Summer and 3L graduate access for Bloomberg/Lexis/Westlaw

Summer access policies for Bloomberg Law, Lexis and Westalaw are as follows.  Graduating 3Ls, see below, for post graduating access.

Summer access:
Bloomberg - summer access automatic, no action on your part required
Lexis - summer access automatic, no action on your part required
Westlaw - Students may extend their passwords for Summer access only for the reasons listed below.    See Summer Password Extension page.

• Summer law school classes and study abroad programs
• Law Review and Journal, including write-on competitions
• Research assistant
• Moot Court
• Unpaid internship/externship

3L Graduate Access:
Bloomberg - you will have access for 6 months after graduation with no restrictions
Lexis - your ID will remain active until 8/1. For access after 8/1, you need to register for a special ID here .  It is important to register for your Grad ID before 8/1 since you will need a current Lexis Advance ID to register.

Westlaw - you will need to complete an online password extension request on the Westlaw homepage.  Choose the "Need Westlaw this Summer" option.  You will have access until 11/30.

As always, if you have any questions ask your favorite Reference Librarian.

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New York To Consider Chimpanzee Personhood Claim

According to a news story via Reuters, “an animal rights group has been granted a court hearing in which it will argue that two chimpanzees who live at a New York state university cannot be held captive because they are autonomous, intelligent creatures.

New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe in Manhattan issued an order late Monday, called a writ of habeas corpus, requiring the State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island to defend its right in court to keep the primates.”

Read more here.



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Net Neutrality Update

"On April 13^th, the FCC published its final rules entitled “Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet” in the Federal Register (https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/04/13/2015-07841/protecting-and-promoting-the-open-internet).  The rules are set to become effective on June 12, 2015 – 60 days after publication.  Once rules have been published, there is a 10-day period to make legal challenges to the rules.  Although net neutrality has been popular with citizens, the new rules have been opposed by many powerful interest groups."

Hat Tip Patricia Morgan, AALL GRC Committee
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CALI for Exam Success

Along with study guides and past exams, don't forget CALI.org as you review for finals. CALI Lessons, a library of over 900 online interactive tutorials for IL as well as 2L and 3L law school subjects, can be found at the CALI welcome page.  CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, is a nonprofit consortium that facilitates the creation of these tutorials by law school faculty from across the country.

CALI Lessons are free to all Hofstra law students. They can be searched by topic (Constitutional Law, Business Associations), by casebook, and by individual subtopics, such as probable cause, within a subject outline. CALI is a great tool for revisiting those concepts or cases that were difficult to understand or that you need to review and gain confidence in before the final exam.

You will need to register online with a password, or school code, the first time that you use CALI Lessons. Just contact or visit the Reference Desk to obtain this code from a reference librarian.





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Past Exams

A number of our law faculty have made their past exams available for students to review.  They are available through the Law Library's site under the Students link.  Access is password protected so please contact the Reference Desk for the password.  If you have any problems, please visit us at the Reference Desk. 

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