Law Librarian Blog

Congress Goes on Summer Vacation, Travel Plans to Wally World Canceled

Congress adjourned Friday for its five-week summer recess. Nice job if you can get it. Did your elected officials do enough? According to a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp poll, 77 percent of the country disapprove of how Congress is doing its job. See CNN's analysis: Will voters punish Congress for coming up empty.

One CNN iReporter wrote ""In fact, every new promise that the new members of Congress ran on to get elected remains exactly that, an empty promise. I have to laugh when I recall the self-righteous finger waving of [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and company. Now go on and enjoy your vacation, you earned it." Take the iReport poll: Did Congress do enough? [JH]

The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio

S. Derek Turner and Mark Lloyd's The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio (Free Press, Center for American Progress) is now available from the Policy Archive (free). Here's the abstract:

This report documents in detail the fact that conservative talk radio undeniably dominates the Radio broadcast format. Our conclusion is that the gap between conservative and progressive talk radio is the result of multiple structural problems in the U.S. regulatory system, particularly the complete breakdown of the public trustee concept of broadcast, the elimination of clear public interest requirements for broadcasting, and the relaxation of ownership rules including the requirement of local participation in management.

[JH]

Harrison Follows Up Culture Matters with The Central Liberal Truth

"I can think of no better entrance to the topic, both for what it teaches and the way it invites and prepares the reader to continue. A gateway study." -- David S. Landes, author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations.

The Central Liberal Truth
How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself
By Lawrence E. Harrison

List Price: $28.00
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (May 1, 2006)
ISBN-10: 0195300416
ISBN-13: 978-0195300413

Description: Which cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes best promote democracy, social justice, and prosperity? How can we use the forces that shape cultural change, such as religion, education, and political leadership, to promote these values in the Third World--and for underachieving minorities in the First World? In this book, Lawrence E. Harrison offers intriguing answers to these questions, in a valuable follow-up to his acclaimed Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress (2001).

Drawing on a three-year research project that explored the cultural values of dozens of nations--from Botswana, Sweden, and India to China, Egypt, and Chile--Harrison offers a provocative look at values around the globe, revealing how each nation's culture has propelled or retarded their political and economic progress. The book presents 25 factors that operate very differently in cultures prone to progress and those that resist it, including one's influence over destiny, the importance attached to education, the extent to which people identify with and trust others, and the role of women in society. Harrison pulls no punches, and many of his findings are controversial.

Contradicting the arguments of multiculturalists, this book contends that when it comes to promoting human progress, some cultures are clearly more effective than others. It convincingly shows which values, beliefs, and attitudes work and how we can foster them.

About the Author: Lawrence E. Harrison is Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He is the author of Underdevelopment is a State of Mind, Who Prospers?, and The Pan-American Dream, and co-editor, with Samuel Huntington, of Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. Between 1965 and 1981, he directed USAID missions in the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Haiti, and Nicaragua. Harrison was associated with Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs for eight years during the period 1981-2001. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Policy, and The National Interest, among other publications.

Gerry Spence: "Most trial lawyers have been defrauded of their [legal] education"

Gerry Spence joined the blogosphere on July 19. It didn't take him long to criticize the quality of legal education. On July 28th, he posted "Is it not a miracle that after having been defrauded of their education at the hands of the entrenched in our law schools that American lawyers haven taken on the fraudulent mindset of their educators who have defrauded them?"

A few snips from his Defrauding Our Nation’s Lawyers post:

• Lawyers are not taught to care.  They are engorged with the rare niceties of legal gymnastics often taught by ponderous-headed professors who have never looked into the painful eyes of a client and who have never tried a single jury trial for a human being.
• I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in.
• The trial of a case, in its simplest form, is telling a story jurors can understand.  Yet most lawyers are taught little, if anything, about communicating with others.

Update: On Adjunct Law Prof Blog, Mitchell Rubinstein and Gerry Spence have a running debate on the importance of law school underway here, here, here ... [JH]

Tips for the LinkedIn and Twittering Lawyer (and Librarian)

New Law Librarian LinkedIn Group

Launched for subscribers to the Law-Lib listserv. Join here.

