The Globe and Mail reports that a group of 1,500 scientists from around the world will be releasing a letter today urging Canada to better protect our forests.

According to The Globe and Mail article Scientists plead for protection of forests by Bill Curry:

The scientists’ letter points out that forests absorb and store carbon dioxide, playing a key role in the fight against climate change. Global warming concerns are based on predictions that human-made emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are trapping heat in the Earth’s atmosphere.

The boreal forest, a green band primarily made up

. . . [more]

Google a enfin compris qu'il est impossible de lire en ligne mais surtout que l'archivage se fait beaucoup plus facilement en papier. Ainsi, on nous offre Google Papier(en anglais seulement pour le moment). Ce service vous permet d'imprimer tous vos courriels et de vous les faire livrer dans une belle boîte Gmail, le tout gratuitement évidemment!

I was originally going to send all of you to look at the Bush Malaria Dance and related mashups. I even tried my hand at editing my own version with iMovie but the results weren’t great, so I have moved on to something more interesting (I can only take look at Bush for so long, no matter how amusing the footage).

I had a number of positive comments about my last Friday Fillip on computer bags and Squidoo. Most people are now expecting a follow-up post about shoes. But instead of alligator skin, let’s look at Alligator Eggs! which I . . . [more]

I’d like to make a recommendation to all of our Slaw readers…

If you currently enjoy the discussion here at Slaw via RSS, you may also wish to add the comments feed for your feed reader. Some of the best commentary and discussions take place after the original post. Plus, you’ll pick up on the conversations that occur after a post has dropped off the homepage.

And speaking of comments, wouldn’t it would be nice if we all re-dedicated ourselves to leaving more of them? Feeding the discussion, asking for clarification, polite debate, or driving that Steve guy into the . . . [more]

One of the great pleasures of learning the law when I did was that I came into contact with a very special set of teachers who had escaped from Germany in the Thirties and had come to England or North America to continue the teaching of law.

E. J. Cohn, David Daube, John. G. Fleming, Rudolf Graupner, Max Grünhut, Hermann Kantorowicz, Otto Kahn-Freund, Hersch Lauterpacht, Gerhard Leibholz, Kurt Lipstein, F. A. Mann, Hermann Mannheim, Lassa Oppenheim, Otto Prausnitz, Fritz Pringsheim, Gustav Radbruch, Clive Schmitthoff, Fritz Schulz, Georg Schwarzenberger, Walter Ullmann, Martin Wolff, Hans Kelsen and Wolfgang Friedmann.

I was taught . . . [more]

The wires are reporting that Thomson Corp. has agreed to sell its educational publishing division to a consortium of private equity funds advised by Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners for US$7.75 billion.

That’s a sweet $2.75 Billion more than the value that Thomson had initially placed on its educational publishing, as we reported last year. . . . [more]

Presentations from Computers in Libraries 2007 last month in Arlington, VA have now been posted to the Presentations page. . . . [more]

There’s a tempest brewing in some parts of the Canadian legal universe on what it means to say that there’s a relationship between condition X and harm Y such that the law will say that X is a cause of Y, and what the legal tests are for determining the existence of that relationship.

My note below deals with aspects of that controversy. As some of you likely know, a chief justice of leading Canadian court recently penned a sentence which contains a phrase that is likely to outlive (for the wrong reasons) much of the rest of the court’s . . . [more]

Future employers may be looking at them and making assessments of employability based on the content. You are what you blog.

That’s what Michael D. Mann (a litigation associate in the New York office of a major law firm that wishes to remain anonymous) says in a piece on Law.com today: Some Job Hunters Are What They Post.

We know (thanks to the Washington Post) that negative comments about a student – discoverable through a Google search – can affect recruitment.

Be sure to extend your searches on yourself beyond Google and Technorati to incude MySpace, Facebook . . . [more]

As a young lawyer, I observed the pain that went into a comprehensive revision of the Ontario Rules of Practice. Homenaje a Walter Williston and John Morden.

Now the Burton Awards – the Oscars for Legal Writing – are being awarded for a four year project to rewrite the FRCP. The new rules were approved by the Supreme Court of the United States and sent to Congress on April 30. They are scheduled to take effect on December 1, 2007.

The Rules were drafted in 1937 and while they’ve been changed and supplemented over the years, they have . . . [more]

“Legal Wikis Are Bound to Wow You” (May 7) not only gives a good overview of wikis in general (what are they?, usefulness/purpose, history, etc), but it also highlights the innovative ways legal professionals are using them.
Some examples:

Death Penalty Wiki – a collaboratively edited log of death penalty cases

IPdailyupdate – daily news stories related to intellectual property law

Lawpedia – aimed at family law attorneys with articles on property division, child custody and prenuptial agreements . . . [more]

John Gregory, impressive lawyer and occasional Slawyer, runs an email list (ULC_ECOMM-L) about electronic commerce and allied matters. I think of that list as life in the slower electronic lane, which is not a disparagement, but rather an appreciation of a pre-blogging information technology that was perhaps less in your face (though we’ve all been on email lists that fire entries like Gatling guns). If there were a web interface to go along with it, I’d suggest you take a look. But because there isn’t, let me give you a quick run over the topics broached in the last couple . . . [more]