Sign up for the Bloomberg Law/SCOTUSblog U.S. Supreme Court Prediction Competition

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Todd Ito at D'Angelo Law

The University of Chicago Law School has been selected to participate in the first United States Supreme Court Prediction Competition sponsored by SCOTUSblog and Bloomberg Law! Teams of up to five law students will use resources available on Bloomberg Law and SCOTUSblog to perform the research to make their predictions for merits cases and cert petitions that will be considered by the Court in April 2012. Students should also feel free to consult the various resources collected on the Law Library’s U.S. Supreme Court research guide.

The winning team will receive a minimum cash prize of $2,500. If the winning team also beats the experts at SCOTUSblog, the prize doubles to a total of $5,000! All teams must be registered by March 2nd, so visit www.scotuscompetition.com today to register your team submit your predictions, and view the official rules.

Training sessions will be held in Room F on Monday, February 27th and Tuesday, 28th at both 12:15pm (lunch served) and 4:00pm (snacks served).

For more information contact Erica Horton, the Law School’s Bloomberg Law Relationship Manager, via email at ehorton4@bloomberg.net. Robert Armstrong, the Law School’s Bloomberg Law Product Advocate, is also available to answer questions. 

 

Keystone Legal Research Workshops this Friday, February 24

Posted on February 15, 2012 by D'Angelo Law

As part of the Law School’s new Keystone Professionalism & Leadership Program, the D’Angelo Law Library offers legal research sessions throughout the year. Attendance at a session will earn you 10 points toward completion of the program. When you arrive at one of the legal research workshops, be sure to sign in so that you get your KPLP points. You will also need to log your participation online through the Law School’s website at http://www.law.uchicago.edu/KeystoneProgramLog. 

The Keystone legal research sessions this week are:

  • Antitrust Law Research with the Librarians, Friday, February 24 at 12:15-1:15 PM in Classroom B
  • Substantial Paper Success with the Librarians, Friday, February 24 at 12:15-1:15 PM in Classroom C

Redesigned! The Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Lyonette Louis-Jacques at D'Angelo Law

Check out the new Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations page!  The redesign makes it easier to search for the full title of a law publication if you have an unknown abbreviation.   For example, if you were looking for the UK Pinochet Case at [2000] 1 AC 147 and did not know what “AC” stood for, you could enter it into the Cardiff Index and find out “AC” = Law Reports, Appeal Cases.  If you have a title of a law publication, you can also search the Cardiff Index to find possible abbreviations for it.  If you haven’t used the Cardiff Index before, here’s a description:

“This database allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law…A wide selection of major foreign language law publications is also included. Publications from over 295 jurisdictions are featured in the Index.”

Friday Fun: Ancestry.com!

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Margaret Schilt at D'Angelo Law

Want to check up on your great-grandmother?  Do it now, during the Library’s trial access to the new Library Edition of Ancestry.com, the premier database for genealogical research.  See https://www.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token=IMY0B7EOSEO387BCWWZ1 for access.  The trial goes until March 9.

From the description:

“Ancestry Library Edition is a new genealogy research tool created for the library market and provides patrons instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more! These collections are continuously expanding, with new content added every business day.”

I looked first for my Swedish immigrant grandfather and found census records for 1880 and 1910, and a couple of possibilities for ships’ passenger lists. Then I looked for my great-great-greataunt “Grandma Haypenny”, noted for her political flexibility (her first husband was a Union captain and her second husband a Confederate colonel).  I found her in the 1910 census living in Idaho, with her son, and was able to trace her back to Indiana in 1860 through the 1860 census.  The database does wonders with variant spellings, common in older records, and approximate years, offering searches like “Was active in­­­ (yr.)” in locations as specific as a particular town and as general as a state.  Results are returned in html, with links to images of the original records.  Enjoy!

Feature Story UBorrow: rapid loans from 13 research libraries

Posted on February 7, 2012 by The University of Chicago Library

New UBorrow service provides campus delivery of books from regional research libraries in less than a week

The Library is launching a new service called UBorrow that offers rapid access to over 90 million books from the collections of 12 university libraries in the Midwest and the nearby Center for Research Libraries.  Books requested through UBorrow will typically arrive on campus within a week and can be checked out for 12 weeks, with an option for a 4-week renewal.

Like Interlibrary Loan, but faster and more predictable

University of Chicago faculty, students and staff can search for books directly at lib.uchicago.edu/h/ub or by following the UBorrow link in the FindIt menu within many Library resources, such as WorldCat and ArticlesPlus. In addition, Lens will display a “Request via UBorrow” link for any item that is checked out from the Library’s collections.

UBorrow searches the catalogs of participating libraries simultaneously.  If it finds that the University of Chicago Library already owns a copy of a desired title, it will give you the location and call number, so that you can retrieve the copy.  If a UBorrow library can supply a copy, you will be allowed to place a request for the item.  If a book is not available through UBorrow, you will be given the option to request it from additional libraries via traditional interlibrary loan.

Before you recall, UBorrow

In many cases, UBorrow provides a better option than recalling a checked out book from another user. You are likely to receive a book faster through UBorrow than by recalling it, and you can use the book without worrying that you are inconveniencing someone else. Perhaps best of all, books obtained from UBorrow will not be recalled before their due date, except under unusual circumstances (e.g., a book is needed for course reserve at the lending library).  UBorrow has the potential to dramatically reduce the frequency of “recall wars” that occur when multiple Library users vie for the same titles.

It is particularly easy to use Lens to request a book that has been checked out, as the “Request via UBorrow” link in the Lens record will automatically launch a search for that item in the UBorrow catalog. Since links to UBorrow are contained in Lens but not in the Library Catalog, users of the Library Catalog who discover a book is checked out are encouraged to visit UBorrow at lib.uchicago.edu/h/ub to search for the item.

Who is loaning the books?

University of Chicago has established this consortial borrowing program with the University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as the Center for Research Libraries.  The relative proximity of our partners, as well as the commitments made by each institution, allow books to be delivered through UBorrow far more rapidly than they usually are through our traditional interlibrary loan program.

Get started with UBorrow

To start using UBorrow, simply go to lib.uchicago.edu/h/ub. For more information, visit our online guide to UBorrow.

Feature Story Scan & Deliver service brings the Library to you

Posted on February 7, 2012 by The University of Chicago Library

A new Scan & Deliver service, being piloted beginning on January 18, will allow UChicago faculty, students, and staff to request that articles and book chapters from the Library’s print collections be scanned and made available online.  Requested material will be made accessible within four business days.

The Library expects that faculty and students who are conducting research outside Chicago, who are taking classes only at University centers outside Hyde Park, or who rarely come to campus for other reasons will find that Scan & Deliver helps bring the University of Chicago Library to them. 

Library users may make as many requests as they like, but the Library expects to be able to process no more than five requests per person each business day during the pilot period, depending on the overall volume of requests.  Scan & Deliver replaces a similar service called Gargoyle Express, which provided scans for a fee.  This new service is being launched at the request of faculty and staff.  Similar services are increasingly being offered at peer research institutions such as Harvard University.

The pilot will continue through June 2012 and is subject to modification as usage patterns emerge.  At the end of the pilot period, the Library will assess the value and sustainability of the service.  

How to request a scan

Library users can make requests by clicking on the Scan & Deliver link in Lens for items that are currently available from the Library.  If an item is checked out or otherwise unavailable, the material can be requested through Interlibrary Loan. For other requesting options see the Library Guide on Scan & Deliver.

Copyright

Due to copyright guidelines established in consultation with University Legal Counsel, the Library will not scan more than:

  • a chapter or two from a book (amounting to no more than 20% of the entire book)
  • an article or two from a periodical or newspaper (amounting to no more than 20% of a single issue).

The copyright law of the United States (Title, 17 U.S. Code) governs the making of the photocopies or other reproductions of the copyright materials. Under certain conditions specified in the law, library and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than in private study, scholarship, or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproductions for purposes in excess of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement. The University of Chicago Library reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order, if, in its judgment fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.

Questions

For information, visit our Library Guide on Scan & Deliver.

If you have additional questions or would like to provide feedback about Scan & Deliver, email scan-and-deliver@lib.uchicago.edu.

Lawyers.com app for the iPhone

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Sheri Lewis at D'Angelo Law

The comprehensive Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory is brought to the iPhone via this free app.  The app allows searching by attorney name, geographic location and area of law.   Law firm and law office profiles are also accessible in content amounting to over 1 million attorneys and firms in the United States and over 150 other countries.  The map feature, if enabled by allowing the app to find your current location, displays the location of the attorney’s law office and provides for driving directions via Google maps.

Additional information on the Lawyers.com app is available at the Lawyers.com web site.   

Fall Fest Follow Up: New student-recommended DVDs

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Todd Ito at D'Angelo Law

You spoke, we listened. Isn’t that how the saying goes? Back in October, at the D’Angelo Law Library Fall Fest, we asked students to name their favorite movies. We already had many them in our collection, either here in the Law Library or at Regenstein, and we have now added all of the titles that we were missing. Several of them are currently checked out, so we’re glad that you’re putting them to good use! Judging from this list, the tastes of our law students are quite diverse, from Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights to Mulholland Drive to the Bollywood film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. Perhaps most importantly, this allowed us to remedy a serious deficiency in our collection by acquiring the American classic Top Gun. So, feel free to stop by the Reserve Room the next time you want to ride into the danger zone.

Top Gun

The full list:

House of Flying Daggers

Law School students are also encouraged to make more DVD recommendations using this online form.

Exit a CALI lesson, resume it later

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Todd Ito at D'Angelo Law

CALI screenshotSavvy law students know that CALI lessons are a great way to supplement your course materials. The non-profit consortium Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) distributes these interactive, computer-based tutorials, which are written by law professors and librarians. CALI provides over 800 CALI lessons in over 40 different legal subject areas.

All University of Chicago Law School students have free, unlimited access to CALI lessons. If you are registering your CALI account for the first time, ask a Law Librarian for the registration code to download the lessons from the CALI web site. You can also get the lessons on DVD-ROM at the Reference Desk.

CALI is always working to improve their lessons, and they have recently announced a new feature: lesson resume. This feature allows you to return to a lesson if you exit it in the middle by closing your browser or turning off your computer. To resume a lesson in the same spot with the same score, login to cali.org and click “My Lesson Runs” in the right hand menu.

You should note that when you get to the end of a lesson, you’ll be given the option to complete and finalize your lesson. If you take this option, then you cannot resume that lesson, but you can always run the same lesson again from the beginning. 

 For more information on this feature, see the CALI FAQ.

Campus-wide access to ICPSR is now available

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Business & Economics

The Library has teamed with the Social Sciences Division to bring access to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) to the entire UChicago community. Access to ICPSR had been limited to some Divisions of the University. This new arrangement allows access from any computer on campus. Off-campus access is coming soon.

ICPSR is a repository of over 500,000 data sets that have been compiled by researchers in a broad range of disciplines. These data sets can be downloaded for analysis with major statistical packages, such as SPSS and SAS. Data sets range from broad topics like the U.S. Census to very specific topics, such as “Voting Results Under a Single-Transferable-Vote System in Malta, 1921-1996“, “The Evangelical Voter in the United States, 1983” or “Collective Memory in Lithuania, 1989“

 

Access ICPSR here

 

You can learn more about ICPSR at an upcoming webinar, hosted by their training department.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Lyonette Louis-Jacques at D'Angelo Law
Chinese New Year 2012 photo恭禧發財!  Gung Xi Fa Cai, from Lyo, Lorna, and the rest of the D’Angelo Law Library staff!  Chinese New Year celebrations have already started around the world.  In Chicago, there’ll be a Lunar New Year Parade this Sunday, January 29, beginning at 1 p.m.  2012 is the Year of the Dragon (click for search engine photos of dragons).  In Chinese astrology, children born in dragon years bring luck to the entire family.  Martin Luther King, Jr. was a dragon.

“People born in the Year of the Dragon — 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000,    2012 — are said to be smart, energetic, ambitious and passionate, extroverted, often conceited, hot headed, quick-tempered and sharp-tongued, unleashing fierce tempers if provoked…Dragons are creative people, often bursting with ideas and intention…They’re the movers and shakers…the people with the bravado to pursue risky innovative ideas.”

 Picture of Chinese New Year greetings

 

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. in Oslo

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Lyonette Louis-Jacques at D'Angelo Law

Today, America celebrates the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.  As part of the celebration, you can read about his speeches at the University of Chicago here.  You can also “voice your dream” at the MLK dream wall and on Twitter (see also photos).

Photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Martin Luther King, Jr. left behind a great international legacy.  The words of his 1964 Nobel lecture, The Quest for Peace and Justice, reverberate with renewed meaning today, as he said,

“The deep rumbling of discontent that we hear today is the thunder of disinherited masses, rising from dungeons of oppression to the bright hills of freedom…  Why should there be hunger and privation in any land, in any city, at any table when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? …. There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will. “ 

His acceptance speech (audio) for his Nobel Peace Prize highlights his non-violent philosophy, dreams for a better world, the importance of acting to change the world, and never losing hope.  Very inspiring!:

“I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. I believe that even amid today’s mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow. I believe that wounded justice, lying prostrate on the blood-flowing streets of our nations, can be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men. I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits…When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.”

 

 

2010 Digest of United States Practice in International Law

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Lyonette Louis-Jacques at D'Angelo Law

The Department of State recently announced the publication of the 2010 Digest of United States Practice in International Law.  It is available as a 944-page PDF at state.gov.  It includes summaries and excerpts of U.S. government documents, court cases, treaty actions, and official statements on the following topics:

  • Nationality, Citizenship, and Immigration
  • Consular and Judicial Assistance and Related Issues
  • International Criminal Law (including terrorism, extradition, trafficking in persons, and piracy)
  • International, Hybrid, and Other Tribunals
  • Treaty Affairs
  • Foreign Relations
  • Human Rights
  • International Organizations
  • International Claims and State Responsibility
  • Privileges and Immunities
  • Trade, Commercial Relations, Investment, and Transportation
  • Territorial Regimes and Related Issues (including Law of the Sea)
  • Environment and Other Transnational Scientific Issues
  • Educational and Cultural Issues
  • Private International Law (including UNCITRAL, family law, international civil litigation)
  • Sanctions, Export Controls, and Certain Other Restrictions
  • International Conflict Resolution and Avoidance
  • Use of Force, Arms Control and Disarmament, and Nonproliferation
The Digest is online at the Department of State’s website from 1989-2010.  Here is additional background information on the Digest (from state.gov).  See also the IntLawGrrls blog post, Read On!  U.S. International Law Digest.  Note that the American Journal of International Law includes a quarterly-updated section on the “Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law”:
 

“The Office of the Legal Adviser publishes the annual Digest of United States Practice in International Law to provide the public with a historical record of the views and practice of the Government of the United States in public and private international law. Following a hiatus from 1989-1999, publication of the Digest recommenced with calendar year 2000. Since then, annual volumes for 2000 through 2010, a two-volume set covering 1991-1999, and a volume for 1989-1990 have been published. A cumulative index for the years 1989-2008 was released in the spring of 2010. A brief history of the Digest and explanation of the current format of the book is provided in the Introduction to the Digest of United States Practice in International Law 2000. A supplemental note, dated October 1, 2010, provides updated information on Internet citations included in the Digest.”

New Exhibit: For Study Breaks: DVDs and Magazines from the D’Angelo Law Library

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Lyonette Louis-Jacques at D'Angelo Law

Check out our new display tables in the Law School classroom wing (across from Room V).  They include DVDs and magazines selected by the Law Library’s Patricia Sayre McCoy.  Among them are titles from our DVD collection that are also listed in Roger Ebert’s top 100 films, the ABA Journal‘s 25 greatest legal movies, and the Law School’s LL.M. Class of 2011′s recommended foreign films.  The display also includes magazines from the Fulton Room collection of recreational journals and newspapers.  So, take a study break, relax, flip through one of our magazines, or watch a movie!

 Photo of new D'Angelo Law Library exhibit - Ebert movies

Photo of D'Angelo Law Library exhibit displaying LL.M. recommended foreign films

Photo of D'Angelo Law Library exhibit displaying selected Fulton Room magazines

 

 

 

Recipes for the New Year from the D’Angelo Law Library

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Sheri Lewis at D'Angelo Law

The D’Angelo Law Library staff is pleased to share some of its favorite dessert recipes. Those of you who attended the D’Angelo Fall Fest in October2011 may have tasted these baked goods during that successful event.  Enjoy!