The LinkedIn Lawyer blog is devoted to answering lawyers' questions about LinkedIn. It is written by Boston attorney David A. Barrett, "the world's most lawyer-linked attorney." Hat tip to Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.

Martindale is reporting that it has entered in an agreement with LinkedIn that will allow Martindale users to use their LinkedIn relationships when conducting searches. More about "Martindale 2.0" at Martindale-Hubbell Gets a Makeover.

And for those who haven't given up on Twitter: Check out Steve Matthews's tips on Law Firm Web Strategy Blog: Lawyer Marketing with Twitter. More Twitter tips from Wired. See also Christina Laun's Twitter for Librarians: The Ultimate Guide

LinkedIn's recent site traffic. According to Nielsen Online's Top 20 Social Network Sites for June 2008, LinkedIn's unique visitor traffic in June grew more than 20 percent from May, to 9.5 million. Year-over-year, that represents a growth rate of 187% for the professional social networking site. See this recent Mashable post for more about recent traffic trends on social networking sites. [JH]

A school with no 1L's

In news of the story that just will not go away, American Justice School of Law Barkley School of Law in Paducah, KY, who in the past has had financial issues in about any way one can think of, will not be admitting first year students this year according to a recent report quoting the Dean of the law school, Larry Putt. Classes are scheduled to resume after a new library is built but the students using that library, at least for now, will not be first years.

LLB has previously reflected upon the Barkley Law situation here about the possibility of canceling classes based on construction, here about the proposed new library, here about a possible buy-out / bail-out of the former American Justice School of Law, and here about the beginning of trouble at the law school. {bb}

Friday Fun: Our Very Own Dark Knight, the Dark Librarian

The Dark Librarian avenges abused library staff and patrons by exacting punishment on unruly library customers. Makes me want to ask, "where did he get those neat toys?" [JH]

Quinnipiac University Polling Institute Survey of SCOTUS and Hot Button Social Issues

Finding from the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey include the following:

Supreme Court

• American voters narrowly disapprove 43 - 39 percent of the job the Supreme Court is doing, the lowest rating in five years of Quinnipiac University surveys on the Court and the first time the Court has received a negative score.
• Voters say 42 - 33 percent that the Supreme Court is moving in the wrong direction.

Death Penalty

• American voters favor the death penalty 63 - 29 percent for persons convicted of murder, but when offered a different choice, 47 percent favor the death penalty for convicted murderers while 44 percent favor life without parole.
• By a 55 - 38 percent margin, voters favor the death penalty for a person convicted of raping a child. Women and men are consistent in their support. 

Same-Sex Marriage

• American voters oppose same-sex marriage 55 - 36 percent, but they don't want government to get involved in banning the practice
• Voters also say 50 - 44 percent that states should not give legal recognition to same-sex marriages performed in other states

Survey Details: Quinnipiac University Polling Institute surveyed 1,783 voters nationwide from July 8-13, with a margin of error of +/- 2.3 percentage points. [JH]

Kudos to Michael Slinger

Michael Slinger has joined the Widener University School of Law as associate dean for information services and technology, director of the Legal Information Center and professor of law. Mike previously served as associate dean, director of the law library and professor of law at Cleveland-Marshall and worked for law libraries and served on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame and Suffolk, where he was law library director from 1990 to 1995. Slinger replaces former Legal Information Center director Eileen Cooper, who retired in 2005, and Mary K. Marzolla, who has served as acting director since Eileen's retirement. [JH]

A Teachable Moment: Avoiding the Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior in Legal Research

"Sway helped me recognize an aspect of irrational behavior in my experimental work in physics. Sometimes I have jumped into some research that didn't feel quite right . . . but some irrational lure, such as the hope of quick success, pulled me in."--Martin L. Perl, 1995 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
by Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman

List Price: $21.95 
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Business; 1 edition (June 3, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0385524382
ISBN-13: 978-0385524384

Description: A fascinating journey into the hidden psychological influences that derail our decision-making, Sway will change the way you think about the way you think.

Why is it so difficult to sell a plummeting stock or end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from someone “important”? Why are we more likely to fall in love when there’s danger involved? In Sway, renowned organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, answer all these questions and more.

Drawing on cutting-edge research from the fields of social psychology, behavioral economics, and organizational behavior, Sway reveals dynamic forces that influence every aspect of our personal and business lives, including loss aversion (our tendency to go to great lengths to avoid perceived losses), the diagnosis bias (our inability to reevaluate our initial diagnosis of a person or situation), and the “chameleon effect” (our tendency to take on characteristics that have been arbitrarily assigned to us).

Sway introduces us to the Harvard Business School professor who got his students to pay $204 for a $20 bill, the head of airline safety whose disregard for his years of training led to the transformation of an entire industry, and the football coach who turned conventional strategy on its head to lead his team to victory. We also learn the curse of the NBA draft, discover why interviews are a terrible way to gauge future job performance, and go inside a session with the Supreme Court to see how the world’s most powerful justices avoid the dangers of group dynamics.

Every once in a while, a book comes along that not only challenges our views of the world but changes the way we think. In Sway, Ori and Rom Brafman not only uncover rational explanations for a wide variety of irrational behaviors but also point readers toward ways to avoid succumbing to their pull.

About the Authors: Ori Brafman is coauthor of The Starfish and the Spider and is a renowned organizational expert who regularly speaks before Fortune 500, governmental, and military audiences. A graduate of Stanford Business School, he lives in San Francisco. Rom Brafman holds a Ph.D. in psychology and has taught university courses in personality and personal growth. His current research interests focus on the dynamics of interpersonal relationships. He has a private practice in Palo Alto, California.

Leveling the Playing Field for Minority Head Coaches in the NFL

The NFL preseason is about to start. For football fans here is a very interesting article on the legal history of the discriminatory practices that keep minorities from becomeing head coaches in the League: N. Jeremi Duru (Temple), The Fritz Pollard Alliance, the Rooney Rule, and the Quest to "Level the Playing Field" in the National Football League (SSRN).

The National Football League (the "NFL" or the "League"), like the National Basketball Association ("NBA") and Major League Baseball ("MLB"), has a long history of racial exclusion. And like these other long-standing American professional sport leagues, desegregation among players preceded desegregation among coaches. As slowly increasing numbers of minorities assumed NBA head coaching positions and MLB managing positions toward the end of the twentieth century, however, minority NFL coaches were less likely to receive head coaching opportunities than their basketball and baseball counterparts. Indeed, as of 2002, only two minorities held head coaching positions in the thirty-two team NFL, and only five, including those two, had held head coaching positions during the League's modern era. Four years later, however, the NFL had more than tripled its number of minority head coaches and shone as a model for other athletic institutions seeking to provide head coaching candidates equal employment opportunity. This article seeks to explore the history of racial exclusion in the NFL, the particular barriers minority coaches seeking NFL head coaching positions have faced, and the effort to level the playing field for such coaches.

Hat tip to Richard Bales (Chase), WorkPlace Prof Blog. [JH]

Opening: Collection Development Coordinator/Research Librarian, University of St. Thomas School of Law Library

The University of St. Thomas, School of Law seeks applications for a Collection Development Coordinator/Research Librarian. This position plays a critical role in law library collection development and the education of users about library resources.

The Collection Development Coordinator/Research Librarian participates in the shared work of the library professional staff, including reference work; serves as library liaison to adjunct faculty and provides research support to other faculty as needed; provides reference services to law school students, faculty, staff and other library users; provides research support to faculty; assists the community in using print and electronic resources; prepares print and electronic guides to information resources.

Qualifications:  Qualifications: M.L.S. from an ALA-accredited institution (or equivalent) required; J.D. and two years relevant work experience preferred.

