This is worth reading because most of these topics border or sit aside the topic “law” if you look at what they are trying to remove. When will the Dept or what’s left of it start trying to ban law courses. I believe it is closer than we’d like to think As always Literary
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What does this even mean … LexisNexis Introduces Protégé Personalized AI Assistant with Agentic AI, Making it Easier to Power Complex Legal Task Completion
I know i’m a bit stupid and not a lawyer but that headline just seems like a jumble of words to me.. Hope you can make sense of the press release i tried to read it but kept nodding off As long as it is only ubiquitous across Lexis Nexis products and doesn’t escape to…
People’s Parity Project Start Law School program To Try To End Capture of Law Firms By Corporate Interests
Fully supported here at HOB Meet the 2024 PPP Leadership Fellows The legal profession has long been captured by corporate interests. As a result, we have a legal system built to serve those same interests, rather than the everyday people most in need of justice. This corporate capture begins as soon as law students arrive…
The Guardian: Study finds microplastic contamination in 99% of seafood samples
Want to be depressed – here’s how Microplastics contamination is widespread in seafood sampled in a recent study, adding to growing evidence of the dangerous substances’ ubiquity in the nation’s food system, and a growing threat to human health. The peer-reviewed study detected microplastics in 99%, or 180 out of 182, samples of seafood either bought at the…
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 3rd Annual Comparative Animal Law Postgraduate Workshop T
The Center for Animal Law Studies and co-hosts announced a Call for Abstracts in November 2024 to seek submissions from LLM, MSL, PhD candidates, and post-doctoral research fellows from around the world working in the field of comparative animal law broadly understood. The deadline is approaching. Students who want to present their research at the Workshop…
BIALL 2025 Conference Registration Open
The Conference Committee is pleased to launch the Conference website and announce that bookings are open for our 2025 conference We are excited to announce that registration for the BIALL 55th Annual Conference & Exhibition: Playing a Blinder: Moving Forward in a City of a Thousand Trades is now open. We are hoping you will all join…
Profile Article: Colleen Skinner’s journey from the pharmacy to the law library
Here at HOB we love these profile articles of law librarians.. Header Image : Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Law Library Colleen Skinner in the library at the Jacksonville University College of Law. Photo by Max Marbut It’s a long way from Southern California to Jacksonville. It also is a long way…
NYSBA – CLE – “Seeing Is Believing -The Legal Challenges of Deep Fakes”
As legal AI companies go into overdrive more of this education is needed and quickly. In an era when artificial intelligence can blur the lines between reality and fabrication, how can judges ensure the authenticity of digital evidence? This Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program will explore the legal questions raised concerning the authenticity and admissibility…
How the mighty fall etc.. Scotus Blog Founder Tom Goldstein Detained Without Bond
This fall is beginning to look spectacular. Does he hold the dubious honor of the first legal blogger to go to jail? Above the Law have the details Well, that didn’t take long. Tom Goldstein, revered Supreme Court litigator turned cautionary tale, has officially traded his D.C. home — the one prosecutors say he secured…
ROSS Loses To TR Bigtime: Judge looked at possible copyright infringement defenses for Ross Intelligence and said, ‘I reject them all.’
Header Image: US District Court of Delaware judge Stephanos Bibas This is not looking good for ROSS , which as we all know no longer actually exists other than in name. I’m looking forward to seeing the Caseway guy’s reaction to this after his run in with CANLII As they say.. The plot thickens The…