Want to Win a $25 Gift Card to iTunes? Winter 2014 Legal Trivia Contest Open!

Want to Win a $25 Gift Card to iTunes?

Enter the 2014 “Love and The Law” Gould Law Library Trivia Contest!

The Gould Law Library is offering all students a chance to win a $25 iTunes gift card!

To win, all you have to do is come to the Law Library Circulation Desk and pick up an official entry form. There are three legal trivia questions to answer. For every question correctly answered, your name will be entered as an official entry into a drawing. You only need to answer one question to enter, but if you answer all three, you get three entries to win! Each correct answer equals one entry. Even if submitting three entries, you only need to fill out the one form.

Return your entry to the Circulation Desk. The contest closes at 11:45 p.m. on February 13, 2014. On February 14, 2014, a winner will be selected by the Gould Law Library Staff through a lottery drawing of official entries. The prize awarded will be a $25 gift card to iTunes.

Entries may only be submitted by current law students of Touro Law Center. Employees and alumni of Touro Law Center, Friends of the Library, and guests are not eligible for entry.


Have fun! Good luck!

New Year, New Resources – Touro’s SSRN Legal Studies E-Journal

We are so pleased to announce that Touro Law Center has launched a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the SSRN Legal Scholarship Network. Here is the official announcement, directly from the SSRN website:


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We are pleased to announce Touro Law Center has started a Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

 

 

TOURO LAW CENTER LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
 

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Touro-Law-Center-LEG.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Touro-Law-Center-LEG

Touro Law Center's (http://www.tourolaw.edu) outstanding faculty is comprised of approximately 50 full-time members who are actively engaged in research, making noteworthy contributions to legal scholarship and law reform. Touro Law Center's Legal Studies eJournal contains scholarship from this faculty. They bring talent and experience to the classroom as well as a genuine passion for, and commitment to, teaching, as well as to innovation in the training of future lawyers. They are uniquely dedicated to the success of the student body - priding themselves on their accessibility to students while creating an open and cooperative learning environment that is dynamic and enriching.

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
You can subscribe to the eJournal at no cost, by clicking on the "Subscribe" link listed above.

You can change your eJournal subscriptions by logging into SSRN User HQ. If you have any problems, please contact us for assistance by email: Support@SSRN.com or by phone: 877-SSRNHelp (877 777 6435) in the United States, or +1 585 442 8170 outside of the United States. We are open Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:30AM and 6:00PM, United States Eastern.

SSRN's eLIBRARY
SSRN's searchable electronic library contains abstracts, full bibliographic data, and author contact information for more than 526,500 papers, more than 244,300 authors, and full text for more than 431,700 papers. The eLibrary can be accessed at http://papers.ssrn.com.

SSRN supports open access by allowing authors to upload papers to the eLibrary for free through the SSRN User HeadQuarters at http://hq.ssrn.com, and by providing free downloading of those papers.

Downloads from the SSRN eLibrary in the past 12 months total more than 10.8 million, with more than 72.5 million downloads since inception.

SSRN's PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
Searching on an individual's name in the author field on our search page at http://ssrn.com/search provides the best single professional directory of scholars in the social sciences and humanities. Complete contact information for authors, including email, postal, telephone, and fax information, is available there.

SSRN's MISSION
SSRN's objective is to provide rapid, worldwide distribution of research to authors and their readers and to facilitate communication among them at the lowest possible cost. In pursuit of this objective, we allow authors to upload papers without charge. And, any paper an author uploads to SSRN is downloadable for free, worldwide.

LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP NETWORK
The Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) distributes other eJournals. You can subscribe to these eJournals through the SSRN User HeadQuarters at http://hq.ssrn.com.

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 Check back soon for our next blog post to highlight new resources for the new year.

In the meantime, keep calm and read on.

New Year, New Resources – Civil Rights

This week, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we are highlighting a few new books in our collection that address Dr. King’s work and the Civil Rights movement. These books focus on a range of issues and time spans, and they reflect just a few of the works on this important topic that we have available for our students, faculty, alumni, and friends.

Martin Luther King Jr. and The Morality Of Legal Practice : Lessons In Love And Justice (2013)
Author: Robert K. Vischer

This book addresses the work of attorneys in the context of one’s moral code, in comparison with how Martin Luther King Jr.’s work was premised on his own moral code.

Sharing The Prize : The Economics Of The Civil Rights Revolution In The American South (2013)
Author: Gavin Wright

The author, a Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University, delves into the economic impact of the civil rights movement upon the American South and the people who live and work there.

Ain't Scared Of Your Jail : Arrest, Imprisonment, and The Civil Rights Movement (2013)
Author: Zoe A. Colley

The author looks at the choice of civil rights organizations to use the strategy of deliberate imprisonment during the civil rights movement and the effectiveness of the strategy in bringing attention to the cause.

Civil Rights In The Shadow Of Slavery : The Constitution, Common Law, And The Civil Rights Act Of 1866 (2013)
Author: George Rutherglen

The discussion in this book centers upon the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 within its historical context, and to where the road of jurisprudence that evolved from that Act has led us, as a nation, in the present day.

