Moritz Legal Information Blog

The answer can be found in the Study Break area in the Moritz Law Library, located between the reference desk and the public access computers on the 2nd floor. Turn off your brain for a while. In this area you’ll find materials for a number of activities to help you take a short break from the stress of studying for finals. Activities materials include colored pencils and pages from the coloring book, What Color is Your C.F.R.? , jigsaw puzzles, playing cards, and old looseleaf pages to cut into snowflakes like this: These can get pretty elaborate. A looseleaf service is so called because it is made up of pages or pamphlets filed in looseleaf binders. This format allows current information to be easily added to the existing materials, removing out-of-date pages and replacing them with up-to-date information. The ease of updating the binders allows supplementation to be added frequently, even weekly in some cases. Most looseleafs are now available online. Only out-of date lo

During a recent visit to the Moritz College of Law, Moritz alum Lawrence H. Stotter ’58 presented the Moritz Law Library with a new addition to the Law Library’s Stotter Collection: five volumes comprising the full report of The Trial of Queen Caroline , published in 1820. Title page and frontispiece, the latter depicting the House of Lords during the Queen's Trial The Moritz Law Library’s Stotter Collection originated in 2006 as a donation of over 200 volumes on family and domestic law that Stotter, a prominent trial attorney and family law specialist, had carefully selected and curated over the course of several decades. The Collection contains works ranging from the 17th century to the 20th, serving, as a whole, to depict the historical development of this area of practice. Queen Caroline was the wife of King George IV of the United Kingdom, whose reign began in 1820. Prior to his coronation, George requested that Parliament dissolve their marriage. The newly-gifted volu

As we enter the final months of the semester, consider checking out the print and online study aids available through the Moritz Law Library. West Academic's online Study Aids collection includes over 500 titles, including Nutshells, Hornbooks, and outlines, on subjects ranging from criminal law to trusts and estates. Moritz students and faculty can also search for – and access – West Academic’s e-books through the OSU University Libraries Catalog . Another helpful exam prep tool is the set of online tutorials on the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) site. To access CALI lessons, new Moritz users must first click the “Register” link in the upper right corner of the cali.org site and enter the Moritz student code . Use your OSU email address when registering. The Moritz Law Library also maintains a large collection of print study aids in the Reserve Room on the second floor. For a full description of the library’s study aids collection and other academic succes

ProQuest’s Regulatory Insight provides federal compiled regulatory histories from 1975-2015. The collection will eventually include regulatory histories from 1936-1974 as well. Regulatory Insight enables researchers to quickly find and view all publications (in PDF format) in the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register related to a public law. Because the Moritz Law Library also subscribes to ProQuest’s Legislative Insight , it’s possible to link back and forth between the legislative documents associated with the public law and statutes as well. The database is set up to enable searching by agency (e.g., Department of State, National Cemetery Administration), public law number, popular names (e.g., the Dewey F. Bartlett Post Office Act), subjects (e.g., diseases and disorders), keywords, and citations to the Code of Federal Regulations and Federal Register. The search functionality is fairly straightforward, but don’t be surprised if you receive no search results when

Last week law librarians from the states of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio gathered in Dayton, Ohio for the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Ohio Regional Association of Law Libraries . A number of the Moritz Law Library's reference librarians, as well as the Director of the Law Library, participated in the Meeting: Ingrid Mattson was a panelist at the “Mini-Conference for New ORALLians: An Essential Program for First-Time Conference Attendees and Newish Law Librarians. Sara Sampson was the organizer and a speaker at “Researching ORALL States: Building on the Basics.” Matt Cooper and Paul Gatz presented “Make Research Great Again: Building Resources and Skills for Researching Election Law.” Sara Sampson, Matt Cooper, Stephanie Ziegler , and Ingrid Mattson presented “Building Skills to Teach Outside the Research Box: Law Librarians Teaching Legal Writing to 1Ls.” Ingrid Mattson was elected VP/President-Elect of the Association. Stephanie Ziegler continues in her role as a

Take advantage of the career resources and materials at the Moritz Law Library to gain insight on how to find and land the law job of your dreams. The Moritz Law Library’s Career Resources Guide will direct you to websites, journals, and books that can aid in the job search and interview process, as well as databases that can help you research potential employers and interviewers. The Job Resources shelves in the Law Library’s Reserve Room display our most recent books about job searching, interviewing, and practice areas. Other books on legal careers can be found throughout the Law Library by searching the library catalog . Of course, do not forget to check out the Career Services Office website and the Career Services Handbook for invaluable information and guidance on how to find the best law job for you. Please ask at the reference desk if you have questions about the Law Library’s career resources.

The Moritz Law Library now offers access to the American Founding Era Collection from the University of Virginia Press. The database contains digital versions of the papers of some of the major players in the early republic, including Alexander Hamilton, James and Dolley Madison, and the Adams family. In total, there are more than 165,000 documents, including over 16,000 diary entries, as well as letters, military orders, and memoranda. Each collection has a full-text search option, and is also browsable via a unique navigation “compass” at the top of the page. The collections are also annotated with historical and other explanatory notes, providing historical and social context and other explanations, as well as links to other documents in the collection to get multiple perspectives on the issues. A few collections, like the Adams collection, also have links to teacher resources and other projects. Moritz faculty, students, and staff can access the collections here and learn mor