Four important Library resources to keep in mind as you prepare for upcoming exams. First: The Library’s Exam Preparation Resources web page offers a host of materials containing practical advice and strategies designed to help you navigate the exam process. Second: One of the best ways to prepare for a professor’s exam is to see […]

Below are the revised schedules for the Mendik Library’s hours of operation from Wednesday, November 24, 2021 through the end of exams, Wednesday, December 22, 2021.  

As you’re finishing your Legal Practice memos, remember that citation is a very important step in legal writing.  Your reader – the professor, the judge, opposing counsel – needs to know what authority you are citing to support your argument, along with the date of the source and where they can find it.  The reference librarians […]

Particularly during this time of COVID, New York tenants are concerned about ramifications of non-payment of rent and possible eviction from their homes. The 2020-2021 edition of this treatise by NYLS Professor Andrew Scherer, with contributions from a few New York City Housing Court judges, includes chapters about the Tenant Safe Harbor Act, which permanently […]

Interested in social justice? Check out HeinOnline’s Social Justice Suite and the recently added database, the Open Society Justice Initiative. The Open Society Justice Initiative, part of the Open Society Foundation, publishes “reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice.” It also […]

We hope you had a wonderfully scary Halloween with lots of treats!  We want to give a big thanks to everyone who entered our 2021 Halloween Info Hunt!  While we promised to select 10 prize winners, because we had such great participation, we instead have randomly selected 15 lucky prize winners, each of whom will […]

We have received recent requests from students for help in finding information about critical race theory (CRT). Two books that will provide helpful background: Critical Race Theory : a Primer by Khiara M. Bridges. Book Stacks Call number: KF 4755 .B75 2019. Critical Race Theory : an Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. Book Stacks Call number: KF4755.D454 2017. In addition, many law journals […]

Happy soon-to-be-Halloween from the Mendik Library! Don’t forget to enter our Halloween Info Hunt for your chance to WIN great prizes such as study aids, law dictionaries, NYLS commuter mugs, Westlaw blankets, Lexis points, and more!  Just answer the six Halloween Info Hunt questions.  Your answers don’t need to be perfect—just close! The deadline to […]

Happy soon-to-be-Halloween from the Mendik Library! As an early Halloween treat, here’s your opportunity to WIN great prizes such as study aids, law dictionaries, NYLS commuter mugs, Westlaw blankets, Lexis points, and more!  Just answer the six Halloween Info Hunt questions.  Your answers don’t need to be perfect—just close! Click here to access the questions.  […]

This past August, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its sixth report addressing the issue of climate change. The Sixth Assessment Report, titled “The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change,” issued a dire warning about human-induced greenhouse gases and the imperative to reduce emissions by 100% by 2050 to avoid catastrophic climate change.  […]