Via LLRX.com – Clemency Clinics: A Blueprint for Justice – Ken Strutin’s article presents a significant collection of expertly selected resources on clemency and other established post-conviction projects. It also includes general resources that can be used in the process of starting up a clemency clinic or a project in a law school, bar association,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Brookings – The Economic Recovery is Floundering
Per Brookings – “Editors note: This commentary is based on research and analysis from the June 2012 update of Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery (TIGER) interactive map, which appears on the Financial Times Web site (subscription access only).” “In the lead-up to the G20 summit in Los Cabos, the Brookings-FT Tiger index shows… Continue Reading
LLRX.com – Should libraries start their own, more trustworthy Facebook?
Via LLRX.com: Should libraries start their own, more trustworthy Facebook? – David Rothman proposes that the time may be fast upon us for libraries perhaps allied with academic institutions, newspapers and other local media to start their own more trustworthy Facebook. His involvement with the Digital Public Library of America provides a reference… Continue Reading
Pew – Partisan Polarization Surges in Bush, Obama Years
Partisan Polarization Surges in Bush, Obama Years Trends in American Values: 1987-2012 “As Americans head to the polls this November, their values and basic beliefs are more polarized along partisan lines than at any point in the past 25 years. Unlike in 1987, when this series of surveys began, the values gap between Republicans and… Continue Reading
DHS – Deferred Action Process for Young People Who Are Low Enforcement Priorities
News release: “Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced that effective immediately, certain young people who were brought to the United States as young children, do not present a risk to national security or public safety, and meet several key criteria will be considered for relief from removal from the country or from entering into… Continue Reading
Report – Immigrant Small Business Owners, A Significant and Growing Part of the Economy
Immigrant Small Business, David Dyssegaard Kallick, senior fellow of the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) Immigrant-owned small businesses: 4.7 million employees, $776 billion in receipts – “Immigrant entrepreneurship is widely recognized as an important aspect of the economic role immigrants play. Surprisingly, until now, there has been relatively little basic information available about the number and… Continue Reading
The Economist Reports – The vanishing north
“The Arctics glaciers, including those of Greenlands vast ice cap, are retreating. The land is thawing: the area covered by snow in June is roughly a fifth less than in the 1960s. The permafrost is shrinking. Alien plants, birds, fish and animals are creeping north: Atlantic mackerel, haddock and cod are coming up in Arctic… Continue Reading
EPA Proposes Clean Air Standards for Harmful Soot Pollution
News release: “In response to a court order, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [June 15, 2012] proposed updates to its national air quality standards for harmful fine particle pollution, including soot (known as PM2.5). These microscopic particles can penetrate deep into the lungs and have been linked to a wide range of serious health… Continue Reading
Article – Predicting Fair Use
Sag, Matthew, Predicting Fair Use (February 25, 2012). Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 73:1 47-91 (2012); TRPC 2011; Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-005. Available at SSRN “Fair use is often criticized as unpredictable and doctrinally incoherent – a conclusion which necessarily implies that the copyright system is fundamentally broken. This… Continue Reading
Scientific American – How New York Beat Crime
Via Oxford University Press – How New York Beat Crime, by Franklin E. Zimring “For the past two decades New Yorkers have been the beneficiaries of the largest and longest sustained drop in street crime ever experienced by a big city in the developed world. In less than a generation, rates of several common crimes… Continue Reading
McKinsey – The world at work: Jobs, pay, and skills for 3.5 billion people
“Over the past three decades, as developing economies industrialized and began to compete in world markets, a global labor market started taking shape. As more than one billion people entered the labor force, a massive movement from farm to factory sharply accelerated growth of productivity and per capita GDP in China and other traditionally rural… Continue Reading
Education Department Releases Scorecard of Colleges by Cost
College Affordability and Transparency Center: “Here you will find information about tuition and net prices at postsecondary institutions. The site highlights institutions with high and low tuition and fees as well as high and low net prices (the price of attendance minus grant and scholarship aid). It also shows institutions where tuition and fees and… Continue Reading
