Students: Have you ever finished reading an assigned case and realized you didn’t understand the legal issue involved or the holding? Don’t worry; we’ve all been there. Part of legal education is learning how to understand the central issue or issues in a dispute and extrapolate a rule from the court’s discussion of the case. …
West Study Aids Digital Collection for Academic Success
Want to improve your understanding of legal concepts? Expand upon the readings assigned in class? Quiz your progress on an area of law? You can do these tasks and more with the West Study Aids Digital Collection. The law library provides access to more than 500 online study aids to Carolina Law students and faculty …
Three Laura N. Gasaway Graduate Assistants Join the Law Library
The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library would like to welcome three new Laura N. Gasaway Graduate Assistants! Sara Farnsworth, Jasmine Plott, and Emily Roscoe have recently begun their graduate assistantships and will be experiencing many different aspects of law librarianship throughout the next year. Sara Farnsworth Sara Farnsworth began working in libraries as an undergraduate …
Supreme Court Nominations: Background Reading for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Nomination
Interested in learning more about Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court seat vacated by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy? The following resources are a great place to start: Georgetown Law Library’s Supreme Court Nominations Research Guide : This resource provides an explanation of the nomination and confirmation process, along with individualized …
Digital Access to News & Observer Newspapers through NewsBank
The University Libraries subscription to NewsBank now includes full digitization of three North Carolina newspapers: Raleigh News & Observer Historical Archive Charlotte Observer Historical Archive Greensboro News & Record Historical Archive Each of these digital archives includes full content of the paper versions going back to 1879 for Raleigh, 1892 for Charlotte, and 1909 for …
Kathrine R. Everett Award of Merit Winners
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 …