Law Library What's New

The law library subscribes to both the print and the online versions of U.S. Law Week. For online access go to the law library research page and click on "BNA" which lists the BNA publications subscribed to by the law library. The BNA page also has links for e-mail notification, which for U.S. Law Week includes a choice of "Supreme Court Today" (daily updates summarizing U.S. Supreme Court docket activities) and "U.S. Law Week" (weekly highlights summarizing major federal/state cases and general legal news).

Brian C. Murchison, The Fact-Conjecture Framework in U.S. Libel Law: Four Problems, 13 Media & Arts L. Rev. (forthcoming 2008), available at SSRN.

Ann MacLean Massie, Suicide on Campus: The Appropriate Legal Responsibility of College Personnel, 91 Marq. L. Rev. 625 (2008), available at SSRN

SCOTUSblog has published its "Super StatPack" compilation of statistics with charts, lists, and observations about the just-concluded Supreme Court Term. Find the the complete report (pdf) at StatPack

Policy Archive, the first free comprehensive online archive of public policy research was launched recently by the non-profit Center for Governmental Studies in partnership with the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library and support from major U.S. charitable foundations. At its launch the archive contains 12,000 policy documents from over 220 think tanks and other research organizations with the plan to increase to 20,000 by the end of 2008. Access at Policy Archive

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has launched a new internet-based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point (http://data.un.org/) from which users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN System. Access at UNdata

The ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has released two special committee reports that could be influential in reforming legal education in the US, namely, Interim Report of the Outcome Measures Committee and Report of the Special Committee on Security of Position, and one report, Preliminary Report of the Special Committee on Transparency. Read more at ABA Reports

New report from the National Conference of State Legislatures: A report providing a first look at introduced legislation in 2008 and presents selected examples of enacted laws relating to immigrants and refugees. Read the report

In a blog post dated May 23, Satya Nadella, Microsoft's Senior Vice President, Search, Portal and Advertising announced that the Company's Live Search Books and Live Search Academic sites would be taken down this week and that both projects were being terminated. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into the Company's SE results, but not through separate indexes. This also means that Microsoft is winding down its digitization programs including its library scanning and in-copyright book programs. Read more

Johnny Rex Buckles, Is the Ban on Participation in Political Campaigns by Charities Essential to Their Vitality and Democracy? A Reply to Professor Tobin, 42 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1057 (2008).

Mark A. Drumbl, Book Review, 19 Eur. J. Int'l L. 443 (2008) (reviewing Jordan J. Paust, Beyond the Law: The Bush Administration's Unlawful Responses in the "War" on Terror).