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Summer and Post-Graduation Access to Legal Research Databases

Do your summer or post-graduation plans include legal research? Whether you are on a journal, taking summer classes, or working at a law firm, you can continue to take advantage of the major legal research platforms. Bloomberg Law, Lexis Advance, and Thomson Reuters Westlaw all permit summer and post-graduation use, at least for certain purposes. Bloomberg does not have an “academic use only” policy and encourages use for any summer or graduate research. Lexis also does not have an “academic use only” policy and will continue to provide free printing. Westlaw permits limited use for education-related or non-commercial purposes. For more details, see the Moritz Law Library’s Research Assistant Resources Guide or ask a reference librarian. Fastcase is another legal research option for summer or post-graduation use. Fastcase provides a quick and easy way to search federal and state cases and statutes, state constitutions, administrative opinions, regulations, law reviews, and legal forms

Advanced Legal Research Course Offerings

As you are selecting your courses for the 2018-19 academic year, consider registering for a 1-credit Advanced Legal Research course taught by one of the Moritz College of Law’s reference librarians. Each ALR course is focused on a specialized practice area or jurisdiction, but all will help you to further develop the legal research skills you were introduced to in your LAWI & II courses. The following courses will be taught in next year’s spring semester: Business and Tax Legal Research (taught by Ingrid Mattson) provides an introduction to business and tax related materials as well as training and advanced research strategies for finding and effectively using these materials for legal research. Topics covered include business forms, company filings and SEC research, and foreign and international business research. In-class work will include working through research problems to resolve legal question. Advanced Legal Research: Litigation and ADR (taught by Stephanie Ziegler) focu

Online and Print Study Aids at the Moritz Law Library

As we enter the final weeks of the semester, don’t forget that the Moritz Law Library provides access to supplements and study aids in print and online. Print study aids can be found in the Reserve Room on the second floor. Study aids published by West Academic or Wolters Kluwer are also available in ebook format. Wolters Kluwer online study aids include Examples and Explanations, Glannon Guides, and Emanuel CrunchTime and Law Outlines. To use these study aids, students must set up their own account at https://ebooks.aspenlaw.com/librarycard/login . Additional information on account set-up can be found on the Moritz intranet . West Academic's online Study Aids collection contains over 500 titles, including Nutshells, Gilbert Law Summaries, and Black Letter Outlines.  Please check in with the law library circulation or reference desks if you have any difficulties accessing either of these online resources.

Landmark Supreme Court Cases in the Law Library

Check out the Moritz Law Library’s new display of landmark Supreme Court cases, located next to the reference desk on the 2nd floor. The featured cases all have an anniversary in 2018. The display includes quotes and articles from Moritz professors, books you can check out, and other information on these important cases: Marbury v. Madison: judicial review (215th anniversary)  Shelley v. Kraemer: racially restrictive covenants (70th anniversary) Gideon v. Wainwright: right to an attorney (55th anniversary) Terry v. Ohio: search and seizure (50th anniversary) Roe v. Wade: abortion (45th anniversary) Lawrence v. Texas: sodomy (15th anniversary) For an interesting resource containing briefs and arguments from these and other significant SCOTUS cases, check out Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States, located in the Law Library’s Reference Stacks. A list of helpful databases for researching the Supreme Court can be found on the Law Library’s Lega