As more time is spent conducting research from home, researchers are considering digital alternatives to many resources traditionally consulted in print. One of the many popular print resources in the UNC Law Library are the advance sheets for the North Carolina Reports, including both the North Carolina Reports of the Supreme Court and the North …
It’s one of the first minor annoyances every first-year law student faces: creating the § in a Word document. There are ways to get around learning this skill, such as copying and pasting the section symbol from elsewhere or writing out the word “section.” However, for legal writing purposes, it is probably best to know …
Sometimes it’s 11:00pm and against your better judgment you’ve caved and bought one of those Starbucks Doubleshots from the vending machine. Now you’re too buzzed to sit down and study. What are you to do? How are you supposed to actually sit down when it feels like someone’s jammed jumper cables into your brain? Have …
UNC Law Library Electronic Resources Librarian Donna Nixon recently published her article, “The Integration of UNC-Chapel Hill – Law School First,” 97 N.C. L. Rev. 1741 (2019), with the North Carolina Law Review. Professor Nixon led the law library’s effort to create a digital collection of photographs, legal documents, oral history transcripts, and contemporary …
The UNC Law Library’s own Julie L. Kimbrough is a co-author of the newly published third edition of North Carolina Legal Research with Brenda D. Gibson, Laura P. Graham, and Nichelle J. Perry. This text provides legal research instruction for an audience ranging from law students to laypersons to practitioners. After beginning with legal research …
The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library would like to invite you to participate in the first ever BOOOO-K HUNT: A Spine-Chilling Search Through the Stacks! The Boooo-k Hunt will be held on Wednesday, October 31st and can be completed any time between 7:30AM and 4:00PM in the Law Library. The hunt will take about an …
The UNC Law Library has created a new Hurricane Florence Resource Guide. This guide includes a collection of online resources intended to help the North Carolina community seek information on disaster relief efforts for those impacted by Hurricane Florence. There are many unreliable resources on the Internet, and an effort was made to include only …
The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library would like to welcome three new Laura N. Gasaway Graduate Assistants! Sara Farnsworth, Jasmine Plott, and Emily Roscoe have recently begun their graduate assistantships and will be experiencing many different aspects of law librarianship throughout the next year. Sara Farnsworth Sara Farnsworth began working in libraries as an undergraduate …
Librarians don’t just love books! We also love technology – especially keeping up to date with tech trends in legal practice. The Law Library would like to invite UNC Law students to join us for our Prep for Practice: Legal Technology Workshop Series for Spring 2018. Each workshop will be led by a UNC law …
It seems like you can’t look at the news lately without reading about executive orders. From reports on each newly signed order to controversy over presidential authority to make the orders and the courts authority to rule on them, executive orders have the public’s attention. All eyes are on the White House as we try …
