This Week in the Law Library …

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This week in the Law Library we’re changing over the way library resources are accessed, looking ahead to summer and graduate Lexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law access, and celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.

Access Change to Library E-Resources

User access to library electronic resources other than to Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg Law, the West Academic Study Aids, and Lexis Overdrive is changing beginning May 3rd. URLs containing the library proxy will eventually need to be changed to the new server address. What does this mean to you?

  • You don’t need to change anything in order to access Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg Law, the West Academic Study Aids, or Lexis Overdrive Study Aids
  • You don’t need to change anything if you access library electronic resources through the online catalog, guides, or our website (we are making these changes behind the scenes)
  • If you have bookmarked links to electronic resources other than the exceptions above, you will need to change the URLs before December
    • May 3rd: server address change:
      • From: http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=
      • To: (May 3rd): http://uc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=
    • The proxy tools page has been updated to assist with editing URLs
    • January 2022: outdated URLs will no longer work for library resources

 

Accessing Law Library Study Aids

CALI

No change. 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 reference librarian.

Lexis OverDrive

No change. If accessing study aids from Lexis OverDrive, you will need to login using your UC credentials.

West Academic

No change. To create an account, click the Create an Account link at the top right corner of the Study Aids Subscription page. Use your UC email as the email address. Once you have filled in the required information to set up an account, you will need to verify your email address (they will send you a confirmation email that you will need answer to verify the email address — be sure and check your junk mail). Once you have created an account and logged in, you can use the links below to access individual study aids or you can access all study aids through https://subscription.westacademic.com.

Wolters Kluwer

The Wolters Kluwer study aids are impacted by the change to access e-resources. If you access them from our website or one of our guides you don’t need to do anything. If you have linked to study aids from this particular collection, you will need to change the link by January. The old link will work through December.

 

Access to Lexis, Westlaw, & Bloomberg Law for Summer or After Graduation

Summer 2021 Access

Lexis

If you’re already registered for Lexis, you don’t need to do anything else to get Summer Access.  Access is unlimited for any purpose.

Westlaw

You can use Westlaw over the summer for non-commercial research. You can turn to these resources to gain understanding and build confidence in your research skills, but you cannot use them in situations where you are billing a client. Examples of permissible uses for your academic password include the following:

  • Summer coursework
  • Research assistant assignments
  • Law Review or Journal research
  • Moot Court research
  • Non-Profit work
  • Clinical work
  • Externship sponsored by the school

B-Law (Bloomberg Law)

If your workplace has a Bloomberg Law account, you are expected to use that, but there are no restrictions on your student Bloomberg accounts over the summer.

Post Graduation Access

Lexis

When you graduate, you’ll automatically have seamless Lexis+ access for 6 months, excluding public records. Continue to use your law school username and password while you prepare for the bar exam and employment. Plus, access exclusive resources and a Rewards program for graduates.

Lexis Aspire Program

Any graduating student who has verifiable employment with a non-profit organization can apply via Lexis ASPIRE program for 12 months of free Lexis access. Students can visit http://www.lexisnexis.com/grad-access for details on either of these offers.You’ll also have access to exclusive resources related to the transition from law school to employment and a Graduate Rewards Program.

Westlaw

May 2021 Graduates will see grad access info when they sign on to the Westlaw Law School Portal. Access is “normal” until May 31st. Starting June 1-Nov 30th graduates will have 60 hours of usage per month for 6 months. Direct link to extend for grad access is https://lawschool.westlaw.com/authentication/gradelite

All graduates will also automatically retain access to a number of job searching databases for 18-months following graduation for 1-hour a month. Please contact the Westlaw Representative for more information.

B-Law (Bloomberg Law)

2021 Graduating students will have unlimited and unrestricted Bloomberg access until Nov. 30, 2021.

May Arguments at the United States Supreme Court

US Supreme Court - corrected

From SCOTUS Blog:

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

 

May Is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

 

This month we’re celebrating Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! After decades of celebrating Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week, Congress finally passed Public Law 102-450  which annually designated May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869.

