Research Instruction

Monday, Feb. 10, 2020

• Library & Lexis Lunch & Learn: Brief Citation & Formatting Tools
  • Associate Director Susan Boland and Lexis Representative Ashley Russell will demonstrating resources to help you format your briefs and use correct citation form.
  • 12:15pm – 1:15pm
  • Room 302
  • Lunch & Lexis points provided!
• Advanced Legal Research
  • Associate Dean of Library Services & Director of the Law Library Michael Whiteman, Associate Director Susan Boland, and Electronic Resources & Instructional Services Librarian Ron Jones
  • 3:05pm – 4:30pm
  • Room 100B

Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020

• Prof. Lenhart’s Lawyering II, Section 1
  • Associate Director Susan Boland will be working with section 1 on Advanced Searching Techniques
  • 1:30pm – 2:55pm
  • Room 100B

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020

• Prof. McCord’s Lawyering II, Section 2
  • Associate Dean of Library Services & Director of the Law Library Michael Whiteman will be working with section 2 on Federal Law Research
  • 10:40am – 12:05pm
  • Room 100B
• Advanced Legal Research
  • Associate Dean of Library Services & Director of the Law Library Michael Whiteman, Associate Director Susan Boland, and Electronic Resources & Instructional Services Librarian Ron Jones
  • 3:05pm – 4:30pm
  • Room 104
• Prof. McCord’s Lawyering II, Section 4
  • Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian Shannon Kemen will be working with section 4 on Federal Law Research
  • 3:05pm – 4:30pm
  • Room 100A

Featured Guide

Gender & Law — By Shannon Kemen

This guide provides a quick overview of general and law materials. It covers browsing for materials by call number range, using encyclopedias for background research and how to locate articles, textbooks, treatises, statutory law, administrative materials, agency publications, legislative histories and websites of interest.

Featured Study Aids

Family Law Stories

• West Academic subscription
• Family Law Stories presents the historical, procedural, personal, and political background of 11 significant family law cases. The essays, written by leading family law scholars, cover four main areas: Marriage; Parenting and Custody; Separation and Divorce; and The Definition of Family.

Understanding Family Law

• Lexis OverDrive subscription
• Understanding Family Law includes coverage of topics such as traditional and nontraditional families, nonmarital and postmarital contracts, annulment, paternity and legitimacy, procreation rights, contraception, abortion, sterilization, artificially assisted conception, and adoption and termination of parental rights.

 

Love & Law

Check out our Valentine’s week display on Love & Law!

This week’s display highlights some of the significant cases on the right to love:

Right to Dispense & Use Contraceptives

Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965).

“We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights — older than our political parties, older than our school system. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. It is an association that promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in our prior decisions.” Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 516 (1965).

Couples of Different Races Have the Right to Marry

Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967).
“Marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival. Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U.S. 535, 541 (1942).See also Maynard v. Hill, 125 U.S. 190 (1888). To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State’s citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.” Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, 18-19 (1967)

Prisoners Have the Right to Marry

Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78 (1987).
“The right to marry, like many other rights, is subject to substantial restrictions as a result of incarceration. Many important attributes of marriage remain, however, after taking into account the limitations imposed by prison life. First, inmate marriages, like others, are expressions of emotional support and public commitment. These elements
are an important and significant aspect of the marital relationship.” Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78, 94 (1987).

Same-sex Couples Have the Right to Marry

Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___ , 135 S.Ct. 2584, 192 L.Ed.2d 609 (2015).
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.” Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___, 135 S.Ct. 2584, 2608;192 L.Ed.2d 609, 635 (2015).

 

February is Black History Month

2020 marks the sesquicentennial of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) which gave black men the right to vote after the Civil War. In keeping with this anniversary, this year’s theme for Black History Month is African Americans and the Vote. Be on the look out for future blog posts and displays on this important theme.

