Legal Research

Novalawcity is moving!

Posted on August 17, 2011
Novalawcity is moving over to Wordpress as of 8/17/2011. Please join us over at: http://nsulltc.wordpress.com/ to continue our discussion.

Office of the Law Revision Counsel wants YOU!

Posted on August 10, 2011
The Office of the Law Revision Counsel is seeking comments on the new beta version of its website for the U.S. Code. The Office is looking for feedback from law librarians and members of the public about the site?s features,...

Getting to know LLTC: Mitch Silverman (addendum)

Posted on June 24, 2011
Wups--I forgot to post my picture with my blog profile! Here's me, the day my bright, shiny new nameplate was first put up.

Getting to know LLTC: Mitch Silverman

Posted on June 19, 2011
Where did you grow up? How did you come to be here? South Florida?I was five when my parents and I moved here from Brooklyn. Nonetheless, I?m not a Floridian?"You can take the boy out of Brooklyn, but you can?t...

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Getting to know LLTC: Becka Rich

Posted on June 10, 2011
Where did you grow up? I grew up in Champaign-Urbana, IL, home of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (yes, really). My parents are university professors/administrators, so I spent a fair amount of time in university-run schools and walking around...

Getting to Know the LLTC: Mary Paige Smith

Posted on May 24, 2011
How long have you worked at the Law Library and Technology Center? This month, I celebrated my 18th anniversary here! Where did you work before you came here? I?ve worked as a librarian at the University of Baltimore Law Library,...

Getting to Know LLTC: Eric Young

Posted on May 20, 2011
1. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Middletown, Ohio. Middletown is about 40 miles north of Cincinnati, Ohio and 30 miles south of Dayton, Ohio. My parents were both college professors at Miami University in Ohio, so...

Is Teaching Cost-Effective Legal Research (Im)Possible?

Posted on May 11, 2011
An interesting blog post appeared on the Dewey B Strategic blog (the blog subhead: ?Risk, value, strategy, libraries, knowledge and the legal profession?), posted by attorney and DLA Piper Director of Research Services and Libraries Jean P. O'Grady, on May...

QR Codes! (or what is that funny looking bar code thingee?)

Posted on April 29, 2011
Over the next couple of m onths, you will see QR Codes appearing next to the names of librarians, faculty, and at the ends of stacks to provide additional information of who we are and how best to use resources....

A Region in Crisis: Research in the Middle East

Posted on April 29, 2011
(Previously posted by me @ RIPS Law Librarian Blog) With the ongoing events in the Middle East and the Ka Nefer Nefer case going on, we?ve received several questions on how to locate Middle Eastern law. I thought that perhaps...

Stop the Hate: Join LAMBDA United Rock Out Loud on April 6

Posted on March 24, 2011
Despite the fact that homosexuality is becoming more and more accepted in television and print media (see e.g. Kurt and Blaine?s kiss on Glee last week), culturally and socially homosexuality is far from accepted in certain communities. Last October, during...

Stop the Hate: Join LAMBDA United Rock Out Loud on April 6

Posted on March 24, 2011
Despite the fact that homosexuality is becoming more and more accepted in television and print media (see e.g. Kurt and Blaine?s kiss on Glee last week), culturally and socially homosexuality is far from accepted in certain communities. Last October, during...

2011 Sunshine Week Webcast at Noon Today

Posted on March 18, 2011
For anyone interested in open government, there is afree webcast being sponsored by OpenTheGovernment.org and the American Association of Law Libraries that will take place at the Center for American Progress today at noon (EST). Watch the webcast at http://www...

2011 Sunshine Week Webcast at Noon Today

Posted on March 18, 2011
For anyone interested in open government, there is afree webcast being sponsored by OpenTheGovernment.org and the American Association of Law Libraries that will take place at the Center for American Progress today at noon (EST). Watch the webcast at http://www...

Walk for the Animals 2011 on Saturday, March 5th!

Posted on March 04, 2011
Enjoy taking a walk with your pals -- with or without fur? Then please join members of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) for tomorrow's Humane Society Walk for the Animals 2011. The 1.25 mile walk starts tomorrow at...