Asian and Pacific Islander Population in the United States

Asian American Pacific Islander Bar Associations:

National Association for Law Placement (NALP) Partner Demographics

From the 2020 NALP Report on Diversity in Law Firms:

Total: 42, 438
Percent Asian: 4.08%
Percent Asian Women: 1.62%

100 or Fewer Lawyers in the Firm:
Total: 1,459
Percent Asian: 3.70%
Percent Asian Women: 1.71%

101-250 Lawyers:

Total: 5,910
Percent Asian: 3.23%
Percent Asian Women: 1.17%

251-500 Lawyers:
Total: 8,263
Percent Asian: 3.07
Percent Asian Women: 1.32%

501-700 Lawyers:
Total: 3,582
Percent Asian: 3.91%
Percent Asian Women: 1.70%

701+ Lawyers:
Total: 23,224
Percent Asian: 4.70%
Percent Asian Women: 1.83%

Selected Subject Specific Study Aids for the First Week of Spring 2021 Exams

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Final exams fast approaching and the Law Library can help!

Accessing Law Library Study Aids

For an overview of our study aid subscriptions and a demonstration of how to access them, see:

Introduction to Study Aids & Research Guides Video

  • This video introduces you to our four online study aid collections, demonstrates how to access the study aids, and looks at research guides that will help you throughout your law school career. The video is 7:36 minutes long and features closed captioning.

CALI

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 reference librarian.

Lexis OverDrive

If accessing study aids from Lexis OverDrive, you will need to login using your UC credentials.

West Academic

To create an account, click the Create an Account link at the top right corner of the Study Aids Subscription page. Use your UC email as the email address. Once you have filled in the required information to set up an account, you will need to verify your email address (they will send you a confirmation email that you will need answer to verify the email address — be sure and check your junk mail). Once you have created an account and logged in, you can use the links below to access individual study aids or you can access all study aids through https://subscription.westacademic.com.

Wolters Kluwer

If accessing study aids from the Wolters Kluwer subscription, you will need to login using your UC credentials.

1L Subjects for the First Week of Spring 2021 Exams

Criminal Law

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Criminal Law

  • Criminal Law CALI Lessons
    • Available via CALI
    • CALI currently offers a number of interactive exercises for students studying Criminal Law. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
  • Criminal Law: Examples & Explanations
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • Examples & Explanations: Criminal Law, combines textual material with examples, explanations, and questions to test students’ comprehension of the materials and provide practice in applying information to fact patterns. This study aid provides an overview of Criminal Law, together with examples that illustrate how these principles apply in typical cases. Features coverage of subjects in eight major areas: the purposes of punishment, Actus Reus & Mens Rea, homicide causation, inchoate crimes: solicitation & attempt, group criminality: conspiracy & complicity, rape defenses & excuses. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.
  • Criminal Law (Hornbook)
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • Think of a hornbook as a mini-treatise for law students. It provides a more in-depth analysis of law school subjects than the other series. This Hornbook provides detailed discussion on the topics of responsibility, justification and excuse, inchoate crimes, accomplice, and liability. Attention is also given to subjects such as causation, insanity, and conspiracy.
  • Understanding Criminal Law
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • The text focuses on the basic elements of, and defenses to, all crimes; provides in-depth coverage of such crimes as homicide, rape, and theft; and covers other important topics covered in the Criminal Law course, such as accomplice and inchoate liability. Understanding Criminal Law also covers theories of punishment, sources of the criminal law, and overarching principles such as legality and proportionality. The common law is emphasized with extensive comparisons to the Model Penal Code and modern statutes. This edition offers the most significant updating ever, including coverage of quickly-changing legal areas, such as sexual assault and self-defense law. Recent and ongoing revisions to the Model Penal Code are also covered.

Selected Study Aids for Criminal Law Exam Review and Preparation

  • Acing Criminal Law
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • Titles in the Acing Series use a unique checklist format with sequential questions that help students fully evaluate a subject. The books also present numerous hypothetical problems and sample answers. Acing Criminal Law covers the topics typical of a first-year Criminal Law course. It covers The nature of criminal law; Actus Reus; Mens Rea; mistake; causation; accomplice & vicarious liability; attempt; conspiracy; solicitation; assault; sex crimes; homicide; theft; justification defenses; and excuses.
  • The Glannon Guide to Criminal Law
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • The Glannon Guide to Criminal Law is a concise, clear review of criminal law topics organized around multiple-choice questions. It includes brief explanatory text about each topic, followed by one or two multiple-choice questions. After each question, the author explains how the correct choice was chosen and clarifies why other options were not correct. New hypotheticals feature situations involving the Model Penal Code.
  • Questions and Answers: Criminal Law
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • This study guide includes over 150 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 16 questions comprising a comprehensive “practice exam.”

