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Final Post - Moving to New URL

The C-M Law Library Blog is moving to a new CALI/Wordpress platform. The new URL is:

http://cmlawlibraryblog.classcaster.net/

and the new feed is:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/classcaster/jaIT

The new platform has a tag cloud, a direct feed to our Twitter account and is nicer looking, especially in Internet Explorer. The posts from this blog will be transferred to new blog in the near future.

Faculty at any CALI member law school can create a blog using this new platform. Go to http://classcaster.net/ to set up your blog.

Thanks to Elmer Masters who put together the new blog platform for CALI.

Considering Study Abroad This Summer? Here Are Two ABA-Approved Programs to Investigate

Duquesne University School of Law and the China University of Political Science and Law offers a comprehensive review of the Chinese legal system, held May 31 to June 18, 2010. Students from around the world have participated in this program in past years. Classes are held in Beijing. For more information visit www.duq.edu/law/china.

Institute on Chinese Law and Business is brand new program hosted by St. Mary’s University School of Law. The program runs July 4-31, 2010 in Beijing. The Law of Doing Business in China and International Property Law are among classes offered in this program. For more information visit www.stmarytx.edu/law/china.

Spring Break Hours

Spring Break is finally here! The Law Library will be open following hours...

Saturday, March 13th---9am-5pm

Sunday, March 14th---CLOSED

Monday-Thursday---8am-8pm

Friday---8am-6pm

Saturday, March 20th---CLOSED

Sunday, March 21st---10am-10pm

Enjoy!

New eJournal: Reproductive Justice, Law & Policy

The Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Washington College of Law have joined in sponsoring Reproductive Justice, Law & Policy, a new interdisciplinary subject-matter ejournal that will focus on scholarship from law, political science, medicine, history, economics, reproductive technology and other disciplines. C|M|Law’s own Prof. April Cherry is on the advisory board of the journal. You can browse archives of abstracts and associated full-text of papers published in Reproductive Justice, Law & Policy on SSRN.

Understand the Mortgage Crisis in 7 Minutes

Watch this short video: Valparaiso Law-Prof. Alan White-U.S. Mortgage Crisis History for a quick explanation of how the mortgage crisis came about. Thanks to Professor Kermit Lind. For a humorous, yet enlightening take on the issue, see The Subprime Primer, a short slide show.

New Minn. J. Int'l L. Online Seeks Submissions

Yesterday’s post on the International Law Prof Blog alerted me to a new venue for scholarship—the Minnesota Journal of International Law Online. Following the fresh tradition of timely online legal analysis, the Journal will take advantage of a streamlined publication process to produce shorter topical pieces that respond to international events as they happen, rather than at the typical snail’s pace of legal scholarship.

The Journal is soliciting articles of between 1500 to 3000 words, which will be published on a rolling basis after a rigorous cite checking process. In keeping with the collaborative nature of the project, the Journal is hoping to draw authors from the ranks of academics, practitioners, judges, students, bloggers, and other pundits.

Earn Research Certificate Seminar Points at Home

Starting today, students can take an Ohio Legal Research Distance Learning Class via TWEN to earn Library Research Certificate Points. Instead of attending a classroom lecture, read a few pages and then answer quiz questions to complete the unit. The units are: 1. Ohio secondary sources, 2. legislation and legislative history, 3. administrative regulations and 4. case law and administrative decisions. Some of the quiz questions are to see if you viewed the unit materials, others are short research questions.

We estimate that the entire lesson will take two hours to complete. You will earn 25 research certificate points upon completion of units one and two, and 25 more point upon complete of units three and four. The quizzes must be completed by April 20, 2010 at midnight to earn the points. You do not have to complete the entire lesson all in one sitting.

To take the class:

Log on to Westlaw
Click on the TWEN link (near the top of the page)
Click on "add a course" (to the right of "My Courses")
Click on the box next to Ohio Legal Research Distance Learning 2
Scroll down and hit submit
The lesson will then appear in the "My Courses" list when you log onto TWEN. Click on the lesson title, Ohio Distance Learning, to access.

If you have any questions about the lesson, contact myself (sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu), Kevin Garewal (kevin.garewal@law.csuohio.edu) or Jan Novak (jan.novak@law.csuohio.edu). Feel free to come to the library and ask us questions about the lesson, too.

For information on other Research Certificate Seminars offered this Spring, see our prior post.

Prof. Frank Partnoy- March 10th- Lessons from the Match King: Financial Crises & Parallels to the 1920s

The 2010 Cleveland-Marshall Enrichment Fund Visiting Scholar, Frank Partnoy, the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance at the University of San Diego, will speak on Wed. March 10^th, at 5 p.m. in the Moot Court Room. Professor Partnoy’s book, The Match King, chronicles the life and mysterious death of Ivar Kreuger, “the grandfather of all Ponzi and Madoff schemes.” See the Law Library’s New Arrivals Shelf for: The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals (Public Affairs) (HD 9660 .M473 S864 2009) and F.I.A.S.C.O. : Blood in the Water on Wall Street (W.W.Norton) (HG 6024 .U6 P37 2009b). Also in our collection: Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets (Times Books) HV 6769 .P37 2003.

Professor Partnoy teaches and writes in the areas of corporate law, corporate finance, and financial market regulation. See his Faculty Page ; his Site, & his articles posted on the Social Science Research Network to learn more about credit rating agencies, hedge fund activism, credit derivatives, shapeshifting corporations, and more.

TWEN Improvements

Faculty and students can use their iPhones to post to a document page or forum using the HTML editor.
Red customer support button in the upper right - no more digging for the TWEN support line!
Wiki - number of stored versions has increased, but still can not form subgroups. Editing power is either for all students or just administrators.
Easily move documents from one page to another (Select document, then click on Move - under the Actions tab)
Add a link underneath a document page (Select document, then click on Add>Add a Link.

For detailed information, see February 2010 Release Notes or this 5 minute tutorial.

South Carolina Statute Requires Subversives to Register

In South Carolina, subversive organizations must register with the Secretary of State within thirty days after coming into existence in the State. No Joke: South Carolina Now Requires Subversives to Register from The Raw Story.com, citing S.C. Code Chapter 23-29 . A subversive organization is one which "directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, of this State or of any political subdivision thereof by force or violence or other unlawful means." Failure to register may result in up to a $25,000 fine or 10 years in prison.

The article incorrectly states that the statute was passed in 2009. The history line in S.C. Code Ann. § 23-29-10 on Lexis indicates that the legislation existed in 1951 and was amended in 1952 and 1962. The South Carolina legislature was probably concerned with Communists at the time, not terrorists. There appears to be no case law concerning this statute on Lexis or Westlaw.

In Ohio, applicants for state issued licenses, public employment or public contracts must fill out a form indicating the applicant has not supported a terrorist organization. See S.B. 9, the Ohio Patriot Act, specifically Ohio RC 2909.32, 2909.33, and 2909.34. There has been litigation on these statutes. See State ex rel. Triplett v. Ross, 111 Ohio St.3d 231, 2006-Ohio-4705.