[JURIST] The Duke Law and Technology Review [official website] has published a new "iBrief" on the Pros and Cons of Online Dispute Resolution [text]. Vanderbilt Law Review [official website] has posted its 2002 Symposium Convergence on Delaware: Corporate Bankruptcy and Corporate Governance, and the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law [official website] has posted its latest issue, including an article by my University of Pittsburgh School of Law [official website] colleague Anthony Infanti [faculty profile] entitled Spontaneous Tax Coordination: On Adopting a Comparative Approach to Reforming the U.S. International Tax Regime [PDF text] , plus Notes on rape in international law [PDF text] and slavery reparations for Africa [PDF text].

[JURIST] The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has posted streaming video of its February 14 hearing [witness list] on President Bush's proposal to create a Terrorist Threat Integration Center co-ordinating the counterterrorism intelligence efforts of the FBI, CIA and other government agencies.

[JURIST] New and interesting Opinions issued Wednesday included In re: Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation [PDF text], a decision by Judge Shira Scheidlin of US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] refusing to throw out an investor lawsuit accusing Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney, Goldman Sachs Group and 53 other investment banks of rigging hundreds of IPOs; and Lassonde v. Pleasanton Unified School District [PDF text], a Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals [official website] panel holding that the action of school officials censoring sectarian, proselytizing portions of a speech that Plaintiff gave at his high school graduation ceremony did not violate his First Amendment rights and were in fact necessary to avoid violation of the Establishment Clause.

[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] Wednesday resumed debate on Iraq's compliance with Resolution 1441. A full summary of statements, plus streaming video of Wednesday's statements is now available from the UN.

[JURIST] The University of Texas at Austin School of Law [official website] announced Wednesday that it has hired Ronald Mann, a Texas alum and a leading authority on commercial law currently teaching at the University of Michigan Law School, to hold the William Stamps Farish Professorship in Law, effective September 1, 2003.... Victoria Dodd [faculty profile] of Suffolk University Law School [official website] has authored a new treatise on education law....

[JURIST] A Seventh-Day Adventist pastor and his son, a medical doctor, were found guilty Wednesday of crimes against humanity and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [official website]. They had been charged for their alleged participation in killings in the areas of Mugonero and Bisesero from April to June 1994. Read the ICTR press release and the summary of judgment.

[JURIST] The University of Michigan Wednesday posted its briefs filed Tuesday with the US Supreme Court defending affirmative action admissions policies for the University of Michigan Law School [official website] (read the brief in Grutter v. Bollinger [PDF text]) and its undergraduate College for Literature, Science and the Arts (read the brief in Gratz v. Bollinger [PDF text]).

[JURIST] Wednesday (so far) on law professors' weblogs: on InstaPundit, Glenn Reynolds looks forward to participating in Friday's Marbury v. Madison 200th Anniversary Symposium (the actual anniversary is Monday the 24th) at his own University of Tennessee College of Law [official website].... on his fine new-and-improved Legal Theory blog, Lawrence Solum of Loyola Law School Los Angeles [official website] comments on Philip Petit's new SSRN paper on criminal justice.... on The Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh of UCLA School of Law [official website] is frustrated with a law review editor.... and Tung Yin of the University of Iowa College of Law [official website] has a new blog, simply titled Yin (thanks to Howard Bashman for the last link).

[JURIST] New and interesting papers on SSRN Wednesday include two pieces by political scientists - Is Criminal Justice Politically Feasible? [abstract] by Philip Pettit [faculty profile] of the Department of Politics, Princeton University [official website], and Resituating the Judicialization of Politics: Bush v. Gore as a Global Trend [abstract], by Ran Hirschl [faculty profile] of the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto [official website].

[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia confirmed Wednesday that the fourth Albanian indicted for crimes committed at a KLA prison in Kosovo has been arrested by Slovenian authorities (not in Vienna as originally reported on VOA). Read the full ICTY press release. Human Rights Watch has praised the arrests [HRW press release] as an "important step for the cause of justice in the Balkans."

[JURIST] The Black Law Students Associations at Yale Law School [official website], Harvard Law School [official website], and Stanford Law School [official website] joined to file an amicus brief [Yale Daily News report] Tuesday in support of the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action admissions policy.... The University of Chicago Law School [official website] is planning major renovations for the fall.... A letter written by Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington [official website] professor Robert Heidt [faculty profile] opposing that law school's affirmative action admissions policy is stirring controversy [Indiana Daily Student report].... Incoming Harvard Law Review [official website] president and HLS 2L Daniel Kirschner is the subject of a profile in the Harvard Crimson....