More Criminal Law Study Aids

Constitutional Law

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Constitutional Law

  • Constitutional Law CALI Lessons
    • Available via CALI
    • CALI currently offers a number of interactive exercises for students studying Constitutional Law. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
  • Constitutional Law National Power and Federalism: Examples and Explanations
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism, is a problem-oriented guide to the principle doctrines of constitutional law that are covered in the typical course. This text walks the student through issues pertaining to the structure of our constitutional system, including judicial review, justiciability, national power, supremacy, the separation of powers and federalism, as well as some of the structural limitations that the Constitution imposes on state powers. Combines textual material with well-written and comprehensive examples, explanations, and questions to test studentsrsquo; comprehension of the materials and provide practice in applying legal principles to fact patterns. New to the Eighth Edition: Roughly 25 important new decisions from the Supreme Court’s 2016, 2017, and 2018 terms such as Trump v. Hawaii; South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.; Sessions v. Morales-Santana; Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky; Murphy v. NCAA; Patchak v. Zinke; Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer.
  • Principles of Constitutional Law
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • The book analyzes the constitutional issues studied today, and discusses the origins of judicial review and federal jurisdiction, federal commerce and spending powers, state powers in light of the dormant Commerce Clause, the war power, freedom of speech and religion, equal protection, due process, and other important individual rights and liberties.
  • Understanding Constitutional Law
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • Understanding Constitutional Law covers all of the central concepts and issues students encounter in any basic constitutional law course. Structure of Government issues revolve around the twin themes of federalism and separation of powers.

Selected Study Aids for Constitutional Law Exam Review and Preparation

  • Black Letter Outline on Constitutional Law
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This outline summarizes the black-letter rules of Constitutional Law. It also contains a glossary and sample examination questions and answers. The Black Letter Outline series contains comprehensive outlines of particular areas of law, capsule summaries of each outline, practice examinations, and examples and review questions. This outline summarizes the black-letter rules of Constitutional Law. It also contains a glossary and sample examination questions and answers. Part one covers the allocation of national and state governmental power. Part two covers individual rights and liberties and the constitutional limitations on governmental power.
  • The Glannon Guide to Constitutional Law
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • This Glannon Guide offers explanations, multiple-choice questions, and analyses. It provides an overview of the constitutional doctrines that govern the structure and powers granted in the U.S. Constitution, as well as those that protect individual rights and liberties. New to the Third Edition: combined the government structure and powers volume with the rights and liberties volume into one convenient, economical, and easy-to-use aid Updated with recent Supreme Court cases and related questions; new flowcharts and tables visually illustrate and clarify complex areas of doctrine New Closing Closers. Provides multiple choice questions at varying levels of difficulty, along with detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers that all students can use to self-test within each chapter.
  • Questions and Answers: Constitutional Law
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • This study guide includes 192 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 24 questions comprising a comprehensive “practice exam.” For each multiple-choice question, the authors provide a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains thoroughly why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question is designed to be answered in fifteen minutes or less, and includes a thoughtful, comprehensive, yet brief model answer.

More Study Aids for Constitutional Law

2L & 3L Subjects

Criminal Procedure I & II

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Criminal Procedure I

  • Criminal Procedure CALI Lessons
    • Available via CALI
    • CALI currently offers many interactive exercises for Criminal Procedure students. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
  • Criminal Procedure (Hornbook)
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • Think of a hornbook as a mini-treatise for law students. It provides a more in-depth analysis of law school subjects than the other series. This title analyzes the law governing all major steps in the criminal justice process, beginning with investigation and ending with post-appeal collateral attacks. All major themes are covered, with emphasis upon those basic issues deemed most significant in the case law and literature. Because of their special importance, leading Supreme Court opinions are given in-depth treatment.
  • Criminal Procedure I: The Constitution and the Police: Examples & Explanations
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • This study aid provides an overview of Criminal Procedure, together with examples that illustrate how these principles apply in typical cases. The text gives students a sense of the theoretical flow and logic of law enforcement by following police procedural order. It includes a special section on terrorism in the United States and the Fourth Amendment ramifications. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.
  • Understanding Criminal Procedure Vol 1: Investigation
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • The Understanding series provides an overview and analysis of legal subjects. It provides less analysis than a hornbook but more than a nutshell. Understanding Criminal Procedure Volume One: Investigation is intended for use in introductory criminal procedure courses focusing primarily or exclusively on police investigative process and constitutional concerns. A chapter on the defendant’s right to counsel at trial and appeal and other non-police-practice issues is included in both volumes. The seventh edition of Investigation incorporates all of the major Supreme Court cases since the last edition was published, such as Riley v. California, Maryland v. King, Utah v. Strieff, and Florida v. Jardines. It also contains expanded coverage of issues surrounding searches of computers and internet traffic and a more in-depth exploration of the effect of United States v. Jones on Fourth Amendment search doctrine.

