U.S. Law Schools News Brief

The St. Thomas University School of Law provides a website which provides news releases from law schools nationwide. The news releases appear chronologically in the form of a blog, and you can have an RSS feed sent to you. If you don't want to look at news from all law schools, you can choose to see news from schools by region or by state. You can also choose to only see certain types of news, such as only campus speakers or current issues.

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Bathroom Refurbishing Delayed

The University has postponed the start of construction on the bathrooms within the Library (as well as other law school bathrooms). Instead of starting today, work is now scheduled to start on July 18th.

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Library Catalog is Down

You may have noticed that the Hofstra Library Catalog, http://lexicat.hofstra.edu/ , has been down recently. Campus Computing is aware of the problem and they are in the process of fixing it. We thank you for your patience. Remember, you can allways call the folk at the Circulation Desk (463-5898) for assistance.

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Pre bar exam hours

The Deane Law library will be open extra hours for three weeks in July to give bar exam takers extra studying time. Our new hours will run from Tuesday July 5 - Tuesday July 26 and they are:

Sunday: Noon - 10:00 P.M.
Monday - Thursday: 9:00 A.M. - 11:00 P.M.
Friday: 9:00 A.M. - 10:00 P.M.
Saturday: 10:00 A.M. - 10:00 P.M.

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Specialized Research

Have a research assignment for patent law? Writing a paper on arbitration? Remember to look for specialized research guides for your particular topic. For one stop research guide hunting, go to LLRX.com and type in your subject in the Search box. Or, browse the available research guides at http://www.llrx.com/guide .

If you are prowling the Library in search of guidance in print, then try Specialized Legal Research, available at the Reference desk.


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Supreme Court Nomination Blog

While we are on the subject of the Supreme Court, the biggest topic being discussed is who will take over if, and when, Justice Rehnquist retires. To read comments by virtually everyone who knows anything on the topic, go to the Supreme Court Nomination Blog, a sister blog to the SCOTUSblog mentioned in the posting above.

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Exam Copies are Back

The University has finished upgrading the software we use to store the electronic copies of previous exams on the Web. As Before, they are still at http://eres.hofstra.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=151. For the password, please contact the Circulation Desk. Thanks.

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Supreme Court ASAP

Where will you find U.S. Supreme Court developments first? The site that beat all the others (including Lexis, Westlaw and the Supreme Court's own website!) for posting yesterday's opinions earliest is the Legal Information Institute's Supreme Court Collection. For some interesting discussion on the latest opinions, as well as a rather neat pictorial guide to the justices' votes, go to the SCOTUSblog. With rumors flying about Justice Rehnquist's retirement, these will be good sites to keep up with the latest developments.

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Death of a Printer

We have all felt like this about computer hardware at some point or another. So I give you - Death of a Printer

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Way Back Machine

Ever find a link to the purrrrrfect Web site, only to discover that the link no longer works? The very clever humans at the Internet Archive have, for quite a number of years now, been keeping track of old Web pages. All you need is the URL (web address) of the page. Copy and paste it into the box at http://www.archive.org/ and if it is available in the Way Back Machine, then you will find the page. This really works!! A nod to Mr. Peabody, even if he is canine.

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