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 …
Bloomberg Law has revamped their IP Practice Center, now called the IP/Tech & Telecom Practice Center. Each Bloomberg Practice Center provides practitioners with practice tools and resources within a specific area of law. For the IP/Tech & Telecom Practice Center, resources are more narrowly organized into practice areas: Patents, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Copyrights, Tech & …
The Law Library would like to invite students to participate in the Prep for Practice Workshop Series for Spring 2017! Throughout the semester, UNC law librarians will host a series of lunchtime classes to help students hone their legal research skills as they prepare for internships, extra-curricular activities, and jobs. These sessions focus on practical …
The Investor-State Law Guide (ISLG) allows you to conduct research into investment treaty law with “pinpoint accuracy”. Researchers will find it a valuable resource for locating treaties, rules, and cases related to investment treaty law. The UNC Law Library has recently acquired access for UNC Law faculty and students. The ISLG document collection contains arbitration …