Law Library Blog

For students participating in the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition the following materials in the Law Library will be of interest:
HeinOnline’s Philip C. Jessup Library. International Law Moot Court Competition Compendium. The Compendium includes the full-text of award winning memorials from previous competitions. Also available in print: Law Library Basement KZ1237.P55.
DVD of the 2008 Jessup final round [...]

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E-Prints Complutense is a full-text repository of articles, dissertations and theses written by faculty and students of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain. The database allows browsing by subject and author, in addition to keyword searches. The repository covers many subjects in addition to law, so it should be particularly useful for interdisciplinary research.  
E-Prints [...]

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Printer 7 on the 2nd floor is now working, too.
(still working on #6)
Thanks

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Printers 1 - 5 on the 2nd floor are back online….Yippee!
Printers 6 and 7 are still not working.
We might relocate a few of these printers within the Teaming Room to get the power issues straightened out.   Details to follow shortly.
Thanks!

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The four new printers on the second floor of the library (in the Teaming Room) are temporarily down. We will soon have some (if not all) of the printers up and running.
The older printers on the second floor (also in the Teaming Room) are WORKING.
Thanks for your patience!

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To commemorate Constitution Day, consider the following legislation that is working its way through Congress.   H.R. 6475: Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Act of 2008 passed the House earlier this month and was introduced today in the Senate by Schumer (D-NY) and his co-sponsor Clinton (D-NY).  Below is a brief summary from the Congressional Research Service:

“Daniel Webster [...]

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The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) has created a full-text database of case law from the International Tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia, UN human rights bodies and the European Court of Human Rights. A wonderful feature of the SIM database is the ability to search the decisions by keyword. 
Hat tip to Thomas Scott , managing editor of [...]

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HeinOnline now includes the “Statutes of the Realm”,  a compilation of English statutes from the 13th Century to 1713. It also includes an alphabetical and chronological index. “Statutes of the Realm” is one of the most authoritative sources for older UK legislation.
You can access HeinOnline via the Law Library’s Online Databases page: http://www.law.stanford.edu/library/#online_services
From the HeinOnlien database, click [...]

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The United Nations Treaty Collection, which includes the full-text database, United Nations Treaty Series, has a new design and URL address. Be aware that many search engines still link to the old site, so make sure to update your bookmarks and favorites. 
United Nations Treaty Collection http://treaties.un.org

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A wonderful new digital (free) resource worth a look: The Civil Rights Digital Library.  Here is a short description from the website:
The struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s is among the most far-reaching social movements in the nation’s history, and it represents a crucial step in the evolution of American democracy. The [...]

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