Bloomberg Law has added new databases: Government Accountability Office Appropriations Decisions and jury instructions for California, Kansas, and Alabama. (North Carolina Pattern Jury Instructions are available for free at the following UNC School of Government website: https://www.sog.unc.edu/resources/microsites/north-carolina-pattern-jury-instructions/pattern-jury-instructions-online-library .) GAO Appropriations Decisions can be found on Bloomberg Law by clicking on the Legislative & Regulatory tab, …
Spring 2017 Prep for Practice Workshop Series
The Law Library would like to invite students to participate in the Prep for Practice Workshop Series for Spring 2017! Throughout the semester, UNC law librarians will host a series of lunchtime classes to help students hone their legal research skills as they prepare for internships, extra-curricular activities, and jobs. These sessions focus on practical …
New Database: Investor-State Law Guide
The Investor-State Law Guide (ISLG) allows you to conduct research into investment treaty law with “pinpoint accuracy”. Researchers will find it a valuable resource for locating treaties, rules, and cases related to investment treaty law. The UNC Law Library has recently acquired access for UNC Law faculty and students. The ISLG document collection contains arbitration …
Library Tips and Tidbits for a Successful Exam Period
Exams are almost upon us and the Law Library has various resources to assist you during finals! Below are several useful tidbits and tips to help you prepare for a successful exam period. Library Hours Library hours including Reference Desk Hours are available on the left-hand column of the Law Library Homepage. Exam Archive Past …
British Law Reports in PDF format on Westlaw
Westlaw has long provided access to most British caselaw, but it has not offered those cases in the PDF format needed by citecheckers. Recently, though, Westlaw has begun to include PDF versions of the two most-cited British case reporters, Law Reports and English Reports. The Law Reports is a series of the most significant U.K. …
Prep for Practice Workshops at the Law Library
Each year, UNC law librarians host Prep for Practice – a series of lunchtime workshops to help students hone their legal research skills as they prepare for internships, extra-curricular work, and jobs. These sessions focus on practical research skills that law students will need on their first day of work, whether at a firm, government …
New Features and Content on Govinfo
Govinfo.gov is the GPO’s new site that is currently in beta.The site launched in February 2016. In July, some new features and additional content were added. In their July 2016 Release Notes, Govinfo highlights these new features. Users can browse the collection by Government Author. The authors are separated into the Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, …
An Update on SSRN – Ownership and Copyright Policies
SSRN, founded in 1994, has become one of the primary tools that legal scholars use to communicate their ideas to the world. UNC Law faculty are heavy users. As of August 2016, UNC Law faculty have posted over 600 articles to SSRN, and have received over 143,000 downloads. By “total number of new downloads” (downloads …
New Report on Legal Strategies for Digitizing Orphan Works
We are excited today about the release of a significant report on legal strategies for libraries to enable open access to orphan works (copyrighted works for which owners cannot be identified or located), authored by UNC Law Library’s Dave Hansen. For all cultural heritage institutions, including law libraries like ours, orphan works pose a major …
Glitch Left Out Words from 600 Cases Since 2014
On Friday, April 15 Westlaw informed users across the nation that various hard-copy reporters and their online counterparts contained errors. Some 600 cases published since November 2014 erroneously omitted small portions of case text. In March, Thomson Reuters became aware that small portions of text were missing in a number of new cases posted to …