Visit the Library’s new Nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. page where you can view biographical and other information about the nominee as well as the nomination and confirmation process.
Webcourse E-mail Address Reminder
Please make sure you register or update both your LexisNexis and Westlaw ID registration with your official NYLS e-mail address. During the semester, your professors will be using the e-mail component of both the LexisNexis and Westlaw web courses to send you course information. E-mail communication sent from the class web page is sent to the e-mail address on file with the vendor. It is strongly recommended that you use your New York Law School e-mail address. You will have this account until you graduate and there will be less chance of lost, bounced or rejected messages.
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, which became effective on October 17, 2005, makes sweeping changes to the nation’s bankruptcy laws. Visit these sites for information or to learn more: United States Bankruptcy Courts; Commercial Law League of America.
UN Turns 60
The UN Turns 60 on Monday, October 24, 2005. Celebrate with a visit to The United Nations at 60, which provides an overview of the UN’s origins, charter, structure, and work. The site was created by the Hatcher Graduate Library at the University of Michigan, a UN Depository Library.
LexisNexis Offers Spell Checking
When doing a search in LexisNexis (either natural language or terms and connector), you now have the option to run a spell checker before running a search. In the search dialog box, click on the Check Spelling link to spellcheck your search terms.
Wireless Printing from your Mac Laptop
OCE drivers for your Mac laptop are now available for download from OIT. Download the installation instructions and drivers from OIT’s Wireless Printing page.
Note: Make sure you are using a Truetype font, such as Courier. Otherwise, your quotation marks will not print out.
Draft Iraqi Constitution
Read the full text of the draft Iraqi Constitution to be submitted to Iraqi voters on October 15. The text was provided by The Associated Press; it was translated from the Arabic by the U.N. Office for Constitutional Support and the translation was approved by the Iraqi government. An earlier draft appears here (translated from theArabic and distributed by The Associated Press).
SCOTUS: Nomination of Harriet Miers
Visit the Library’s new Nomination of Harriet E. Miers page, where you can view biographical and other information about the nominee as well as the nomination and confirmation process.
FYI: Research
Legal Affairs, “the magazine at the intersection of law and life,” invites law students to enter its Third Annual Writing Contest for Law Students.
The confirmation hearings for Judge John Roberts, nominee for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, begin on Monday September 12, at 11:30 am ET. They will be airing live on C-SPAN3 and C-SPAN Radio, and can be viewed anytime online at c-span.org. C-Span will re-air the hearings in their entirety each day at 9 pm ET on C-SPAN2.
On September 5, 2005, New York City’s Video Voter Guide initiative began broadcasting candidate profiles for the upcoming primary and November elections on Channel 74. The Guide is also available at www.nyc.gov/videovoter.
Visit the Library’s new Nomination of Judge Roberts page where you can view online the records released from NARA, Judge Roberts’s submission to the Senate Judiciary Committee, his D.C. Circuit Opinions, his 2003 confirmation hearings, and much more.
Critical Announcement regarding your LexisNexis ID
As part of a customer security program, LexisNexis has implemented several ID policy changes specifically for law school users that went into effect on June 29th. The changes are set forth below.
Also effective on June 29, each current law school customer (students, librarians, faculty, and staff) will be required to register his/her 7-digit lexis.com ID and create a custom ID and password that will be used to access the LexisNexis services.
Those students, librarians, faculty and staff members who have already created a custom ID and password will not be affected by the above changes. However, they must use their custom IDs and passwords to access the LexisNexis services.
Please also be aware that for security reasons, LexisNexis sales representatives, Customer Support, and the main contacts at your schools will not have the ability to obtain or view any customer passwords.
Law School customers that need password assistance can use the Manage Password link on the LexisNexis Law School Home Page, or call Customer Support.
If you have any questions regarding this new law school ID policy, please contact Nejat Bumin, our LexisNexis Account Representative (800-437-8674 x 7287; e-Mail:nejat.bumin@lexis-nexis.com) or call Customer Support at 1-800-45-LEXIS.