UC College of Law & Campus Events Celebrating Black History Month

All Month

• UC Libraries will profile African American leaders of the fight for civil and voting rights. Beginning with Sojourner Truth, former slave and abolitionist, and concluding with contemporaries Diane Nash, a key player in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Cincinnati’s Marian Spencer, a champion for Civil Rights both locally and nationally. The exhibit spans history into current times.
• All month long, UC’s Department of Athletics will run a social media campaign where student-athletes identify and honor black athletes who have inspired them. Tune in throughout February to UC Athletics Twitter @GoBEARCATS and Facebook @GoBearcats.

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020

• “I Am Not Hair: Confidence in Color, Kinks and Curls” Black Leaders in Business, sponsored by the Lindner Office of Inclusive Excellence in UC’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business
  • A panel discussion with local business leaders addressing stereotypes, microaggressions and pride with black hair in business.
  • 3:30pm-4:30pm
  • Carl H. Lindner College of Business 1220
• “Finding Kenyon Barr: Exploring Images of Cincinnati’s Lost Lower West End,” curator’s walk and talk, sponsored by UC’s Department of History
  • 4:00pm
  • Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church, 103 William Howard Taft (near entrance)

Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020

• “Charles McMicken and the African American Community in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana,” lecture by Evelyn Wilson, sponsored by UC’s Department of History
  • 4:30pm
  • Annie Laws 407, Teachers/Dyer

Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020

• Open format Q&A with Evelyn Wilson at UC’s African American Cultural Resource Center, sponsored by UC’s Department of History
  • Join an afternoon of Q&A with Evelyn Wilson from Louisiana State University for more on the discussion about Charles McMicken’s past and the future of his legacy.
  • 2:00pm
  • African American Cultural Resource Center
• “Building Black Wealth: Financial Literacy and Building Wealth in the Urban Community,” Black Leaders in Business Panel, sponsored by the Lindner Office of Inclusive Excellence in UC’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business
  • 3:30pm-4:30pm
  • Carl H. Lindner College of Business 1220

Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020

• “Let’s Go to Church at The Way Community Church”, sponsored by UC Black Women on the Move
  • 9:30am-11am
  • Academy of World Languages School, 2030 Fairfax Ave.
  • Church service at The Way Community Church with Pastor Geneva Miller, UC Black Women on the Move executive team member.

Monday, Feb. 24, 2020

• “Sip and Paint,” sponsored by Sisters Impacting Sisters and UC Black Women on the Move
  • 5:00pm-6:00pm
  • African American Cultural Resource Center
• “Protect Our Black Women Against Human Trafficking”
  • Join campus women for a free self defense and education class to learn the signs, become more aware of surroundings and what to look for to protect yourself and others in a crisis. Professional instructors are provided by Girlfriendz Networking Group and Fully Loaded Dance Studio. A signed waiver is required.
  • 5:00pm-7:00pm
  • African American Cultural Resource Center
• CCM Black Student Showcase, sponsored by CCM Black Student Association
  • The free hour long program is devoted to giving CCM’ black students and students of color a platform to perform selections personal to them. This year’s showcase features a segment on black women to further their significant musical achievements. Other segments will include works written by Donny Hathaway, Miles Davis and original pieces composed by CCM students.
  • 7:00pm-8:30pm
  • Watson Recital Hall, CCM

Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020

• Black Owned Business Fair, sponsored by the Lindner Office of Inclusive Excellence in UC’s Carl. H Lindner College of Business
  • Come and chat with black-owned business owners who will be offering full time and part time positions, as well as paid internships. Business formal attire is suggested.
  • Noon-2:00pm
  • Carl H. Lindner College of Business Atrium
• Women of UC Night Out at Women’s Basketball, Bearcats vs. Connecticut
  • Enjoy this ticketed event as UC Black Women on the Move join other women on and off campus to support UC’s Women’s Basketball Team.
  • 7:00pm
  • UC Fifth Third Arena

Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020

• Black Feminist Symposium, “Battle Cry: Protect, Preserve & Persist”
  • A day-long conference dedicated to uplifting black scholarship and celebrating black voices through forums, panels and lectures led by UC students, staff, faculty and community members.
  • 9:00am-3:00pm
  • TUC 4th Floor

Friday, Feb. 28, 2020

• Lunch & Learn- “Finding Your Voice” sponsored by UC Black Women on the Move
  • Noon-1:00pm
  • Location TBA