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Always Use the Serial (aka Oxford or Harvard) Comma in Legal Documents
You may or may not use a serial comma wherever (or nowhere) else you want, but woe to the person who leaves the serial comma out of legal…
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Your Big Brother eBook is Watching You: Big Data Equals Big Business
Your eBook (and its publisher) knows what pages you skipped, it knows what you write in the margins, it keeps track of when you read and when you…
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Happy Birthday Charles Dickens and thank you for “Our Mutual Friend”
…Dickens Or, use “The Google” to search for Charles Dickens or visit your local library or bookstore for some time traveling in Dickens’ England. Happy Birthday Mr. Dickens (2/7/1812)!…
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Article: “How to Introduce an Author”
…“The worst author introduction I ever saw is making me cringe, right now, as I remember it. The co-owner of the bookstore started by reading through the store’s upcoming events…
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The Other Lottery (not Shirley): Selecting Presidents, Legislators, and Judges By Lottery
A recent (Season 5) Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History podcast reminded me that there is a long history of elections by lottery. (Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell, The Powerball Revolution,…
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Posner vs. Scalia: a Case of the War on Words
An interesting book review by Richard A. Posner (Judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit) of: “Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts,” by Antonin…
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Are Law-Lib Archives 35 years old in March 2015? Happy Birthday!
Law Librarians Rock and Rule! I was checking the Law-Lib archives recently and noticed that the first archived Law-Lib email message appeared in March 1980. There was another…
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Law books and Taxes
The OSB’s 2007 Law Library Values list is out….
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Riskless, Larcenous, and Legal: Dark Pools and HFTs for the Literary Thrillseeker
Art major Michael Lewis, as trustworthy as Diogenes (but with a better sense of humor), hits another home run (don’t forget Moneyball) with “Flash Boys: A Wall Street…