Bloomberg Law

I’m sure you know the extensive financial services on the web from Bloomberg.  But do you know about Bloomberg Law, which is positioning itself to be a direct competitor to Westlaw and Lexis?  Bloomberg Law (BL) integrates comprehensive legal content, company and market information, and proprietary news all in one place.  One of the features that many of us are finding especially useful is access to PACER, with full text dockets from the federal courts, as well as a courier service for a fee for documents not accessible in PACER.  BL also has a legal citator system, BCite, which is invaluable for comprehensive research.  Cornell law students have BL passwords, and you can, too. 

 

 

Our BL rep, Pamela Haahr, will be here this Thursday morning, December 15, and is setting appointments to meet with faculty who want to get started with Bloomberg Law.  Contact her directly at oribe@bloomberg.net to make an appointment and request a BL password.  Even if you are satisfied with Westlaw or Lexis for your own research, Bloomberg Law is worth experiencing in the world of legal information.

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

 

 

New Law Books at Cornell, Nov 16-30

The New Books List for November 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 few titles of interest:

Courtwatchers : eyewitness accounts in Supreme Court history / Clare Cushman. -- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.

KF8742 .C875x 2011 -- Law Library

Sink or swim: the first decade -- John Marshall takes charge: establishing power -- Justice by Shay, stagecoach, steamboat, train: riding circuit -- Wives, children . . . husbands: supporting roles -- Yes, Mr. president: appointment and confirmation -- Learning the ropes: a rookie arrives -- Inside the courtroom: views of the bench -- Silver tongues and quill pens: oral argument -- Nine justices, one bench: building consensus -- (Not so) good behavior: discord and feuds -- A peek inside chambers: clerk stories -- "Welcome to the chain gang": managing the workload -- Timing it right: stepping down.

 

Making of international criminal justice: a view from the bench: selected speeches / Theodor Meron. -- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

KZ7235 .M47 2011 -- Law Library

Humanitarian law and human rights law : evolving bodies of law -- The rise of international criminal tribunals -- International crimes and jurisprudence of international courts -- Responsibility and the role of the judge

 

Compliance and compromise : the jurisprudence of gender pay equity / by Cher Weixia Chen. -- Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011.

K1772 .C48x 2011 -- Law Library

Gender pay equity and the international instruments -- Legislative compliance -- the process of "internalization" -- Judicial compliance -- the process of "interpretation" -- The process of "interaction”

 

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  

 

 

Faculty/Pet Matching Contest -- We have a Winner!

Many thanks to all of the faculty members who participated in the Faculty/Pet Matching Contest!  The Law Library received a total of thirteen pet photos from eleven faculty members.  The pictures were featured in a Reading Room display case, and clues were posted to Facebook and Twitter throughout the month of November. 

 

Of the many entries, only three students matched every pet correctly, and from this pool, the winning name was drawn.  Please congratulate Chris Engler, 2L, when you see him around and about, who won an Amazon gift card.

 

Amy Emerson

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

aae25@cornell.edu

New Law Books at Cornell, Nov 1-15

The New Books List for November 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 few titles of interest:

 

The challenge of originalism : theories of constitutional interpretation / edited by Grant Huscroft, Bradley W. Miller. -- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

K3165 .C428x 2011 – Law Library

 

Imagining legality : where law meets popular culture / edited by Austin Sarat. -- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011.

PN1995.9.J8 I53x 2011 –  Law Library

 

The body of John Merryman : Abraham Lincoln and the suspension of habeas corpus / Brian McGinty. -- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

KF223.M48 M38x 2011 – Law Library

 

Animal laws of India / Maneka Gandhi, Ozair Husain, Raj Panjwani. -- New Delhi, India : Universal Law Publishing Co.Pvt. Ltd., 2011.

KNS1533 .A28 2011 – Law Library

 

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  

 

 

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