Struggling to find a topic for a legal research paper? Not sure where to find potential topics for law journal notes or comments? You might consider giving a circuit split a try! What are circuit splits, anyway? In United States federal courts, a circuit split occurs whenever two or more circuit courts of appeals issue …
ProQuest Congressional is a great resource for finding information regarding government documents. But did you know that there is a way to search social media platforms? From the basic search page, select Social Media. It says, “Find out what Members and Federal agencies are posting on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.” The search includes Twitter, press …
It seems like you can’t look at the news lately without reading about executive orders. From reports on each newly signed order to controversy over presidential authority to make the orders and the courts authority to rule on them, executive orders have the public’s attention. All eyes are on the White House as we try …
When researching cases in Lexis Advance, you might have noticed that your search results just got a bit more colorful. Lexis Advance’s new Search Term Maps tool utilizes data visualization to help you browse through search results and also navigate through cases based upon your keyword searches. The Search Term Maps function is currently only …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
