This week we’re welcoming Dean candidates, teaching low cost and free legal resources, reviewing oral argument resources, focusing on outlining help, highlighting our environmental and energy law resources through April’s display, and celebrating Arab American Heritage Month.

Welcome Dean Candidates

The Law Library is pleased to welcome our candidates for the position of Dean of the College of Law!

This Week’s Research Sessions

Monday, April 10, 2023

Advanced Legal Research

Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian, Shannon Kemen & Electronic Resources​  & Instructional Technology Librarian Ron Jones
1:30pm – 2:55pm
Room 107

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Lawyering II, Advocacy, section 5

Electronic Resources​ & Instructional Technology Librarian Ron Jones
Introduction to Administrative Law Research
1:30pm – 2:55pm
Room 145

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Advanced Legal Research

Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian, Shannon Kemen & Electronic Resources​  & Instructional Technology Librarian Ron Jones
1:30pm – 2:55pm
Room 107

Oral Argument Help

As you get ready for oral arguments in your Advocacy class, be sure and check out the resources on our Oral Advocacy Guide, in our Oral Advocacy display, and in our previous featured resources!

Law Library Environmental Law & Justice Display

In honor of Earth Day, our April display features items from our collection that highlight environmental justice and energy law. Earth Day was first observed on April 22, 1970, when an estimated 20 million people nationwide attended the inaugural events at tens of thousands of sites including elementary and secondary schools, universities, and communities across the United States. By the twentieth anniversary of the first event, more than 200 million people in 141 countries had participated in Earth Day celebrations. The celebrations continue to grow. Please stop into the Library Services Suite (Room 110) in the next few weeks to view our exhibit, curated by Rhonda Wiseman, spotlighting monographs from our collection that focus on environmental justice and energy law. Feel free to check out materials on display!

Resources to Help When Outlining

Final exams fast approaching and the Law Library can help! Below are some resources from CALI that feature help with outlining. The selected resources below are available through the Law Library’s study aid subscriptions. For more information on accessing our study aids, view our Introduction to Study Aids video, our 1-L Study Aids page on the 1-L Survival Guide, and the Exam Study Guide

Cases & Outlining: The Basics

This CALI Lesson will take you step-by-step through a method of representing the content from cases in an outline. The lesson is generally designed for students in their first semester of law school; however, pre-1L students may derive benefit as well. Practice questions use basic doctrines from first-year Contracts, Civil Procedure, Torts, and Criminal Law to give students practice with skill transfer. If using CALI, you will need to create an account (if you have not already done so) using a Cincinnati Law authorization code. You can obtain this code from a librarian.

Outlining Basics

This CALI Lesson teaches you why, when and how to create outlines when preparing for your law school exams. If using CALI, you will need to create an account (if you have not already done so) using a Cincinnati Law authorization code. You can obtain this code from a librarian.

Why Outlining Should Be Called Synthesizing: Discussions in Law School Success

This CALI podcast discusses why outlining in law school should really be called synthesizing, and gives tips to help you outline (or synthesize!) more effectively.

Exam Taking Skills, Outlines, and Advice for Law Students: Panel 1 PodCast

CALI’s Director of Curriculum Development, Deb Quentel, spoke with six law professors about outlines, studying for class, preparing for exams, time management, and how professors grade exams. The conversations were recorded as podcasts. While these podcasts are not intended to take the place of a conversation with your professor, the professors hope that these podcasts give law students additional insight into the exam process.

Exam Taking Skills, Outlines, and Advice for Law Students: Panel 2 PodCast

CALI’s Director of Curriculum Development, Deb Quentel, spoke with six law professors about outlines, studying for class, preparing for exams, time management, and how professors grade exams. The conversations were recorded as podcasts. While these podcasts are not intended to take the place of a conversation with your professor, the professors hope that these podcasts give law students additional insight into the exam process.

Exam Taking Skills, Outlines, and Advice for Law Students: Panel 3 PodCast

CALI’s Director of Curriculum Development, Deb Quentel, spoke with six law professors about outlines, studying for class, preparing for exams, time management, and how professors grade exams. The conversations were recorded as podcasts. While these podcasts are not intended to take the place of a conversation with your professor, the professors hope that these podcasts give law students additional insight into the exam process.

Celebrate Arab American Heritage Month

April is National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM) and celebrates the heritage, culture, and contributions of Arab Americans. Immigrants with origins from the Arab world have been arriving to the United States since before our country’s independence and have contributed to our nation’s advancements in science, business, technology, foreign policy, and national security. The Arab American Foundation and Arab America initiated the National Arab American Heritage Month in 2017. States and other organizations began recognizing April as National Arab American Heritage Month and this year President Biden issued an official proclamation.

According to the Arab American Institute, “Today, it is estimated that nearly 3.7 million Americans trace their roots to an Arab country. Arab Americans are found in every state, but more than two thirds of them live in just ten states: California, Michigan, New York, Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Metropolitan Los Angeles, Detroit, and New York are home to one-third of the population.” Ohio has one of the fastest growing Arab populations in the country.

Selected Resources to Learn More for Arab American Heritage Month

Arabic E-Journals at the University of Cincinnati

A collection of e-journals at the University of Cincinnati regarding Arabic language or news.

America: History and Life (EBSCO)

America: History and Life is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. AHL offers abstracts and citations for articles appearing in over 2¸000 journals published worldwide in history¸ related humanities¸ and the social sciences. Coverage also includes citations to book reviews from approximately 140 major journals of American history and culture¸ and relevant dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts International. Coverage: 1964 – present

Ethnic NewsWatch

Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America, some dating back to 1985.

Index Islamicus

The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library. The Unit was established in 1983 to continue the compilations and publications of the Index Islamicus bibliography and to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have been part of the curriculum at Cambridge University since the early 17th century. Records included in the database cover almost a century of publications¸ with some going back to 1906.

PAIS (ProQuest)

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) was established in 1914. There are two databases created from the files: PAIS International and PAIS Archive (now PAIS ProQuest). PAIS International includes records from the print PAIS Bulletin 1977 and forward; it also includes PAIS print Foreign Language Index published 1972-1990, at which time it merged with the PAIS Bulletin. The PAIS International database contains continually updated records for over half a million journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. PAIS (formerly PAIS Archive) is a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, volumes 1-62¸ published 1915-1976. PAIS (ProQuest) contains over 1.23 million records and covers monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics. Note: try Arab Americans, MuslimAmericans, Lebanese Americans, etc.