Founded in 1885, the University of St. Thomas is a Catholic, diocesan university based in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis and is the largest private university in Minnesota. Inspired by Catholic intellectual tradition, the University of St. Thomas educates students to be morally responsible leaders who think critically, act wisely, and work skillfully to advance the common good. The successful candidate will possess a commitment to the ideals of this mission statement.   

To apply, please visit our web site at: https://jobs.stthomas.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1217013987209

Law Librarian Career Profiles: Mary Dryden and Patty Wellinger

Law firm librarian Mary Dryden (Bingham McCutchen) and academic law librarian Patty Wellinger (Denver) discuss their careers on LawCrossing:

• Law Librarian and Actor: Mary Dryden
• Want a Career as a Law Librarian? Patty Wellinger Touts the Rewards

[JH]

Is POTUS Too Busy To Be Spending the Day Deleting Spam or Closing Pop-Ups in a Browser?

Is it important for the President to use the Internet regularly? See the WSJ article, Note to Next President: Avoid Computers, and cast your vote in the Journal's poll. [JH]

China Breaks Pledge to Provide Unfiltered Web Access to Foreign Journalists

Reporters Without Borders has issued a guide on how to use proxy servers to circumvent China's Internet censorship during the Beijing Games after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) acknowledged that the Chinese government was blocking foreign journalists access to Internet sites Chinese authorities consider politically sensitive. Chinese censorship contradicted pledges made earlier by IOC and Chinese officials that foreign journalists in China to cover the Olympic Games would have unfettered Web access. The IOC's acknowledgment apparently indicates its acceptance of the Chinese government's broken promise.

The IOC was informed of China's activities by foreign journalists, not the Chinese government, after journalists complained about Internet filtering. In IOC Allows China To Limit Reporters' Access to Internet, the Washington Post lists recent examples of reporters censored access to the Internet, including not being able to access (1) Amnesty International's recent report criticizing China's human rights record leading up to the Games; (2) Falun Gong sites without going through a proxy server; (3) Wikipedia's search engine; and  (4) the BBC's Chinese-language site.

The New York Times is recommending and making available for downloading, Freegate to "to secure and optimize users online activities" in China but that application will not override China's web filtering. [JH]

Professional Reading: Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status

Peter B. Hirtle's article, Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status, has been published in the July/August 2008 issue of D-Lib. Here's the abstract:

It has long been assumed that most of the works published from 1923 to 1964 in the US are currently in the public domain. Both non-profit and commercial digital libraries have dreamed of making this material available. Most programs have recognized as well that the restoration of US copyright in foreign works in 1996 has made it impossible for them to offer to the public the full text of most foreign works. What has been overlooked up to now is the difficulty that copyright restoration has created for anyone trying to determine if a work published in the United States is still protected by copyright. This paper discusses the impact that copyright restoration of foreign works has had on US copyright status investigations, and offers some new steps that users must follow in order to investigate the copyright status in the US of any work. It argues that copyright restoration has made it almost impossible to determine with certainty whether a book published in the United States after 1922 and before 1964 is in the public domain. Digital libraries that wish to offer books from this period do so at some risk.

The D-Lib text is a slightly abridged version of this article. [JH]

NLRB Launches Pilot Project for Electronic Issuance and Service of Final Board and ALJ Decisions

The NLRB's E-Issuance/E-Service procedure will allow parties to obtain decisions immediately upon issuance via email alerts. Too bad that a RSS feed subscription option is not being implemented.

From the Board's press release:

Under the pilot project, final Board and ALJ decisions will be issued electronically (E‑Issuance) at the close of each business day by being listed on a daily e-docket sheet posted on the NLRB website.  Parties who voluntarily register for electronic service (E-Service) will receive, immediately upon posting of the e-docket sheet, an email constituting formal notice of the Board’s or ALJ’s decision and an electronic link to the decision.  The Board and ALJ decisions will then be posted on the NLRB website the first business day following posting of the e-docket sheet.  Parties who do not register for E-Service will continue to receive service by traditional means, typically via U.S. Mail, which may take several days for delivery.

