Oregon Legal Research BlogPedestrians have to follow the law, too. The Oregon Pedestrian Rights [and responsibilities] website links to laws and other resources. I drove (very slowly) past a jogger the…
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Law School Graduation Gifts
The Best Law School Graduation Gift: After 20 years in this business of law librarianship, I have made the transition from recommending that you give your new lawyer an…
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Oregon Court of Appeals Sniffs the Weed and Finds it “not inherently unpleasant”: Oregon v. Lang
…most any other case for that matter, through a “common sense” lens, especially if it’s someone else’s idea of common sense and that person hasn’t the slightest clue how laws…
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Libraries Prepare to Answer Civil Legal Questions in Times of Crisis (60 minute webinar)
…COVID-19 pandemic. In this webinar, two law librarians highlight the most common civil legal issues they are seeing, provide guidance on key ways for public libraries to respond to civil…
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Federal Civil Disorder Law and the Commerce Clause
…charges against demonstrators for alleged violence at Portland protests,” Sept. 3, 2020). The article notes the law is also being applied in other cities in the United States, and that…
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How Do I Find Help with Legal Research in Another State?
…on finding a lawyer, being an executor of the will, and if there was anything he could do to help remotely. Even though he was interested in Kentucky procedures, there…
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Can we trust the law that is online? Law via the Internet Conference, October 7-8, 2012
The “Law via the Internet Conference” will be held in Ithaca, NY, October 7-9, 2012: Among other programs, this one promises to be provocative: “Can We Trust What’s…
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Free and Open Access to the Law
‘Aux Armes, Citoyens!:’ Time for Law Schools to Lead the Movement for Free and Open Access to the Law, by Ian Gallacher, published here. From the article’s abstract: “This…
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Chef Higgins and the Law of Salmon
You have to love chefs who also know something about how laws are made and are willing to speak out. It makes my little law librarian heart all…
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Access to Justice: Ideas and Business Models
…biz model might be a Virtual Law Office or it might be a new idea, or germ of an idea, on providing legal services to people who can’t afford to…