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It's exam time and Professor Langbein of Yale has this advice on writing law examinations.
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November 30, 2006
Lexis Latest
If students complete his/her Passport by 12/31/2006, he/she will earn a 2000 TPS bonus.
November 29, 2006
Good Luck on Exams!
Download previous exams (with some answers included) from the Library exam webpage.
November 28, 2006
Study Rooms
During finals, Hastings students can reserve the study rooms in the Gold Reading Room for group study. These rooms will be available starting Wednesday November 29th. Contact the Student Information Center (SIC) in the basement of the 198 building (room B6G) for details on how to reserve a study room.
November 27, 2006
Cubic Cyberspace
Mariotti, Renato. Cyberspace in Three Dimensions. 55 Syracuse L. Rev. 251-300 (2005).
November 22, 2006
Thanksgiving Proclamation
The Library of Congress American Memory Project contains materials from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, that chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America. You can read the thanksgiving proclamation of 1782 issued by Congress here. Other collections of documents include the US Congressional Documents and Debates,1774-1875 at the Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation page, and the Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 at the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention page.
November 21, 2006
Spotlight On...Legal Scholarship Network
Legal Scholarship Network, a division of Social Science Research Network (SSRN), is a searchable database of abstracts of working papers, and articles accepted for publication. Here's an example:
Denning, Brannon P. Brother, Can You Paradigm? Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 23, No. 101, 2006.
November 20, 2006
Library Closed on Thanksgiving Day
The Library hours for the Thanksgiving Recess are:
Wednesday, November 22 -- 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday, November 23 -- CLOSED
Friday, November 24 -- 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday, November 25 -- 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 26 -- 9:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Library hours for December are on this page.
November 16, 2006
Federal Committee Hearings
The University of Michigan is making the full text of federal committee hearings (from the 1980s) which have been digitized by Google available through a link in its catalog, MIRLYN: http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/. If you're looking for hearings from a different decade, our library research guide will tell you where else to search.
November 15, 2006
Working for Judges
Getting a job as a judicial extern is a great way to practice your legal knowledge in real-life situations. The Library has resources to help you find a judge. Check out the Judicial Profiles in the Reference Collection, or one of the other judicial directories listed in our research guide. To see what lawyers have written about federal district court and magistrate judges, check out the Robing Room.
November 14, 2006
New Carpeting
A worker is putting down glue for the new carpeting on the 6th floor. Notice the diagonal beams that were installed for seismic retrofitting. The red alcove on the right will be an information kiosk.
November 13, 2006
Poaching the Eggs
Gunnison, Katherine Poste. Note. Poaching the Eggs: Courts and the Custody Battles Over Frozen Embryos. 8 J.L. & Fam. Stud. 275-291 (2006).
The Journal of Law and Family Studies is in the First Floor Library at K10 .O8732.
November 11, 2006
State Statutes Research
Currently all of the Library's state codes (besides California) are in storage. On Westlaw you can retrieve the annotated and unannotated statutes from all 50 states. With the Law School Tab as your homepage, you can quickly search by citation using the Find by Citation box on the left. A list of Statutes By State is an option in the Statutes category, just enter your search terms and click the box of the state you are searching. Annotated state codes from every state are also available on Lexis; enter your citation in the Research Tasks | Type a Citation box, or use the Legal | States Legal | U.S. tabs. If you want to search unannotated codes in Lexis, the search format is: unanno ( educational w/10 tax! ). To look at states codes in paper you can either: 1) visit the San Francisco Law Library at 401 Van Ness (at McAllister) on the 4th floor, or 2) page up to 3 volumes from our stored state codes collection using the paging form available at the Circulation Desk in the First Floor Library.
November 09, 2006
Veteran's Day Library Hours
The Library hours for Veteran's Day weekend are:
Friday, Nov 10th -- 9 AM - 10 PM
Saturday, Nov 11th -- 9 AM - 10 PM
Sunday, Nov 12th -- 9 AM - 11 PM
Library hours for upcoming holidays are on this page.
November 07, 2006
Voter Information and Election Results
If you vote in San Francisco and you need more information before going to the polls, you can view the voter information pamphlet at the San Francisco City and County Department of Elections’ website. Beginning tomorrow, you will be able to check election results at the same page. Note that results may change as absentee ballots and write-in votes are counted.
Official Election Site of San Mateo County
Elections/Voting in Marin County, CA
Alameda County Voter Information
Contra Costa County Election Department
November 06, 2006
InterLibrary Loan Requests
The Hastings Law Library Interlibrary Loan Service supports the instructional and research needs of UC Hastings students, faculty and staff by obtaining materials which are not available at the UC Hastings library. Two to three weeks after you submit a request either online or in paper, you will get a notice in your SIC folder alerting you that the book or article has arrived. Once you've received the notice, come to the Library Circulation Desk to collect the book.
November 02, 2006
Spotlight on...Foreign Law Guide
Got a foreign research question? Start your hunt with the Foreign Law Guide on our website (in the subscription database listing). The full title is Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World, by Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores. This online database is arranged alphabetically by country or jurisdiction and begins with background information about the country's legal system. After the introduction is a list of major publications citing the codifications, and following that is a subject arrangement listing. If you cannot find a particular subject this only means that the editors were not able to locate a link, and not that there is no law on that topic. As always, ask a reference librarian for further assistance.
November 01, 2006
ABA Concerned About Legal Research Skills
Lawyers have become so concerned about the poor research skills demonstrated by new associates that the ABA has requested the National Conference of Bar Examiners to investigate making legal research a bar topic. While a change in the bar format is not going to happen overnight, the message to new lawyers still stands. Job applicants who can demonstrate superior research skills will have an advantage. One way to acquire the legal research skills you need is to take advantage of the Advanced Legal Research Class being taught next semester on Tuesdays from 9:40 to 11:30. The class is open to both second and third year students.