Join us for our Law Library Open on Tuesday, August 26, 1:15-4:15pm.
Library resources and services will be featured, including:
Every month the Cornell Law Library adds new titles to its collection. The most recent additions for 2014 are posted, here. A few highlights from this month’s additions are featured below.
Gruesome Spectacles : Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty – Austin Sarat
The Logic of Innovation : Intellectual Property, and What the User Found There- Johanna Gibson
Every month the Cornell Law Library adds new titles to its collection. The most recent additions for July 2014 are posted, here. A few highlights from this month’s additions are featured below.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century – Thomas Piketty
Bentham’s Theory of Law and Public Opinion – Xiaobo Zhai; Michael Quinn
Every month the Cornell Law Library adds new titles to its collection. The most recent additions for June 2014 are posted, here. A few highlights from this month’s additions are featured below.
Law and the Limits of Government : Temporary Versus Permanent Legislation – Frank Fagan
The Criminology of War – Ruth Jamieson
Foreign Policy : From Conception to Diplomatic Practice – Ernest Petrič
Every month the Cornell Law Library adds new titles to its collection. The most recent additions for February 2014 are posted, here. A few highlights from this month’s additions are featured below.
Promoting the Rule of Law : A Practitioners’ Guide to Key Issues and Developments – Lelia Mooney
Interstate Liability for Climate Change-Related Damage – Elena Kosolapova
International Organizations : Politics, Law, Practice – Ian Hurd
Just a few more days to submit papers for the annual Cornell Law Library Robert Cantwell Prize for Exemplary Student Research.
Papers will be accepted on an ongoing basis through May 1, 2014. The winners will be announced May 8, 2014.
Entries may include, but are not limited to, papers written for a class or journal notes. All papers must have been written in the time period spanning May, 2013 – May, 2014. Work product generated through summer or other employment will not be accepted. Papers must be a minimum of 10 pages in length, must be written in proper Bluebook format, and must be properly footnoted.
First prize is $500, second prize is $250, and both winners will be invited to publish their papers in Scholarship@Cornell Law, a digital repository of the Cornell Law Library. For submission procedure and selection criteria, please see here: http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/WhatWeDo/HelpStudents/PrizeStudentResearch.cfm
Return overdue Law Library books to the Circulation Desk before 5pm on Friday, April 18, to receive forgiveness for any fines owed, no questions asked.
Please note the following:
Contact Mark Williams (mjw332@cornell.edu) with questions.
Print and complete the form LawLibraryBookReturn and submit it with your library materials (if applicable) at the circulation desk.
With retired Justice John Paul Stevens 
in the news recently it seemed to appropriate to highlight his Green Bag Bobblehead, currently on display in the Gould Reading Room.
Stevens was the second justice to be bestowed with a bobblehead in 2004. As with all of the representations, the figurine features several unique traits commemorating his personality and jurisprudence. A detailed explanation of all of the features for Justice Stevens can be found here.
Two of the more notable features include Stevens holding a golf club to represent his majority opinion in PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin, 532 U.S. 661 (2001) and he also stands on a Betamax video player to represent his opinion in Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417 (1984), which included a detailed discussion of the famed children’s television program Mister Rogers Neighborhood.
Check back over the next few weeks as we’ll be taking a closer look at some of the other bobbleheads on display in the Reading Room.
Just in time to catch the end of Women’s History Month we’re unveiling our latest database from HeinOnline: Women and the Law (Peggy). From the publisher:
“This unique collection of materials provides a platform to research the progression of women’s roles and rights in society over the past 200 years. Also included are more than 70 titles from Emory University Law School’s Feminism and Legal Theory Project, which provide a platform to view the effect of law and culture on the female gender.”
For more information on what’s included in the collection check the brochure provided in the link above or contact Nina Scholtz (nes78@cornell.edu), Digital Resources Librarian.
