This Week’s Research Sessions
Monday, Sept. 14, 2020
- Prof. Bock’s Legal Writing & Research for LLMs with Associate Director Susan Boland
- Researching Secondary Sources
- 8:30am – 9:55am
- Zoom
- The Technology of Law Practice with Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian Shannon Kemen
- 3:00pm – 4:00pm
- Zoom
Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020
- Prof. Smith’s Lawyering I, section 6 with Associate Director Susan Boland
- Researching Cases & Citators
- 9:00am – 10:25am
- Zoom
- Prof. McCord, Lawyering I, section 3 with Associate Dean of Library Services Michael Whiteman
- Researching Cases & Citators
- 9:00am – 10:25am
- Zoom
- Prof. Smith’s Lawyering I, section 4 with Associate Director Susan Boland
- Researching Cases & Citators
- 10:40am – 12:05pm
- Zoom
- Prof. McCord, section 3 with Electronic Resources Instructional Services Librarian Ron Jones
- Researching Cases & Citators
- 3:30pm – 4:55pm
- Zoom
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020
- The Technology of Law Practice with Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian Shannon Kemen
- 3:00pm – 4:00pm
- Zoom
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020
- Prof. Smith’s Lawyering I, section 6 with Associate Director Susan Boland
- Basic Terms & Connectors Searching
- 9:00am – 10:25am
- Zoom
- Prof. Smith’s Lawyering I, section 4 with Associate Director Susan Boland
- Basic Terms & Connectors Searching
- 10:40am – 12:05pm
- Zoom
Featured Study Aids
- Election Law Stories
- An account of the most significant cases in election law, including the landmark decisions of Reynolds v. Sims, Bush v. Gore, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and Shelby County v. Holder. The volume’s thirteen cases concern the right to vote, redistricting and gerrymandering, campaign finance, and election administration.
- Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
- Understanding Election Law and Voting Rights
- Takes readers through the electoral process, beginning with the right to vote and continuing through the election itself. Along the way, the authors provide thorough explanations of manifold topics, including Congress’s power to protect voting rights, the use of race in districting, political gerrymandering, political parties’ rights, the place of third parties, free speech and the First Amendment rights to participate in campaigns and run for office, campaign-finance regulation, vote-counting, and the role of courts in adjudicating disputes about political power and challenges to election “irregularities.”
- Did you know that Prof. Michael Solimine is one of the authors?
- Available via the Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
- Examples & Explanations: Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Election Law
- Tackles the complex subjects in this field, including statutory interpretation, lobbying, bribery, redistricting, campaign finance law, and voting rights.
- Available via the Wolters Kluwar study aid subscription
Featured Database
- HeinOnline: Congress & the Courts
- Congress and the Courts brings together materials reflecting congressional concern with the composition and structure of Article III Courts and provides all relevant documents prepared by various Congresses relating to the purpose, formation, organization, and restructuring of the judiciary. This collection focuses on the development and growth of the federal courts and judiciary and is a source of original material of congressional fact finding and decision making. Decades of legislative intent, testimony, and pre-enactment history is provided in this collection.
Featured Guide
Celebrate Constitution Week
The Law Library is celebrating Constitution Week! In honor of the College of Law’s Constitution Day speaker, Professor Richard L. Hasen, we’ll be focusing on election law.
Celebrate Taft Week
This week is Taft Week at the College of Law! President & Chief Justice William Howard Taft graduated from University of Cincinnati Law School in 1880. SBA is featuring several events in celebration. Visit the Law Library’s Taft Week Guide for fun and interesting facts about Taft.
- On Sept. 15th, join SBA as they dress in their best baseball gear! Students can share their baseball outfit to the SBA Instagram account [@uclawsba], and be entered in the Taft Baseball Photo Contest. Take your picture and share it before 5pm to be entered.
- On Sept. 18th, SBA is featuring a talk at Noon and trivia in the evening.
- Throughout the week SBA will be collecting non-perishable food and clothing items in bins by the back doors for donations to charitable organizations.