure sign of a great professor):
I am extraordinarily excited to discover that, as was promised at terrific Miami FSG conference, the US Sentencing Commission has now made available at its website its 2005 Annual Report and 2005 Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on June 4, 2006 09:52 AM
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