October 2008 Archives

The law library recently added two new collections to its HeinOnline subscription.  The first,titled the National Moot Court Competition collection, contains the records, briefs, and other organizational materials of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York National Moot Court Competition.  This collection will allow users to view award-winning responses to competition problems dating back to 1950, the first year that this competition was held nationally.

The second collection is entitled Subject Compilations of State Laws and is a digitized version of a series of the same name by Cheryl A. Nyberg at the University of Washington Law Library.  According to HeinOnline, this database "...contains references to more than 18,000 sources of 50-state surveys include law review articles, books, court briefs and opinions, federal and state government publications, looseleaf services, LexisNexis and Westlaw documents, and websites."  More information about this collection can be found here.

Both of these collections can be accessed through the library's HeinOnline subscription, available on the Library Subcription Services page.

The law library will be open the following hours during Fall Break:

• Thursday, October 23rd: 8 AM-1 AM
• Friday, October 24th:  8 AM-8 PM
• Saturday, October 25th:  9 AM-6 PM
• Sunday, October 26th:  1 PM-1 AM

Regular library hours will resume on Monday, October 27th.

The law library will begin offering legal research review workshops for first-year students on Tuesday, Oct. 21st.  Sign-up sheets are now posted in the hallway near the circulation desk.  These workshops are scheduled for 60 minutes (instead of the usual 30-minute sessions) and will review all the topics covered in previous workshops in preparation for the legal research exam on October 30th.  Be sure to sign up soon!

If you already use the Firefox browser, you know that one of the great things about it is the ability to customize your browsing experience through the use of extensions or add-ons.  One extension that could be especially helpful for legal researchers is Jureeka! 

Jureeka! is an extension that searches web pages for citations to case law, statutes, regulations, federal court rules, and other sources, and converts those citations into hyperlinks that point to freely available online legal sources.  It also includes a toolbar that allows you to search for source material by legal citation and to search for HTML versions of PDF pages.

For more information, you can go to the Jureeka! home page.  You can download the extension from the home page or from Mozilla's Firefox Add-ons page.