A Supreme research error?
July 2, 2008 at 12:42 pm | In General Interest | No CommentsAccording to a NY times article: In last week’s Kennedy v Louisiana decision, the Supreme Court stated, among other things, that “a child rapist could face the ultimate penalty in only six states — not in any of the 30 other states that have the death penalty, and not under the jurisdiction of the federal government either.” A recent blog post corrected that fact stating that “Section 552(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006, 119 Stat. 3136, 3264 (2006), provides that ‘[u]ntil the President otherwise provides pursuant to’UCMJ article 56, ‘the punishment which a court-martial may direct for an offense under’ the amended UCMJ article 120 ‘may not exceed the following limits: . . . For an offense under subsection (a) (rape) or subsection (b) (rape of a child), death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.’
New Reserve Item for Bar Takers
July 2, 2008 at 10:47 am | In New Books, The Dreaded "E" Word | No CommentsTags: New Books, reserve
The Schaffer Law Library just received the following gift title to help out those students taking the Bar exam this summer:
The Essential Rules for Bar Exam Success
(Steven I. Friedland)
KF303 .F75 2008
This item will be on reserve, so be sure to ask our circulation staff if you would like to use this item.
Top 100 blawgs
July 2, 2008 at 8:53 am | In General Interest | No CommentsThe Top 100 Law and Laywer Blogs from Criminal Justice Degrees Guides. Thanks to bespacific.
New Books
July 1, 2008 at 11:19 am | In New Books | No CommentsTags: New Books
Here is a list of new items added to our collection this week:
Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003
(William N. Eskridge Jr.)
KF9328 .S6 E84 2008
Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention
(John Cooper)
HV6322.7 .C67 2008
The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror and the Death of Reconstruction
(LeeAnna Keith)
F379 .C59 K45 2008 Continue reading New Books…
Public Policy Research archive
July 1, 2008 at 11:02 am | In Legal Research 101 | No CommentsTags: legal research, online research, public policy
PolicyArchive (www.policyarchive.org) is the first “free comprehensive online archive of public policy research.” It was developed because “locating and obtaining this research online can be difficult or impossible. Most policy research has no online home outside of the institution that produced it, and sometimes not even there. Research indices are hard to find or non-existent.”
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
July 1, 2008 at 10:54 am | In General Interest | No CommentsTags: military, sexual orientation
According to a NY Times article, Vermont Law School and the William Mitchell College of Law are “two law schools in the nation that bar military recruiters, as a protest against the 15-year-old rule that prevents openly gay men and lesbians from serving in the military.”
A Lawyer Walks into a Bar…
July 1, 2008 at 10:31 am | In Bar Examination Resources, Just for Fun | No CommentsTags: Bar Exam, film
No, this isn’t the beginning of a joke but is the title to a documentary on taking the California bar exam. You can read more about the film here and here. Thanks to the Volokh Conspiracy.
Summer time, and the reading is easy.
June 27, 2008 at 9:14 am | In General Interest, Just for Fun | No CommentsTags: books of interest, crime stories
Need some fun, entertaining books to read this summer? Come to the Schaffer Law Library and discover the law thrillers, stories and novels it has to offer. Here are a couple picks:
Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation
(Michael Connelly)
PS648 .D4158 2005
Criminal Seduction
(Darian North)
PS3557 .I25 C74 1993
The Client
(John Grisham)
PS3557 .R5355 C57 1994
Presumed Innocent
(Scott Turow)
PS3570 .U754 P7 1988
2nd amendment and Heller
June 26, 2008 at 10:31 am | In Legal News | No CommentsTags: cases decided, U.S. Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court has decided District of Columbia v Heller. You can read the opinion here.
No more plastic knuckles
June 26, 2008 at 9:54 am | In Legal News | No CommentsTags: NYS Assembly, NYS Senate, penal law
The New York State Senate and Assembly have introduced bills (S7528 & A10522) to add plastic knuckles to the category of ”deadly weapons” in the Penal Law. The amendments to the Penal Law will affect sections 10.00 and 265.01.
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