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Criminal Procedure II

  • Criminal Procedure II: From Bail to Jail: Examples & Explanations
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • This study aid provides an overview of Criminal Procedure, together with examples that illustrate how these principles apply in typical cases. The text additionally contains information on non-criminal trial remedies for prosecutorial misconduct; treatment of ABA standards, especially those relating to effective assistance of counsel; emphasis on the continuing struggle with rules of discovery, both as a constitutional matter, and as a matter of court rules, both federal and state; the expansion of the right to counsel, in Rothgery and other cases; and the Court’s willingness to impose on counsel, but not on judges, the duty to provide defendants prior to entry of a guilty plea of important information on collateral matters. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.
  • Inside Adjudicative Criminal Procedure: What Matters and Why
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • Inside Adjudicative Criminal Procedure: What Matters and Why discusses bail, grand jury and prosecutorial decision-making, discovery, speedy trial, jury selection, trial by jury, right to counsel, double jeopardy, guilty pleas and plea bargaining, sentencing, and post-verdict trials and strategies. Each chapter describes the most critical legal concepts, and contains succinct discussions of relevant case law and statutes. A connections section at the end of each chapter link chapter topics with other chapters in the book.
  • Understanding Criminal Procedure: Vol. 2, Adjudication
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • The Understanding series provides an overview and analysis of legal subjects. It provides less analysis than a hornbook but more than a nutshell. Understanding Criminal Procedure Volume Two: Adjudication covers the criminal process after the police investigation ends and the adjudicative process commences. The text covers the most important United States Supreme Court cases in the field. Where pertinent, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, federal statutes, and lower federal and state court cases are considered. The broad overarching policy issues of criminal procedure are laid out and some of the hottest debates in the field are considered in depth and objectively.

Selected Study Aids for Criminal Procedure Exam Review and Preparation

  • Acing Criminal Procedure
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This text covers incorporation and retroactivity, right to counsel, search and seizure, police interrogations and confessions, identification Procedures, the Exclusionary Rule, and entrapment. Checklists are provided for all topics generally covered in the basic criminal procedure course.
  • Exam Pro on Criminal Procedure (Objective)
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This study aid will enhance understanding of criminal procedure and sharpen exam skills. There are three comprehensive sample examinations, containing 40 questions each. It contains answers that explain why one choice is correct and why the alternatives are wrong.
  • Glannon Guide to Criminal Procedure
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • The Glannon Guide to Criminal Procedure is a review of criminal law topics organized around multiple-choice questions. It includes brief explanatory text about each topic, followed by one or two multiple-choice questions. After each question, the author explains how the correct choice was chosen and clarifies why other options were not correct.
  • Questions and Answers: Criminal Procedure — Prosecution and Adjudication
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • This book and its companion, Q&A: Criminal Procedure – Police Investigation, will assist learning and exam preparation in criminal procedure courses and for the bar exam. This volume covers discretion to prosecute, bail, complaint, initial appearance, preliminary hearing, grand jury, plea bargaining, joinder and severance, motion practice, discovery, time limitations, jurisdiction and venue, trial, double jeopardy, and post-conviction remedies.

