Pitt’s law school held a day-long birthday party last week to celebrate 10 years of the JURIST web site (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu), the brainchild of law professor Bernard Hibbitts, who is the site’s publisher and editor-in-chief. Launched as an academic clearinghouse of online legal materials for law professors, the site has evolved into a real-time, dynamic news […]
JURIST Conference: Law & media in the age of the Internet >
April 5th, 2007How has the introduction of new media — the Internet, online publications, blogging — affected the way the law is decided, disseminated and reported? That was the main theme of a panel discussion, “Law and Media in the Age of the Internet,” that was part of the day-long conference celebrating 10 years of JURIST, Pitt’s […]
JURIST Conference: Law & the media: Convergence or collision? >
April 5th, 2007“As a matter of process, the law and the web are a wonderful blend of content and technology, perhaps one of the best examples of the merit of the Internet: The law is vast and the Internet is endless,” said Emmy Award-winning former CNN broadcast journalist Charles Bierbauer. Now dean of the College of Mass […]
Pittsburgh pulls in new car-sharing program >
April 5th, 2007Borrowing the car soon could have a new meaning in Pittsburgh and it doesn’t involve asking Dad for the keys. The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP) is taking the lead in bringing car-sharing to town. Seattle-based Flexcar anticipates a spring launch of its service as part of its plan to expand its business in the eastern […]
Books, Journals & More >
April 5th, 2007BOOKS ARTS and SCIENCES The Architecture of Aftermath by Terry Smith, history of art and architecture. The University of Chicago Press. Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943 by Edward Muller, history, and John F. Bauman, University of Southern Maine. University of Pittsburgh Press. This book examines a half-century during which progressive planners, public officials and […]
Books, Journals & More/ A closer look: Dana Killmeyer >
April 5th, 2007An unnamed narrator is mucking horse manure on a farm in the Everglades. “We all have to start somewhere,” she’s told by her companion and mentor, Beau. This is how readers are introduced into a disconcerting, but enticing world of flora and fauna, ‘gators and iguanas, dogs and ibises, by Pitt staff member Dana Killmeyer […]