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Summer Access to Legal Research Databases

By: Meg Kribble - April 29th, 2013  
Filed under: Student Channel

Got questions about using your Bloomberg, Lexis, or Westlaw accounts over the summer?  Here’s what you need to know about using each of the legal research databases.

BLOOMBERG LAW
If your workplace has a Bloomberg Law account, you are expected to use that, but there are no restrictions on your HLS Bloomberg accounts over the summer. Need an account? Just sign up with your HLS email address.

LEXISNEXIS & LEXIS ADVANCE

No registration for summer access is required if you already have a registered Lexis Advance ID.

Students will have unlimited access to be used for academic, as well as Summer Associate, Internship and Clerkship purposes. If you aren’t registered on Lexis Advance yet, you will need to be in order to access Lexis.com as well as Lexis Advance to conduct legal research. Graduating 3Ls will have the same unlimited access to Lexis Advance through July 31st, 2013.

For questions and assistance, please contact our Lexis rep, Karen Gray.

WESTLAW
Current students (rising 1Ls and 2Ls) may extend the access on their student Westlaw passwords for the summer if you are:

  • taking summer law school classes
  • currently a member of a law review/journal and working on law review projects during the summer
  • working for a law school professor
  • working on moot court projects
  • doing an unpaid private (non-government) intern/externship or pro bono work required for graduation

Law school student passwords may not be used for government offices or agencies, law firms, corporations or other purposes unrelated to law school academic work.

To extend your password for summer access, click on the “Need Your Westlaw Password This Summer?” link on the lawschool.westlaw.com page. If you have any questions on the summer access extension, please contact our Westlaw rep, Kimberly Kenneally.

QUESTIONS?

If you have questions about summer access, or any research-related questions over the summer, you can always contact the library. Our full contact details are available at Ask a Librarian.

And of course you also have full access over the summer to most other library resources at Harvard simply using your HUID and PIN. So if you need JSTOR, HeinOnline, Academic Search Premier or the like, you’re all set!

852 RARE: You Can (Sometimes) Judge a Book by Its Cover

By: Karen Beck - April 23rd, 2013  
Filed under: Cool, Faculty Channel, Historical & Special Collections, History, Libraries, Student Channel
Anarchy and Anarchists

Michael Schaack, Anarchy and Anarchists (Chicago, 1889)

When we think of beautiful books, illuminated manuscripts or vellum-bound volumes usually come to mind. But 19th-century English and American book publishers produced some amazing decorative cloth book bindings as well. The HLS Library’s Historical & Special Collections has a number of these attractive, and occasionally amusing, law books. The examples shown here were published in the United States and London between 1873 and 1889.

As you can see, the works tended to be popular rather than scholarly. The ornate illustrations, bright colors, and extensive gold tooling were intended to attract the buyer’s eye.

 

Two decorative book covers

Two decorative book covers

 

 

While most books from earlier centuries were individually bound and illustrated according to the taste and pocketbook of each customer, 19th-century publishers were able to mass-produce beautiful books that recalled earlier bookbinding traditions – particularly the use of color and gilding – while being very much of their time.

Haunted London

Walter Thornbury, Haunted London (London, 1880)

 

 

 

 

Need a Study Break? We’ve Got a Guide For That

By: Carli Spina - April 22nd, 2013  
Filed under: Announcements, Cool, Harvard Law School Library News, Local, Student Channel

As the end of the semester approaches and you begin prepping for exams, don’t forget to also take time for the occasional study break! If you can’t decide what to do or you aren’t familiar with the area, we have a helpful guide that includes free activities around Boston, suggestions for fun movies and books, and even tips on health and wellness on campus. Whether you want to go for a bike ride or start meditating, we’ve got you covered! And, check back often because we’ll be adding new ideas all the time.

Open Access Intern

By: June Casey - April 12th, 2013  
Filed under: Announcements

The Harvard Law School Library seeks a student intern, starting immediately through July 31, 2013 to assist with administration of faculty publications in Harvard’s DASH Open Access repository. This is a great position for anyone who is interested in learning more about open access scholarly communication law and policy. The Open Access Intern will gain administrative and technical experience from working with a DSpace repository at the law school’s Cambridge campus. Basic knowledge or interest in learning more about copyright and publication licensing is a plus, and training will be provided. Compensation is $11.50 per hour. Applicants for this position should forward a resume and a statement of interest by e-mail to: June Casey, Librarian for Open Access Initiatives and Scholarly Communication, Harvard Law School:  jucasey@law.harvard.edu.

App of the Month: HeinOnline

By: Carli Spina - April 8th, 2013  
Filed under: Cool, E-Resources, Faculty Channel, Legal Research & Research Skills, Libraries, Student Channel

Do you use HeinOnline all the time? Do you find yourself wishing that you could even access it on your commute? Have you ever been out and about and had a burning question that could only be answered by turning to the Pentagon Papers?

Ok, maybe not, but if you have ever wished you could turn your bus ride to school into productive time or if you ever wanted to look up one last thing as you rushed to class, you may be interested to know that HeinOnline has a mobile app! With their app, users can access all the same materials that they access through the full database on their iPhone or iPad (currently the app is only available for iOS devices). From the app, you can review the same full text PDF of the item that you would find on HeinOnline itself and you can download the document for later review.

Once you download the app, all you need to do is login for the first time while on the Harvard University IP range. After that, you will have access anywhere for 30 days before you will have to re-authenticate while on campus. HeinOnline offers a complete User Guide to help you get started with the app and if you run into any troubles, you can also always ask a librarian. Looking for more mobile app recommendations? Check out our guide to mobile apps!