We’ll post about more new resources for the new year soon.

In the meantime, keep calm and read on.

New Semester, New Resources

Welcome back to a new spring semester! Here at the Gould Law Library, we are ready to welcome you back to a new semester filled with promise. As the new semester begins, we thought we would share some new resources, or some ideas about resources to try anew.

This Tuesday, January 14, 2014, the New York State Court of Appeals will be hearing oral argument on two criminal case appeals. Oral argument begins at approximately 2:45 p.m. For all of you interested in practicing criminal law, this is one oral argument you do not want to miss. The two cases being argued are People v. Thomas and People v. Aveni, and both address the issue of the constitutional limits to which a police officer can deceive a suspect in order to secure a confession. You can read more about these cases and this issue here. (If you are off – campus, please log into TLC Web to view.)

You can also read the briefs filed by the parties and the amicus curiae by using this search engine, which is available to the public for free: https://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/courtpass/Docket.aspx (Searching by party name will bring up the docket and filed documents for the case.)

Better yet - you don’t have to be in Albany to see the oral argument! Did you know that you can view oral arguments live, via Windows Media Player, at the New York State Court of Appeals website? Visit here: http://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/ and click on this link:

You can also view past webcasts of recent oral arguments before the Court at the same link.

We’ll post again soon with some more resources.

In the meantime, keep calm and read on.

Happy Chanukah!

Tonight begins the celebration of Chanukah! Also called the Feast of Rededication or Feast of Lights, this Jewish festival “reaffirms the ideals of Judaism and commemorates in particular the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the lighting of candles on each day of the festival.”1 

Our Associate Director of the Gould Law Library & Special Collections Curator Beth Mobley has created an interesting Chanukah exhibit in our Judaica room. As you are studying for finals, consider using the quiet and beautiful space in the Judaica room on our third floor, and while you’re there, take a look at this exhibit. The exhibit features the traditional celebration activities and foods:

Among the items on display are those displayed above, an art deco menorah and a traditional menorah with the blessings and the holiday song Ma’oz Tzur. There are also several draydls, chocolate gelt for the pot, and an illustrated latkes recipe for you to view. You can also peruse books about Chanukah from the Abraham Goldstein and Lillie Goldstein Judaica Collection, which are part of the display:

Chanukah continues for eight days and nights. Here at the Law Center, the menorah will be lit each night in the Atrium at 5:30 PM, except for Friday, when the menorah is lit before sunset in honor of the Shabbat. Please join in the nightly lighting of the menorah, and then visit our library to study. We wish you all a Happy Chanukah and a Happy Thanksgiving!

1Hanukkah (2013). In Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Retrieved November 27, 2013. This resource can be accessed by Touro Law Center Students only. Click here and scroll down to Encyclopaedia Britannica Online to access this resource.

Library Now Open 24/6+ for Finals Reading Period

In order to maximize your opportunities for quiet study, Gould Law Library is open as a study hall almost around the clock through the end of final exams (December 20th). These special hours are for Law Center Students ONLY. There are only a few exceptions to this round the clock availability through the end of finals, which are:

Thursday, November 28th, 2013:
The library is closed for observance of Thanksgiving.  No entry to the library is available.

Friday, November 29th, 2013:
The Library will open as a study hall only from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Library services are not available during this time.

EVERY Friday from 2:45 p.m. to Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m.:
This closure is in observance of the Jewish Sabbath. Saturday access is subject to special conditions: You may use the 1st floor only; you must have your Touro ID and use the special access door to enter; and you cannot bring any food.

Please note that library services will not be available during the overnight periods and on Saturdays, although a security guard will be on duty. Students using the library during this time must sign in and out at security.

The entire library (except for the Circulation Desk, the Reference Office, and enclosed study rooms) is now a quiet zone to maximize available study space. In order to keep the quiet zone as quiet as possible, please take care to remember:

* No cell phone use is allowed in the library at any time.

* Conversation should be taken outside the library to the atrium.

* If you encounter any noise issues, please see a member of the library staff.

We’ll be back to post again soon.

In the meantime, keep calm and read on.

Election Law – Voting Rights and Electoral Conflict

Today we will be highlighting some of our newer print resources on the dynamic field of law that has arisen from election day conflicts and issues. Often, legal conflicts concerning the parameters of election contests arise even before a vote is cast. The right to vote, and what that means and entails, is an important topic that is debated frequently in this legal field.  We have many resources in our collection, in print and digital, that address this topic.

Here are two of our newer secondary sources on this burgeoning area of law:

Bending Toward Justice : The Voting Rights Act and The Transformation of American Democracy (2013)
Written by Gary May

The history of the Voting Rights Act, from the events leading to its conception to its present day fate, are discussed in this text.

Inside Bush v. Gore (2013)
Written by Charley Wells

Written by the former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, this book is a historical account from the author’s perspective of the vote recount in Florida after the 2000 Presidential election.




Election Day is next week! If you're registered and able, remember to vote on November 5th.

This is the last post in our series about election law. Check back next month for our series on a new topic.

In the meantime, keep calm and read on.