Solomon Amendment Debate Between Law Professors Online
Posted by admin on Nov 30, 2005
Next week, December 6, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case Rumsfeld v. FAIR [external link to US Law Week, Widener ID required]
This case deals with constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, which
requires institutions of higher learning (including law schools) to
allow military recruiters access to their students and campuses or else
forfeit federal funds. This week, Nov. 29th – Dec. 2nd, ACSBlog
(The Blog of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy) will
host a debate between Professor William Eskridge of Yale Law School and
Dean William Polsby of the George Mason University School of Law
concerning the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment. View the
online debate here.
U.S. Supreme Court will review dispute between Delaware and New Jersey
Posted by admin on Nov 29, 2005
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to review a case involving Delaware’s right to prevent New Jersey from
erecting a liquefied natural gas terminal on the Delaware River.
The two states have disagreed for years about Delaware’s right to
control projects on the Delaware River, up to the low-tide mark on the
New Jersey side of the river.
Book Review: What is life worth?
Posted by admin on Nov 22, 2005
What is life worth? : The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11. by Kenneth R. Feinberg
A review of this newly acquired book is online on the Proquest database
from the Washington Post. [Exteral link to Proquest is for Widener
faculty, staff and students only- Widener ID required to view this
resource off- campus]
CRS reports available online
Posted by admin on Nov 10, 2005
A website was launched by the Center for Democracy & Technology to make CRS reports publicly available. What are CRS reports and why should you care? CRS reports are detailed analysis written by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), an arm of the Library of Congress, for members of the U.S. Congress. THe CRS does not consider it their mandate to make the reports they produce available to the public. However, constitutents have always been able to request copies of these reports from their representatives in Congress; assuming they know which reports are available. The Open CRS Network hopes to make as many reports as possible available to the public, they even hope that members of the public will add additional reports to the database. Visit http://www.opencrs.com/ to view this project.
Library Book Club: Before You Know Kindness
Posted by admin on Nov 8, 2005
The Library’s brown bag book club will meet Tuesday,
December 13th in the Special Collections room at noon. We will discuss
the book, Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian. You can read a review of the book on Amazon.com. All are invited to join us – we hope to see you there.