The weather outside the library is crisp and cool, and the colorful leaves on the trees are mostly gone. For law students, these seasonal changes can mean only one thing: exam season is approaching. If you are a 1L, you will soon find yourself preparing class outlines and other study materials for the first time. …
New Law Library Research Guide: Preparing for the Bar Exam
The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library recently published a new online research guide, Preparing for the Bar Exam. Even for the most relaxed of law students, the Bar Exam can be daunting. In addition to taking the exam, there are requirements that must be completed months in advance. This guide is divided into five sections: General …
Court Records & Briefs Research: Using Bloomberg Law’s Docket Key
Federal court records and briefs research can be time-intensive and potentially intimidating for a newer attorney. When a lawsuit drags on for years in federal court, a huge paper trail is created that can make effective research in dockets even more complicated. For law students, dockets can also be intimidating because of the variety of …
Aids for Creating Bluebook Citations
If you’ve ever wished that The Bluebook provided more example citations for unusual resources or that you could somehow ease the task of creating properly-formatted Bluebook citations, the following resources can help! Example Citations in Prince’s Dictionary of Legal Citations Prince’s Dictionary of Legal Citations supplements The Bluebook by providing many example citations for common …
Zoning and Land Use Law Resources in the Law Library
UNC School of Law offers a course in the spring semester titled “Land Use Control” (Law 290) that covers the “authority for and basic structure of land use regulations (including zoning districts and permits, subdivision, and innovative development review schemes).” Students interested in real property and commercial transactions have found the course to be particularly …
Researching North Carolina Session Laws
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 …
BOOOO-K HUNT: A Spine-Chilling Search Through the Stacks
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 …
Attend “Data Day” on Wednesday, October 24th!
On Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 from 9AM to 12PM, the North Carolina Government and Heritage Library will host “Data Day,” a free informational presentation to provide the public with demographic data about the state and its component geographic area. You can attend in person at the State Library/ Archives Building or view a live stream …
Murder, Mayhem, and a Dash of Treason: An Interesting Collection in UNC Law Library’s Rare Book Room
If you’re anything like me, you probably find yourself reading more mysteries and crime novels as Halloween approaches. From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. the infamous J.K. Rowling), there is something for every reader in the ‘whodunnit’ genre. But, did you know that long before Sherlock Holmes nabbed his first criminal in …
New Book: Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Lives in the Law by Jill Norgen is a new book that the Law Library has recently added to the collection. Norgen used the oral history project from the ABA’s Commission on Women in the Profession and the Senior Lawyers Division, titled Women Trailblazers in the Law Project (WTP), to write …