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- Boston, MA, 02215
- Phone:
- 617-353-3151
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Ever wish you could find reviews of articles in a particular area of law similar to a “book review?” JOTWELL, The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), a project sponsored by the University of Miami School of Law, aims to highlight new legal scholarship through commentary by legal academics. JO...
One of the easiest ways to keep up-to-date with online news and blogs is to subscribe to RSS feeds. If you are unfamiliar with RSS feeds and feed readers, check out RSS in Plain English for a straightforward explanation...
There’s much buzz about the new Droid phone from Motorola. Here’s what Futurelawyer has to say: This is the Droid you want, Obewan. If this were a fight, the ref would stop it. Debate? No contest. Dr...
Happy Thanksgiving to all! The Library is open until 9pm this evening, and reference hours are until 5pm this afternoon. We are closed tomorrow and open Friday and Saturday, 10am to 9pm, and Sunday 11am to 11pm. Reference resumes Sunday, noon to 8pm. Enjoy the holiday...
If you obsessively monitor Supreme Court rulings or enjoy playing in fantasy leagues, FantasySCOTUS.net might be the next big thing to distract you from your casebooks...
In an article published yesterday, The Financial Times profiles the LLM programs at BU Law. Including comments from Assistant Dean John Riccardi and Prof. Con Hurley, the article discusses the LLM programs in American Law, Banking and Financial Services, Tax and Intellectual Property...
Earlier this week, Google unveiled new functionality to Google Scholar enabling everyone to search cases and legal journals for free. Read Google’s announcement here. ...
Are you researching foreign IP laws for your note? Copyright Watch collects and monitors national copyright laws...
The ABA Standing Committee on the Judiciary is now providing “prompt, accurate, unbiased information about newsworthy and legally significant cases pending in and decided by the Federal Court of Appeals.” These alerts are written by law professors and sent directly to your e-mail. Yo...
The handout for the last weekly workshop this semester is available here. It provides an outline for the weekly workshop on November 18, and includes tips and suggestions about resources you can use to keep up to date with legal developments, monitor a topic, or research legal news...
Scholarship, understanding and creativity involve, in many ways, the ability to recognize connections between ideas (or between rules or statutes or holdings). http://bubbl.us/ is a cool web tool that can help with this...
Whether or not you attended the weekly workshop today on current awareness sources for legal news, some of these links may be helpful for using these tools: ABA Journal Blawg 100 About Law360 Alphabetical List of BNA Products...
The Law Library’s final weekly workshop this semester will explore updating tools that you can use to stay current with new developments, monitor a topic, and search recent legal news. The sessionis Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 1 p.m. in room 312. Join us for an informative session! ...
LexisNexis recently released their first iPhone app. The app allows existing LexisNexis users to log in with a password, retrieve cases by citation, and Shepardize. The app is free to download but requires a Lexis account to use...
Cyril Emery, from the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, gave an insightful presentation on the best ways to locate UN materials. Here is a summary of the materials covered in the lecture....
