Bloomberg Law ($): “As law firms, businesses, and their clients adapt to the new realities of the legal and business worlds, law schools must prepare students in new ways—beyond traditional law school curricula and teaching methods—to give students an experience and education that better prepares them for their post-graduation careers. Bloomberg Law launched its inaugural… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2023
CRISK: Measuring the Climate Risk Exposure of the Financial System
New York Fed – Liberty Street Economics, Hyeyoon Jung: “A growing number of climate-related policies have been adopted globally in the past thirty years (see chart below). The risk to economic activity from changes in policies in response to climate risks, such as carbon taxes and green subsidies, is often referred to as transition risk.… Continue Reading
Gmail is adding a blue checkmark to better verify senders
9 to 5 Google: “After adding support for verified brand logos in 2021, Gmail is now going further by adding a blue checkmark to emails. The existing system is based on the Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) standard, where brand logos appear in the “avatar slot” next to the sender’s name and address. For… Continue Reading
How to Check if You’ve Installed Apple’s Rapid Security Response Upd
MakeUseOf: “Apple regularly updates its operating systems across the board, which are provided as major updates or point updates. However, the company also has special updates called Rapid Security Response updates.These updates are meant to fix critical bugs that malicious actors could exploit. It’s, therefore, essential to update your device as soon as you get… Continue Reading
Does Googling Justice Work? Auditing Search Engines’ Performance as Intermediaries of Legal Help Online
Hagan, Margaret and Al Haider, Nóra, Does Googling Justice Work? Auditing Search Engines’ Performance as Intermediaries of Legal Help Online (October 10, 2022). UCLA Journal of Law & Technology, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4414305 “Online search engines are key providers of legal information. Their responses to people’s search queries can influence whether and how people… Continue Reading
Create PDFs From Scratch With These 5 Free Online Tools
MakeUseOf: “Creating a PDF can be difficult, especially if you don’t have a tool dedicated to doing exactly that. But the problem with downloading a tool to create a single PDF is that you now have a program that you may or may not trust on your computer. Luckily, there are a variety of online… Continue Reading
The Survey Is Dead; Long Live the Survey: Can ChatGPT Replace Traditional Research Surveys?
RIPS Law Librarian Blog – Iantha Haight: “Our library recently hosted a guest speaker, David Wingate, a professor in BYU’s computer science department who does research on large language models, for a faculty lunch and learn. The entire presentation was fascinating, but the most intriguing part for me and many of the law faculty in… Continue Reading
You Can’t Trust Your Browser’s ‘Lock’ to Tell You a Website Is Safe
Lifehacker – “Google is doing away with the lock, because it never meant what you thought it meant. When you browse the internet, you probably notice a small lock icon that appears in the URL bar. It’s common internet security advice to look for this lock whenever visiting a new site, to make sure your… Continue Reading
The Scholarly Fingerprinting Industry
Jefferson Pooley. The Scholarly Fingerprinting Industry Amerikastudien/American Studies 68, no. 1 (2023): 18–21. https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2023/1/41. 18 Amst 68.1 (2023): 5-26 “Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, Wiley, and SAGE: Many researchers know that the five giant firms publish most of the world’s scholarship. Fifty years of acquisitions and journal launches have yielded a stunningly profitable oligopoly,… Continue Reading
Precedent Unbound: The Supreme Court’s Summary Elimination of Liberal Lower Court Rulings
Tucker, Lisa A. and Risch, Michael, Precedent Unbound: The Supreme Court’s Summary Elimination of Liberal Lower Court Rulings (March 19, 2023). Florida Law Review, Vol. 76, (2024 Forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4393097 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4393097 “Over the past two years the United States Supreme Court has erased thirteen politically and legally significant opinions written by the… Continue Reading
The Case Against Commercial Casebooks
Ball, W. David and Oberman, Michelle, The Case Against Commercial Casebooks (October 18, 2022). Journal of Legal Education, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4251921 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4251921 “Open-source, online casebooks are a free alternative to the for-profit commercial casebooks that dominate the legal academy. They offer a host of benefits for students and professors alike. Online casebooks are… Continue Reading
RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index – a new era of polarisation
“The 20th World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reveals a two-fold increase in polarisation amplified by information chaos – that is, media polarisation fuelling divisions within countries, as well as polarisation between countries at the international level. The 2022 edition of the World Press Freedom Index, which assesses the state of… Continue Reading
