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 …
Prep for Practice Workshops Get a Technology Makeover
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 …
Bloomberg BNA Environmental Publications Merge
Effective December 31, 2017, Bloomberg BNA environment, energy, and safety news will merge into one publication, Environment & Energy Report. These changes mean several titles will no longer be available as stand-alone publications. However, the titles being replaced will remain on the Bloomberg Law® platform until further notice. Daily Environment Report™, International Environment Reporter™, Chemical …
Locating Circuit Splits: Some Tips and Tricks
Struggling to find a topic for a legal research paper? Not sure where to find potential topics for law journal notes or comments? You might consider giving a circuit split a try! What are circuit splits, anyway? In United States federal courts, a circuit split occurs whenever two or more circuit courts of appeals issue …
New Digital Collection: Judge James Dickson Phillips, Jr.
The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library is proud to announce a new digital collection on the life and work of Judge James Dickson Phillips, Jr. Judge Phillips passed away on August 27, 2017 at age 95. During his lifetime, was a member of the UNC Law Class of 1948, served as dean of the law …
GPO Updates the Digitized Congressional Record (Bound Edition) from 1941-2007
On August 2, 2017, the Government Printing Office announced the release of a digitized version of the Congressional Record (Bound Edition) from 1941-1950, which is available for free viewing here. This latest addition supplements previous releases of the Congressional Record begun earlier this year and provides users with access to the digitized Congressional Record from …
Neil Gorsuch Project
Confirmation hearings on the nomination of the Honorable Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court are scheduled to begin March 20, 2017 and interest in the nominee’s judicial record is high. To assist researchers, the University of Virginia Law Library launched the Neil Gorsuch Project, a website that assembles all of Gorsuch’s written opinions, as well …
Social Media Searching on ProQuest Congressional
ProQuest Congressional is a great resource for finding information regarding government documents. But did you know that there is a way to search social media platforms? From the basic search page, select Social Media. It says, “Find out what Members and Federal agencies are posting on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.” The search includes Twitter, press …
Researching Executive Orders – A New Twist
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 …
United Nations Treaty Series
The United Nations Treaty Series, the largest collection of treaty documents, is available online at no charge and in pdf format. The UNTS, which contains more than 150,000 treaties, conventions and agreements, is a primary citation source for legal publications. Published by the Secretariat of the United Nations, it contains the texts of all international …