The Challenge is On! Join us Wednesday June 5 (and on any or all of the following Wednesdays through June 26), for the Mendik Library’s 2019 Summer Research Challenge! Hone your research skills with real issues you’ll encounter in practice and have some fun at the same time. Get all the details here and follow […]

The Library wants to help!! Here are three important tips as you prepare for upcoming exams: · Visit the Library’s Exam Preparation Resources page for lots of sources containing practical advice and strategies. · Visit our archive of previous years’ exams, organized by course name and professor, found under Student Resources on the NYLS Portal. […]

Each year on May 1st, the United States celebrates Law Day. First designated in 1958 by President Eisenhower, Law Day celebrates the rule of law and its contributions to Americans’ many freedoms. This year’s theme is Free Speech, Free Press, Free Society, which “focuses on these cornerstones of representative government and calls on us to […]

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 […]