http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/ A law professor's syllabus of new law, learning and links - by Bernard Hibbitts, Editor of JURIST at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Friday, March 07, 2003 8:01:16 AM en-us http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/ The RSS feed for JURIST's Paper Chase has moved to http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/blogger_rss.xml The URL of JURIST's Paper Chase blog has also changed to http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/ Please adjust your subscriptions and bookmarks. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90393456 On March 4, 1909, the Copyright Act of 1909 became law, making infringement of a copyright a federal crime for the first time. Review a brief history of copyright in the United States. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90401417 JURIST's Paper Chase has outgrown the confines of JURIST's front page, and is about to move to a new webpage all its own. Paper Chase updates will be very intermittent over the next couple of days as we make the transition, and our front page is adjusted accordingly. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90396214 As previously noted in JURIST's Paper Chase, UC Berkeley School of Law and Stanford Law School both hosted major IP and technology law conferences over the weekend. The New York Times reports in its Monday edition.Harold Koh and Amy Chua joined other professors and human rights experts over the weekend for a symposium at Yale Law School on the relationship between local and international actors in rebuilding war-torn nations. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90399381 Monday on SSRN:Law, Rules and Presidential Selection by Samuel Issacharoff of Columbia Law School From the Abstract: "Robert Dahl, in 'How Democratic is the American Constitution?' criticizes the institution of the Electoral College as 'morally, politically, and constitutionally wrong. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90397783 The US Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in Sell v. US (forced medication, competency to stand trial - read backgrounders from DC appellate litigators Goldstein & Howe and Sam Heldman) and Ryan v. Telemarketing Associates (First Amendment, telemarketing fraud - more from Goldstein & Howe and Sam Heldman). http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90393077 On March 3, 1879, Belva Lockwood became the first woman admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Learn more about women at the Supreme Court bar from the Supreme Court Historical Society. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90397633 From the law school conference circuit: the Digital Rights Management meeting at UC Berkeley School of Law that wrapped up Saturday is featured in an article in CNET. Audio recordings of most of the conference sessions are already online from Berkeley; video footage should follow shortly. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90393020 Lord Mansfield (William Murray), Chief Justice of King's Bench and developer of English commercial law, was born in Scone, Scotland, on March 2, 1702. Learn more about Lord Mansfield from the Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania Law School. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90395421 The Department of Homeland Security officially came into existence Saturday, absorbing some twenty federal agencies that had formerly been run in other Government departments. Read the DHS press release. With the re-organization come websites for the new Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90393003 On March 1, 1875, the Civil Rights Act of 1875 became law. It declared:all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, publi... http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90391473 Attorney General John Ashcroft and Senate Judiciary Committee Orrin Hatch both issued statements Friday reacting to the decision of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals noted earlier today on JURIST not to rehear en banc a case in which the court had held that school recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance offended the Establishment Clause. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90391002 The South Texas College of Law announced Friday afternoon that James J. Alfini of Northern Illinois University College of Law will be its ninth President and Dean, succeeding incumbent Frank T. Read. Read the STCL press release. At Duke Law School Februa... http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90390474 The Pentagon Friday released a draft instruction listing and defining violations of the laws of war and other offenses which it considers triable by military commission. The offense categories include terrorism, hijacking, "employing poisons and analagous weapons," using protected persons or property as shields, rape and spying. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90390399 The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ordered the immediate release Friday of a Kosovo Albanian indicted and detained for war crimes in the murder and torture of Serb and Albanian civilians. Defense lawyers argued successfully that Agim Murtezi, 46, was "not the person referred to in the indictment" and should be returned to Kosovo. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90389926 A split US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that it would not grant an en banc rehearing of the case in which a three-judge panel had originally held, in June 2002, that a 1954 federal Act adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, and a California school district's practice of teacher-led recitation of the Pledge with the added words included, violated the Establishment Clause. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/#90389648 In a CATO Institute study released Friday, University of Michigan Law School professor Adam Pritchard considers whether Congress should repeal securities class action reform. From the Executive Summary: "The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 was designed to curtail class action lawsuits by the plaintiffs' bar.