Today, June 22, 2020, marks the 69th anniversary of the integration of both Carolina Law and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. On June 22, 1951, five African-American students, Harvey E. Beech, James L. Lassiter, J. Kenneth Lee, Floyd B. McKissick, and James R. Walker began summer session classes at the law school. The integration …
What We Can Learn About Legal Research from the Supreme Court in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org
There will surely be rafts of analysis and discussion in the days, weeks, and months to come concerning today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org. And while interesting issues abound, what this law librarian found most striking at first glance were the pronouncements by the Justices about the importance of annotated codes. Indeed, …
University of North Carolina Press Law Titles on HeinOnline
Though most of us are accustomed to using HeinOnline for its law journal library, and occasionally its historical materials, Hein also provides access to a number of other useful secondary materials, including .pdf versions of almost four hundred University of North Carolina Press titles related to law. The University of North Carolina’s press is one …
New Legal Research Guide: Military Law Research
The UNC Law Library is pleased to announce the creation and publication of a new Military Law legal research guide to support students currently working with the Military and Veterans Law Clinic or taking military law courses. The guide is divided into three sections: Military Justice Law, the Law of Armed Conflict, and National Security …
HeinOnline’s Legal Classics Library: Tackling the ‘Big Legal Books’ on Your Reading List
If you’re anything like me, you have a reading list that feels as though it is a mile long. I track all sorts of to-be-read titles on my list – recommendations from friends, books with stellar reviews in the New York Times, and new releases from my favorite authors. But there is also a spot …
One Million Downloaded Articles from the Carolina Law Scholarship Repository
The Carolina Law Scholarship Repository is an online resource for most articles published in UNC School of Law’s five student-edited law journals; faculty scholarly articles, essays, and policy papers; and some special digital collections. Launched by the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library in December 2015, the repository has since added more than 8,600 works that …
Digital Subscriptions to the Financial Times Now Available for the UNC Law School Community
The UNC Law Library is pleased to announce that we have a new digital subscription to the Financial Times available for all law school faculty, students and staff. The Financial Times is a daily international newspaper, headquartered in London, with especially good coverage of business and economic news. FT offers options for customizing your homepage …
State Legislators Also Hate Seasonal Time Changes: Researching Pending State Legislation
Are you ready to spring forward? Daylight Saving Time (DST) officially begins in North Carolina at 2:00am on Sunday, March 8, so don’t forget to adjust your clocks this Saturday evening! This yearly occurrence robs Carolina Law students and faculty of an hour of precious sleep and upsets internal clocks for a bit, but should …
Inserting the Section Symbol in a Word Document
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 …
New Book by UNC Law Professor Maxine Eichner: The Free-Market Family
UNC Law’s own Maxine Eichner has recently published The Free Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored). Eichner is the Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law and teaches in the areas of family law, gender, critical legal theory, and torts. Eichner explores the cost that free market …