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A Reading List for People Planning to “Occupy” Public Property
Short of performing a bundy-ectomy (formerly reserved for Al or Ted), let’s get another view of this particular cathedral. Here is an old Law Librarian’s take on protest and occupation:…
Access to Justice in Oregon (with an antipasto of Firefighters and Drug Courts)
…the Equal Access to Justice community, in which public law libraries play a pivotal yet virtually invisible role. Several months ago I proposed to a group of public law librarians…
A2J Words Matter: A Legal Resource Center is Not Always a Law Library (and vice versa)
to Law Libraries. We felt that “library” was a meaningful and clear-cut description for what we do. The name change has helped our users better understand all of our services,…
Open Law Lab: “People don’t want to talk to lawyers, but they really want legal advice.”
Open Law Lab is a wonderful website, curious, provocative, funny, wise, and more. It stands on its own (enjoy!) but it is also an excellent companion to Richard Zorza’s Access…
Oregon Legal Research Website and Blog Succession Plan and History
…new to Oregon, Oregon law libraries, and Oregon legal research and wanted a place to record the Oregon legal research knowledge I was acquiring so I created the OLR blog…
Sports Law: Follow Your Bliss (and especially those NCAA rules)
Sports Law is a specialized field of law and like other specialized fields of law, require knowledge of a wide range of subjects related to the topic: e.g. criminal…
Oregon County Law Library “Rumors”: Don’t Trust & Always Verify
…grapevine, or through a beery haze without first doing some serious fact-checking. This admonition to fact-check also applies to any rumors about your county law library: The law library is…
Are Law-Lib Archives 35 years old in March 2015? Happy Birthday!
Law Librarians Rock and Rule! I was checking the Law-Lib archives recently and noticed that the first archived Law-Lib email message appeared in March 1980. There was another one…
What Can You do With a Law Degree? The World is Your Oyster (or your Pomegranate if you prefer)
A law degree can be a gift that keeps on giving, assuming you use it well and that it was the right thing for you to spend time and…
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