Bobblehead Justices

The Law Library is pleased to announce its new exhibit of recently acquired Supreme Court Justices bobbleheads. Created and distributed by The Green Bag, each wobbly Justice is fashioned in the interest of “scholarly artistry,” simply for the fun of it. The bobbleheads, together with explanatory notes, are available for viewing in the Law Library’s Reading Room display cases throughout the spring semester.

The Green Bag is a self-described “quarterly journal of short, readable, useful, and sometimes entertaining legal scholarship.” The Law Library thanks Ross E. Davies, Editor in Chief of The Green Bag, for his assistance in building the collection. 

 

Amy Emerson

Head of Access Services and Foreign & International Law Specialist

aae25@cornell.edu

 

 

 

 

New Law Books at Cornell

The latest list of New Books is available on the Law Library web site.  Click here to view the entire list.  It includes all new books at the Law Library as well as law-related books at other libraries on campus.  Here are a few titles of interest:

 

Soft law and the global financial system: rule making in the 21st century / Chris Brummer. -- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

K4444 .B78x 2012 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

Place of law: the role and limits of law in society / Larry D. Barnett. -- New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, c2011.

KF380 .B37 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

New battlefields, old laws: critical debates on asymmetric warfare / edited by William C. Banks. -- New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.

KZ6471 .N485 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

 

You can click on the underlined title to go to the online catalog entry for that book.  And then click on “Long View” near the top of that screen for more information, usually chapter titles and authors, and subject headings.

 

If you would like to have any of these or other books checked out to you, please contact me or your librarian liaison.

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pat.court@cornell.edu   

 

HathiTrust, Digital Repository of Nation's Great Research Libraries

Now that the Google Books project is at a stand-still in adding full text books to the web, there is a group that continues the work of digitizing university library collections: HathiTrust. In light of Judge Chin’s rejection last year of the Google Books Amended Settlement  Agreement, Authors Guild et al. v. Google, HathiTrust maintains its commitment to long-term digital preservation of library collections curated by generations of librarians at great research libraries around the world.

 

HathiTrust, the digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, reached a major milestone this month, exceeding 10 million volumes in its digital collections. More than 2.7 million of these volumes are in the public domain, with viewing and downloading options available online.  Major players include Cornell, Harvard, Yale, Duke, University of Michigan, and the University of California libraries.  Cornell has contributed about 400,000 items to the digital collections.

 

You can search the 10 million plus volumes by keyword (e.g.: presidential AND campaign), by catalog record (e.g.: feminist jurisprudence), or through the unique collections compiled by users (e.g.: japan).  Many items will be accessible instantly online.  Ask the library for interlibrary loan of any items you identify that are not available in full text through HathiTrust.  As always, we are happy to assist!

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pat.court@cornell.edu

 

 

New Law Books at Cornell

The latest list of New Books  is available on the Law Library web site.  Click here to view the entire list.  It includes all new books at the Law Library as well as law-related books at other libraries on campus.  Here are a few titles of interest:

 

Restorative justice realities:  empirical research in a European context / Inge Vanfraechem, Ivo Aertsen, Jolien Willemsens (eds.) -- The Hague : Eleven International Pub., 2010. – 283 p.

KJC9430 .R47 2010 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

Judiciaries in comparative perspective / edited by H.P. Lee. -- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. -- lvi, 567 p.

K2146 .J834 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

Vulnerable populations and transformative law teaching:  a critical reader / Society of American Law Teachers and Golden Gate University School of Law. -- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2011. -- 405 p.

KF336 .V85 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

Five chiefs:  a Supreme Court memoir / John Paul Stevens. -- New York ; London : Little, Brown, 2011. -- 292 p. 

KF8745.S78 S74 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

You can click on the underlined title to go to the online catalog entry for that book.  And then click on “Long View” near the top of that screen for more information, usually chapter titles and authors, and subject headings.

 

If you would like to have any of these or other books checked out to you, please contact me or your librarian liaison.

 

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pat.court@cornell.edu