Professor Michael Gerhardt has two new books available in 2024: The Law of Presidential Impeachment and FDR’s Mentors. The Law of Presidential Impeachment: A Guide for the Engaged Citizen provides “a refresher course on the law of presidential impeachment” providing a historical reflection on the impeachment process, the underpinnings of its creation and an analysis …
The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library has recently acquired several new titles in the Feminist Judgments Series: Rewritten Judicial Opinions. Published by Cambridge University Press, these texts reimagine major legal decisions in various subjects through a social justice lens. Each collection includes rewritten decisions authored and edited by prominent legal scholars, who take the facts …
LawDroid’s Copilot is a new law-trained large language model (LLM.) It works similar to ChatGPT, but is made specifically for legal research and analysis. It’s now available for free to law students (registration is available here.) To register, you need to sign up using your UNC email to confirm that you are a law student. …
The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library has just acquired the CQ Press Supreme Court Collection, a new research database, available to the entire UNC community. The CQ Press Supreme Court Collection provides a wide variety of materials related to the United States Supreme Court, including case summaries, justice profiles, analysis of the history and traditions …
In 2004, the North Carolina Bar Association published The Changing Face of Justice: A Look at the First 100 Women Attorneys in North Carolina. Women in the state first began acting as attorneys – representing other people in court – in the late 1600s. Researchers with the North Carolina Bar Association’s Committee on Women in …
The Law Library has recently revived our recent acquisitions bookshelf, where we display new library titles. It’s always fascinating to see what has come in recently, and patrons seem to feel the same, as we’ve had a number of check outs from those shelves. Here are some recent titles that the Kathrine R. Everett Law …
The Almanac of the Federal Judiciary is an invaluable resource for researching federal judges. Published by Wolters Kluwer, it provides biographic profiles, financial disclosure information, noteworthy rulings, media coverage, and commentary by attorneys who have firsthand experience practicing in front of their local judges. It is updated semi-annually and covers all judges in the federal …
Coming April 1, 2022, Thomson Reuters ProView is getting a new face and some substantial changes. Let’s go through a few of the major ones: 1. A cleaner and brighter interface. Old ProView New ProView 2. ProView Simplified Accessing ProView is getting simpler. There’s going to be a single way to …
Professor Carissa Byrne Hessick has released her latest book: Punishment Without Trial! Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal explores plea bargaining and how it has undermined the justice system and the right to a trial. In this book, Professor Hessick demonstrates how plea bargaining has done away with preconceived notions of …
The UNC Law Library is pleased to announce that we have a new digital subscription to the Financial Times available for all law school faculty, students and staff. The Financial Times is a daily international newspaper, headquartered in London, with especially good coverage of business and economic news. FT offers options for customizing your homepage …
