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“Unknown Symbols”: Online Legal Research in the Age of Emoji
Over the last decade, emoji and emoticons have made the leap from text messaging and social media to legal filings, court opinions, and law review articles. However, emoji and emoticons’ growth in popularity has tested the capability of online legal research systems to properly display and retrieve them in search results, posing challenges for future researchers of primary and secondary sources. This article examines current display practices on several of the most popular online legal research services (including Westlaw Edge, Lexis Advance, Bloomberg Law, Fastcase, HeinOnline, and Gale OneFile LegalTrac), and suggests effective workarounds for researchers
Beyond the Annals of Murder: The Life and Works of Thomas M. McDade
Thomas M. McDade is best known (if not well-known enough) for his seminal 1961 reference bibliography, The Annals of Murder: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on American Murders from Colonial Times to 1900. Beyond that singular text on early American murder trial accounts, though, lies more than 70 additional publications on American legal history, law enforcement, and literature, gathered together for the first time in an annotated bibliography of McDade’s lesser-known writings. The article also examines McDade’s fascinating life and varied career as an early FBI agent, World War II veteran, corporate executive, and true crime chronicler
Book Review
reviewing, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. & Austin Sarat eds., When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice, (2009
“Unknown Symbols”: Online Legal Research in the Age of Emoji
Over the last decade, emoji and emoticons have made the leap from text messaging and social media to legal filings, court opinions, and law review articles. However, emoji and emoticons’ growth in popularity has tested the capability of online legal research systems to properly display and retrieve them in search results, posing challenges for future researchers of primary and secondary sources. This article examines current display practices on several of the most popular online legal research services (including Westlaw Edge, Lexis Advance, Bloomberg Law, Fastcase, HeinOnline, and Gale OneFile LegalTrac), and suggests effective workarounds for researchers
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Playing “Sherlock Holmes”: Enhancing students’ understanding of prejudice and stereotyping
A very simple, innovative classroom exercise designed to heighten students\u27 understanding of stereotyping and prejudice is described. Students\u27 evaluation of the exercise was very positive. Students reported greater awareness and understanding of their own and others’ stereotypes and prejudice and of the negative effects of prejudice, with females more than males reporting enhanced awareness of others’ stereotyping. Students also rated the exercise as very enjoyable. There was a trend among Non-White more than White students to report that the exercise helped show them how to reduce stereotypes and more Non-White than White students offered solutions for reducing prejudice that involved actively reaching out and interacting with others different from themselves. Additional suggestions for instructors are discussed
Classification of boundary Lefschetz fibrations over the disc
We show that a four-manifold admits a boundary Lefschetz fibration over the
disc if and only if it is diffeomorphic to ,
or . Given the relation between boundary Lefschetz
fibrations and stable generalized complex structures, we conclude that the
manifolds , and admit stable
structures whose type change locus has a single component and are the only
four-manifolds whose stable structure arise from boundary Lefschetz fibrations
over the disc.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures. Paper for the proceedings of the conference in
honour of Prof. Nigel Hitchin on the occasion of his 70th birthda
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