Legal Research

Is Blogging Scholarship?

Posted on September 06, 2007
There is an interesting posting by Kevin Smith regarding blogging as scholarship on the Scholarly Communications Blog at Duke University. Kevin cites an article by Margaret Schilt that may be of interest to the law school community entitled "Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere...

Welcome, Carolina Law students!

Posted on August 23, 2007
We have made a few changes in the library Reading Room to answer your call for more electrical support at the tables. You?ll see 40 table seats newly supplied with electrical outlets for your laptop use and 4 upholstered chairs newly located near outlets...

New Scanner

Posted on August 22, 2007
The Law Library has replaced the scanner /computer on the fourth floor of the library. The new setup has the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and Flash in addition to Microsoft Office 2007. PDF Converter 4 provides easy OCR (optical character recognition) for converting your scans to Word or WordPerfect formats...

CALI

Posted on August 21, 2007
As you are starting your new classes, we?d like to remind you about CALI lessons.If you are unfamiliar, CALI lessons are interactive, computer-based tutorials provided by the non-profit Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (www.cali.org). There are over 625 lessons available to help you study 32 different legal subject areas at www...

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Shakespeare and the law

Posted on May 17, 2007
"Tranio: And so as adversaries do in law, strive mightily but eat and drink as friends." This quote, from The Taming of the Shrew, is just one of several from Shakespeare's works featured in the library's newest display.Please take a look at this entertaining display and learn more about how lawyers and legal themes have been used by this literary giant...

Poverty in America

Posted on May 07, 2007
Poverty in America -- a new library display presented by the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity brings into sharp focus the challenges faced by the poor in America today.Please visit the Law Library's latest display and discover facts, figures and an array of books dealing with this sobering issue...

Carving the Paths to Justice

Posted on March 28, 2007
The Asian American Law Student Association (AALSA) is "Carving the Paths to Justice" in a stunning new library display. This display blends the beauty of Asian culture with works on diversity, legal history and politics as East meets West in the U.S...

Wireless in the library

Posted on March 06, 2007
ITS has made some changes to the wireless access points in the Van Hecke Wettach that should improve reception in the building. In addition, we are recommending that all Windows XP Sevice Pack2 users install the following Microsoft update that fixes some other known issues...

New Blog!!

Posted on February 21, 2007
Take a look at the Law Library's new blog: The Random Reader

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