Legal Research

This Week's Highlighted Acquisitions

Posted on June 29, 2009
Kimball, Bruce A. The inception of modern professional education : C.C. Langdell, 1826-1906. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. Call number: KF368.L36 K56 2009 Publisher's Description: Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education...

New Faculty Publications from Befort, Cox, Bix

Posted on June 26, 2009
Stephen F. Befort and John W. Budd. Invisible hands, invisible objectives : bringing workplace law and public policy into focus. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Economics and Finance, c2009. Call number: KF3319 .B44 2009 Publisher's Description: At home and abroad, public policy debates are dominated by a free market ideology that emphasizes the pursuit of economic objectives through competitive markets...

Public Libraries & e-Government

Posted on June 25, 2009
Roles of public library technology in supporting E-government highlighted in new issues brief CHICAGO - In the fourth of a series of reports regarding technology access in U.S. public libraries, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Research & Statistics (ORS) is highlighting how public library technology supports public access and use of e-government information and resources...

This Week's Highlighted Acquisitions

Posted on June 23, 2009
Joseph Raz. Between authority and interpretation : on the theory of law and practical reason. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. Call number: K231 .R39 2009 Publisher's description: In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political and moral...

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Digitized Papers of J. Willard Hurst Released

Posted on June 22, 2009
The University of Wisconsin Law Library is very pleased to announce the release of the J. Willard Hurst Collectionwhich details the career of the man commonly identified as the father of modern American legal history. The collection primarily spans the years 1932 through Hurst's death in 1997...

Law Library Staff Recommend...

Posted on June 19, 2009
An occasional feature, "Law Library Staff Recommend..." highlights books that Law Library staff members have read for enjoyment and now recommend that others consider for inclusion on their own reading lists. If you have any comments or questions about any of the titles presented in this feature, feel free to email lawlib@umn...

Guide to Legal, Factual, and Other Internet Sites

Posted on June 18, 2009
Legal, Factual and Other Internet Sites for Attorneys and Legal Professionals, 15 Rich. J.L. & Tech. 13 (2009), by Timothy Coggins, Associate Dean for Library & Information Services and Professor of Law, Univ. of Richmond School of Law, lists Internet sites for legal, factual, and general research for attorneys, law students, and law librarians...

Meet our STEP-UP Intern

Posted on June 17, 2009
The Law Library is proud to announce the arrival of our STEP-UP Intern for Summer 2009. Johnnisha Williams will be a junior this fall at Minneapolis South High School. She will be spending her internship in both the Library and Law Clinics office, and is planning on a career in law...

This Week's Highlighted Acquisitions

Posted on June 16, 2009
Halliday, Terence C. and Bruce G. Carruthers. Bankrupt : global lawmaking and systemic financial crisis. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009. Call number: K1375 .H35 2009 Publisher's Description: The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in emerging, transitional, and advanced economies...

Bush Library May Be Last of Its Kind

Posted on June 12, 2009
From The Dallas Morning News: The George W. Bush Presidential Library in University Park could be one of the last brick and mortar institutions of its kind. Congress is looking for ways to cut the expense of overseeing such buildings, and some researchers say the traditional library setup for keeping presidential documents is outdated in a digital world...

Google Privacy Study Shows Gap in Policy Understanding

Posted on June 11, 2009
A U.C. Berkeley report shows that most Internet users don?t understand web site privacy policies, and that major online businesses like Google Inc. freely gather data and share it with affiliated businesses via loopholes in those policies. Using trackers called ?web bugs,? third parties collect user data from many popular web sites, and sites often allow this, even though their privacy policies say they don?t share user data with others...

New Research Guides from LOC

Posted on June 10, 2009
Four Recently Released Research Guides from the Library of Congress: Now online: + Civil War: Selected Resources + Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author + Illinois State Guide + Presidents of the United States: Resource Guides Source: ResourceShelf

This Week's Highlighted Acquisitions

Posted on June 09, 2009
Joyner, Daniel. International law and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. Call number: KZ5675 .J69 2009 Publisher?s Description: Proliferation of WMD technologies is by no means a new concern for the international community...

Introducing Two New Search Engines: Bing & Google Squared

Posted on June 05, 2009
There has been a lot of buzz the last several days about two new search engines - Bing, from Microsoft, and Google Squared. Bing Here's a good description of Bing from SearchEngineWatch More than just a rebranding of Live Search, Microsoft is repositioning Bing as a "decision engine," with a goal "to provide customers with intelligent search tools to help them simplify tasks and make more informed decisions," according to a Microsoft spokesperson...

Document Sharing via Law Centers

Posted on June 03, 2009
JD Supra Unveils 'Law Centers' The document-sharing site JD Supra has launched a new feature that makes finding and following information on specific topics much easier. The new addition is a series of Law Centers that organize documents by topics and areas of interest...

Try our new Reference Chat Service!

