The Library remains open during Spring Break, including all services and study areas.
Monday through Friday, April 2 – 6, we’re open 8 am to 10 pm.
And the weekends of March 31 – April 1, and April 7 – 8 we’re open noon until 8 pm.
JURIST celebrates 10th anniversary with Pittsburgh conference
JURIST (whose news feed runs at the bottom of the Library home page) and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law are hosting a one-day conference in Pittsburgh on Thursday in celebration of JURIST’s 10th anniversary. Law as a Seamless Web|features four panels and 14 distinguished speakers exploring a range of issues at the intersections of law,
war, rights, social justice, technology, legal journalism, legal education and public service.
Congratulations, Jurist!
Free legal articles @ Lexbe Litilaw
Lexbe Litilaw is an online collection of hundreds of articles written by lawyers as part of presentations given at continuing legal education (CLE) seminars and conferences, or otherwise published in legal periodicals. Articles are organized in over 30 substantive and procedural specialties of interest to litigators and related legal professional, including Appellate Practice, Antitrust, e-Discovery, Expert Witnesses, Health Care and Product Liability. Plus, the collection is text-searchable to allow users to find articles by applicable keywords. All articles are available full-text in PDF format. Descriptions include a brief summary, the year presented, author and number of pages, to make for easy review.
NYT Select Now Available For Free
Faculty and students can now have free access to TimesSelect from the New York Times. All you need is a .edu email address. You can sign up here. Thanks to Jessica Campbell for the tip.
Professor Simon Interviewed on SCOTUSblog
The SCOTUSblog’s "Ask the Author" series is featuring a two-part interview with Professor Jim Simon about his new book, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President’s War Powers.
Master Your Summer Employment
Want to develop practical skills and approaches to master your summer employment? Attend the March 30, 2007 Bridge the Gap program at the New York City Bar, sponsored by the Law Library Association of Greater New York. Click here for a PDF version of the program announcement and registration form.
This full-day program will enhance your research skills in a number of specific practice areas (including intellectual property, employment and labor, tax, corporate transactions and securities, criminal law, commercial litigation, statutes and regulations, banking and financial institutions, and legislative history). The program concludes with a panel discussion about life as a summer associate. Panel members include Justice Stephen G. Crane, Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, Steven E. Obus, a litigation partner at Proskauer Rose LLP, and Nicole Silvestri, an associate at Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto.
Hone Your CALR Skills
If you would like to hone your Computer Assisted Legal Research (CALR) skills, please take advantage of one or more of the following opportunities offered by the professional staff of the Mendik Library:
1. Come to the Reference Desk (4th floor of 40 Worth Street) with your questions. Our new dual monitor makes it easy for you to follow along with the librarian while he or she demonstrates the best way to handle your research problem.
2. Get together with two or three other students and e-mail the Reference Desk (reference@nyls.edu) to request a personalized training session at a time mutually agreeable to your group and to the librarian assigned to help you.
3. Register to attend a CALR Open House in the Library Training Room (4th floor of 40 Worth / Room 0403). The Open House is not structured – instead, the librarian will be happy to help with any questions or problems you have regarding CALR. While your participation in an Open House is purely voluntary, advance registration is required. (If no one has registered by the date of a session, the Open House will be cancelled.) To Register: Send an e-mail to reference@nyls.edu with the date/time of the Open House you plan on attending:
Thursday, February 22nd (5:00 – 6:00)
Friday, February 23rd (1:00 – 2:00)
Friday, February 23rd (5:00 – 6:00)
Saturday, February 24th (3:00 – 4:00)
Sunday, February 25th (2:00 – 3:00)
First Year Students who did not attend CALR II training earlier in the semester should be aware that attending an Open House will not fulfill that Writing Program requirement.
BAR/BRI Class Action Settlement
The National Law Journal reports on the recent settlement of an antitrust class action in which a class of nearly 300,000 law students alleged they were each overcharged about $1,000 for BAR/BRI courses taken from 1997 through 2006. Click here to link to the article.
Law Library of Congress 175-Year Anniversary
In celebration of its 175 years of service to Congress and the nation, the Law Library of Congress is launching a yearlong series of events designed to celebrate its achievements and showcase its unparalleled resources.
Founded in 1832, the Law Library of Congress is the de facto national law library. Its mission is to provide research and legal information to the U.S. Congress, U.S. federal courts and executive branch agencies, and to provide reference service to the public. To accomplish this mission, the Law Library has amassed the world’s largest collection of law books and other legal resources from all countries, now comprising more than 2.5 million items. The Law Library is playing a leadership role in the creation of a Global Legal Information Network, a consortium of 46 government agencies and international institutions that contributes and shares global legal resources online.
Updated Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute has updated their online Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) to include those changes that took place as of December 1, 2006: