Free eBooks for Law Students!

CALI's eLangdell Press publishes free ebooks. Subjects include: Federal Rules of Evidence, Criminal Procedure, Civil Procedure, and more. These ebooks can be downloaded to an ipad, Kindle, other ereader, or a laptop (with a free software download). For more information, visit the eLangdell website at:

http://elangdell.cali.org/ 

If you have questions, feel free to visit us at the Law Library reference desk.

The Institutional Repository vs. SSRN

The April, 2012, issue of AALL Spectrum (the periodical of the American Association of Law Libraries) discusses whether an IR (Institutional Repository - our Digital Commons) will damage your SSRN rankings in the article, Will an Institutional Repository Hurt My SSRN Ranking?  by James M. Donovan and Carol A. Watson.


The authors conclude that an IR not only will NOT harm your SSRN ranking, it actually improves access to your scholarly work.  SSRN "excels at delivering their work to the cadre of legal specialists," while the IR exposes your work to a broader base of researchers that SSRN does not reach.  Hits delivered to your articles in the Digital Commons are not taken away from your SSRN downloads because "these users often would not have found the SSRN version, especially as studies show most users don't look past the first page or two of Google results."


You may read the entire article at http://aallnet.org/main-menu/Publications/spectrum/Vol-16/No-6/institutional-repository.pdf. And take a look at our own Digital Commons.

Introducing Chat Reference

Have you been wanting another way to ask research questions? Are you not able to come into the library when the reference librarians are available? Try our new chat reference! Head over to http://law.ggu.edu/law/law-library/library-services to chat with a reference librarian. This morning, I received a question by chat about how to submit an InterLibrary Loan request and a question by chat about where to find past exams. Try chatting with us to get some of your questions answered.

Chat is not available all the time (we have lives beyond these library walls); if we're not online, you can either email us your question or wait until we're back online.

The New York Legal Research Library

We now have access to the New York Legal Research Library on Hein Online.  The library includes a lot of historical materials; of current interest are the NY Journals and NY Attorney General Opinions, the State Register, Bar Journals, and Comptroller Opinions.

Access by going to: http://law.ggu.edu/law-library/online-resources, click on "Subscription Databases" and then on "Hein Online."

Please contact a reference librarian if you have any questions.

New Research Guides!

 

Check out our new LibGuides! GGU law librarians have created these new research guides to assist with your research, with links to print and electronic resources, along with explanations about using those resources. LibGuides cover a wide range of research topics. You work hard... do yourself a favor and let us help with your research!Follow this URL: http://lawlibrary.ggu.libguides.com/

Two New Libraries From Hein Online

Now available from Hein Online:

• The Pentagon Papers
• The Canada Supreme Court Reports from 1876-2011

To access, go to http://www.ggu.edu/lawlibrary/virtual/online_resources, click on Hein Online, and login with your name and GGU ID. You'll see the libraries alphabetically in the menu listing.

 

A Selection of New Titles For November, 2011

A selection of new titles in the law library for November, 2011.

 

Highlighted Title:

 

Hot coffee : is justice being served? / HBO Documentary Films in association with If Not Now Productions and The Group Entertainment ; produced by Carly Hugo, Alan Oxman, Susan Saladoff ; directed by Susan Saladoff. 
[United States] : Docurama Films : New Video, c2011. 
KF1250 .H68 2011 DVD. 
Click here to view the FULL CATALOG RECORD.

 

"Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later, its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald’s coffee case. It has been routinely cited as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of America’s legal system, but is that a fair rendition of the facts? Hot Coffee reveals what really happened to Stella Liebeck, the Albuquerque woman who spilled coffee on herself and sued McDonald’s, while exploring how and why the case garnered so much media attention, who funded the effort and to what end. After seeing this film, you will decide who really profited from spilling hot coffee."

More info at: http://www.hotcoffeethemovie.com/Default.asp

 

More new titles:

 

How constitutions change : a comparative study / edited by Dawn Oliver and Carlo Fusaro. 
Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Publishing, 2011. 
K3165 .H68 2011. 
Click here to view the FULL CATALOG RECORD.

 

Legal aspects of managing technology / Lee Burgunder. 
Mason, Ohio : South-Western Cengage Learning, c2011. 
KF390.5.C6 B87 2011. 
Click here to view the FULL CATALOG RECORD.

 

The access of individuals to international justice / Antonio Augusto Cancado Trindade. 
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. 
K3240 .T75 2011. 
Click here to view the FULL CATALOG RECORD.

 

World intellectual property rights and remedies : laws and commentary / Dennis Campbell, editor ; Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria. 
Eagan, MN : West, a Thomson Reuters business, c2011- 
K1401 .W67 2011. 
Click here to view the FULL CATALOG RECORD.

 

The politics of international law / Martti Koskenniemi. Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2011. 
KZ1250 .K67 2011. 
Click here to view the FULL CATALOG RECORD.

 

What's law got to do with it? : what judges do, why they do it, and what's at stake / edited by Charles Gardner Geyh. 
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2011. 
KF8775.A75 W48 2011. 
Click here to view the FULL CATALOG RECORD.

 

Best practices report on the use of adjunct faculty / American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. 
[Chicago, Ill.] : American Bar Association, 2011. 
KF272 .A44 2011. 
Click here to view the FULL CATALOG RECORD.

 

Transgender employment experiences : gendered perceptions and the law / Kyla Bender-Baird. 
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011. 
HD6285.5.U6 B46 2011. 
Click here to view the FULL CATALOG RECORD.

 

Lawyers, swamps, and money : U.S. wetland law, policy, and politics / Royal C. Gardner. 
Washington : Island Press, c2011. 
KF5624 .G37 2011. 
Click here to view the FULL CATALOG RECORD.

 

Regulating the international movement of women : from protection to control / edited by Sharron A. FitzGerald. 
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, c2011. 
K3275 .R438 2011. 
Click here to view the FULL CATALOG RECORD.