More Criminal Procedure Study Aids

Mergers & Acquisitions

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Corporations CALI Lessons
    • Available via CALI
    • CALI currently offers interactive exercises under the Corporations topic for Mergers & Acquisitions students. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
  • Mergers and Acquisitions (Concepts & Insights)
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This text provides a concise statement of the the state corporate and federal securities laws governing mergers and acquisitions law designed for law students taking an advanced business law course such as mergers and acquisitions or corporate finance, lawyers practicing in corporate takeovers, and judges faced with cases arising out of such transactions. This thoroughly updated third edition features a considerably expanded treatment of practical aspects, such as drafting merger agreements, preparing disclosure documents, and dealing with takeover defenses.
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law (Hornbook)
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • Gevurtz & Sautter’s Hornbook on Mergers and Acquisitions provides a comprehensive exploration of this important topic. Written in a casual style designed to engage the reader, the book clarifies and critiques critical doctrine. In addition to covering corporate laws governing mergers and acquisitions, the book explores securities, tax, and antitrust laws, as well as addressing the business, financial, and practical lawyering aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
  • Mergers and Acquisitions in a Nutshell

Selected Study Aids for Mergers & Acquisitions Exam Review and Preparation

  • Acing Business Associations
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This book provides an explanation of corporations, agency and partnership, and the other subjects addressed in most Business Associations courses. To accompany its explanations, the guide utilizes a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask and issues they need to address, to fully evaluate the agency, partnership or corporations, problems they will face when studying this subject.
  • Corporations and Other Business Entities CrunchTime
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • This study aid provides flow charts, capsule summaries, exam tips, short answer exam questions, multiple choice questions, and essay questions with model answers.
  • Questions and Answers: Business Associations
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • Q&A books consist of multiple choice and short answer questions with detailed explanations of the answers. This study guide includes over 190 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 28 questions comprising a comprehensive “practice exam.”

More Mergers & Acquisitions Study Aids

Bankruptcy

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Bankruptcy

  • Bankruptcy CALI Lessons
    • Available via CALI
    • CALI currently offers a number of interactive exercises for students studying Bankruptcy. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
  • Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor: Examples & Explanations
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • This text covers the rules of bankruptcy law and applies them in context, using the examples. It covers the nature, source, and policies of bankruptcy law formation; the framework of the debtor/creditor relationship; unsecured debt; secured debt and priorities; debt collection under state law; fraudulent transfers; bankruptcy jurisdiction, the powers of the bankruptcy court; debtor eligibility and bankruptcy relief; commencement and dismissal of the bankruptcy case; the automatic stay; property of the estate; trustee powers; executory contracts and unexpired leases; claims against the estate; Chapter 13 and 11 plans. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.
  • Principles of Bankruptcy Law (Concise Hornbook)
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This book focuses on the material covered in a typical law school course on Bankruptcy. It covers both business and consumer bankruptcy. The book explains basic bankruptcy concepts and then uses those concepts to make code provisions understandable.
  • Understanding Bankruptcy
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • The Understanding series provides an overview and analysis of legal subjects. It provides less analysis than a hornbook but more than a nutshell. This book provides a detailed introduction to bankruptcy and related state and federal debtor-creditor law. It is equally useful in an introductory Creditors’ Rights course that emphasizes bankruptcy; a free-standing Bankruptcy course; or an advanced course in Chapter 11 Reorganization. It provides an ample explanation of the issues likely to arise in any of these courses, specifically including issues raised by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.

Selected Study Aids for Bankruptcy Exam Review and Preparation

  • Black Letter Outline on Bankruptcy
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This Black Letter Outline on Bankruptcy and Related Law helps law students recognize and understand the basic principles and issues of law covered in law school courses. Coverage includes: Extrajudicial collection devices Judicial debt collection Fraudulent transfers Creditors with special rights Debtor’s state law remedies and the Collective Creditor Act Commencement, conversion, and dismissal of a bankruptcy case Stay of collection actions Property of the estate Exemptions A Text Correlation Chart outline is cross-referenced to the leading casebooks on creditors’ rights and bankruptcy. This volume includes numerous examples, short questions and answers, a practice examination, and analysis.y need to ask and issues they need to address, to fully evaluate the agency, partnership or corporations, problems they will face when studying this subject.
  • The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • This study guide is designed to help you prepare for the introductory bankruptcy and creditors’ rights class, as well as a more advanced Chapter 11 class. It starts with a few chapters on state court collection procedures, then introduces the Bankruptcy Code system and its definitions, discusses bankruptcy court jurisdiction and administration, and then covers various bankruptcy topics that are applicable in any type of bankruptcy. Thereafter, the guide discusses topics in the context of the three main types of bankruptcy cases, known by their chapter numbers within the Bankruptcy Code: Chapter 7 liquidation cases; Chapter 13 individual payment plan cases; and Chapter 11 business reorganization cases. Brief explanatory text about a topic is followed by one or two multiple-choice questions, and after each question the author explains how the correct choice was chosen.
  • Questions and Answers: Bankruptcy
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • This book contains 398 multiple-choice and short-answer questions with clear, detailed answers for each question, along with a two-hour, comprehensive practice exam, also with detailed, step-by-step explanations. The questions and answers cover the major chapters of the Bankruptcy Code (7, 11, 12, and 13) and include expertly designed questions on consumer bankruptcy, corporation liquidation, corporate reorganization, family farms, bankruptcy procedure, and many other issues. Specific coverage includes: the structure of the Code, bankruptcy eligibility, property of the estate and exclusions, the automatic stay, claims resolution and distribution, administrative powers, executory contracts, avoiding powers, preferences and exceptions, strong-arm powers, fraudulent transfers, recovery of avoided transfers, discharge and dischargeability, exemptions, means-testing, redemption, reaffirmation, reorganization plans in both chapter 11 and chapter 13, plan confirmation, advanced issues in chapter 11, non-discrimination, lien avoidance, and revocation of plan confirmation.

