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New Books at Cornell Law Library

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:

 

 

Laughing at the gods: great judges and how they made the common law / Allan C. Hutchinson. -- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

K170 .H88 2012 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

In search of great judges : playing by their own rules -- Lord Mansfield : a long journey -- John Marshall : a founding judge -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. : the magnificent yankee -- James Atkin : an ordinary person -- Tom Denning : an English gardener -- Thurgood Marshall : a man on a mission -- Bertha Wilson : making the difference -- Albie Sachs : of struggles and lies -- Judging the future : a leap in the dark.

 

Considering the role of judges under the Constitution of the United States: hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, October 5, 2011. -- Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2011. 

KF26 .J8 2011kq -- Olin Library and full text here

            S. Hrg. 112–137, with Justice Scalia and Justice Breyer

 

Global financial crisis: what have we learnt? / edited by Steven Kates. -- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2011. -- xiii, 244 p. ; 24 cm.

HB3717 2008 .G56 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Been there done that : the political economy of déjà vu -- Traditional monetary economics vs. Keynesianism, creditism and base-ism -- Can a progressive capital gains tax help avoid the next crisis?: public sector governance in a comprehensive neo-Schumpeterian system -- The great recession and its aftermath from a monetary equilibrium theory perspective -- Policy in the absence of theory: the coming world of political economy without Keynes -- Hindsight on the origins of the global financial crisis? -- Four theses on the global financial crisis -- Monetary policies during the financial crisis: an appraisal -- After the crash of 2008: financial reform in an age of plutocracy -- The new institutional economics and the global financial crisis -- Economics in the mirror of the financial -- Human resources: the key to institutional economics after the great recession -- What should a financial system do?: Minskian lessons from the global financial crisis

 

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

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pat.court@cornell.edu   

 

New Law Books at Cornell

The latest list of New Books for February 16-29 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:

 

Navigating legal issues around the Marcellus Shale: an immediate look at the benefits and consequences of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling / [Joseph F. Speelman ... et al.]. -- [Boston, Mass.] : Aspatore Books, c2011.

Special Reserve KF1870 .N384 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

International law and domestic legal systems: incorporation, transformation, and persuasion / edited by Dinah Shelton. -- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011

K302 .I58x 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

Corporate governance and directors' independence / Yuan Zhao. -- Alphen aan den Rijn : Kluwer Law International ; Frederick, 2011.

K1328 .Z48x 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

Ethics of plea bargaining / Richard L. Lippke. -- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

K5458 .L57 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

All the missing souls: a personal history of the war crimes tribunals / David Scheffer. -- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.

KF373.S34 A3 2012 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

Defending the defenseless: a guide to protecting and advocating for pets / Allie Phillips. -- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.

HV4764 .P45x 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

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pat.court@cornell.edu   

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New Law Books at Cornell

The latest list of New Books for the first half of March 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:

 

 

Legal gridlock: a critique of the American legal system / Thomas C. Fischer. -- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2012.

KF384 .F57x 2012 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Law in society -- The American form of government -- Legal training -- The work of lawyers.

 

Supreme Court and the NCAA: the case for less commercialism and more due process in college sports / Brian L. Porto. -- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.

KF3989 .P67 2012 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Antitrust and distrust of the NCAA : the current legal structure in college sports -- A revolt of the "haves" : the road to NCAA v. Board of Regents -- Free-market football : the Supreme Court decides NCAA v. Board of Regents -- Thursday night games and millionaire coaches : the implications of NCAA v. Board of Regents -- Hunting the shark : the road to NCAA v. Tarkanian -- Taming the shark : the Supreme Court decides NCAA v. Tarkanian -- What process is due? : the implications of NCAA v. Tarkanian -- Trust replaces antitrust : a new legal structure for college sports.

 

Climate change justice

Climate change justice / Eric A. Posner, David Weisbach. -- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.

QC903 .P78x 2010 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Ethically relevant facts and predictions -- Policy instruments -- Symbols, not substance -- Climate change and distributive justice: climate change blinders -- Punishing the wrongdoers: a climate guilt clause? -- Equality and the case against per capita permits -- Future generations: the debate over discounting -- Global welfare, global justice, and climate change.

 

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

pgc1@cornell.edu

 

 

New Books at the Law Library, Feb 1-15

The New Books List for February 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 some titles of interest:

 

Law, order and freedom: a historical introduction to legal philosophy / editors, Cees Maris, Frans Jacobs ; translated by Jacques de Ville. -- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2011

K230 .L39 2011 and e-book -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Law, Order and Freedom gives an account of the history of Western legal history and philosophy.  It focuses on law as a system of norms which aspires to provide a fair balance between order and freedom. 

 

Organising the firm: theories of commercial law, corporate governance and corporate law / Petri Mäntysaari. -- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, 2012.

K1005 .M36 2012 and e-book -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Commercial law, the law of corporate governance, and corporate law all share the same problem: they lack a proper theoretical basis.  The purpose of this book is to discuss the reasons for the absence of theories in present research, and to develop a theoretical framework for commercial law, the law of corporate governance, and corporate law.  They key to the proposed theoretical framework is the choice of the perspective of the firm in commercial law and corporate governance.

 

Human dignity in bioethics and law  / Charles Foster. -- Oxford : Hart, 2011.

K3249 .F67x 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Beginnings -- A short history of dignity -- Defining and dissecting dignity -- "Dignity is useless" -- What do non-philosophers and non-lawyers mean by dignity? -- Taking stock of the view from the academy and the ward -- Dignity in the courtroom : general overview -- Consent, confidentiality, privacy, medical research and resources -- Human enhancement and cloning technologies -- Reproductive choice and the unborn -- The end of life -- The use and abuse of body parts.

 

End of negotiable instruments: bringing payment systems law out of the past / James Steven Rogers. -- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

KF957 .R64 2012 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

The sorry state of modern payment systems law -- The puzzling persistence of the law of checks and notes -- Paperless paper -- Reports of the death of the holder in due course doctrine are greatly exaggerated -- A visit to the museum of negotiable instruments law -- The bank always loses -- Are checks ever transferred? -- What would a modern law of promissory notes look like? -- What would a modern law of checks look like? -- Overcoming the past.

 

Freedom of information reform in China: information flow analysis / Weibing Xiao. -- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

KNQ2476 .X53 2012 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Freedom of Information (FOI) in China is often perceived as a recent and intriguing phenomenon. This book presents a more complex and detailed understanding of the evolution of FOI in China, using information flow analysis to explore the gradual development of government receptivity to FOI in an information environment through time.

 

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.  For e-book version, click on "e-book" for that title.

 

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

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pgc1@cornell.edu   

DLA Piper puts Bloomberg Law on attorneys' desktops

You have been hearing about Bloomberg Law and how they are creating serious competition for Westlaw and Lexis.  And now, a major U.S. law firm has signed on to Bloomberg Law in a big way.  Today, it was announced that DLA Piper, “the world’s largest global business law firm” will use Bloomberg Law “to provide high quality, cost-effective legal research for all its lawyers throughout the United States.”  Fourteen hundred lawyers practicing in 25 cities will have unlimited access to Bloomberg Law from their desktops.  We have yet to learn how this will impact their ongoing contracts with other major systems – and how many other law firms are ready to jump on board, as well.

All first year law students are being trained in Bloomberg Law this semester (having already had Lexis and Westlaw training), and 2Ls, 3Ls, and LLMs are signing on more and more so they can be part of this new movement.  If you want to get a Bloomberg Law password or training, contact our Bloomberg representative Pamela Haahr at oribe@bloomberg.net.

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pgc1@cornell.edu

 

 

New Books at the Law Library

The New Books List for January 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 some titles of interest:

 

Privatising the public university: the case of law / Margaret Thornton. -- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, c2012.    K100 .T486 2012 -- Law Library

 

Constitution 3.0: freedom and technological change / Jeffrey Rosen, Benjamin Wittes, editors. -- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2011.    KF4550 .C656 2011 -- Law Library

 

Workplace harassment law / Barbara T. Lindemann, David D. Kadue. -- Arlington, Va. : BNA Books, c2012.    KF3467 .L56 2012 -- Law Library

 

Green card stories / introduction by Laura Danielson and Stephen Yale-Loehr ; stories by Saundra Amrhein . -- Brooklyn, N.Y. : Umbrage Editions Inc, c2011.    JV6455 .A84x 2011 -- Law Library

 

Courting publicity: Twitter and television cameras in court / Paul Lambert. -- Haywards Heath, West Sussex : Bloomsbury Professional, c2011.     K2110 .L36 2011 -- Law Library

 

Anglo-American corporate taxation: tracing the common roots of divergent approaches / Steven A. Bank. -- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.    K4544 .B36 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 others on the list checked out to you, please contact me or your librarian liaison.

 

Pat Court

pgc1@cornell.edu  

 

 

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  

 

 

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

 

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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