Sarah Glassmeyer, law librarian and Director of Content Development for CALI (the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) reports in recent post on the Law Librarian Blog that CALI’s eLangdell Press has now publsihed the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The ebooks were compiled by the good folks at the Legal Information Institute at Cornell […]
Electronic Resources
Can't Get Enough Quicklaw? New QL iPhone App
Quicklaw subscribers can now download the new Quicklaw app for iPhone free at the Apple App Store. Retrieve cases from the Quicklaw service right from your iPhone. Get on-the-go access to Quicklaw's complete, editorially enhanced case law collection and note up Canadian court and tribunal cases with the tap of your finger. No matter where […]
Selected Titles from the International Encyclopedia of Laws Now Available Online
We have recently acquired the online versions of the following selected titles that are part of Wolters Kluwer's International Encyclopedia of Laws: IEL Constitutional Law, edited by Prof. Dr. André Alen Presents a country-by-country survey of constitutional law throughout the world and aims to publish all of the constitutions of the world in English translations. […]
New HeinOnline Collections Acquired
The following additions to our HeinOnline collections have been recently purchased by the law library: American Law Institute Library Features all superseded restatements, codifications, proceedings, reports and other special publications published by the American Law Institute. History of Bankruptcy, Taxation and Economic Reform in America, Part III Includes legislative histories, treatises, documents and more related […]
HeinOnline's World Constitutions Illustrated - Update
You may not be aware of how comprehensive HeinOnline's World Consitutions Illustrated service really is. It's much more than just primary source materials. It also includes a large and growing collection (mostly historical) of scholarly monographic texts on constitutional law. With the March release, more than 2,160 books are now available. Here's just a sample […]
Australian Law Dictionary - Online!
The library now has access to the Australian Law Dictionary online -- part of the Oxford University Press "Digital Reference Shelf" service. Access is provided from both the Osgoode and York University e-resources databases. This is a new (2010) publication, edited by Prof. Trischa Mann of the Australian National University. The Australian Law Dictionary is […]
Recent Quicklaw Enhancements
There is quite a list of enhancements to the Quicklaw service this month, including: Quick Lookup Tool Auto-complete Search Feature Sort by Citing Frequency Option New Look and Feel for LexisNexis Quicklaw Essentials series For more information about these enhancements, read the March 2011 Quicklaw Research Update.
New iPhone App for Quicklaw
Quicklaw subscribers can now download the new Quicklaw app for iPhone free at the Apple App Store. Retrieve cases from the Quicklaw service and be confident that they are still good law, right from your iPhone. Get on-the-go access to Quicklaw's entire enhanced case law collection and note up Canadian court and tribunal cases with […]
Legal Information Institute of India
The Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India) was officially launched on March 9, 2011. This database is an addition to the World Legal Information Institute which makes legal information freely available on the Internet. Featuring about 3, 818,095 materials which include cases and legislation from all the states and territories of India, law […]
JustCite Introduces Precedent Map
JustCite is a legal citator and search engine for researching UK statutes and cases. It cross-references UK cases, legislation, and secondary commentaries to allow researchers to find related materials. It works very similarly like the Westlaw Keycite and Quicklaw Note Up service. Today, JustCite launched the "Precedent Map" feature, allowing the visualizing of relationships between […]