The Oregon Association of Parliamentarians will be holding their 2008 Convention in Portland, March 15th, 2008.
These are the people who second rather than strike motions.
** Please see the February 2011 and June 2009 updates. **
My most popular posts (here and here) need a little link-refreshing:
From the City of Albany web site (click on Curfew):
The following legal writing blog has come to my attention: Set in Style.
The number of legal writing blogs and web sites is growing. Take a look at Set in Style’s sidebars to see just how many. Here is another good place to turn, Evan Schaeffer’s legal-writing posts.
There is money (and winning) in good (legal) writing and there is joy. Of course, for those law students who have not yet been initiated, there is also Fred Rodell, who wrote: “There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.”
JSTOR, in a nutshell, is just another database of scholarly articles on a variety of topics. You could also say it’s a storage place for journals, thus JSTOR. (See, even scholarly sorts can’t spell 🙂
For the most part, only academic libraries and large public libraries subscribe to JSTOR, but if an article you are seeking pops up in a search engine with a JSTOR location, ask at any library reference desk. Librarians Know Things and, more to the point, know how to find things.
P.S. A database can be much more than a collection of articles. If you want to know more about databases, without screaming, visit here and here. If it helps, online library catalogs can be databases, mailing lists can be databases, but they can also be … no, I won’t make you scream. (But I will whisper spreadsheet, field, file structure, ….)
Articles from Willamette Law School law journals can be found here, here, and here.
Articles from law journals from Lewis & Clark Law School are highlighted at BoleyBlogs.
Articles from law journals from the University of Oregon Law School are highlighted here, and here, and here.
This Maryland’s People’s Law Library isn’t Oregon, but I can dream, can’t I? (Another favorite is this Wisconsin Legal Topics web page.)
Evaluating legal websites: Separating the “Good from the Bad and the Ugly” is also excellent.
The ever alert Tamara Thompson at PI Buzz alerts us to offender registries popping up around the country: sex offenders, domestic violence offenders, methamphetamine offenders, DWI offenders, and more.
We get a lot of requests from people wanting to know if official records exist online for everything from divorce to death to dog fighting to drugs. They seem disappointed when I say “yes and no.”
Here’s the link to Judge Mosman’s opinion. You can find it also from here (link may move over time). This is a transcript of the judge’s ruling from the bench rather than a formal written opinion.
The subject of the lawsuit was the Oregon Family Fairness Act, 2007 HB 2007.
The latest issue of the Willamette Law Review (vol.44, #2, Winter 2007) is chock full of articles on Oregon:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Oregon Law Commission: Bridging the Gaps Between Islands of the Legal Profession, by Jeffrey C. Dobbins
The Oregon Law Commission at Ten: Finding Vision for the Future in the Functions of the Past, by David R. Kenagy
Oregon Legal Research Blog