Legal Research

New Family Law Research Guide

Posted on March 09, 2009
A new research guide on family law is now available on the Law Library?s web site. For the purposes of this research guide ?family law? is defined in its broadest sense, including husband and wife, parents and children, the nontraditional family, and the issues of marital property, divorce, custody, support, and family violence...

Don't miss T.O.R.T.!

Posted on March 06, 2009
It's a Wonderful Law School! TORT website: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~tort/index.php TORT on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Relatively_Talentless On March 6 & 7, 2009, T.O.R.T. will present the Seventh Annual Law School Musical themed around the famous movie It's a Wonderful Life!...

Tech Tip: Extracting Text from Online Manuals

Posted on March 05, 2009

Film on Controversial Death Penalty View

Posted on March 05, 2009

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Librarian, Friend to U Libraries, Wins Award

Posted on March 04, 2009

New Painter Book on Ethics Reform

Posted on March 03, 2009

Campaign to Save Libraries through LGA

Posted on March 03, 2009

Librophiliac: Beautiful Libraries

Posted on March 02, 2009

New Acquisitions in February 2009

Posted on March 02, 2009

Resource to Know: CRS Reports

Posted on February 27, 2009

The Organized Lawyer: Review

Posted on February 26, 2009
The Organized Lawyer. Kelly Lynn Anders. Carolina Academic Press, 2008, softcover, 155 pages. Call number: On Order at the Law Library Corresponding website: http://theorganizedlawyer.com/ With innumerable responsibilities and countless demands on their time, developing and maintaining an organized workspace is a low priority for many lawyers...

Law Library Closing at 6 pm Today

Posted on February 26, 2009
Due to the inclement weather, the Law Library is closing at 6 pm today. Law Students will still have UCard access to the Library, but reference and circulation services will be shut down at 6 pm. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes. Photo by jackleg

Pacer Website Suspended

Posted on February 25, 2009
Free Pacer Sites Shut Down After Mass Download by Open Records Advocate By Debra Cassens Weiss A trial of free Pacer service at 17 public libraries shut down last fall after public records advocates downloaded an estimated 20 percent of the entire database...

Don't miss this Great Conversation

Posted on February 24, 2009
Great Conversations: March 10, 2009 Seymour Hersh, Larry Jacobs, & Walter Mondale March 10, 2009 Since the second World War, America has been locked in an ongoing constitutional crisis over the authority and roles of the legislative and executive branches...

This Week's Law Library Highlighted Acquisitions

Posted on February 23, 2009
Wayne Sandholtz & Kendall Stiles. International norms and cycles of change. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009. Call number: KZ1261 .S26 2009 Publisher s Description: International lawyers and international relations scholars recognize that international norms change over time...

New Legal History Research Guide

Posted on February 20, 2009
Announcing a new Legal History research guide on the Law Library website. In addition to general information on finding library resources, the guide highlights Legal History Databases & Web Sites, European Legal History, U.S. Government History, General History Databases & Web Sites, Trials, Courts & Judges, Other Countries & Legal Traditions, and Other Recommended Legal History Research Guides that are available...

Braille commemorative coin for bicentennial

Posted on February 20, 2009
This year people around the world are commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of Louis Braille. As an adolescent--a student at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles--Louis Braille developed and published the braille code. He thus made it possible, for the first time, for blind people to read and write with relative ease...

Lincolniana at LOC

Posted on February 20, 2009
The Library of Congress has announced the online release of the Stern Collection of Lincolniana, including Lincoln's incredible letter to General Hooker, placing him in command of the army. If you want to read it, go to: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/stern-lincoln/index...

Upgrading Court Archiving Systems

Posted on February 20, 2009
An Effort to Upgrade a Court Archive System to Free and Easy http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13records.html?_r=1&ref=technology Excerpt from the article: Americans have grown accustomed to finding just about anything they want online fast, and free...

This Week's Law Library Highlighted Acquisitions

Posted on February 18, 2009
Deere, Carolyn. The implementation game : the TRIPS agreement and the global politics of intellectual property reform in developing countries. Oxford : New York ; Oxford University Press, 2009. Call number: K1401.A41994 D44 2009 Publisher s Description: With the launch of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, its Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) emerged as a symbol of coercion in international economic relations...

Two New Faculty Publications Added to Library

Posted on February 12, 2009
The Law Library has added the following two books, authored by University of Minnesota Law School Faculty. Parisi, Francesco The economics of lawmaking Parisi, Francesco and Vincy Fon. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009. Call number: K3316 ...

Stop in for Valentine's Treats!

Posted on February 11, 2009
Let the Law Library show you the love! We appreciate all of our library users and hope you will join the Law Library for Valentine's treats on Thursday February 12. Starting at 11 am, we'll have cookies and refreshments. Stop by and warm up with a little love from your Law Library! Generate your own candy hearts at http://www...

Book: Inside Look at Eminent Domain Case

Posted on February 10, 2009
"Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage" (Grand Central Publishing) by Jeff Benedict The court case was Kelo v. City of New London, and the heroine of the story is the redheaded lead plaintiff, Susette Kelo, who bought the pink cottage of the title as a means of escaping an unhappy marriage...

Int'l Women's Freedom Act of 2009

Posted on February 09, 2009
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., will chair a new Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, and Global Women's Issues, her office announced Feb. 5. It will be the first Senate subcommittee to include a specific, global focus on women...

Jnl of Legal Analysis now online

Posted on February 06, 2009
HUP's First New Journal in 30 Years, The Journal of Legal Analysis, is Now Online The Journal of Legal Analysis, a new open-access law journal co-published by HUP and the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School is up and running...

Librarian Publishes Chapter on Library Outreach

Posted on February 05, 2009
Paula Seeger, Circulation Librarian at the Law Library, has had a chapter published in the book, Academic Library Outreach: Beyond the Campus Walls, ed. Nancy Courtney (Libraries Unlimited/Greenwood, 2009). Call number: Z711.7 .A25 2009 The chapter is titled ?Redefining Outreach from Inside the Academy: Law School Libraries and Their Communities? and highlights the services that academic law libraries are creating to reach not only members of the wider public community, but users within the law school or university who sometimes overlook a law library's many resources available to them.

New Legal Resource on Distance Learning & Copyright

Posted on February 04, 2009
ABA Guide to Legal Issues for Distance Learning and Copyright Distance Learning and Copyright: A Guide to Legal Issues explains the disparate treatment between what is permissible in face-to-face teaching situations versus distance learning; in forms educators and attorneys about the legal responsibilities of teaching distance learning courses; and helps educational institutions avoid unwanted copyright infringement liability...

FAQ: Law Library Terms: Treatise

Posted on February 03, 2009
Treatises 101 What is a Treatise? A book. Or a series of books. But the unique characteristic is that a treatise is about one particular subject. So when you look in the law library's collection you will see treatises on all kinds of subjects. What makes a treatise a treatise, not just a book? The subject, not the form...

New Acquisitions in January 2009

Posted on February 02, 2009
Here is the list of new titles the Law Library acquired in January 2009. The list is on the library's home page. January Acquisitions List In addition, here are five highlighted titles of particular interest: Federal Judges Revealed by Domnarski, William...

Reminder: AALL Essay Contest in Legal History

Posted on January 30, 2009
REMINDER: As previously reported in October, don't forget about this opportunity. MORRIS L. COHEN STUDENT ESSAY COMPETITION The Legal History and Rare Books Section of the American Association of Law Libraries announces the first annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition...

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