Faculty Scholarship Exhibit Case

The display case located outside classrooms 276 and 277 is now a permanent exhibit space showcasing recent faculty scholarship.  Please stop by to view materials written by your colleagues, including books, book chapters, and articles.  Please note that items will be temporarily rotated out of the case when they are requested by library patrons for circulation purposes.  

 

When viewing the materials, please also consider whether you’ve sent PDF copies of all of your articles to your library liaison for inclusion in the library’s online repository at http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/.

 

Amy Emerson

Head of Access Services & Foreign & Int'l Law Specialist

aae25@cornell.edu

 

 

New Law Books at Cornell, October 16-31

The New Books List for October 16-31 is now 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 all across campus.  Here are a couple titles of interest:

 

Rethinking law as process : creativity, novelty, change / James MacLean. -- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, c2012

K213 .M33x 2012 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

                Locating the problem in law : the conjoined twins case, Re A -- Justifying legal decisions in hard cases : different approaches -- Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy of organism -- Lessons from organisation theory -- Towards a process reconstrual of ’the middle’ -- Two ways of thinking : two types of knowledge -- Michael Polanyi’s ’tacit knowledge’ -- Legal institutional knowledge -- The judge as institutional actor and decision-maker -- Legal contexts as practices -- Chaos and complexity -- Closing the gap : narrative and the law -- Law’s institutional becoming : creativity, novelty, change -- Law as process : legal decision-making as an actual occasion in concrescence.

 

First thing we do, let's deregulate all the lawyers / Clifford Winston, Robert W. Crandall, Vikram Maheshri. -- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2011.

KF306 .W48x 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

The market for lawyers -- Evidence of earnings premiums in the legal profession -- Sources of lawyers’ earnings premiums -- Welfare costs -- The case for deregulating entry into the legal profession -- Toward policy reform.

 

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

Pat

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

 

 

InfoBrief: GPO Access now Archive Only

To Cornell Law Faculty:

 

GPO Access is dead!  Long live FDsys!

 

Tomorrow, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) draws one step closer to shutting down GPO Access, the free public access web site of full-text, official Federal information and finding aids.  Once the Friday editions of daily updated content (e.g., Federal Register, Congressional Record) have been uploaded, GPO will cease updating GPO Access in terms of both database content and HTML pages.  Friday, November 4, will mark the start of the archive only phase of GPO Access and new content will only be loaded to FDsys. During this phase, GPO Access will remain publicly accessible as a reference archive.

 

In order to make the switchover from GPO Access to FDsys as seamless as possible for users, GPO is in the process of creating one-to-one redirects from GPO Access content to the FDsys equivalent. This will ensure that bookmarks, Web links, URLs in print publications, and other GPO Access references point to valid Web resources. Once this has been completed, GPO Access will be taken offline. A date has not yet been established for the final shutdown of GPO Access; however, it is slated for fiscal year 2012.

 

If you would like assistance accessing federal documents through FDsys,please contact me or your librarian liaison. Information above supplied by GPO.

 

Pat

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pat.court@cornell.edu   

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New Law Books at Cornell

The New Books List for October 1-15 is now 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 all across campus.  Here are a couple titles of interest:

 

From crisis to crisis : the global financial system and regulatory failure / Ross P. Buckley, Douglas W. Arner. -- Alphen aan den Rijn : Kluwer Law International ; Frederick,  c2011.

K1066 .B83 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

Regulating the international movement of women : from protection to control / edited by Sharron A. FitzGerald. -- Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

K3275 .R438x 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

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

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

 

 

Federal Court Opinions in FDsys

Access to federal court opinions, free on the web from the federal government, is on its way.  Through FDsys, the Federal Digital System, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) have put up the first opinions as a test.  Initial testing is with three courts:

 

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit;

United States District Court District of Rhode Island; and

United States Bankruptcy Court Southern District of Florida.

 

The secure transfer of files to GPO from the AOUSC’s Case Management/Electronic Case Filing system (CM/ECF, which feeds PACER) maintains the chain of custody,  This allows GPO to authenticate the files with digital signatures. 

Read more about it at http://www.fdlp.gov/component/content/article/341-featuredarticles/1078-oyez-oyez-federal-court-opinions-in-fdsys

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

 

New Books, September 16-30

The New Books List for September 16-30 is now 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 all across campus.

 

Here are a couple of titles of interest:

 

1.       Why the law is so perverse / Leo Katz. -- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2011. -- xi, 239 p. ; 24 cm.

K290 .K38x 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Why does the law spurn win-win transactions? -- Things we can’t consent to, though no one knows why -- A parable -- Lessons -- The social choice connection -- Why is the law so full of loopholes? -- The irresistible wrong answer -- What is wrong with the irresistible answer? -- The voting analogy -- Turning the analogy into an identity -- Intentional fouls -- Why is the law so either/or? -- The proverbial rigidity of the law -- Line drawing as a matter of life and death -- Why don’t we punish all we condemn? -- The undercriminalization problem -- Multicriterial ranking and the undercriminalization problem.

