Legal Research

Five Legal Resources from Deane Law Library

Recently, the Deane Law Library blog (Hofstra School of Law) has featured five resources or news that may be useful for legal research needs:

Immigration Policy Center:
The Immigration Policy Center is the research arm of the American Immigration Law Foundation. IPC was established in 2003 with the mission to provide policymakers, academics, the media, and the general public with access to accurate information about the effects of immigration on the U.S. economy and society. The IPC attracts nationally recognized scholars as research fellows and guest authors, and publishes timely reports on the role of immigrants and immigration policy.

Law Library of Congress on Constitutional Law
The Law Library of Congress is offering PDF downloads of books and articles on three of the more contentious subjects in constitutional law: executive privilege, war powers, and presidential inherent powers. All are by Louis Fisher.

Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL), a digital collection of the Tobacco Control Archives at the University of California at San Francisco, contains more than 8 million searchable documents "created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities." Of particular interest to law students and researchers are links to litigation, legislation, health research, and advertising web sites, and to archive collections.

Supreme Court Justices on Writing and Advocacy
Get insights from the top jurists in the country about what makes for good legal writing and advocacy. On LawProse, Inc, you will find interviews of eight Supreme Court Justices in which they discuss what they find persuasive and what they wish attorneys would avoid. These interviews were done in 2006-2007 by Bryan Garner, editor-in-chief of the last two editions of Black?s Law Dictionary.

"I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations
"I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations is available through The Library of Congress? American Memory database. "I Do Solemnly Swear . . ." provides access to over 2,000 digital files relating to presidential inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001.

Full post as published by LexLibris on March 19, 2008 (boomark / email).