 CREAM CAKE  (from Julie Stauffer)

    • Ingredients
      • 3 cups flour
      • 3 cups sugar
      • 1.25 cups butter
      • 2 tsp vanilla
      • 6 eggs
      • 1 cup heavy or whipping cream
    • Directions
      1. Have butter, eggs and cream at or near room temperature.
      2. Butter a bundt pan.
      3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
      4. Cream butter and sugar.  Add eggs one at a time. Then add vanilla. At a low speed, alternatively add flour and cream beginning and ending with flour.
      5. Pour into bundt pan.
      6. Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes or until done.
  • AUNT MAE’S FAMOUS CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES (from Margaret Schilt)
    • Ingredients
      • 3/4 cup butter
      • 3/4 cup sugar
      • 1 tsp vanilla
      • 1 egg
      • 1/2 tsp salt
      • 1/2 tsp soda
      • 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
      • 2 cups flour
      • As many chocolate chips as you want!
    • Directions
      1. Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy and light in color.  
      2. Add the vanilla and the egg and mix together.
      3. Mix the flour, salt, soda, and cream of tartar together in a separate bowl and then add to the first mixture.
      4. Mix well, and then add chocolate chips.  Dough should be stiff.
      5. Drop in teaspoonfuls on an ungreased tray and bake for 8-10 minutes at 350 degrees.
      6. Cookies should be set, but only a little bit brown on the edges.
  • MARSHMELLOW CREAM FUDGE (from Michael Brown)
    • Ingredients
      • 1 stick butter
      • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
      • about 14 oz. marshmellow cream
      • 3/4 cup evaporated milk
      • 1/4 tsp salt
      • 12 oz. semisweet chocolate chips
      • 2 tsp vanilla
      • 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
    • Directions
      1. In a large, heavy sauce pan, combine the first 5 ingredients.  Cook over medium high heat, stirring constantly. 
      2. When mixture begins to bubble, set timer for 5 minutes and boil it for that long, stirring constantly. (Mixture will first expand and then collapse and turn a bit brown as it carmelizes.)
      3. After the 5 minute boil, remove from heat and stir in chocolate chips.  After they have melted in, add the vanilla and nuts and stir thoroughly. 
      4. Pour into a pan lined with heavy aluminum foil and allow to cool.
  • CHERRY OATMEAL COOKIES (from Rose Navarro)
    • Ingredients
      • 1 cup butter
      • 1 cup sugar
      • 1 cup brown sugar
      • 2 eggs
      • 1 teaspoon almond extract
      • 1 tablespoon cherry juice concentrate
      • 2 cups flour
      • 2 1/2 cups oatmeal
      • 1/2 teaspoon salt
      • 1 teaspoon baking powder
      • 1 teaspoon baking soda
      • 1 1/2 cups chopped nuts
      • 1 1/2 cups dried tart cherries
    • Directions
      1. Cream together butter and sugars.
      2. Add eggs and extracts and mix well.
      3. Mix together flour, oats, salt, baking powder and soda.  Mix into butter mixture.
      4. Add nuts and cherries.
      5. Form into small ball-sized cookies and place onto parchment lined cookie sheet 2 inches apart.
      6. Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for ten minutes.  Makes about 4 dozen. 
      7. Let cool and drizzle tops with powdered sugar mixed with cherry juice concentrate and milk. (optional)
  • CRANBERRY BREAD (from Lorna Tang)
    • Ingredients
      • 2 cups flour
      • 1 cup sugar
      • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
      • 1/2 tsp baking soda
      • 1 tsp salt (optional)
      • 1 TBSP grated orange peel
      • 1 egg (beaten well)
      • 2 TSBP cooking oil
      • 1 cup orange juice
      • 1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
      • 3/4 cup chopped nuts (optional)
    • Directions
      1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (glass pan).  Grease 9X5X3 inch loaf pan.
      2. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt together in a bowl.
      3. Add oil, orange juice, egg and orange peel.  Mix just enough to moisten.
      4. Fold in cranberries and nuts.  Spoon mixture into the prepared loaf pan. 
      5. Bake 60 minutes until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
      6. Cool on rack for 15 minutes
      7. Remove loaf from pan, cool completely.
      8. Wrap and store overnight.
  • GINGER SNAPS (from Sheri Lewis)
    • Ingredients
      • 6 tablespoons butter
      • 1/2 cup sugar
      • 1/2 egg
      • 2 1/2 tablespoons molasses
      • 1 cup flour
      • 1/2 tsp baking soda
      • 1/4 tsp ground cloves
      • 1/2 rounded tsp cinnamon
      • 1/2 rounded tsp ginger
      • 1/2 tsp salt
    • Directions
      1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
      2. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter.  Add sugar and mix.  Scrape bowl.
      3. Add egg and blend.  Add molasses and mix well.  Scrape bowl.
      4. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, spices and salt.  
      5. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture. Mix well and scrape bowl. 
      6. Form into balls and roll in sugar.  Place 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet
      7. Bake for 8 minutes.  Remove from oven and let stand in pan for 1 minute.  



