Law Library Blog

Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.Org (and in the press most recently here and here)  and Tim Stanley, founder of Findlaw.com and Justia.com, will be our special guests on Thursday for Advanced Legal Research. 
Carl and Tim will be speaking at 2:15pm on Thursday in Room 290.
All are welcome.
Liberate the law….

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Fastcase, a low cost case and statutes database, has given us a FREE TRIAL for the next few weeks (until November 17th).  Feel free to take a spin online and see what you think — notice the pricing plans, too.
To get started, please send us an e-mail (reference@law.stanford.edu) and we’ll send you the Username and [...]

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Just this week, BNA revamped their website.
Now, the BNA site is a lot easier to use and has a ton of customization features.   For example, you can customize the home page to always display news relating to a particular court or state, etc.
And, on the US Law Week site, the sidebar (left) now has two links worth looking at: [...]

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Material in the library 2nd floor reading room is accessible to law students 24×7.  Please use that material in that reading room instead of placing it on your cite-checking shelves.  Placing 24×7 accessible material on cite-checking shelves makes that material inaccessible to your fellow students.   Email reference@law if you have questions.

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American University’s Washington School Law offers a four week summer program in the Hague.

From the program description:

The Summer Law Program in The Hague offers participants an opportunity to study some of the most important legal issues today in the heart of the international justice community. The ABA-approved, six-credit summer program includes two three-credit courses: International Criminal [...]

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[Cross-posted on LegalResearchPlus]
This from BoingBoing:
“Jonathan Hennessey and Aaron McConnell’s The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation is a sweet, quick, thoroughgoing history of the US Constitution.”
I found more information about the book here, too.
Now to make the Federal Rules into a graphic novel….

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The financial headlines can be dizzying. 
As we tell our students, find a few good news sources and it will be a lot easier to make sense of it all. 
With that in mind, I found ”This Week in Securities Litigation” post on the SEC ACTIONS blog super helpful.   [The blog is written Thomas O. Gorman, former Senior Counsel [...]

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This week the library has acquired access to two of Juta Law’s databases: Namibian Law Reports and South African Law Reports. Only one user may log in at a time, so please visit the reference desk or email reference@law if you’d like to search these databases.

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The Yearbook of the United Nations is now available online free of charge. You can browse each annual volume or perform keyword searches across multiple volumes. The Yearbook covers UN developments in security and political matters, human rights, economic and social development, international law, and institutional affairs.
Yearbook of the United Nations (1946-2005)
http://unyearbook.un.org/index.html

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Thanks to Shannon Carreras, the new head of circulation at the Lane Medical Library, borrowing from Lane Medical has now been opened to all student journals!   Be sure to set up borrowing for your journal through the *law* library for that privilege.  Stop by the library or email reference@law if you have questions.

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