Yale Law Library - News and Events
Westlaw Password Security Changes
Westlaw is transitioning away from using the Westlaw password and moving to the web standard of "OnePass" username and password for log-ins to their different portals (lawschool.westlaw.com, TWEN and Westlaw). See here for the timeline for implementing the password security changes and requirements for creating a strong OnePass log-in.
Please note that alphanumeric Westlaw passwords will no longer be active after September 29th 2009. If you now log-in to Westlaw with your Westlaw password, please create a OnePass username and password or update your exisiting OnePass accounts during the grace period.
Summer Library Hours - May 26 - Sep 5
Monday - Friday
8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. (L3 Access)
7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. (L2 access)
Reference Desk: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. & 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Circulation Desk: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Saturdays
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
No Reference or Circulation Desk Services
Sundays
CLOSED – No Services
4th of July weekend - CLOSED (Fri-Sun, July 3-5)
Lexis Access for Graduating 3L's
LexisNexis Associates Serving Public Interest Research (ASPIRE) Program provides complimentary LexisNexis access to deferred fall associates pursuing public interest work this coming year.
Eligibility is expanded to all 2009 graduates pursuing verifiable public service (non-profit or charitable) work. This includes:
1. Deferred fall associates pursuing public interest work during their deferral periods,
2. 2009 graduates who elect to pursue public interest work while searching for law firm employment, and
3. Those 2009 graduates who pursue public interest work as a continuing profession.
Complimentary LexisNexis access will be provided throughout these graduates' public interest employment periods, up until September 2010 maximum.
Further details and registration requirements are available now at www.lexisnexis.com/aspire. Please contact our Lexis representative Meredith Shuman Casale if you have any additional questions about this program.
Meredith Shuman Casale
Senior Account Executive
meredith.shuman@lexisnexis.com
Mobile (860) 392-8715
Customer Service (800) 45-LEXIS
Online Exams and Hardcopies at the Library
All previous Yale Law School Exams can be found online by going to: http://morris.law.yale.edu/search~S2/a
Hardcopy volumes are located at the Upper East Side (UES) opposite side of the copy machine.
Hardcopy volumes do not circulate during the exam period. "Library Use Only."
If you need further assistance, please email Cesar.Zapata@Yale.edu
New Law Library Acquisitions for April 2009
The Law Library's list of new acquisitions for April 2009 are now available:
Or, as always, you can visit the library's new acquisitions web page: http://www.law.yale.edu/library/acquisitions.asp.
Restricted Access April 27 - May 22
Responding to requests from law students, we will restrict non-law student access during undergraduate and Law School reading/exam periods.
Effective the evening of Monday, April 27 and continuing through the afternoon of Friday, May 22, admission to the Law Library will be limited to Law School affiliates, University faculty, and Law Library pass holders. (Passes will be given to non-law students doing legal research and presenting a letter from a faculty member or college dean.)
During this restricted period, law students must show their ID card with the Law School sticker every time they enter the library to gain admission to the Law Library.
The library monitors will be intending conscientiously to enforce this policy so please help them by having your card when you come to the library. If for some reason you do not have the Law School sticker on your card, you can get one from the Registrar's Office. In general, we ask for your cooperation with staff who will be implementing the rules in the stressful environment that exams create for all of us.
Restrictions must always be implemented with caution because we are committed to participating in the University community. If you have suggestions about these policies, please feel free to communicate them to me.
Fred Shapiro
Associate Librarian for Collections and Access
Lillian Goldman Law Library
Yale Law School
Zachary Kaufman Book Talk
Our very own Zachary D. Kaufman, YLS JD Candidate '09, will be
giving a book talk this Friday, April 17, 2009, at 4:00pm, in the Law
Library's L3 Periodical Reading Room. Zach, an Olin Fellow and
editor-in-chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review edited After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond with Philip Clark, research fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of
Oxford, and co-founder of Oxford Transitional Justice Research.
In After Genocide, published by Columbia University Press, ". . . leading scholars and practitioners analyze the political, legal, and
regional impact of events in post-genocide Rwanda within the broader
themes of transitional justice, reconstruction, and reconciliation."
