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Tim is a reference librarian at Biddle Law Library. In addition to teaching legal research to first year students, Tim provides in-depth research assistance to faculty members. Tim also serves as Penn Law’s primary contact person for Lexis and Westlaw. A native of Los Angeles and a UCLA alum, Tim is an avid fan of UCLA athletics and is hoping that this year’s basketball team will once again make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament (thereby enabling him to forget about yet another disappointing season of Bruin football).

Are you interested in staying current with the latest developments from the legal academy? Maybe a particular practice area? Or perhaps you merely want to relax and entertain yourself with the latest legal gossip? There is almost certainly a law blog (or “Blawg”) that will be of interest to you. (More after the jump.)

FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin has made a controversial proposal on November 9, 2007 to loosen media ownership restrictions by allowing, under certain conditions, the ownership of either a television or radio station by a newspaper company in 20 of the major U.S. markets. Current FCC rules ban the ownership of a newspaper and a radio or television station in the same city by the same company, unless the company has been granted a waiver by the FCC. Many are critical of the move, suggesting that it will be harmful to media diversity.
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Last summer, a couple of law school professors--Frank A. Pasquale of Seton Hall and Oren Bracha of Texas--posted an article to SSRN that called for the regulation of the Internet's gatekeepers of information: search engines. (More after the jump.)