Legal Research

Research Resources: The Economists' Voice

Posted on November 09, 2009
If you are looking for serious economics analysis about public policy and current issues, try The Economists' Voice. Edited by Aaron Edlin and Joseph Stiglitz, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics, together with Jonathan Carmel, J. Bradford DeLong and Jeffrey Zwiebel, The Economists' Voice offers access to full text (PDF) articles on a broad range of policy issues...

New York Anniversary

Posted on November 07, 2009
Last Tuesday was an election day for New Yorkers, but yesterday was the anniversary of a momentous day in New York election history--November 6, 1917, when New York state passed a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote.Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party had been picketing the White House since January of that year, followed by arrests and continuing protests...

Supreme Stats

Posted on November 06, 2009
For those interested in analyzing the decisions and justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, there are two great web sites for you. SCOTUS BLOG has a companion site, SCOTUS WIKI which provides Supreme Court statistics, such as Justice agreement, opinion tally and a circuit scorecard by term going back to 1995...

Judge Allows Constitutional Challenge to Human Gene Patents

Posted on November 05, 2009
Those who track the unusual intersections of Constitutional law and intellectual property law may find the following news story of interest. As Law.com reports, opponents of patenting human gene sequences received a rare court victory recently, when a federal judge refused to dismiss a suit that challenges patents for two genes linked to cancers in women...

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Paper Writing Resources workshop

Posted on September 29, 2009
Students who were not able to attend asked that we record the presentation and make it available on our website. The workshop was recorded today and will shortly be available on the Library's webcast page. A handout for paper writing resources is available here...

World Digital Library

Posted on September 28, 2009
The World Digital Library (WDL) is pretty amazing. The mission of the library is to "makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world." Proposed by U...

Capturing Law Firm Information

Posted on September 26, 2009
If you are job hunting, preparing for interviews, or researching any type of information published on law firm web sites, try Fee Fie Foe Firm. This free search engine is designed to provide more effective access to law firm web site material, and aims to be the most comprehensive window on law firms, from large multi-nationals to smaller boutique firms and solo practitioners having a presence on the internet...

Prowling outside of the Law Library

Posted on September 25, 2009
I do occasionally venture out of the virtual law world and into other virtual spaces. If I have to do research, I prowl the Axinn Library and look at their Research Databases. I almost always start my non-legal hunting in Academic Search Premier - a general interest database with references to non-legal articles (including a lot with full text pdfs) in just about all areas...

Open Internet.Gov

Posted on September 24, 2009
Open Internet.gov invites interested parties to ?join the discussion about the important issues facing the future of the Internet. Through this site you can stay connected to all Federal Communication Commission [FCC] activities on the issue, and share your thoughts and ideas on [the] open Internet?...

Computer History

Posted on September 23, 2009
Not impressed by your cell phone, Blackberry or Iphone? You might be when you realize that this giant supercomputer from 1972 has about the same computing power as your phone. The supercomputer lives at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley...

Law Practice Technology Information Sources & Tools

Posted on September 22, 2009
Posted recently on LLRX.com "Law Practice Technology Information Sources & Tools" is a handy reference work on becoming aware and keeping current on technologies, legal and otherwise. You cannot only discover useful technologies but practical reasons and tips for use...

The National Technical Information Service

Posted on September 21, 2009
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) serves as a central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information. It provides access to nearly 3 million U.S. Federal Government technical reports covering over 350 subject areas, including reports prepared by or for the U...

Making Headnote Sausage

Posted on September 20, 2009
Many of Hofstra's 1L students are currently learning about headnotes, digests, and the West key number system. The Law Librarian Blog recently linked to the video below, which uses the Heller case to show how West makes headnotes and indexes cases (it requires an army of attorneys in a large building in Minnesota)...

Prescriptions

Posted on September 19, 2009
One of the best sources for keeping up with health care reform issues and related legislation is the New York Times blog, Prescriptions. Here you can read the latest legislative developments and access full-text Congressional documents, statistics, interviews, and comparative health system information...

House of Lords

Posted on September 18, 2009
After hundreds of years, the House of Lords will no longer exercise authority as the court of last resort in the United Kingdom. According to www.parliament.uk,"[t]he final appeal hearings and judgments of the House of Lords took place on 30 July 2009...

EDGAR Tutorial

Posted on September 17, 2009
According to its Web page (linked from the Securities and Exchange Commission?s home page), ?EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U...