Posted on June 02, 2009
Need reference help? Try our new Live Chat service: Ask Us! Access it here: http://local.law.umn.edu/library/referenceaskus.html Live Chat Reference Hours of Operation Chat Reference Summer Hours: Mon. - Fri. 9am - noon & 1pm - 4pm From the page: To chat live with a reference librarian type your question in the lower box on the right and hit enter...

New Acquisitions in May 2009

Posted on June 01, 2009
Here is the list of new titles the Law Library acquired in May 2009. The list is on the Library's home page. May Acquisitions In addition, here are several highlighted titles of particular interest: Hugo van der Merwe, Victoria Baxter, Audrey R. Chapman, eds...

Law Library Staff Recommend...

Posted on June 01, 2009
An occasional feature, "Law Library Staff Recommend..." highlights books that Law Library staff members have read for enjoyment and now recommend that others consider for inclusion on their own reading lists. If you have any comments or questions about any of the titles presented in this feature, feel free to email lawlib@umn...

Update from China-US Conference on Legal Info/Law Libs

Posted on May 29, 2009
The China-US Conference on Legal Information and Law Libraries is underway! Here is an excerpt of the impressions of one of the participants. The conference involves Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library Joan Howland in a significant leadership role...

Beacon Press to Publish MLK Series

Posted on May 28, 2009
Announcing an Exclusive Publishing Agreement with the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Beacon Press is partnering with the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. in a new publishing program, "The King Legacy." Beacon will print new editions of previously published King titles and compile Dr...

WestBlog replaced with Legal Current

Posted on May 28, 2009
Thomson Reuters Replaces WestBlog with Legal Current Blog From the announcement: "The new blog, Legal Current, will introduce you to key voices - ours and others - from across the global legal marketplace, and will showcase many of the bright minds behind the technology, innovation, content and trends shaping the legal industry worldwide...

State Laws Subject Compilation Wins New Product Award

Posted on May 27, 2009
Kudos to HeinOnline, Cheryl Nyberg and Carol Boast AALL has selected HeinOnline?s Subject Compilations of State Laws Database for the 2009 AALL Best New Product Award. HeinOnline converted Cheryl Nyberg and Carol Boast's Subject Compilations of State Laws publication into an online, searchable database...

This Week's Highlighted Acquisitions

Posted on May 26, 2009
Bruff, Harold H. Bad advice : Bush?s lawyers in the war on terror. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2009. Call number: KF5060 .B78 2009 Publisher?s Description: From wiretapping American citizens to waterboarding foreign prisoners, the Bush administration has triggered an uproar over its tactics in the War on Terror?and over its justifications for using them...

International Criminal Court Resources

Posted on May 22, 2009
New Legal Tools (Database) from the International Criminal Court From a UN Pulse Blog Post: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has developed a new set of Legal Tools for researching international criminal law and cases. The Legal Tools are essentially an electronic library of 40,000 searchable documents available to the general public...

Minnesota DHS Fair Hearings Appeals Database

Posted on May 21, 2009
A searchable database of Minnesota Department of Human Services fair hearings appeals is available. The decisions go back to July 2001. The following information was taken directly from the DHS website: The Appeals and Regulations Division of the Department of Human Services (DHS) conducts fair hearings when applicants or recipients appeal delays in their applications or denials, reductions, suspensions or terminations of financial assistance or social services...

Cell phones, texting vex law enforcement at crime scenes

Posted on May 20, 2009
It?s a normal reaction ? people see a fire and pull over to watch. People see a car accident and slow down to rubberneck. But what happens when those same people, now equipped with cell phone cameras and text messaging, decide to snap photos? Or release the identity of the victim before a family is notified? Those are some of the new challenges that emergency and law enforcement personnel say they are encountering more often these days as technology evolves...

New Resources on US Constitution

Posted on May 19, 2009
The Law Library of Congress launched a new website on the United States Constitution. The site combines various items from the Law Library of Congress in one centralized location. The website includes sections on Constitutional Interpretation, Executive Privilege, Military Tribunals, Presidential Inherent Powers, Presidential Signing Statements, Second Amendment, State Secrets Privilege, War Powers, War Powers Resolution, and Additional Constitutional Resources...

This Week's Highlighted Acquisitions

Posted on May 18, 2009
Alexander, Larry, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, with contributions by Stephen J. Morse. Crime and culpability : a theory of criminal law. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. Call number: K5103 .A44 2009 Publisher?s Description: This book presents a comprehensive overview of what the criminal law would look like if organised around the principle that those who deserve punishment should receive punishment commensurate with, but no greater than, that which they deserve...

Introducing MnKnows

Posted on May 15, 2009
U of M Libraries and Minnesota Office of Higher Education team up to form one-stop access to online library services Minitex, an information and resource sharing program of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the University of Minnesota Libraries, has launched a new portal, MnKnows ? Dig Deeper @ Your Library (www...

Law Library Summer Hours

Posted on May 14, 2009
The Law Library's hours will change tomorrow May 15. The library will close at 4:30 pm on May 15 and be closed May 16-17. Summer hours begin Monday May 18: Summer Hours Monday - Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Reference Office: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed Weekends Closed May 25, July 3, Sept...

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