Despite the sudden chill in the temperatures, things are just starting to warm up for Carolina Law students seeking summer employment. 1Ls, in particular, will soon enter their first season of OCIs (“on-campus interviews”), and the law library is here to help with recommended resources for putting your best foot forward when interviewing with a …
New Book: Lethal State by Seth Kotch
The UNC Law Library recently added the newly published book, “Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina” by Seth Kotch to our collection. Seth Kotch is an assistant professor of American Studies here at the University of North Carolina. This book takes a hard look at the racial side of the …
Citing the U.S. Code in the New Year: Part 2
In yesterday’s Carolina Blawg post, I posited what seemed to me to be the most reasonable theory as to why it was appropriate to cite the U.S. Code with the year 2018. An attentive reader has noted that there is an equally strong – perhaps even stronger – justification. This argument also exposes an interesting …
Citing the U.S. Code in the New Year
How would you properly cite a section of the official U.S. Code today, January 6, 2020? As lawyers and law students no doubt realize, the answer is more complicated than it may appear. This post will offer advice and reasoning about how to go about choosing the year to append to the title number, abbreviation, …
Provincial Statutes of Canada – New HeinOnline Collection
The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library recently added a new collection to its HeinOnline subscription – the Provincial Statutes of Canada. The collection contains both historical and current public and private acts passed by the Canadian provincial governments. Current, revised, and historical content is available for Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Northwest …
A Little Thanksgiving Day Trivia via Legislative History Records
The law library wishes all UNC Law students, faculty, and staff a very Happy Thanksgiving! If you want to really impress your friends and family over dinner this year, trying using these federal legislative history materials to highlight a few lesser-known facts about this beloved holiday. Interesting Fact #1: In 1789, the first Congress worried …
Resource Guide on Legal Issues in Revenge Porn
Non-consensual pornography or “revenge porn” recently took center stage in the national discussion again with Katie Hill’s resignation from Congress. A few days later, a Minnesota state senator announced his own victimization from revenge porn. As conversations consider revenge porn’s threat to the political sphere, legal issues surrounding revenge porn may be a compelling area …
UNC Law’s Inaugural “Open Mic: Speak Your Research” Event
On November 5, 2019, the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library hosted the law school’s inaugural Open Mic: Speak Your Research event as part of UNC’s Research Week. The Office of Undergraduate Research describes Research Week as “an annual campus event designed to improve awareness of what is means to be a research university, align the …
Try Westlaw’s Jurisdictional Surveys to Compile Laws Across US Jurisdictions
Multi-jurisdictional statutory research can present many challenges, including trying to account for variations in terms. It is not always intuitive what words appear in the code books for a jurisdiction. For instance, if you wanted to compare real property recording statutes for a handful of states, you may not find all the pertinent provisions by …
Tales from the Rare Book Collection: An Early Legal History of Witchcraft and Conjuration, as Told Through British Statutes
It’s nearly Halloween, and that means another opportunity to highlight some of the spookier gems in the law library’s Rare Book Collection. This year I’ve been reading about the Salem Witch Trials, and this got me thinking about Salem town’s predecessors in witch-hunting paranoia. I wondered what our Rare Book Collection might have to tell …