Oregon Legal Research Blog

Published on: March 31, 2009

A Lease of Your Own: Renting a Room in Someone’s Oregon Home

By Laura Orr

…rights, obligations, and protections. 3) Both the Oregon State Bar (OSB) and Legal Aid Service of Oregon (LASO) have useful information at their websites. 4) There are lots of print…

Published on: January 3, 2014

Vanornum II: Are Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure Statutes or Rules?

By Laura Orr

[Link to Vanorum I.] See Justice Landau’s concurring opinion in State of Oregon v. Ian George Vanornum (SC S060715), decided December 27, 2013 (on page PDF page 24 or…

Published on: March 3, 2010

Book: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates

By Laura Orr

…to spread cheap reprints of popular sheet music. In the 1950s, a pirate music label named Jolly Roger issued recordings by Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats from LP’s that…

Published on: April 7, 2020

Covid-19 Metaphors: Express Train, War, Black Box, Oh My

By Laura Orr

…that local arrives at its final destination, it may be wise to label all this research—preprints, peer-reviewed papers, and for goodness’ sake, pronouncements from Donald Trump— with a black-box warning:…

Published on: September 8, 2006

By Laura Orr

Fee-Based Legal Research Databases: Lexis and Westlaw are the leaders in online legal research, and I’m glad I have them in my law library, but there are other…

Published on: January 5, 2011

Lexis and Westlaw Search Syntax Comparison and Cheat Sheet

By Laura Orr

…I went off to catch up with my law library blogs and ran across this excellent research tip post at the KCCLL (King County Law Library) Klues blog: “Cheat sheet”…

Published on: November 30, 2010

Wanted in Oregon: One donated Android phone for a good cause

By Laura Orr

When one of our favorite law students (who contributes so much blood, sweat, and tears to the Oregon law librarian and legal research world, with smarts, good humor,…

Published on: November 15, 2006

By Laura Orr

…gave to a young lawyer my “don’t let someone else (meaning Westlaw and Lexis in that instance) do your research for you” talk (well, lecture really :-). You need…

Published on: November 8, 2010

Death of the (law) Digest and Headnote: Grossly Exaggerated?

By Laura Orr

No, it’s not all online.No, a lawyer researching online won’t always beat out the “paper” lawyer.No, a legal researcher using print won’t always eat the dust of an online…

Published on: February 16, 2011

The Death of the (print) Law Report

By Laura Orr

“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…