Yet another publisher has waded into the blawgosphere at the beginning of 2006....the Wall Street Journal has launched its rather blandly-named Law Blog.  According to WSJ, the blawg will concentrate on law and business, and the business of law. Peter Lattman, a New York litigator turned journalist, will be the lead writer, with occasional contributions from other WSJ reporters and editors. The most fascinating piece of legal trivia that I gleaned from Law Blog today:  Howard Cosell practiced law in NYC before he became a sportscaster!

The Recorder and CalLaw.com have created Legal Pad, a California law blawg.  Although this blawg is just getting started, it promises to be an excellent source of information on recent developments in California appellate law, law firm news (including the latest on associate salaries), and the judiciary. 

Rob Hudson, a librarian at St. Thomas University School of Law, has written a fun little piece for the ALL-SIS Newsletter that compiles quotes about law libraries from law students’ blawgs.  If you’re curious about what Santa Clara law students have to say about their law school experiences, you can find blawgs authored by SCU law students by going to TalkDigger and entering the SCU Law URL, http://www.scu.edu/law, in the "Dig It!" search box. 

Continuing today’s theme of international criminal law resources, we’re featuring a relatively new blog from Pace Law School faculty called Jus in Bello.  The blog concentrates on the International Criminal Court, other international criminal tribunals, and the law of international criminal prosecutions. Thanks to Out of the Jungle for the tip.

The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and the Public International Law and Policy Group have teamed up to create the Saddam Hussein Trial Blog.  In addition to blog commentary, you can find basic information about the tribunal as well as key trial documents at the site.  Thanks to Yale Law School’s Lillian Goldman Law Library for the tip.

The ever-useful Inter Alia highlights blackprof.com in its Blawg of the Day category this week, which is a blawg co-authored by African-American law professors from across the country.  This blawg tackles both legal and cultural issues, and also features an advice column, Ask Mom!, just for professors or wannabe professors.

Enter our Heafey Headnotes trivia contest for a chance to win Barnes & Noble or Starbucks gift certificates!  Simply open and print the contest from this page or pick up a copy in Heafey Law Library.  Complete all of the questions, then submit your entry at the Reference Desk by Friday, March 10.  Remember to include your name and email address on the contest form. Once we determine that you've submitted complete and correct answers, we'll enter your name in a drawing for exciting prizes!

Professor James Edward Maule of Villanova University School of Law has written a thoughtful post about blogging and law professors, in which he argues that "it appears that the so-called traditionalists are beginning to sense the threat to their way of academic life that blogs, and technology generally, pose."  Professor Maule also authored an earlier post on blogging in academia if you're interested in his earlier musings on the topic.  The National Law Journal also has a lengthy article on blogging and law professors entitled "Blogging Law Profs Assault Ivory Tower."  According to the article's author, at least 182 law professors are also blog authors, and the law schools at University of Chicago and UCLA have the highest number of blogging law professors.

We have just 3 entries for the Heafey Headnotes contest, so we’re extending the contest deadline a full two weeks to Friday, March 24.  Download a copy of the contest here or pick up a copy at the library Circulation Desk or Reference Desk, fill it out, and turn in your completed entry at the Reference Desk.  We’re giving away two $50 Barnes & Noble gift certificates, four $25 Starbucks gift certificates, and six $10 Starbucks gift certificates.  Right now, the odds of winning are pretty darn high, so turn in your entry!  NOTE:  An alert contestant just told me that there is a dead link in the post that you need to read to answer Question 9 (it deals with a case regarding appropriate sources of California legislative history).  That’s been fixed.