Write Your Name In Runes

For a light-hearted yet historically informative start to your Summer break, why not see how your name looks when written in the Futhark, the ancient runic alphabet of the Nordic peoples. PBS’s Nova Online Web page allows you to type your name into a little box, and then see how it would look in the runic script. The page also gives an interesting thumbnail introduction to the runes and their historical roots.

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Criminal Justice Reform Resources 2008-2009

Criminal justice reform is an issue that does not receive as much attention as it should, but there are people and organizations generating important work on the subject. Criminal Justice Reform Resources 2008-2009 compiles some of the most important resources and documents. From the site:

This article focuses on select current reports, surveys, legislative proposals and scholarship regarding criminal justice reform. It is only a small sampling of the increasing volume of publications on vital matters of interest to criminal practitioners and the public. Therefore, only a few themes are covered: criminal justice, discovery, forensics, juvenile justice, prosecutorial misconduct, public defense, sentencing and wrongful conviction.



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Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

The 20th annual Human Rights Watch International Film Festival is scheduled from June 11 through June 25. This year, over 20 films are featured, touching human rights issues across the globe. One particularly interesting film is The Reckoning -- a documentary about the International Criminal Court.




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Holmes Defeats Posner

Brian Leiter surveyed his readers with the question, 'Who were the most influential legal thinkers of the twentieth century?'  The results of the survey are here.  Oliver Wendell Holmes ranked first.  Richard Posner came in second.  Antonin Scalia was tenth.  No other current Supreme Court justices made it into the top 25.

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