Washington and Lee University School of Law

Faculty Publications

Rodney A. Smolla, The First Amendment, Journalists, and Sources: A Curious Study in "Reverse Federalism", 29 Cardoza L. Rev. 1423 (2008).

LLI Launches RSS Feeds for US Code Updates

Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute has launched an RSS feed of the U.S. Code updates as they are issued by the House of Representatives. Check it out.

Listen to the U. of Chicago's Conference on Torture, Law, and War

On February 29 and March 1, the University of Chicago Law School's Law and Philosophy Workshop (with the assistance of the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism) sponsored a conference on Torture, Law and War. The conference "looked at the central question from the perspective of a wide range of fields, from law and public policy to psychology and history". You can view the agenda and listen to (or download) the conference sessions at the conference web page here.

Faculty Publications

Lyman Johnson, A Fresh Look at Director "Independence":Mutual Fund Fee Litigation and Gartenberg at Twenty-Five, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 497 (2008) available at, Westlaw

Legal Talk Network

The broadcast professionals at Legal Talk Network have produced over 200 programs on a variety of legal topics. Browse their library or subscribe to their RSS feed. Plus, you can now get CLE credit for listening to their programs. Available at Legaltalk

Faculty Publications

Robin Fretwell Wilson, "Unauthorized Practice": Regulating the Use of Anesthetized, Recently Deceased, and Conscious Patients in Medical Teaching, 44 Idaho L. Rev. 423 (2008).

Norman L. Balmer, Fashionable IP or IP for Fashion?, 64 Wash. & Lee L. Rev.275 (2008).

Caprice L. Roberts, "A Desert Grows Between Us"-The Sovereignty Paradox at the Intersection of Tribal and Federal Courts, 64 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 347 (2008).

Faculty Publications

Robin Fretwell Wilson, Essay: The Limits of Conscience: Moral Clashes over Deeply Divisive Healthcare Procedures, 34 Am. J.L. & Med. 41 (2008).

GovEngine--Web Portal for Government Research

GovEngine is a Web portal for uncovering information about federal, state, and local government. Links on the sidebar of the website lead to pages on each of these subjects. There is also a map of the U.S.A., where one can click a state and then go to a page that contains links to the state's home page and constitution. In addition, there are lists of Web pages that contain further links to sources dealing with the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the state in question.

Google News Search Launches New Quotes Feature

How to search quotes using Google News Search: " 1. To access these new features, first search for a person's name on Google News. If we have a recent quote, we'll show it above the search results. 2. Clicking on the speaker's name will take you to a page with even more of their quotes. From there you can search within the quotes by entering a query on the left side of the page." Source: Google News Blog (check out the screen captures)

2006 U.S. Code

Volumes of the 2006 edition of the U.S. Code are beginning to arrive in GPO's Library Services unit and are being prepared for shipment. Volume 1 (Organic Laws, Title 1 to Title 5) is being prepared for shipment Stock for Volume 2 (Title 5 to Title 7) has just been received in GPO's warehouse and will be prepared for shipment this week. As additional volumes are finalized and printed, they will be processed and distributed as soon as they arrive.