Law Library Blog

Later this week (perhaps as early as Tuesday, September 1st), the law library will have a Kindle available for law students to check out.
Stop by the Loan Desk soon to enjoy our newest toy.  To see the full list of nifty gadgets to check out, visit the “Cool Stuff You Can Borrow” page on this [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 aka IE8 has problems rendering frames in CourseWork.
 
If you are an IE user and have upgraded to the latest version 8, you may experience problems viewing your course sites on CourseWork. The workaround solution to this is very simple.
Open the IE browser and change the compatibility mode by selecting Tools [...]

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There is a new feature on the California Supreme Court site.
Legal briefs for the cases on the September (2009) Oral Argument calendar are now online.
Hat tip to the Complex Litigator.

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Checkout the library’s most recent edition of the Crownicle, an occasional newsletter of the Robert Crown Law Library.
If you have any questions, please stop by the reference desk or email us at reference@law.stanford.edu.

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[Originally posted by Erika Wayne on LegalResearchPlus]

Meet  RECAP (http://recapthelaw.org) – Be impressed.  Very impressed.
PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) documents sit behind a pay-wall; however, these are public record documents, so once a document has been retrieved from PACER, it may be freely shared.
RECAP  enables us to easily share federal court documents. The goal of [...]

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Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame by  Zev Chafetz. Published by Bloomsbury in 2009.
 
This Hall of Fame history shows how the rules governing who can be admitted have allowed some not so great players to be admitted while excluding others with much better playing records. And since baseball writers [...]

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Following on a Legal Research Plus post of this past April 29 by Sergio Stone — The Swine Flu Outbreak and International Law — Docuticker.com has very helpfully posted a link to Georgetown University Law Center (GULC) Professor Lawrence O. Gostin’s recent (July), valuable research paper “Influenza A (H1N1) and Pandemic Preparedness Under the Rule [...]

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