This screenshot shows the app in action.

Mark Tushnet and Vicki Jackson — Book Talk and Discussion for The Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law, April 25 at 5 p.m.

By: June Casey - April 5th, 2013  
Filed under: Announcements

The Harvard Law School Library staff invites you to attend a book talk and discussion by Mark Tushnet and Vicki Jackson in honor of Professor Tushnet’s newly published Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law.  The book talk will take place on Thursday, April 25 at 5 p.m. in Wasserstein Room 1010.  Light refreshments will be served.

Poster Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law

Please contact jucasey@law.harvard.edu with questions.

Check Out Our New Guide to the Law of the People’s Republic of China

By: Carli Spina - April 3rd, 2013  
Filed under: Announcements, E-Resources, Faculty Channel, Foreign Jurisdictions, Legal Research & Research Skills, Student Channel

If you are interested in the law of the People’s Republic of China, you are in luck! The library recently published our latest research guide, which covers many aspects of the law of the People’s Republic of China. This guide offers access to materials in both Chinese and in translation. It includes primary law and secondary resources and we plan to continue to update it with additional materials in the future. Whether you are already familiar with this area of research or if you are new to it, you will be sure to find helpful resources for your work.

Improve Your Presentation Skills with Our New Presentation Tools LibGuide

By: Carli Spina - April 1st, 2013  
Filed under: Announcements, Cool, Faculty Channel, Libraries, Student Channel

Whether you are creating a presentation for an assignment, to teach a class or to speak at a conference, it can be difficult to design slides that will keep your audience engaged. As with so many things, a lot of this comes down to finding the right tool for the job, but frequently people fall back on the same basic techniques for every presentation. If you’re interested in trying a new tool, learning a new technique or improving your skills with your go-to presentation tool, our new Presentation Tools guide has resources for you!

In the guide, you’ll learn about PowerPoint alternatives, find apps that allow you to present from (or even create slides on) your tablet, or find the latest tools for sharing your slides with your audience. The guide even includes resources for finding Creative Commons-licensed content to include in your presentation and tips on how to make your presentation more dynamic, engaging and fun! To learn more about any of the tools included in the guide, click on it in the word cloud below.

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Love Animals? Check out our new research guide on Animal Law!

By: tsaintam - March 25th, 2013  
Filed under: Announcements, E-Resources, Legal Research & Research Skills, Student Channel 2 Comments

 

Tookie - currently available for adoption through the ARL of Boston, and being fostered by Terri Saint-Amour, ARL Volunteer and Law Librarian

Tookie is available for adoption through the Animal Rescue League of Boston. He is being fostered by Terri Saint-Amour.

Just take a look at the sweet, adorable face to the left and fall in love. That’s what Terri Saint-Amour, law librarian at Harvard Law Library has done, by agreeing to foster him on behalf of the Animal Rescue League of Boston.  Being an avid animal lover and a volunteer with the Animal Rescue League, she decided to put together a legal research guide on Animal Law. Included in the guide are links to state and national organizations dedicated to advancing the law as it pertains to animals, as well as state and federal laws, international agreements, GAO reports and more! There are even a few cute videos in case you are a law student reading this post, and need some stress relief.

By the way, in case you have also fallen in love with the gorgeous cat known as Tookie, here’s more information about him, written by another volunteer from the Animal Rescue League.  If you ask any of her fellow reference colleagues, they’ll tell you how happy she is to talk about him, or any of the other animals she works with on a weekly basis. For more information on adopting an animal from the Animal Rescue League, please see their website, and Like them on Facebook! They have additional locations in Dedham, MA, and Brewster, MA.

 

 

 

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New Exhibit: Long Road to Equality

By: Margaret Peachy - March 25th, 2013  
Filed under: Announcements, Cool, Faculty Channel, Harvard Law School Library News, Historical & Special Collections, Student Channel 4 Comments

The opening case of the exhibit, which displays the beginnings of HLS's community involvement in the fight for gay marriage.

In 1983, HLS student Evan Wolfson authored a prescient third year paper titled “Samesex Marriage and Morality: The Human Rights Vision of the Constitution.” Thirty years and countless examinations of the constitution later, two cases regarding gay marriage, Hollingsworth v. Perry (challenging California’s Proposition 8 ) and United States v. Windsor (challenging the Defense of Marriage Act) are being argued in front of the Supreme Court on March 26 and 27, 2013. Wolfson led a wave of Harvard Law School students and faculty members who fought for or participated in the discussion about gay marriage.
Today nine states have legalized same-sex marriage, with Massachusetts leading the way with the 2003 Goodridge decision, which led to much public and intra-Harvard thought and debate, memorialized in The Record and the Harvard Law School Bulletin. And the fight – with HLS involvement – continues.  At the Supreme Court’s request, Professor Vicki Jackson submitted amicus briefs on the jurisdictional and standing issues in Windsor, while other Harvard Law School faculty and scholars have contributed to many of the briefs on the merits of both cases.   While the Supreme Court deliberates, other members of the Harvard Law School community continue to theorize, advocate and shape the freedom to marry both here in the United States and overseas.

Come visit the Caspersen Room in the HLS Library to view “Long Road to Equality” – an exhibit documenting the involvement of HLS students, faculty and alumni in the long road to marriage equality. Curated by HLS Library staff members Mindy Kent and Margaret Peachy, the exhibit will be on view through July 2013. The Caspersen Room is open daily 9 to 5 (closed for special events).

The Long Road to Equality: 30 years of advocacy, scholarship, and debate at HLS.