Paws & Laws Correction

Posted on March 04, 2011
Hello again! Many thanks for all the positive comments re: my previous post on animal law. However, Professor Phyllis Coleman has kindly pointed out two factual errors in said post. Namely that Professor Kundawala is a former co-advisor of the...

Walk for the Animals 2011 on Saturday, March 5th!

Posted on March 04, 2011
Enjoy taking a walk with your pals -- with or without fur? Then please join members of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) for tomorrow's Humane Society Walk for the Animals 2011. The 1.25 mile walk starts tomorrow at...

Paws & Laws Correction

Posted on March 04, 2011
Hello again! Many thanks for all the positive comments re: my previous post on animal law. However, Professor Phyllis Coleman has kindly pointed out two factual errors in said post. Namely that Professor Kundawala is a former co-advisor of the...

Paws & Laws: Animal Law Events & Resources

Posted on February 11, 2011
Animal law is a dynamic field of law, one in which countless Shepard Broad Law Center students, faculty, and staff take a lively and heart-felt interest. As many of our good readers may know, the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund...

Paws & Laws: Animal Law Events & Resources

Posted on February 11, 2011
Animal law is a dynamic field of law, one in which countless Shepard Broad Law Center students, faculty, and staff take a lively and heart-felt interest. As many of our good readers may know, the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund...

Resource of the Day: The Bluebook Online

Posted on January 12, 2011
Today's resource of note is the interactive online version of the gold-standard citation tool The Bluebook: A Uniform ?System of Citation. Not only does the Law Library & Technology Center keep several print copies of the current edition in Reserve...

Freedom of Information Law: Opportunity and Threat?

Posted on January 11, 2011
A New York Times article this last weekend described a novel use of freedom of information law. The new owners of CourseRank.com (a course information website for college students like ratemyprofessors.com), requested aggregate grade data by course and professor from...

Non-profit financial research--a blog post by Becka Rich

Posted on December 12, 2010
My most excellent colleague Becka Rich, Faculty Services/Reference Librarian, is one of the bloggers on the American Association of Law Libraries Research Instruction and Patron Services Special Interest Section blog, http://ripslawlibrarian.wordpress...

Law School Exam Tips: A Followup

Posted on December 06, 2010
As a follow-up to my post about exam tips, a quotation from an article about law school education I had intended to use to introduce my previous blog post: "Studies have shown that the best way to learn is to...

Law School Exam Tips

Posted on December 03, 2010
Two 1Ls here at NSU asked me the other day for tips for dealing with exams. I felt like I didn?t have a lot of insight. Law school was a long time ago for me, and I didn?t deal with...

2010 Government Secrecy Report Card released

Posted on September 10, 2010
OpenTheGovernment.org has released its 2010 Secrecy Report Card. View it at http://www.openthegovernment.org/otg/SecrecyRC_2010.pdf This coalition of more than 70 consumer and good government groups, librarians, environmentalists, labor, journalists, and others focuses on pushing back governmental secrecy and promoting openness...

Your Law School's Ranking? Not as Important as You Think!

Posted on August 10, 2010
Law school success, as measured by grades, is more important for lawyers? career success and satisfaction than the ranking of the law school they attended, according to a recent study reported by the ABA Journal?s blog. The study was encouraging...

Student Information Literacy: Reality and and Possibilities

Posted on August 02, 2010
Are today?s college students prepared to be ?digital citizens?? Do they have the tools they need to find, evaluate, and use information in today?s wired world? A Northwestern University suggests not, and a white paper offers some minimum standards for...

National Security Archive Director discusses FOIA & Wikileaks

Posted on July 30, 2010
Released on July 25th, the Afghan War Diary (a.k.a. The War Log) consists of 92,000 secret documents about the U.S. military's involvement in the war in Afghanistan. Published by Wikileaks, the report is currently being touted as the largest single...

A Trend in GLBT Discrimination Law?

Posted on July 19, 2010
Three recent court decisions, and an ABA policy shift, may indicate a trend in LGBT rights law towards greater protection for the LGBT community. First, a transwoman (a female-to-male transsexual) won a recent federal employment-discrimination lawsuit against the Georgia State...

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