E-Issuance of final NLRB decisions will begin in August, and E-Issuance of final ALJ decisions will begin in early October. Details on the E-Issuance/E-Service FAQ page. [JH]

Just Released, Introduction to Information Retrieval

Companion Website

The book's companion website includes html and pdf versions of the book plus links to IR books, courses, conferences and other resources. [JH]

"This is the first book that gives you a complete picture of the complications that arise in building a modern web-scale search engine. You'll learn about ranking SVMs, XML, DNS, and LSI. You'll discover the seedy underworld of spam, cloaking, and doorway pages. You'll see how MapReduce and other approaches to parallelism allow us to go beyond megabytes and to efficiently manage petabytes." - Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.

Introduction to Information Retrieval
by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze

List Price: $60.00
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 31, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0521865719
ISBN-13: 978-0521865715

Description: Class-tested and coherent, this groundbreaking new textbook teaches classic web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. Written from a computer science perspective by three leading experts in the field, it gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using examples and figures, making it perfect for introductory courses in information retrieval for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science. Based on feedback from extensive classroom experience, the book has been carefully structured in order to make teaching more natural and effective. Although originally designed as the primary text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in information retrieval, the book will also create a buzz for researchers and professionals alike.

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Reviews published in the June 30th, 2008 issue of InSITE:

• Food First: Institute for Food and Development Policy
• FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
• Humanitarian Policy Group
• International Seabed Authority
• Special Court for Sierra Leone

[RJ]

Food First: Institute for Food and Development Policy

The goal of the Institute for Food and Development Policy (a.k.a. Food First) is to "eliminate the injustices that cause hunger" and seek "food sovereignty" through a three-pronged approach: building local food systems, involvement of small-scale farmers, and democratization of development through support of land reform and other social movements. Food First's publications, reports, and press releases all seem to make the point that hunger is most often not a problem of food shortage but of the effects of policies promulgated by governments, corporations, and international trade bodies. The content on the site thus has a notable strain of opposition to the current regime of trade policy, agricultural biotechnology, and agricultural subsidies. Nevertheless, the site has a great deal of good content on agriculture, economics, and international trade policy in its "Publications" section. The site offers "Fact sheets," "Backgrounders," "Development Reports," "Policy Briefs," "News and Views," and "Stories and Field Reports".  Although these categories are poorly differentiated from each other and unevenly updated, the reports and publications on offer are carefully researched and footnoted, offer summaries and tables, and are available in PDF format and, in some cases, in multiple languages. The site is very much by and for activists, but its tone is accessible and generally non-polemical. A search engine is available for the site's contents. [JPC]

FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research

FRASER is an acronym for Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research; it is a project of the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.  FRASER’s mission is to facilitate economic research by creating a “public, electronic archive of economic statistical publications and data.” FRASER contains scanned, PDF images of historic economic data, reports, and other publications, and can be used in conjunction with two other economic data resources maintained by the St. Louis Federal Reserve, FRED and ALFRED (links to both sites and other sites are at the top of FRASER’s website).  FRASER has 45 different collections of documents; however, there are gaps within the individual collections.  Collections containing more recent information, or information from ongoing publications such as the Federal Reserve’s Economic Indicators Report, are the most likely to have complete coverage.  In addition to the collection of economic documents, historic documents released by the U.S. Federal Reserve and the St. Louis Federal Reserve are available in the Federal Reserve History section.  FRASER has an advanced search function that allows users to restrict searches by search terms and date, and to filter results by collection and author. [LB]

The Humanitarian Policy Group

The Humanitarian Policy Group (HDG) is sub-group of the Overseas Development Institute, an independent British organization that produces research and policy recommendations on humanitarian aid, the alleviation of poverty, and economic development. HDG's own mission statement identifies it as "one of the world's leading teams of independent researchers and information professionals working on humanitarian issues. It is dedicated to improving humanitarian policy and practice through a combination of high-quality analysis, dialogue and debate." HDG produces reports that evaluate both past and current efforts of the international aid community. The information content of the HDG website lies primarily within its "Publications" section, which offers "Reports," "Policy Briefs," and "Working Papers" as well as a listing of "Commissioned Works" authored by the HDG but sponsored by other organizations. Documents in these sections are arranged in order of publication. A Google-based search engine is available but its utility is limited insofar as the documents on offer are in PDF format. The HDG's publications are high-level documents intended for a specialist audience of researchers and the leadership of international aid organizations, although some interpretative assistance is given for laypeople (i.e. listings of relevant acronyms). The site could have benefited from listings of reports by geographic area or country but the contents are in general well-organized. [JPC]

