The media is full of lists of the “_____ of the decade.” Best movies. Best TV shows. Worst of each. Political turning points. You name it, someone has a list. Which decade do they mean? Apparently, the one ending tomorrow. So, to be clear, not the first decade of the 21st century, but the decade [...]
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Pick a decade, any decade – and other end of year potpourri
December 30, 2009Calling them out on racism!
September 4, 2009For the past few days the controversy de jour has been whether the President of the United States may deliver a short, and likely inspirational, speech on the importance of education to students in schools across the country. Commentators and parents decry the idea has an attempt to “indoctrinate” school children. Some parents are even going so [...]
Five Nights, Four Days in Washington, D.C.
August 4, 2009Like more than 2,000 other law librarians, I attended the annual meeting of AALL in our nation’s capital at the end of July. This was my 17th consecutive meeting, but it was unlike any other in one key respect: I spent most of my daytime hours in a hotel room with three colleagues, interviewing applicants [...]
On the Durham Statement
July 14, 2009In November a group of library directors from well-known and respected law schools, meeting in Durham, North Carolina on the occasion of the dedication of the renovated law library at Duke University, adopted the “Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship.” The statement calls on law schools to stop printing their journals and instead [...]
About the name…
July 11, 2009Thirty-five years ago, when I entered law school, “ipso facto” – the Latin phrase meaning “the fact by itself” – was already my favorite. I think I’d heard it on a Perry Mason episode long ago. During my first year of law school the phrase became synonmous with me; I even wore it on a [...]
