Legal Research

Get-It! Starts Monday Mar 3

Posted on February 29, 2008
As previously reported, a new service is coming to the University Libraries catalog: GET-IT! Starting Monday the Public catalog at the Twin Cities campus will display a Get-It/Recall button. Patrons can request materials to be delivered to other TC campus libraries by login into the public online library catalog (MNCAT) and requesting a book to be delivered to another TC campus library...

New Resource: Legal and Life Skills in a Nutshell

Posted on February 28, 2008
Excellence in the Workplace: Legal and Life Skills in a Nutshell By Kathleen Kavanagh and Paula Nailon The law library has three copies in the Reserve Collection: KF300 .K38x 2007 Description: This book deals with fundamental lawyering skills (such as analysis, research, writing, oral communication, and time management) as well as with characteristics of emotional intelligence, effective interpersonal relationships, models of professionalism, conflict and stress management, and generational differences...

Spotlight on: Digital Legacies

Posted on February 27, 2008
On the law library's home page is a link to Digital Legacies: Online exhibits and exhibit brochures. The following collections are highlighted: Defending Human Rights: The Legacy of Dachau and Nuremberg This brochure was prepared for an exhibition in November 2005, held in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of war crimes trials at Dachau and Nuremberg...

GPO to Digitize All FDLP Legacy Materials

Posted on February 26, 2008
According to a GPO Request for Information: The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) plans to digitize the entire collection of legacy materials that have been disseminated through the Federal Depository Library Program. The estimated size of the collection is approximately 2...

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Don't Forget about Citation Linker!

Posted on February 25, 2008
Looking for a specific journal article? Here is a really easy way to get there! Use the ?Citation Linker? available at: http://tc.liblink.umn.edu/sfx_local/cgi/core/citation-linker.cgi. Simply enter the parts of the citation you know and click Go! The Citation Linker also helps you find specific journals and books through its search engine...

Two New E-Book Collections

Posted on February 21, 2008
The law library now has full-text access to over 150 legal publications from Cambridge University Press and Wolters Kluwer Law & Business via the MyiLibrary platform at: http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/myilibrary. These books offer researchers new opportunities to discover content by searching for terms and concepts throughout the collection...

Careers in Law Forum Feb. 27

Posted on February 19, 2008
University Student Legal Service and Community Learning Center offer Careers in Law Forum What: Careers in Law Forum When: 12-4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27 Where: Coffman Memorial Union Great Hall, 300 Washington Ave. S.E. Minneapolis Contact: Mark Karon, University Student Legal Service, (612) 624-1001 Ryan Mathre, University News Service, (612) 625-0552 Photo by Keith Maguire MINNEAPOLIS / ST...

Resources for Black History Month

Posted on February 18, 2008
Resources inspired by Daddy's Girl by Lisa Scottoline In the LART (Law, Literature and the Arts) Collection, located on the 2nd floor of the law library, we have several books by Lisa Scottoline. One of her most recent, Daddy's Girl, tells the story of law professor Nan Greco's quest to solve the mystery behind the last words of a dying prison guard caught in a riot when Nan is teaching a class at the prison...

More and More Public Access Resources!

Posted on February 15, 2008
Robert Ambrogi notes on his blog LawSites: "There's something happening here. Just two days after Public.Research.Org published 1.8 million pages of copyright-free federal case law online (see his post), the company that provided it with those cases, Fastcase, unveiled an even larger free library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and legal forms...

Coming Up: More Convenience with Get-It!

Posted on February 14, 2008
Something new is coming to the UMN Public Catalog: GET IT! Get It is a one stop paging service for the TC UMN campus. Get It combines three previous services (Recall, Point-to-Point, and Libraries to U) with a in-house paging service for more convenient, simplified delivery service! Watch for more details coming soon...

Stop in for Valentine's Treats!

Posted on February 12, 2008
Let the law library show you the love! We appreciate all of our library patrons and hope you will join us for some Valentine's Day treats on Thursday February 14. From 9-11 am, we'll have muffins and coffee, with more treats all afternoon. Stop by and warm up with a little love from your law library! Generate your own candy hearts at http://www...

PreCYdent: New Public-Domain Law Search Engine

Posted on February 11, 2008
PreCYdent is a new search engine containing cases and statutes that are in the public domain. It is free to use, and has a user-friendly search box similar to Google's. PreCYdent is an open source site and currently has 355589 opinions and 2501 statutes dating from 04/01/1759 to 02/11/2008...

New Election Law Book

Posted on February 08, 2008
Three of the faculty members at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University have recently written an Election Law book. It is also available in full-text on the Internet and a print copy will be added to the law library collection. From Registration to Recounts: The Election Ecosystems of Five Midwestern States By Steven F...

Legal Resources News & Notes

Posted on February 07, 2008
Here are some new or updated legal resources that have recently been announced: Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900 Author: Aldo Musacchio: Abstract: How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature argues that legal origins have persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world today (La Porta et al...

New Acquisitions in January 2008

Posted on February 06, 2008
Here is the list of new titles the law library acquired in January 2008. The list is also on the library's home page. January Acquisitions

New from the U: EthicShare

Posted on February 04, 2008
U of M's "EthicShare" Project Pilots a Groundbreaking Approach to Ethics Research The University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics in partnership with the University of Minnesota Libraries and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been awarded a $517,000 grant from the Andrew W...

