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November 2007

Subscription Format Change

As of January 2008 the library's subscriptions to the following journals will change from paper to electronic format: Law and Philosophy, Law and Human Behavior, Law and Critique and International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.

FTC Decisions Online

The Federal Trade Commission has digitized its decisions from 1969-2005, covering almost all administrative documents issued by the Commission, including Opinions, Final Orders, Complaints, and Consent Orders that result from negotiated consent agreements, as well as all Initial Decisions issued by Administrative Law Judges in administrative trial proceedings.The decisions are browsable by volume number and by party name, and they are also full-text searchable. The FTC also plans to add its earlier decisions (1914-1968) to the site eventually. Coverage of FTC decisions on Lexis and Westlaw currently goes back to 1949.The site can be accessed at FTC.

1.8 Million Pages of Federal Case Law Soon Freely Available

WASHINGTON, D.C. / SEBASTOPOL, CA—November 14, 2007—Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive will be public domain and usable by anyone for any purpose. The press release can be read at Announcement.

Faculty Publications

Frederic L. Kirgis, Book Review,101 Am. J. Int'l L. 688 (2007) (reviewing Oren Gross and Fionnuala Ni Aolain,Law in Times of Crisis: Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice (2006)), available at Westlaw.

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