Enhanced Securities Practice Center Available on Bloomberg LawBloomberg BNA recently launched its enhanced Securities Practice Center on Bloomberg Law. The Securities Practice Center integrates laws and regulations, opinions and dockets, SEC and SRO materials, treatises, Bloomberg BNA Law Reports and Portfolios, a selection of transaction resources, including DealMaker Document Search with over 300,000 transactional documents. New features include distinct practice pages for financial services, capital markets and securities litigation, enhanced EDGAR search, fielded No-Action Letter Search, and “Go To” citation search for quick access to securities...
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Research Guides are available for several dozen legal topics and provide information on items available in print and online at the Law Library. Research guides are available for all first year classes, as well as for several areas of the law, including among other topics: environmental law, intellectual property, and elder law. Research guides are also available for all 50 states, the federal judicial, executive, and legislative branches of the U.S. government, U.S. territories, and selected foreign countries. International and comparative legal research guides are also available for several topics.A complete list of research guides is available at...
Ever wondered what 3 miles of law books might look like?Imagine 10 times the height of the Sears Tower (now the Willis Tower), half the diameter of the Chicxulub crater, or 17 times the height of the Eiffel Tower. Alternatively, you could just stay in Iowa and look at a picture of the Law Library Annex. At the end of August, the Law Library finished moving over 17,350 feet of books into our new offsite storage facility. The Law Library Annex is a climate-controlled, secure space with over 30,000 feet of library shelving. It is a closed storage facility that will be visited only by Law Library staff assigned to deliver or re-shelve...
In this work, four leading academics explore regulatory reforms and recommendations in the European Union, Australia, and the United States, including the perspectives of political science, economics, and finance.Find this title and other feature titles located on the New Books Shelf.InfoHawk Catalog RecordMonthly New Acquisitions
HeinOnline's newest online collections are available at the Law Library's Electronic Resources web page: Immigration Law Policy in the U.S. (HeinOnline) and Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law Publications (HeinOnline).The Immigration Law Policy in the U.S. collection provides access to important historical documents, all major Acts, and legislation related to immigration law in the United States. This collection includes...
ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United StatesSearching for statistical information? ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. The online version includes monthly updates to tables, deep searching at the line-item level, powerful facets for narrowing search results, image and spreadsheet versions of all current and historical tables, along with links to provider sites.Bar JournalsSearch or browse bar association journal articles online with our new...
This collection of essays provides a unique view of the inner workings of the Supreme Court from the people who clerked for the justices, from Randy Bezanson and Alan Dershowitz, to the first African-American clerk, William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., and the first female clerk, Lucile Lomen.Find this title and other feature titles located on the New Books Shelf.InfoHawk Catalog RecordMonthly New Acquisitions
The Law Library welcomes back returning second-year and third-year students. As you prepare for fall semester, the Law Library wants to remind you of some recent changes to LexisNexis and Westlaw.Lexis Advance Single Sign-OnOver the summer, LexisNexis migrated to a single ID system. Now, to access LexisNexis, you must use your Lexis Advance ID. (Your LexisNexis ID has been deactivated.) If you have already registered your Lexis Advance ID you don’t need to do anything. If you do not have or cannot remember your Lexis Advance ID, please contact our LexisNexis representative, Kendra Campbell at Kendra.Campbell@lexisnexis.com or Jacquelyn...
1Ls should plan on attending Lexis Advance training on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 with our LexisNexis representative, Kendra Campbell. This research session is for first-year students to demonstrate how to use Lexis Advance to prepare for class, how to find a case, free printing and Rewards.Lexis Advance research training will be held in Levitt Auditorium from 11:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 12:40 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Pizza lunch and free prizes provided courtesy of LexisNexis. Earn 400 points for attending.
Law as a Leap of Faith is a collection of 11 of John Gardner’s writings on the philosophy of law, most of which were previously published in one form or another, with two items not previously published. According to the publisher, this collection “presents the main elements of his [own] unique and refreshingly direct way of thinking about law.”Find this title and other feature titles located on the New Books Shelf.InfoHawk Catalog Record