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- Location:
- Durham, NC, 27708-0361
- Phone:
- 919-613-7128 (Circulation) or 919-613-7121 (Reference)
- Mon - Thurs:
- 7:30 am - 10:00 pm
- Fri:
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- Sat:
- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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The blogosphere was abuzz this morning about Google Scholar’s quiet addition of federal case law, state case law, and legal journal articles to its already-large full-text index of academic journal literature. ...
Cite-checkers, rejoice: HeinOnline has added an online archive of more than 50 state and regional bar association journals...
Political cartoons do more than amuse (and occasionally confuse)—they can express, as well as shape, public opinion. ...
Has a library book ever fallen apart in your hands? Or have you ever found an unpleasant surprise stuck between some pages...
Duke University Law Library just added "Acing Professional Responsibility" & "Black Letter Outline: Professional Responsibility" to the free book shelf. Act fast, November MPRE takers!
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that more than 10,000 Hotmail email accounts had been compromised, and their passwords posted to underground hacking websites...
Hollywood has always had a strange relationship with the law. Throughout history, the film industry has used self-regulation as a way to avoid excessive government interference...
When researching the law of other countries, yearbooks are frequently helpful. The articles in law yearbooks provide an annual survey of a particular country or region’s activities in the last year, and often reprint cases, legislation or other important documents. ...
Last year, the Goodson Law Library celebrated Open Access Day, the first-ever international celebration of the Open Access (OA) movement, which encourages the use of the Internet to freely distribute scholarship which is normally locked behind online subscription databases or published in costly...
The Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) is a multiple-choice test of legal ethics, which is required for admission to the bars of most U.S. jurisdictions. (Feel like skipping it? You’ll be limited to practicing law in Maryland, Washington, Wisconsin, or Puerto Rico. ...
Duke University Law Library begins Fall Break service hours at 5:00 p.m. today! We will be fully staffed from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday Oct. 12 to Friday Oct. 16. Evening and weekend service hours will resume on Sunday Oct. 18.
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. Or at least they will be at 10:00 a.m...
During library tours, there's usually a collective chuckle on Level 2 when groups pass by the call numbers beginning with KFC—the prefix for library materials about the law of California, Connecticut and Colorado. ...
Last night, 60 Minutes aired a fascinating segment about Mark Roesler, an intellectual property lawyer who made his career by representing dead celebrities (or as correspondent Steve Kroft rather tastelessly calls them, "working stiffs")...
Earlier this month, the White House announced that for the first time in history, its visitor log will be made available to the public on a rolling 90-day delay...
