On Wednesday, April 25, 2012, the Law Library will host Cornell Companions, a pet visitation program sponsored by the Cornell University veterinary community. From 11:00am to 1:00pm, six dogs and two llamas will be available to law students in 
the Law School Courtyard (or foyer in the event of rain). Interested students are invited to sign up for this event at the Circulation Desk in the Library. Up to 25 students may attend each twenty-minute session. The animals are vaccinated, free of parasites, trained in obedience, and screened for the proper temperament. Enjoy this opportunity to relax before finals in the therapeutic companionship of an affectionate pet! Please let us know if you have any questions or comments by emailing the Law Library at lawlib.admin@cornell.edu
Need a break from casebooks, hornbooks, Restatements, and cite-checking? Give yourself a diversion with a bestseller. The Law Library has a new collection of popular reading materials just added to the Law Library’s Reserve area located behind the Circulation Desk. The books are available for a two week loan period with one renewal allowed. Sample titles include:
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable
The Litigators, by John Grisham
Too Big to Fail, by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
Dear Students,
We are in the process of planning library services for the next school year, and would really appreciate your feedback on how we are currently performing. To collect your feedback, we have a brief survey for you. To access the survey, see the e-mail sent to you from Law Library Director, Femi Cadmus on Feb. 1, which contains a link.
As a token of thanks, we will enter the names of all who complete the survey into a drawing for an iPad 2. The survey will be available through Monday, February 13.
Many thanks,
The Law Library
The Law Library is pleased to announce its new exhibit of recently acquired Supreme Court 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.
Did you know you can borrow more than books from the Law Library? We have items to help further your work or take a break from it:
- 2 Laptops with wireless Internet access and the full Microsoft Office Suite
- 1 Flashdrive
- 5 Digital Voice Recorders (written permission from professor required)
- Several Earphones/Ear Buds
- 1 Calculator
- 10 Umbrellas
- 1 Soccer Ball with Goal
- 1 Frisbee
- 1 Football
- Scrabble
- Chess/Checkers
Coming soon:
- 2 iPads
- 1 Kindle
- 1 Digital Flip Camera
- 1 Portable DVD Player
- 2 Computer Mice
All items are available at the circulation desk in the Reading Room.
Have you heard the old adage that people look like their pets? Visit our Reading Room display case for a glimpse at the variety of pets kept by Cornell Law School faculty and see if you can match each pet to its rightful owner. From iguanas to horses to dogs, the critters vary from large to small, slippery to cuddly.
Perhaps at some point in your law school career, your professors made mention of their pets and you can draw on those memories. If not, no worries – the law library will be providing clues on Facebook and Twitter throughout the month of November. Make your matches, complete the contest entry form, and submit it at the Circulation Desk during regular library hours for a chance to win a $50 gift card to Amazon. Contest forms are available at the display case. Contest ends November 30, 2011.
October is Information Literacy Awareness Month! Cornell students are warmly invited to show off your sleuthing skills for a chance to win a $25 iTunes gift card. The contest is open to all students. Check out Facebook for a CLUE that will help you answer the question below!
Rulloff’s Restaurant in Collegetown is named after an infamous 19th century Ithaca resident, Edward Rulloff, who was convicted and hanged for murder in 1871. Was he guilty or innocent?
• Find credible historical evidence to prove or disprove the 19th-century crimes of which Rulloff was accused.
• Provide a 150-word synopsis of your findings, with one credible citation to verify your research, and enter to win a chance at a $25 iTunes gift card.
• (Hint: The back of the restaurant menu does not qualify as a credible source.)
Make your submission at trickortruth by November 7th to be entered in the iTunes gift card drawing.
Good luck—and Happy Halloween!
If you dare, check out our new display case in the Reading Room featuring Case Law from the Crypt, a compilation of the best cases generated by Halloween. Haunted houses, chainsaw-wielding maniacs, sexy costumes, and tombstones abound. For more details, read the article that inspired the display case. Authored by Buffalo attorney Daniel Moar, the full article is available in the October, 2011, issue of the New York State Bar Association Journal, accessible through our catalog.
Submissions for the third annual ABA in Law diorama contest are due by April 5. You can check out this year’s entries so far; entry instructions are available here. You could win up to $150 in Peeps, the perfect snack to power you through finals! OK, maybe Peeps aren’t the greatest brain food, but it would still be cool to win.
Law firms take their holiday cards very seriously–after all, they are marketing tools–but not so seriously that they can’t be fun. Here are some notable cards from the last few years, organized by theme (note: these cards have background music):
- The legal-disclaimer-is-funny theme. In 2008 Pillsbury Winthrop made sure the card’s recipients were fully apprised of the dangers of snowballs. This year the Wall Street Journal Law Blog declared Manatt, Phelps & Phillips’s card to be the best of the 2010 season. Manatt’s card takes a meta approach, humorizing the card design process. The disclaimer in Manatt’s card is very similar to those used in Akin Gump’s 2009 card, which won Above the Law’s 2009 holiday card contest.
- The do-gooders theme. Howard Rice donated the savings from skipping the paper card in 2009 to charity, inviting the recipients of its electronic card to select the charity. Dickstein Shapiro sponsors an art contest every year at a public high school in Washington D.C. and features the winning artwork on its holiday card. In 2007, Stearns Weaver thanked clients for making this really large gift possible.
- The solidarity-with-clients theme. Grodsky & Olecki represented some members of the Writers’ Guide during the strike in 2007 and reflected that representation in their card. I would like to see this theme used more often.
Is it just me, or do almost all of these cards feature music written by the same person?
Happy holidays, and please–wear your Snuggie properly.
