Monday April 22, 2019 is Earth Day. This year’s Earth Day Network campaign is Protect Our Species, which aims to educate and raise awareness about the accelerating rate of extinction of millions of species. It also seeks to build a global movement that embraces nature and its values and to achieve major policy victories that […]

Selecting Your Courses for Next Year: Why You Should Consider Legal Research Among the most important skills all lawyers rely upon is the ability to do legal research—to find what’s needed to interpret and analyze legal issues. Legal research is an integral part of the “competencies” that NYLS and the ABA require of law students. […]

Find Love in the Library!! The Valentine’s Day Info Hunt is back! Can you find love in the Library? With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, here’s a sweet treat for you: an opportunity to WIN study aids, Lexis points, NYLS swag, and other swell stuff. Just answer the easy (and fun) Valentine’s Day Info […]

Moses Leonard Frazier, Class of 1899, is believed to have been NYLS First African American Graduate.  In the early days of NYLS, students enrolled by signing a student registration ledger and writing certain basic information about themselves, e.g., their age (in years, months and days!), the college or graduate school they had attended (although a […]

Registration is open for this semester’s Research Skills Workshops (RSW): EELR II (1/15 – 2/7) Introduction to Administrative & Regulatory Research (2/11 – 2/24) Citators:  Is All your Research Up to Date? (2/25 – 3/7) Please Note: Legal Practice Students must attend all three RSW. Other members of the community are welcome to attend the […]

Important changes have been made to the Library lab PCs. Most students use these labs, and so should pay careful attention to the following: Network Login: All lab PCs have been reconfigured to login automatically to a generic account named “Lab User”. You will no longer login with your personal username and password. Rather, the […]

All published U.S. court decisions from 1658 to June 2018 are now freely accessible online, thanks to the Caselaw Access Project (CAP), a partnership between Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab and Ravel Law, acquired by LexisNexis.  CAP’s goal is to “make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a […]

Happy soon-to-be-Halloween from the Mendik Library! As an early Halloween treat, here’s your opportunity to WIN great study aids, law dictionaries, faculty books, pre-loaded OneCards, NYLS swag, and who knows what else!  Just answer the 6 Haunted Halloween Info Hunt questions. Your answers don’t need to be perfect—just close! Click here to access the questions.  Each slide includes just […]

Following the aftermath of September 11, the L, one of NYLS’s student-run newspapers, devoted its October/November 2001 issue to those affected by the tragedy.  It offers poignant and meaningful accounts from members of the Law School community.   To read additional issues of this and other NYLS student newspapers through the years, visit our Digital […]