With the coming arrival of Westlaw Advantage for students, Westlaw promises “the combined power of agentic AI and industry-leading content.” Beyond the promised changes to the underlying technology, the launch adds yet another name to Westlaw’s long line of rebrands with each one marking how the company has tried to define the future of legal …
Sure, you know that UNC Law Library offers digital study aids, but there’s so much more at your fingertips than just eBooks. Welcome to this two-part series, where we dive into the myriad of resources available to you and explore how to use these study aids effectively to prepare for your finals. The three main …
Professor Michael Gerhardt has two new books available in 2024: The Law of Presidential Impeachment and FDR’s Mentors. The Law of Presidential Impeachment: A Guide for the Engaged Citizen provides “a refresher course on the law of presidential impeachment” providing a historical reflection on the impeachment process, the underpinnings of its creation and an analysis …
Who: Law librarians who are here to make sure you’re prepared for practice What: A two-part workshop series dedicated to making GenAI work for you Part One: Using GenAI for Legal Research in Practice What is GenAI and how can you make it work for you in legal research? What are the best practices and …
The fall semester has started and it’s time to make sure you’re staying on top of all you need to get done. In this post, I’ll be listing some great (free!) planning tools and apps to help manage a busy class schedule and all those actual life tasks that need to be accomplished. 1) Notion …
ProQuest Congressional: Legislative Insight and More In Part 1 of Remember that Resource, we covered ProQuest Legislative Insight, but how is Legislative Insight any different from ProQuest Congressional? With the caveat that ProQuest Congressional content varies according to the subscription of the individual institution, often the platform also includes legislative histories from 1789 (and will …
ProQuest Legislative Insight: For Legislative Histories I recently received a request for help with finding a compiled legislative history, and the student had tried “everything” (Westlaw, Lexis, and Google), but was unable to turn up anything particularly helpful. And while there are other helpful locations that may have helpful compilations (looking at you, HeinOnline), in …
Sunday, October 16th was World Food Day. Created to commemorate the founding of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in 1945, World Food Day is celebrated across 150 countries. In honor of World Food Day, this post is dedicated to learning more about food law and locating food law resources in the United States …
Coming April 1, 2022, Thomson Reuters ProView is getting a new face and some substantial changes. Let’s go through a few of the major ones: 1. A cleaner and brighter interface. Old ProView New ProView 2. ProView Simplified Accessing ProView is getting simpler. There’s going to be a single way to …
Trying to read an article or blawg post and having trouble focusing on the text? Or want a clean copy of what you’re reading without intrusive ads or banners? Or want to translate a page to English or see who else is talking about an image you found? Here are a few browser features that …