International Seabed Authority

The International Seabed Authority is "an autonomous international organization established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the 1994 Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea."  The information content of the site--which has English, French and Spanish mirrors--is organized into several areas including "Marine Scientific Research," "Annual Sessions," "News and Events" (aggregating press releases), and "Documents and Publications," which includes such materials as the Convention and legal instruments thereof, and proceedings of the Authority's sessions.  Some of the technical reports cannot be accessed through the site but only ordered in hardcopy.  Among the notable resources which are available, however, are the Central Data Repository on undersea mineral resources and the Map section, identifying the International Seabed Area and depicting the locations of major mineral deposits.  The site has a somewhat imprecise keyword search engine which often fails to turn up relevant hits inside PDF documents.  In general however the site is well-organized and informative, albeit for a highly specialized audience of scholars and policymakers concerned with maritime mining law and environmental research. [JPC]

Special Court for Sierra Leone

Established jointly by the government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations, the Special Court for Sierra Leone is "mandated to try those bearing the greatest responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed within the territory of Sierra Leone since 30 November 1996."  The website provides links to the current cases and information as to how far the cases have progressed and which cases have been concluded.  There are videos of some of the trials themselves as well as the ability to view Indictments, Summary of the Charges, Court Decisions, Transcripts and Minutes of the Trials.  Recent issues of the Court's monthly newsletter and press releases dating back to September 2002 are available.  Additionally the site includes information on the court itself, how it runs and operates, and its justices.  There is also information on how to contact the Special Court, how to file an amicus  brief and information on available jobs and internships for the Court.  The site is keyword-searchable from a search box on the home page. [SA]

InSITE contributors: S. Allen, L. Buechner, J.P. Cusker, J. Pajerek (editor)

InSITE highlights selected law-related World Wide Web sites in two ways: as an annotated publication issued electronically and in print; and as a keyword-searchable database. The law librarians at Cornell evaluate potentially useful Web sites, select the most valuable ones, and provide commentary and subject access to them. These information can be accessed as following:

1. Current Issue Edition
2. Archived Issues
3. Searchable Database
4. RSS FEED of the Current Issue Editions [What is RSS?]
5. E-mail subscription: send the following request to lyris@cornell.edu: join INSITE-L 'your name'
   where your name(include the quotation marks) is the name you want to be available to the list's administrator. You must send this message from the e-mail address where you want to receive the e-list's messages.

Opening: Cornell Law Library Research Attorney

Cornell Law Library has a newly created position of a Research Attorney.  The full job description is attached.  The Research Attorney will be involved in reference and research, teaching research courses in the law school, serving as one of several faculty liaisons, and creating web content, with opportunities available in educational technology or international/foreign law.  Applications are welcome through the university job web site at http://www.ohr.cornell.edu/jobs/; search under the job category of Librarians, select job posting 09098, and follow the instructions for online submission.  Review of applications will begin immediately, and continue until the position is filled. 

Cornell University is located in scenic Ithaca on a hill above Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.  The town and university offer a unique cosmopolitan and international atmosphere in a beautiful natural setting of waterfalls, gorges, and lakes.  A challenging environment, which promotes the use of new technologies, combines with a tradition of excellent service.  Ten professionals and fifteen support staff work closely with the Law School and with the University Library.

Please contact Pat Court, Associate Law Librarian, with any questions.

Pat Court
Associate Law Librarian
and Lecturer in Law
Cornell Law Library
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Ithaca, New York  14853-4901
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