Are you struggling to make heads or tails of criminal law or criminal procedure? Or perhaps you’re looking for a different, nontraditional way to engage with the material? Well, have we got the books for you! The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library has recently acquired two comic book paperbacks written and drawn by defense attorney …
English Case Conversion Table
There’s a useful tool now in HeinOnline that helps researchers locate difficult-to-find, older English cases. Because English cases were historically published in scores of “nominate” reporters – few of which are available to American researchers – it is often difficult to find them. To make them more available to practitioners, significant cases decided between 1220 …
Organize Your Research and Writing with Reference Management Tools
Students: Writing a paper for a WE or RWE course? Planning to participate in the joint journal competition after classes end? In your writing you will be citing to scholarly sources as well as primary law. Depending on how robust your footnotes are you may feel overwhelmed with managing all your references. As you probably …
Litigation Analytics Tool Offered by Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law’s Litigation Analytics, which is currently in beta testing, provides law students and practitioners with the ability to research the federal litigation histories of major companies, identifies the law firms representing those companies in the majority of their federal litigation needs, and also provides researchers with another means for locating dockets when the only …
UNC School of Government and its Resources: Part III
This is the last post in the three part series highlighting the various resources available from the School of Government (“SOG”), and why the SOG can provide invaluable guidance for those researching North Carolina law. The School of Government publishes a wide range of judicial materials that are designed to assist judicial officers, including district …
Now in Beta: A New Go-To Source for Federal Law
Earlier this month, the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) announced that a new, redesigned and expanded platform – govinfo – will replace FDsys as the go-to source for federal primary law in 2017. The site is available at https://www.govinfo.gov and is now accessible online in beta form, giving researchers the chance to familiarize themselves with …
Breaking Complaints on Bloomberg Law
As you might know by now, Bloomberg Law is an excellent source for finding court filings from federal, state, and even some foreign or international courts. By clicking on the “Litigation & Dockets” tab, you can search, update, and track dockets with ease. You’ll also find a link there to “Breaking Complaints,” a unique service …
Bloomberg Workflow Solutions
Three new, specialized research vehicles are now available from Bloomberg Law. Called “Workflow Solutions”, they cover the topic areas Banking, Corporate Transactions and Privacy & Data Security. Accessed through the Practice Centers tab, the three Workflow Solutions platforms offer all the Bloomberg content related to those areas, but in discrete, stand-alone versions that allow practitioners …
UNC School of Government and its Resources: Part II
This post is Part II of a three part series that describes the various resources available from the School of Government (“SOG”), and why the SOG can provide invaluable guidance for those researching North Carolina law. An important feature of the SOG’s mission is to train state and local government officials. Many government employees must …
New Database: ProQuest Regulatory Insight
The law library has added a new subscription of materials related to regulatory law that is now available campus-wide. ProQuest Regulatory Insight complements the ProQuest Legislative Insight database by providing collections of federal regulatory materials – such as proposed and final rules and executive orders – that follow from Congressional legislation. The database can retrieve …