There is one week left to submit your paper for the Ross-Blakley Law Library Award for Exemplary Student Research – the deadline to enter is Monday, April 3rd at 9am.
The award offers a $500 first place prize and $250 second place prize for a piece of scholarly writing that exhibits exceptional research.
To learn more about the award, including eligibility and application procedures, visit: https://law.asu.edu/LibraryResearchAward
The Law Library is pleased to announce that thanks to a new agreement with Westlaw, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law graduates will now have 60 hours a month of Westlaw access for 18 months after graduation; this access can be used for either commercial (paid) or educational purposes.
In addition, all current and graduating students are gaining immediate access to Drafting Assistant and Doc & Form Builder, as well as a number of other powerful practice-ready transactional tools on Westlaw.
* Graduating students must activate their 18 month password extension within their Westlaw account.
“Link rot,” when the URL provided via a hyperlink no longer functions, is a troublesome issue for legal scholars and practitioners. A 2014 study found that half of the links provided in Supreme Court opinions and over 70% of links cited to in the Harvard Law Review “do not produce the information originally cited.” As Jonathan Zittrain, one author of the study, put it in an April 2014 interview with NPR, this is “extraordinarily bad for the long-term maintenance of the information we need…to understand the law.”
An exciting new tool for combating link rot was recently unveiled by the U.C. Berkeley Law Library: U.S. Supreme Court Web Citations. This web application captures snapshots of all web citations in new Supreme Court opinions immediately after publication. The snapshots are archived using perma.cc’s API. U.S. Supreme Court Web Citations users have the ability to browse citations by opinion or by justice and can also subscribe to receive notification of new citations.
Reminder: The deadline to enter the annual Ross-Blakley Law Library Award for Exemplary Student Research is April 3rd at 9am.
The award offers a $500 first place prize and $250 second place prize for a piece of scholarly writing that exhibits exceptional research.
To learn more about the award, including eligibility and application procedures, visit: https://law.asu.edu/LibraryResearchAward