Season’s greetings from the University of Chicago Library

Posted on December 23, 2011 by The University of Chicago Library

Mansueto Library lit up at sunset

May your holidays be bright and the New Year enlightening.

 Visit the Library’s multimedia greeting card.

New Law Library conference room reservation system

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Todd Ito at D'Angelo Law

We have changed the D’Angelo Law Library conference room reservation system so that Law School students can now reserve rooms online using the Law School’s meeting room manager. Logging into the system requires a UCLAW username and password. Only law students may reserve the conference rooms, but if for some reason you do not have UCLAW username and would like to reserve a conference room, please contact a law librarian. For detailed instructions on using the room reservation system, see How to Reserve a Law Library Conference Room. Please note that the system limits users to 4 hours per day per student, in accordance with the new conference room policy adopted in Autumn Quarter in consultation with the Dean of Students office.

The D’Angelo Law Library has a total seven conference rooms: two conference rooms on each of the 4th, 5th and 6th floors, and one conference room on the second floor. To see what rooms are currently reserved, consult the Law School’s Room Reservation Calendar (please note that you currently need a UCLAW username and password to view this page).

D’Angelo Law Library Interim Hours

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Sheri Lewis at D'Angelo Law

The D’Angelo Law Library will be open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday beginning on Thursday, December 15.  The D’Angelo will be closed on Saturdays and Sundays during the interim break.  Exceptions to these hours include:

  • Monday, December 26: library will be closed for the University Holiday
  • Monday, January 2: library will be open from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Winter quarter hours resume on Tuesday, January 3.  Consult the D’Angelo Law Library Hours page for additional information. 

What are University of Chicago Law Professors reading?

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Sheri Lewis at D'Angelo Law

Looking for recommendations for reading during the holiday season or gift books for a friend or family member?  Let the University of Chicago Law School’s faculty be your guide.  In an annual tradition, the Law School has asked a few of its distinguished professors to reveal recent books read along with their brief reviews of each.

The list includes a broad range of fiction and non-fiction titles, spanning a variety of literary genres. 

Free Kenya Law site

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Bill Schwesig at D'Angelo Law

The National Council for Law Reporting, publishers of the Kenya Law Reports, have created a free web site with Kenya case law and legislation. CaseSearch finds slip opinions for Kenyan courts of record. There are also three collections of cases reproduced from the official Kenya Law Reports: Gender and Family, Election Petitions, and Land & Environment. Legislation includes the Constitution, the Laws of Kenya, slip laws, bills, the Kenya Gazette, and treaties. The Kenya Law Reports and Laws of Kenya are not widely available in print in the US, so this is a great benefit to researchers studying African law and politics. Legislation and court judgments from other African countries are available through the Southern African Legal Information Instutute and the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute.

“Die Hard” and other Christmas movies

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Lyonette Louis-Jacques at D'Angelo Law

Die Hard cover‘Tis the season…to watch Christmas movies!  Die Hard is a D’Angelo Law Library staff favorite.  From IMDB:

“New York City Detective John McClane [Bruce Willis] has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his [estranged] wife. Unfortunatly, it is not going to be a Merry Christmas for everyone. A group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber [Alan Rickman] is holding everyone in the Nakatomi Plaza building hostage. With no way of anyone getting in or out, it’s up to McClane to stop them all. All 12!”

Besides Die Hard, we have these favorites in our DVD Collection:  A Christmas Story, Christmas with the Kranks (starring Tim Allen & Jamie Lee Curtis), Elf, Fred Claus, Home Alone (plus Home Alone 2 & 3), Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, Love Actually (“love and holiday cheer in London”), Miracle on 34th Street (the 1947 original and its 1994 remake), Nothing Like the Holidays, and Scrooge.  

Elf move cover

And quirky ones such as Tokyo Godfathers (some language):

Tokyo Godfathers covers

“The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of the baby’s parents.”

And Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather:

Hogfather (book cover for movie)

“It’s the holiday of Hogswatch in the parallel universe of Discworld, the night when kids anticipate presents from the beloved Hogfather. But someone–or something– wants the Hogfather out of the way. Now it’s up to the most unlikely of heroes to get the holiday back on track before humanity loses all hope.”

We have more Christmas films (list from Lens search).  Check them out!  And happy holidays! 

Text yourself titles and call numbers from Lens

Posted on December 7, 2011 by The University of Chicago Library

Texting from Lens
You can now send title and call number information directly to your mobile phone from Lens and take it with you into the stacks. Here’s how:

  1. Use Lens to search for titles in the collection.
  2. Click on a title to display the full record.
  3. On the right side of the screen, click on “Send as text message”.
  4. If there are multiple copies at different locations, select the one you want to send.
  5. Enter the phone number (no spaces or punctuation) and select the phone’s service provider to send a SMS (Short Message Service) text message containing the call number, title, and location.

This new feature of Lens was developed by Library staff based on feedback from our users.

 

Brainerd Currie’s Selected Essays on the Conflict of Laws now online

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Todd Ito at D'Angelo Law

Law Library users may know that HeinOnline provides PDFs of law journal articles, but may not realize the full extent of the primary and secondary legal resources that are available in HeinOnline. In addition to the Law Journal Library, HeinOnline also provides PDFs of the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, the U.S. Code, U.S. Reports, English Reports, Israel Law Reports, Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS), and many other resources.

Another important resource available in HeinOnline is the Legal Classics Library, which includes digital versions of many older law treatises from Blackstone’s Commentaries up through the mid-20th century. Hein is constantly adding new titles, and the most recent content release includes a full reproduction of Selected Essays on the Conflict of Laws, written by former Law School professor Brainerd Currie and originally published in 1963 by Duke University Press. Other University of Chicago Law School faculty works included in the Legal Classics Library include Ernst Freund’s Administrative Powers over Persons and Property, Philip Kurland’s Religion and the Law of Church and State and the Supreme Court, and Karl Llewellyn’s The Bramble Bush: Some Lectures on Law and Its Study.

Getting the Deal Through (GTDT online)

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Lyonette Louis-Jacques at D'Angelo Law

Getting the Deal Through (GTDT) logoIf you’re researching corporate law topics, you’ll find Getting the Deal Through (GTDT) very useful, both in its print format as books and in electronic format as an online database. You can find the GTDT database both as a standalone and as a component of the Global Competition Review (linked to from Surveys section) and Bloomberg Law (–> Secondary Sources –> Getting the Deal Through Treatises) databases.  The GTDT contains “international comparative guides to law and regulation in 46 practice areas and more than 100 jurisdictions containing concise explanations to the most important legal and regulatory matters that arise in business deals and disputes worldwide.”  Similar resources include the International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) Series (free via the Internet) and Practical Law Company (PLC Law Department –> Access Global Law –> PLC Cross-Border surveys – PLC Multi-Jurisdictional Guides – “comparative guides to law worldwide”).  

The GTDT covers the following practice areas:

Air Transport – Anti-Corruption Regulation – Arbitration – Banking Regulation – Cartel Regulation – Construction – Copyright – Corporate Governance – Dispute Resolution – Dominance – e-Commerce – Electricity Regulation – Environment Franchise – Gas Regulation – Insurance & Reinsurance – Intellectual Property and Antitrust – Labor & Employment – Licensing – Merger Control – Mergers & Acquisitions – Mining – Modernization in Europe – Oil Regulation – Patents – Pharmaceutical Antitrust – Private Antitrust Litigation – Private Equity (Fund Formation) – Private Equity (Transactions) – Product Liability – Project Finance – Public Procurement – Real Estate – Restructuring & Insolvency – Securities Finance – Shipping – Tax on Inbound Investment – Telecoms and Media – Trademarks – Vertical Agreements.  

Well worth checking out!  And, if you do use it, let us know what you think.  We love feedback on our Law Library’s electronic resources!

Wordle of Getting The Deal Done (GTDT) online database

 

 

 

D’Angelo Law Library restricted access during exams

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Sheri Lewis at D'Angelo Law

Access to the D’Angelo Law Library for non-law students will be limited from December 3 through December 14 during the Law School reading and exam periods. Consult the D’Angelo Law Library web page on Access for additional information.