“Abandoning Law Reports for Official Digital Case Law,” Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-01, Peter W. Martin, Cornell Law School As you’ll see when you read and think…
Do you have what it takes not only to enjoy law school classes, but not to fall asleep when you hear someone talk about indebitatus assumptsit, a conditional devise,…
This is probably not a best-seller amongst my solos and small law firm practitioner law library patrons, but if that rare question arises, maybe this database could help me…
Please read the Nov. 11, 2011, update to this post. And a couple other variations library reference staff hear a lot: Is it Lawful to Record Someone Without…
The Willamette Week (12/12/07 issue) article by Nigel Jaquiss, “Space Odyssey: New law limits disabled parking benefits for drivers not in wheelchairs,” describes the new law, SB 716, that…
About those Reading Tree and Thrift Recycling Management “Blue Bins” (not to be confused with the Blue Screen of Death): Just as when something labeled “natural” isn’t…
Law librarians get all sorts of questions about nonprofit organizations. We get questions from nonprofit board members, donors, lawyers hired by nonprofits, and from people who want to set up nonprofits….
Law librarians are useful people to have around. We know how to find statutes, cases, obscure reports, know about mysteries of the invisible web, guide you through the pain…
…platform to do legal research. Above the Law has an interesting piece on how AI is transforming legal research, including a brief history of legal research all the way back…
…all online. You can’t “Google” the law and expect to win your case. Legal analysis is even harder. See, for example: Five Methods of Legal Reasoning…
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