Year: 2014
Law Prof as Toolmaker: An Interview with PreCYdent’s Thomas A. Smith (San Diego)
Joe Hodnicki: I've been fairly critical of law professors who venture into the field of bibliometrics without an understanding of the theory and techniques information scientists use to produce citation studies, without in many cases even an inkling of the work of Eugene Garfield, the founder of modern citation indexing and citation...
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Comparative Environmental Law On The Internet
Nicholas A. Robinson The Internet provides direct access to many primary sources of Environmental Law. Nations increasingly provide their environmental statutes and regulations on the Internet. As specialist environmental law centers, universities, government agencies or other entities assemble and provide a jurisdiction's environmental laws on the Internet, a world-wide service...
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Argentina Decriminalizes Drug Use? Well, No.
A Cato Institute blog reported yesterday that Argentina has "decriminalized the personal consumption of drugs" in that country. However, I don't think that blog's interpretation of the source it cites, which is an article in Spanish published on the website El Financiero, quite gives the full story. First of all,...
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