 

2.       Property and the law in energy and natural resources / edited by Aileen McHarg ... [et al.]. -- Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010. -- xviii, 478 p. ; 24 cm.

K3478 .P76x 2010 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Contents include:  Property and the law in energy and natural resources / Aileen McHarg ... [et al.] -- Different views of the cathedral : the literature on property law theory / Jonnette Watson Hamilton and Nigel Bankes -- Public and private rights to natural resources and differences in their protection / Anita Rønne -- Restrictions on foreign investment in the energy sector for national security reasons : the case of Japan / Kazuhiro Nakatani -- The significance of property rights in biotic sequestration of carbon / Al Lucas -- Community based property rights regimes and resource conservation in India’s forests / Lavanya Rajamani.

 

If you would like to have either of these or any other books on the list checked out to you, please contact me or your librarian liaison.  And if you have suggestions for new books, do let us know!

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pat.court@cornell.edu   

 

 

Electronic Casebooks

Electronic textbooks have not completely taken over yet in legal education, but more casebooks and textbooks for law courses are now available as e-books.  West, Lexis, Aspen, and other publishers are offering digital casebooks to you and your students.  Click here to view the entire infographic, represented below, with sections on It’s Already Happening; The iPad of Today: Hinting at the Textbook of Tomorrow; and What Will the Textbook of the Future Look Like?

 

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

New Books List, September 1-15

 

InfoBrief is a current awareness service for the Cornell Law School faculty from the Law Library, sent to you weekly or as news may warrant.  This is the first message of the academic year, letting you know that the New Books List for September 1-15 is now available on the library’s web page.  Click here to view the entire list.  The list is posted twice a month and includes all the new books at the Law Library, as well as the law-related books added at the other libraries on campus.  We will send you a quick InfoBrief message as soon as each list is posted.

 

A couple titles of interest:

 

The political uncommons : the cross-cultural logic of the global commons / Kathryn Milun. -- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011. -- 231 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

K3585 .M55x 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall).  View selected chapters.                     

 

The European Court of Human Rights between law and politics / edited by Jonas Christoffersen and Mikael Rask Madsen. -- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. -- xiv, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

KJC5138 .E918x 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall).  View selected chapters.

 

For details about using the New Books List, see InfoBrief of August 28, 2010.  Please contact your liaison librarian to request any of the new books be sent to you.  We love getting books into your hands!

 

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pat.court@cornell.edu

 

Government Documents Online

To Cornell Law Faculty:

Cornell Law Library is an official depository for federal government documents, many of which are produced electronically these days. From the recent list of new documents, here are a few that may be of interest:

 

Can we sue our way to prosperity?: litigation’s effect on America’s global competitiveness : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, May 24, 2011

http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo9538   

 

National strategy for counterterrorism, Executive Office of the President, June 2011

http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo9627  

 

Failed state 2030: Nigeria : a case study, February 2011

http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo9564     

 

Nigeria’s pernicious drivers of ethno-religious conflict, by Chris Kwaja.  Africa Center for Strategic Studies, 2011

http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo9658

 

USA PATRIOT Act: dispelling the myths: hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, May 11, 2011

http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo9632

 

To find more federal government documents, search the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications or the Cornell Library Catalog. Please contact me or your librarian liaison with any questions.

Pat Court

pat.court@cornell.edu  

Prize Winners for Exemplary Student Research

The 2011 Winners of the new Cornell Law Library Prize for Exemplary Student Research are:

• First Place: Improving Drinking Water Provision under Increasing Global and Regional Economic Integration, by William Garthwaite, awarded $500
• Second Place: Law on the Books vs. Law in Action: Under-Enforcement of Morocco's Reformed 2004 Family Law, the Moudawana, by Annie Eisenberg, awarded $250

 

The Law Library inaugurated this research prize to recognize excellence in research by our law students.  A review panel comprised of Research Attorneys Jean Callihan, Pat Court, Amy Emerson, Iantha Haight and Matthew Morrison selected the winners from among 18 well-crafted applications, each of which demonstrated exceptional research and original thought.  Their final decision was based upon the following criteria:

• Sophistication, originality, or unusual depth or breadth in the use of research materials, including, but not limited to, print resources, electronic search engines and databases, primary and secondary legal resources, interdisciplinary resources, and empirical resources
• Exceptional innovation in research strategy, including the ability to locate, select, and evaluate research materials with discretion
• Skillful synthesis of research results into a comprehensive scholarly analysis

 

Criteria for acceptable papers include, but are not limited to, papers written for a class or a journal note, but not work product from employment. In addition to receiving a monetary award, the winners are also invited to publish their papers in Scholarship@Cornell Law, the Law Library’s digital repository, and to feature their papers in Reading Room displays during the next academic year. 

 

Funding for the Cornell Law Library Prize for Exemplary Student Research is provided by an endowment given to the Law Library by Barbara Cantwell in honor of her late husband, Robert Cantwell, a 1956 graduate of Cornell Law School. I know you join us in congratulating these rising 3Ls who are our inaugural prize winners!

 

Pat Court

Interim Law Library Director