The online magazine The Reasoner has an interview with Timothy van Gelder in its February 2010 issue. You should read this interview!
It's here: the law of evidence on Spindle Law. See also this post and this post.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
A Nobel Peace Prize for Nicholas Kristof
Now let's have a Nobel Peace Prize that means something. Let's have one for Nicholas D. Kristof. Reason? See, e.g., "The Grotesque Vocabulary in Congo," NYTimes (Feb. 10, 2010) &&&
It's here: the law of evidence on Spindle Law. See also this post and this post.
Is This the Beginning of the End for the Jersey City Machine?
Mayor Jerramiah Healy's deputy mayor -- Leona Beldini -- has been convicted on two criminal counts stemming from the money that a cooperating federal witness -- Mr. Solomon Dwek -- liberally distributed to a variety of politicians in northern New Jersey and Jersey City in exchange for official favors for Mr. Dwek, who they mistakenly believed was a real estate developer who wanted their favors. See "Offcial guilty on 2 counts in NJ corruption trial," Daily Record.com (Feb. 11, 2010).&&&
Let me again trumpet the fact that a team of my students in a course in fact investigation at Cardozo School Law undertook an investigation of Mayor Healy's administration about a year ago and found strong indications of possible corruption.
It's here: the law of evidence on Spindle Law. See also this post and this post.
Encouraging Words for Spindle Law -- and, by Implication, for Its Evidence Module
In a blog post Spindle Law's David Gold observes that David Curle, "a leading analyst of the legal, tax, & regulatory information industry," made some encouraging remarks in the Huffington Post about Spindle Law&&&
A tiny little startup named Spindle Law has an interesting idea. They are building, in a kind of collaborative, Wiki-like way, a database of the legal rules that lawyers find in court decisions and in legislation. Their idea is that it’s pretty inefficient to get to those rules by searching and reading long court opinions. They are extracting and organizing the rules with links to the legal sources. They have a long way to go to prove that the concept works, but I like the way they are trying to turn the research process on its head.I call David Curle's remarks "encouraging" because I am the editor of Spindle Law's evidence module.
I take this occasion to remind lawyers, law teachers, law students, etc., that I would welcome their comments (in the evidence module) about rules and principles of evidence, their notes and thoughts on interesting new (or old) cases, and the like. Evidence is a large part -- very probably the largest part -- of the work of most litigators and trial judges. The handling of evidence in litigation is also a fundamental pillar of the rule of law. (Without reasonably accurate factual proof, the rule of law means little and is inefficient.) So let's have a national and worldwide conversation about the U.S. system of factual proof. Moreover, don't you have a yen to broadcast your personal views about legal issues and the law of evidence to the legal world and beyond? '
It's here: the law of evidence on Spindle Law. See also this post and this post.
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