The Law Library will be open during Spring Break. Have a fun and safe break!
Spring Break: March 7 – 16, 2014
The importance of good grammar, particularly for legal practitioners, cannot be emphasized enough. Good grammar is the foundation of good writing, and good writing is essential to both high achievement in law school and success in legal practice. With that in mind (and in celebration of National Grammar Day today) we have provided a few resources below which you can use to increase your grammatical mastery. Since words are the tools of the legal profession, time spent brushing up on your grammar is never wasted.
Do you want to win $500? How about $250? Would you like to have your work displayed in the Faculty Publications Display Case? How about all the pats on the back you will get from family and friends if you win this prestigious award? You better get to work! The deadline to enter the annual Ross-Blakley Law Library Award for Exemplary Student Research is April 1st.
The purpose of the award is to encourage students to focus on practical skills and to refine their research skills beyond ordinary proficiency to their personal best. The award also serves as a means to showcase … Continue Reading
Need a way to consult the Federal Rules of Evidence without having to lug around the print rules? How about on-the-go access to federal cases and dockets? Or directions to the federal courthouse that you will be appearing in later today? The newly updated Federal Courts app can provide you with all of this, and more. The app now provides the full text of all the federal rules of procedure (civil, criminal, appellate, bankruptcy, and evidence rules) as well as the local rules for every federal court in the country, including district, bankruptcy, and appellate courts. The app also offers … Continue Reading
While there have been significant changes in the realm of legal research (such as the shift from print to digital resources) conducting legal research is still often a solitary endeavor. Two new websites are trying to change that, however, and have provided platforms designed to make online legal research a collaborative enterprise: Casetext and Mootus.
Casetext is a “community of lawyers, law professors, and law students helping each other understand the law by annotating key legal documents.” The website contains a database of over a million cases, statutes, regulations, and contracts … Continue Reading
The Law Library will be closing at 7 pm on Wednesday, November 27. We will be closed Thursday, November 28 and will reopen from 8am-5pm on Friday, November 29.
Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
The Ross-Blakley Law Library is pleased to announce the annual Ross-Blakley Law Library Award for Exemplary Student Research. The purpose of the award is to encourage students to focus on practical skills and to refine their research skills beyond ordinary proficiency to their personal best. The award also serves as a means to showcase extraordinary student research.
Two award recipients will be selected. The first place winner will receive $500.00 and a Certificate of Recognition. The second place winner will receive $250.00 and a Certificate of Recognition. Winners will be invited to publish their paper in the Sandra Day … Continue Reading
CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, is a consortium of law schools that researches and develops computer-mediated legal instruction. The CALI Library of Lessons includes more than 800 lessons covering over 30 legal education subject areas. They are designed to augment traditional law school instruction, and are written by law faculty and librarians.
As an ASU Law Student you have access to hundreds of CALI lessons and tutorials. Stop by the front desk of the Law Library for your free authorization code and register online at www.cali.org. We also have free CALI cds at the front desk.
You can also … Continue Reading
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”
- Socrates
As a law student you have no doubt experienced the Socratic Method instructional model, which is based on the asking and answering of questions in class with the goal of stimulating critical thinking. You can thank Christopher Columbus Landell for that, who as the Dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895 introduced this method to legal education. Before Landell, legal instruction was based on the lecture model, in which students memorized material from an instructional textbook and were lectured on that material in class.
Many law professors now … Continue Reading
The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office (GPO) mark Constitution Day today by launching a new app and web publication that make analysis and interpretation of constitutional case law by Library experts accessible for free to anyone with a computer or mobile device.
The new resources, which include analysis of Supreme Court cases through June 26, 2013, will be updated multiple times each year as new court decisions are issued.
Get the App: The app can be downloaded for free from iTunes. A direct link is here: beta.congress.gov/constitution-annotated. An Android version is … Continue Reading