Fun with Flickr
Posted by admin on Feb 17, 2006
For a little law related photo fun, try searching for photos with a legal theme on the photo sharing website Flickr. Just a warning, some of the photos, especially those tagged law, can be shocking, somewhat offensive, or have a political agenda. Not to mention the possible appearance of Judge Judy.
Most interesting photos tagged lawyer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/lawyer/interesting/
Law: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/law/interesting/
Courthouse: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/courthouse/interesting/
The Supreme Court cluster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/supremecourt/clusters/washingtondc-dc-court/
The building-law-courthouse cluster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/court/clusters/building-law-courthouse/
The Death of Discourse
Posted by admin on Feb 3, 2006
Authors: Ronald K.L. Collins & David M. Skover. Title: The Death of Discourse. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. KF4772.Z9 C65 2005
From the publisher: This book explores one of the most disturbing intellectual dilemmas of our time — that our beloved First Amendment is being exploited in the name of the dumbing of America. It is the first book to examine the popular culture of the First Amendment, specifically with reference to television, advertising, and pornography. Comparing the culture of popular discourse with traditional First Amendment ideals, the authors expose the vast gap between our speech practices and our speech principles. Is the tyranny of the trivialization of discourse a problem? In a dialogue-like way, the authors invite their readers to judge.
Judgment Days
Posted by admin on Feb 3, 2006
Author: Nick Kotz. Title: Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. E847.2 .K67 2005
From the publisher: In the first thorough account of the complex working relationship between Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nick Kotz offers an engrossing investigation of a little-known element of the Johnson presidency. Tracing both leaders’ paths, from Johnson’s assumption of the presidency in 1963 to King’s assassination in 1968, Kotz describes how they formed a wary alliance that would become instrumental in producing some of the most substantial civil rights legislation in American history: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources- Johnson’s taped telephone conversations, voluminous FBI wiretap logs, and secret communications between FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and the president- Kotz examines the forces that drew the charismatic men together and those that eventually drove them apart. Kotz’s focused and incisive examination significantly enriches our understanding of both men
A Matter of Law
Posted by admin on Feb 3, 2006
Author: Robert L. Carter. Title: A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights. New York: New Press, 2005. KF373.C378 A3 2005
From the publisher: “Robert L. Carter’s history with the NAACP during its pivotal years (the 1940s through the 1960s) is at the center of this memoir, which offers a rare personal account of how the legal campaign in Brown was mounted. His recounting of the efforts by the NAACP’s small legal staff to expose the pervasive nature of school segregation in the North in the aftermath of Brown brings this history to the forefront for the first time.” Carter’s post-NAACP career has enabled him to reflect on the fight for racial justice from a variety of vantage points, most recently as a federal district judge in New York. He brings a fresh and critical perspective to bear on the long-term consequences of the civil rights movement, and the need for new and innovative approaches to the continuing struggle for racial justice in America.