Considering a clerkship? Preparing for an interview? Read on to learn how the field and segment search options in both Westlaw and Lexis can help you target your searches to identify material that can assist in interview prep! What is Field and Segment Searching? Field and segment searching refers to the Advanced Search options available …
North Carolina Eviction Resources
With so many out of work due to the virus, the CDC has released a federal ban on evictions nationwide for covered persons. North Carolina courts have also significantly reduced their court activity, which includes processing evictions. However, concerns have been raised about an eviction cliff when these measures end. Further, landlords may continue with …
Newspaper Navigator: A New Image Search Tool from the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has just debuted Newspaper Navigator, a new tool for searching over 1.5 million newspaper images in their collections. The Library of Congress and their partners have digitized over 16 million pages of newspapers from across American history as part of their Chronicling America database. The Newspaper Navigator uses machine learning and …
Keeping up with SCOTUS
In classes, conferences, and the pages of law reviews, experts break down recent developments of the law. This is especially true for the United States Supreme Court. Their decisions have sweeping effects, and no matter your interest area: it’s a good idea to keep yourself informed. Not only are the Court’s opinions themselves important, but …
69th Anniversary of the Integration of UNC-Chapel Hill
Today, June 22, 2020, marks the 69th anniversary of the integration of both Carolina Law and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. On June 22, 1951, five African-American students, Harvey E. Beech, James L. Lassiter, J. Kenneth Lee, Floyd B. McKissick, and James R. Walker began summer session classes at the law school. The integration …
What We Can Learn About Legal Research from the Supreme Court in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org
There will surely be rafts of analysis and discussion in the days, weeks, and months to come concerning today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org. And while interesting issues abound, what this law librarian found most striking at first glance were the pronouncements by the Justices about the importance of annotated codes. Indeed, …
University of North Carolina Press Law Titles on HeinOnline
Though most of us are accustomed to using HeinOnline for its law journal library, and occasionally its historical materials, Hein also provides access to a number of other useful secondary materials, including .pdf versions of almost four hundred University of North Carolina Press titles related to law. The University of North Carolina’s press is one …
New Legal Research Guide: Military Law Research
The UNC Law Library is pleased to announce the creation and publication of a new Military Law legal research guide to support students currently working with the Military and Veterans Law Clinic or taking military law courses. The guide is divided into three sections: Military Justice Law, the Law of Armed Conflict, and National Security …
HeinOnline’s Legal Classics Library: Tackling the ‘Big Legal Books’ on Your Reading List
If you’re anything like me, you have a reading list that feels as though it is a mile long. I track all sorts of to-be-read titles on my list – recommendations from friends, books with stellar reviews in the New York Times, and new releases from my favorite authors. But there is also a spot …
One Million Downloaded Articles from the Carolina Law Scholarship Repository
The Carolina Law Scholarship Repository is an online resource for most articles published in UNC School of Law’s five student-edited law journals; faculty scholarly articles, essays, and policy papers; and some special digital collections. Launched by the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library in December 2015, the repository has since added more than 8,600 works that …