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For those working or studying near Palo Alto this summer:
GLOBAL MEGACITIES
Six films around the world depicting varying aspects of life in a global metropolis
 
WEDNESDAYS , 7:00PM
Building 200 (Lane History Corner), Room 002
Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall
 
JULY 8
Black Friday (India, 2004)
Introduction by Linda Hess, Center for South Asia
 
JULY 15
Istanbul Tales (“Anlat Istanbul,” Turkey, 2005)
Introduction by Burcak [...]

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The law library will be closed from 6pm Friday, June 26th until 8am Monday, July 6th.

During that time period, the 24 hour law study space will remain AVAILABLE FOR STANFORD LAW STUDENTS; however, the rest of the library will be closed during that time period.

If you have any questions, please contact us [...]

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The Law Library has just subscribed to the LawInfoChina/ChinaLawInfo database of Chinese legislation and case law. LawInfoChina hosts the English language version of the statutes, regulations, and case law, while ChinaLawInfo provides the Mandarin  language information, which also includes treaties and table of contents for Chinese legal journals. Access to both databases is available throughout the [...]

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The Widows’ Might: Widowhood and Gender in Early British America by Vivian Bruce Conger. Published by New York University Press in 2009.
Find at HQ1058.5 .U5 C657 2009
 
Working at a law school, it’s hard for me to imagine a time when a widow was not supposed to hire a lawyer to represent her in proving her [...]

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[cross-posted on LegalResearchPlus]
By Sergio Stone

Japan’s Ministry of Justice has a new Website that offers official English translations of thousands of Japanese statutes and regulations. The site provides bilingual versions of the laws and regulations. It also includes lexicographic notes explaining the translation of difficult terms. Here is an example of Article 1 of the Copyright Act [...]

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Going to Extremes : How Like Minds Unite and Divide / by Cass R. Sunstein. Published by Oxford University Press in 2009. Shelved at HN90.R3 S48 2009
Sunnstein explains the inexplicable–how seemingly rational decent people can become sadistic prison guards, for example–using an experiment done here at Stanford (see Zimbardo’s The Lucifer Effect, in the library at BF789 [...]

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