Trac Immigration

Posted on September 16, 2009
Trac Immigration is a website that provides information about federal immigration enforcement. It provides immigration reports, collects government studies, and provides statistics about immigration enforcement.Trac Immigration also includes a glossary of words and phrases helpful to those researching immigration issues...

Paper Writing Resources Workshops

Posted on September 15, 2009
The 1st presentation of the Paper Writing Resources workshop was a success and the workshop will be repeated on the following dates:Wednesday, 9/16 : room 243 from 1 PM to 2 PMMonday, 9/21 : room 243 from 1 PM to 2 PMWednesday 9/23 : room 243 from 12 noon to 1 PMThe workshop is an overview of resources you want to consider when researching a scholarly paper with some research tips thrown in at appropriate moments...

The Library of Congress' Reports on the Right of Habeas Corpus in 13 Countries

Posted on September 14, 2009
"The right to challenge one?s arrest or detention is now incorporated in international human rights standards." The law Librarian Blog reports that The Library of Congress published a report analyzing the right of habeas corpus in thirteen countries...

Best Oath Ever?

Posted on September 13, 2009
The subject of oaths and alternative oaths can make for an interesting evidence class. But the 19th century Burmese oath linked at Lowering the Bar is much better than any oaths modern Americans have attempted to use in court. It is almost 400 words long, it is filled with statements like "In the midst of not speaking truth, may I be taken with vomiting clotted black blood, and suddenly die before the assembled people," it lists various animals that should attack the untruthful, and it ends with a tea ceremony...

The 9/11 Attacks: A Document Collection

Posted on September 12, 2009
A collection of key documents, including press conferences, speeches, and statements of government and other officials documenting the September 11 , 2001 attacks are available from Yale Law Library's Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy...

Words

Posted on September 11, 2009
You might think that as a feline I have a somewhat limited vocabulary. You would be wrong. I strive to find just the right word for my pronouncements. One of my favorite web sites is Thesaurus.com . I can enter any word and it returns a multitude of choice alternatives...

Webcasts From The Library of Congress

Posted on September 10, 2009
Many Webcasts related to government, legal, and geopolitical topics are available from the Library of Congress?s Web site. Click the link and have a look at what is on offer. You can use the search box at the top of the page to find Webcasts on particular subjects, if you do not feel like browsing through all of the Webcasts...

Investopedia

Posted on September 09, 2009
Investopedia is a good starting point for research on finance and company information. The online dictionary will help you understand business and financial terminology (like asset swap or mirror fund) and the tutorials help you get background on specific topics...

Paper Writing Resources Workshop

Posted on September 08, 2009
Are you writing a paper this semester? If you are we have the workshop for you "Paper Writing Resources". You want effective and efficient research so that you can spend more time writing your paper. This workshop will give you some research tips and point out sources both legal and multi-discipline so you can find what you need quickly...

Problems With Google Books

Posted on September 06, 2009
In a recent Language Log post, Geoff Nunberg explains the metadata problems found in Google Books and why they matter. (Basically, Google Books has millions of volumes of scanned books, but the information that describes these scanned books is often wrong because Google has relied on information taken from the scanned images rather than relying on information provided by the libraries that provided the books for scanning...

Jurors Today: Texts and "Tweets?"

Posted on September 05, 2009
For centuries, lawyers and law students have taken for granted that, in the interests of justice, those serving on juries cannot obtain outside information about the case when they are outside the courtroom. But in the world of Web 2.0, it's not that simple anymore...

Paper Topic ideas

Posted on September 04, 2009
Many of you are starting to write papers for your classes and may need some help finding a topic. While Lexis and Westlaw are o.k., the Library has some databases that you may not know about that can help a lot more. On the Library's Online Resources page, you will see a link on the left for BNA Online Resources...

Nolo?s Plain English Online Law Dictionary

Posted on September 03, 2009
Do you find yourself online while studying, and you need a quick definition of a legal term? Try Nolo?s Plain English Online Law Dictionary. Just type the word whose definition you are seeking into the search box, and click ?search?. You?ll then receive your results, sorted by relevance...

CALI lessons

Posted on September 01, 2009
Need to review a subject or just want help understanding concepts? You may want to use a CALI lesson. CALI stands for Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction. It contains interactive computer based lessons covering 32 legal educations subjects...

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