UNC School of Law’s Professor Maria Savasta-Kennedy has published a new book: North Carolina Environmental Law (2018). Check it out in print at the Law Library or view it online via LexisAdvance. Professor Savasta-Kennedy’s book starts with a chapter containing an overview of the structure of NC environmental laws and the regulatory process, providing readers …
UNC law professor Michael J. Gerhardt published a new book in 2018: Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know. Given the current attention paid to the subject of impeachment, Prof. Gerhardt’s book must count among the most well-timed volumes in Oxford University Press’ “What Everyone Needs to Know” series. Like all books in that Oxford series, …
Session laws are the laws passed by a session of a state’s legislature. Legislative sessions can be annual, biennial, special, extra—however often the state legislature decides to meet. Eventually the session laws end up under the appropriate topic (such as “Criminal Law” or “Motor Vehicles”) in a state’s statutes or code, but until then they …
The Law Library receives many more new books than just those that appear on the new books shelf near the circulation desk. Here’s how to find a list of those books: Go to the Law Library website at https://library.law.unc.edu. Click on “New Books” underneath the search box. On the next page, select the time period …
Four UNC law library staff members were recently recognized with the library’s highest annual honor, the Kathrine R. Everett Award of Merit. These library staff members stepped up in significant ways to address the needs of the library and its users. Nicole Downing For successfully reshaping the Prep for Practice library instruction program to explore innovations in …
Bloomberg Law has added new databases: Government Accountability Office Appropriations Decisions and jury instructions for California, Kansas, and Alabama. (North Carolina Pattern Jury Instructions are available for free at the following UNC School of Government website: https://www.sog.unc.edu/resources/microsites/north-carolina-pattern-jury-instructions/pattern-jury-instructions-online-library .) GAO Appropriations Decisions can be found on Bloomberg Law by clicking on the Legislative & Regulatory tab, …
