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A quick round-up of new sources for legal history on the web... From Prof. Robert C. Palmer, University of Houston: "The Anglo-American Legal Tradition website now has available the acquisitions from Spring 2008. The site contains about 2.1 million...
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Among the most uncommon and interesting of our trial pamphlets is Isaiah Lanson's Statement and Inquiry, Concerning the Trial of William Lanson, Before the New Haven County Court, November Session, 1845 , probably printed in New Haven in 1846. Ours...
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Robert F. Blomquist surveyed 426 law professors who have taught legal history for his paper, Thinking About Law and Creativity: On the 100 Most Creative Moments in American Law (Valparaiso University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-04, May 2008)....
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Take a look at this recent article. Ayres, Ian and Nalebuff, Barry J., "Life-Cycle Investing and Leverage: Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk" (May 27, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1139110 Abstract : By employing...
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Spring 2008 has been a busy season for acquisitions in the Yale Law Library's Rare Book Collection. The American trials collection grew by thirty titles in Spring 2008. These included The Fall River Tragedy: A History Of The Borden Murders (1893);...
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The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) , the statistical arm of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) , has launched a new web-based data service UNdata. Instead of clicking through data sets scattered in the websites of different...
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I recommend two recent meditations on the present and future roles of rare book libraries and special collections: The Library in the New Age by Robert Darnton, incoming director of the Harvard University Library ( New York Review of Books , June 12,...
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Douglas Kysar (YLS) and Bernadette Meyler (Cornell) have a new paper up at SSRN. The paper is also published in the UCLA Law Review: Kysar, Douglas A. and Meyler, Bernadette A., "Like a Nation State" . UCLA Law Review, Vol.55, No. 6, 2008. Here's...
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The Law Library of Congress hosted a talk by Australian barrister James Renwick discussing the UK and Australian legislative responses to terrorism since 9/11 and comparing their responses to the response of the United States.
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The Law Library of Congress has created a page that pulls together material about the second amendment and the Court.
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In a new paper posted at SSRN and post to Balikinization , Professor Heather Gerken argues that equality and, therefore, the equal protection argument, not liberty is the proper and mpst promising paradigm for future gay rights litigation. Here is the...
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The Yale Law Library has finished cataloging the Roman-Canon Law Collection of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY). This means that all of this rich and valuable collection is accessible to researchers via the Law Library's...
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NPR reported this morning on Spain's battle to reclaim the treasure from a sunken Spanish vessel recovered in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean by Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa, FL. The 19th century shipwreck contained some 17 tons...
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Monday - Friday 7:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. (L2 access) 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. (Level 3) Reference Desk: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. & 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Circulation Desk: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Saturdays 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p...
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Summer Borrowing Privileges Returning Law students may borrow circulating books over the summer. They will be due on September 10, 2008. Any book that has been recalled must be sent via First Class Mail to the Law Library. Please check with staff at the...