As detailed in , which is headlined "Pawlenty: Time to get tougher on sex crimes," Minnesota's governor (and a future presidential candidate?) is talking about significantly increasing his states punishment table for sex offenders. Here are the basics: this local article Gov. Ti ...

If you pay attention to the media these days, you will no doubt be bombarded by messages that marriages in the US are not working out. News of celebrity divorces, reality shows designed to catch people cheating and websites promoting dating outside of marriage seem to be everywhere. The convention ...

 The Blog of Legal Times advises that the Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the United States Judicial Conference has  developed pattern jury  instructions "to address the increasing incidence of juror use of such devices as cellular telephones or comp ...

Der Bundesgerichtshof hat es für zulässig erachtet, dass Spiegel Online im Internet ein Dossier mit Altmeldungen über den Mord an Walter Sedlmayr zum Abruf bereitgehalten hat, in denen der Name der Verurteilten genannt wurde und kontextbezogene Bilder der Verurteilten enthalten waren. Die Kläger wu ...

Thema und Variationen mit allem, was die aktuellen Urheberrechtsdiskussionen in und um das Internet und die Verwertung fremder Bücher so bereit halten. Die Kommentare sind lesenswert, nicht nur, weil alle relvanten Links zum Thema und noch einige mehr sich dort wiederfinden. Mehr davo ...

A recent article in a Food and Drug Law Institute publication talks about the important benefits — and risks — when a corporate defendant tells the prosecutor that “my lawyer said it was OK.” Attorney John Fleder writes that the government has become more aggressive in prosec ...

Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret Pending National Security Review :: Holds Law Does Not Protect Identities of Lobbyists :: EFF v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (pdf)

Man glaubt es kaum, aber dieses Weblog wird heute 9 Jahre alt. Es sind keine besonderen Feierlichkeiten vorgesehen, also business as usual. Aus der Geschichte: Vor ziemlich genau 6 Jahren hat Matt Mullenweg (Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, an ...

Apparently not many do - including me - according to Joe Hodnicki at the Law Librarian Blog. Joe suggests that West may be reluctant to distribute free passwords to the academy until its paying customers make the upgrade. You can...

Maybe, according to this article in the National Jurist (a magazine targeting law students and law students-to-be). According to the author: As in most other aspects of life, the “Seven Deadly Sins” manifest themselves in legal education. There’s plenty of...