New Blog, Podcast from West

Posted on February 02, 2008
Thomson West announces the launch of WestBlog.net, a blog devoted to covering LegalTech New York. In conjunction with the new blog, West released a podcast, Legal Blogging: Trends and Tips, in which Robert Ambrogi was one of three guests interviewed by West's Gretchen DeSutter, along with Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of Law Technology News, and Ashby Jones from The Wall Street Journal...

University Libraries Debuts myLibrary

Posted on January 25, 2008
myLibrary is an interactive library page where you can help shape the information provided to you. myLibrary features librarian based suggestions for resources and libraries, easy access to the materials you may have checked out from the University of MN Libraries, and spaces where you can save your favorite library resources like databases and e-journals...

Rep. Ellison to Speak at Law School

Posted on January 23, 2008
On Friday, January 25, 2008, Representative Ellison will once again be at the Law School?s MLK Raise the Bar event, as presenter of the third annual keynote address. The speech will be given in the Law School?s Lockhart Hall (Room 25) at 11:00 a.m. Representative Ellison will take questions from the audience at the conclusion of his talk...

New ELS Bibliography Database

Posted on January 22, 2008
Through the collaborative efforts of Cornell and UCLA, there is now available a bibliographic database of empirical legal studies and scholarship: the ELS Bibliography. It is available at: http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/apps/els/ The database is a work-in-progress, and we welcome any comments or suggestions that users may have...

Law Library Hours Change!

Posted on January 18, 2008
The law library will be open/staffed this weekend January 19-20, but the reference office will not be open. Saturday: 9 am-6pm, Sunday noon-6 pm The library will be closed on Monday Jan 21. The library will resume normal semester hours Tuesday Jan 22: M-Th 8 am-10 pm; Reference 9 am-8 pm F 8 am-6 pm; Reference 9 am-5 pm Sat 9 am-6 pm; Reference 11 am ? 5 pm Sun Noon-6pm; Reference 1-5 pm Security monitors will be on duty this weekend and Monday as well.

Election 2008 Resources

Posted on January 17, 2008
In the January issue of College & Research Libraries News is a useful list of resources : "Election 2008 resources: Political information online, networked, and in the social world" compiled by Lorena O?English, social sciences reference and instruction librarian at Washington State University?s Holland and Terrell Libraries...

Tips and More From HeinOnline!

Posted on January 16, 2008
Looking for some help using HeinOnline? Check out their blog for tips, enhancements, and other useful resources to make the most of your search! Here's a sample "Tip of the Week" from their blog: Searching and Using Boolean Operators Using the One-box and Advanced Search options: When forming a search query using the One-box and Advanced Search options, you must use Boolean Operators (AND, +, OR, NOT, -) to combine multiple terms and you must capitalize the operators...

Law Library Debuts New Website!

Posted on January 14, 2008
The law library's website has undergone a remodel! Check out our new look! New user navigation tabs at the top of each page help direct you to custom information and resources. We've also opened up the "Quick Links" menu located on the left side of our home page for easier, direct access to some of our more popular resources and services...

Outsourcing Legal Research

Posted on January 10, 2008
Tariq Hafeez, President of and General Counsel for LegalEase Solutions LLC, discusses outsourcing legal research on the Legal Process Outsourcing blog. Source: Law Librarian Blog

New resource: Governmentattic.org

Posted on January 08, 2008
"The aim of this web site is to make available materials unavailable elsewhere. There is no topic-oriented theme to our content. If we have a theme, it is one of openness, hence our motto: Videre licet." Most recently added files: FOIA Logs for US DOJ Environment and Natural Resources Division for FY2005?FY2007 - [01-Jan-2008] FOIA Logs for US DOJ Professional Responsibility Advisory Office for FY2005?FY2007 - [01-Jan-2008] FOIA Logs for US Trade and Development Agency for FY2004?FY2007 - [01-Jan-2008] Two 1970s State Department documents related to Chinese Leaders - [22-Dec-2007] DIA analysis of Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, 12 Jan 1966 - [22-Dec-2007] FOIA Logs for US Federal Trade Commission for FY 2005?FY 2007 - [22-Dec-2007] FOIA Logs for Fed Mine Safety & Health Review Committee for FY 2006?07 - [22-Dec-2007] http://www...

Law School Survey of Student Engagement

Posted on January 07, 2008
2007 Law School Survey of Student Engagement Now Available Here's the 2007 Law School Survey of Student Engagement (pdf). Produced by the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University-Bloomington, this year's LSSSE is based on online surveys completed by 27,000 students at 79 law schools...

New Acquisitions in December 2007

Posted on January 03, 2008
Here is the list of new titles the law library acquired in December 2007. The list is also on the library's home page. December Acquisitions

HBS Top 20 Stories of 2007

Posted on January 02, 2008
From the Harvard Business School's "Working Knowledge" magazine comes their top 20 most popular stories of 2007, including #2: HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) For HBS professor Andrew McAfee, Wikipedia is a surprisingly high-quality product...

LexisNexis Congressional Retrospective

Posted on December 31, 2007
Recently acquired: the retrospective LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection. This collection, accessible through LexisNexis Congressional, includes abstracting, indexing, bibliographic information, and searchable PDFs for Congressional Research Service reports from 1916-present and committee prints from 1830-present...

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