The book includes ". . . chapters from Rwandan academics and practitioners, such as
Tom Ndahiro, Solomon Nsabiyera Gasana, and Jean Baptiste Kayigamba—all
of whom are also survivors of the 1994 genocide—and draws on their
personal experiences. After Genocide
constitutes the most comprehensive survey to date of issues related to
post-genocide Rwanda and transitional justice." Read a more complete description of the book.
After Genocide is not on our shelves yet, but it will be very soon!
Heather Gerken Book Talk
On Thursday, April 16, 2009, at 5:30 pm, Labyrinth Books and the Yale Law Library invite you to a discussion about
election reform with Heather Gerken in honor of her new book, The Democracy Index. The book talk will take place at Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven.
Despite
howls for reform, the only thing separating us from another election disaster of
the kind that hit Florida in 2000, and that almost struck again in Ohio in 2004,
may simply be another close vote. In this lucid and lively book, Heather Gerken
diagnoses what is wrong with our elections and proposes a radically new and
simple solution: a Democracy Index that would rate the performance of state and
local election systems. A rough equivalent to the U.S. News and World Report
ranking of colleges and universities, the Index would focus on problems that
matter to all voters: How long does it take to vote? How many ballots get
discarded? How often do voting machines break down? And it should work for a
simple reason: no one wants to be at the bottom of the list.
For a
process that is supposed to be all about counting, U.S. elections yield few
reliable numbers about anything--least of all how well the voting system is
managed. The Democracy Index would change this with a blueprint for
quantifying election performance and reform results, replacing anecdotes and
rhetoric with hard data and verifiable outcomes. A fresh vision of reform, this
book shows how to drive improvements by creating incentives for politicians,
parties, and election officials to join the cause of change and to come up with
creative solutions--all without Congress issuing a single regulation.
In
clear and energetic terms, The Democracy Index explains how to realize the full
potential of the Index while avoiding potential pitfalls.
Heather K.
Gerken is a professor at Yale Law School, where she teaches election and
constitutional law. She is a frequent media commentator on elections and has
written for the New Republic, Roll Call, Legal Affairs, and the Legal
Times.
This event is free and open to the public.
Not wheelchair
accessible.
290 York Street
New Haven, CT
203.787.2848
New Law Library Acquisitions for March 2009
The Law Library's list of new acquisitions for March 2009 are now available:
Or, as always, you can visit the library's new acquisitions web page: http://www.law.yale.edu/library/acquisitions.asp.
Lawyering Skills: A Crash Course in Legal Writing, Research, and Practice
When: Friday, May 1, 2009 from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Where: Room 122
This two-hour program will give students vital information to help them
succeed in their first jobs or their summer jobs. The program is comprised of
four 30-minute workshops that cover the following topics: legal writing; legal
research; how to succeed at a law firm; and how to succeed in a clerkship.
Students will also be informed on how to connect to Yale Law Library resources
over the summer.
Prepare for Practice - Database Training
Learn the Top Ten Time and Cost Effective Research Strategies on Lexis and
Westlaw by attending an hour-long, joint session in the Library's Computer Lab
on L2. Class will be held on Wednesday, April 8th, from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. with a
repeat session from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m, and again on Wednesday, April 22nd, from
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. with a repeat session from 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. All law students are welcome, no registration is required.
Representatives from CCH will be providing training sessions on their
database on Wednesday, April 1st from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. and again on Wednesday,
April 29th, from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. CCH is a practitioner-oriented database
used by private law firms practicing in tax, business, e-commerce, and
employment law. All law students are welcome, no registration is required.
Request Law Library books for delivery through Eli Express
Effective Monday, March 16, 2009 the Law Library is pleased to announce the abililty of University Library patrons to request law library books to be delivered to a library of choice on this campus. Participating Yale libraries include Sterling, Bass, Divinity, Drama, Engineering, Epidemiology and Public Health, Forestry, Geology, Kline Science, Medical, Seeley Mudd, Music, Social Science.
For assistance with requests for delivery of Law Library materials, e-mail laweli@pantheon.yale.edu.
New Law Library Acquisitions for February 2009
The Law Library's list of new acquisitions for February 2009 are now available:
Or, as always, you can visit the library's new acquisitions web page: http://www.law.yale.edu/library/acquisitions.asp.
Coming Soon: book delivery service
The Law Library is testing procedures that will allow patrons to have law books delivered to other libraries on the Yale campus. Please note this feature is not yet working. Please stay tuned for more information!
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