*[CAVEAT: More law than re-/insurance here, but still a good read]*
Jurist is an interesting, one-of-a-kind legal website.
>What is JURIST?
>JURIST (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu) is a Web-based legal news and real-time legal research service powered by a mostly-volunteer team of over 30 part-time law student reporters, editors and Web developers led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
>JURIST is produced as a public service for the continuing legal education of its readers and law student staffers, and uses the latest Internet technology to track important legal news stories and materials and present them rapidly, objectively and intelligibly in an accessible, ad-free format.
According to an article on Worldchanging, an inspiration for the site was the realization that newspapers were eliminating their legal reporters, combining legal reporting with crime or political reporting.
> Reporting on a legal story often requires sophisticated knowledge of the law – many of the best legal reporters are lawyers or have a legal background. By asking law students to work as legal reporters, Jurist gives a lawyer’s perspective on a wide range of news on a daily basis.
And I must say that it *is* rather good to read a story involving the law with some legal analysis behind it. Take this one on the fate of Enron’s Ebbers and Fastow, in which author Douglas Branson says “*I read the transcripts of the Ebbers criminal trial, as it occurred. I thought the prosecution had not laid a glove on him.*” Not many journos, I bet, would actually read the transcripts (apologies where needed) and still fewer would be able to get the nuances out of them.
As you would expect, it is rather US-centric, but there is also a World News section which is worth subscribing to (oh, and why not try out Google’s Reader to subscribe to it – and to Re Risk?).
And there are odd little gems like the “This Day At Law” page, which gives you a view of Great Legal Events on this day in history.
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