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 …
A campaign to make all the world’s legal information more widely available is gathering steam. The Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) is an ambitious program devoted to making legal information available online at no cost. In its Declaration on Free Access to Law, the group holds that legal information “is part of the common …
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 …