More Bankruptcy Study Aids

Antitrust

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Antitrust

  • Antitrust: Examples & Explanations
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • This study aid features an explanation of the economic basis of American antitrust law and expanded treatment of advanced economic topics, like oligopoly theory, monopolistic competition, and the economics of vertical restraints. It extensively lays out the real-world practical background of antitrust law and gives full coverage to topics in the Sherman and Clayton Acts; price discrimination and the Robinson-Patman Act; the process of merger review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, and others. Furthermore, it incorporates the Supreme Court’s decisions in FTC v. Actavis and FTC v. Phoebe Putney; important lower court developments, like the Seventh Circuit’s ruling in Minn-Chem v. Agrium; and the 2010 revisions to the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. This new edition covers the “two-sided” or “platform” market theory introduced in the Supreme Court’s seminal 2018 decision in Ohio v. American Express; revised its coverage of conspiracy, monopolization, and merger law in light of key lower-court decisions, like United States v. AT&T, New York v. T-Mobile, Steves & Sons v. JELD-WEN, Viamedia v. Comcast, SC Innovations v. Uber Technologies, and the Alston NCAA litigation; and expanded treatment of advanced antitrust economic theory in a substantially revised Appendix, including a full examination of bargaining theory and other developing models, and their performance before the courts.
  • The Law of Antitrust, an Integrated Handbook (Hornbook)
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This updated edition of a venerable antitrust law treatise will meet the needs of lawyers, judges, scholars, and students. As in prior editions, it provides a clear statement of the law, visits unresolved issues and areas of controversy, and provides a candid assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the various positions. The new edition also contains a more user-friendly index.
  • Understanding Antitrust and Its Economic Implications
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • The seventh edition of Understanding Antitrust and Its Economic Implications attempts to offer an accurate and balanced description of the current state of antitrust law as well as its historical foundations and the evolution of the law. Although the state of the law has remained much the same since the last edition, applications of it continue to evolve. Highlights include: (1) Implications concerning the use of leverage; (2) Bundled discounts; (3) Post-Leegin vertical restraints; (4) New merger guidelines; (5) Relevance of the Robinson and Patman Act; (6) Summary judgment consequences; (7) Strategies associated with delaying entry into a market; (8) Insights into whether the goal of antitrust is efficiency or consumer welfare; and (9) Conflicting opinions on whether the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act focuses on an antitrust claim or a jurisdictional issue.

Selected Study Aids for Bankruptcy Exam Review and Preparation

  • Black Letter Outline on Antitrust
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • Black Letter Outlines are designed to help a law student recognize and understand the basic principles and issues of law covered in a law school course. Black Letter Outlines can be used both as a study aid when preparing for classes and a review of the subject matter when studying for an examination. This outline covers: Antitrust Economics – Price Theory and Industrial Organization; Cartels, Tacit Collusion, Joint Ventures and Other Combinations of Competitors; Monopolization, Attempt to Monopolize and Predatory Pricing; Vertical Integration and Vertical Mergers; Tie-ins, Reciprocity, Exclusive Dealing and the Franchise Contract; Resale Price Maintenance and Vertical Nonprice Restraints; Refusals to Deal; Horizontal Mergers; Conglomerate and Potential Competition Mergers; Price Discrimination and Differential Pricing Under the Robinson-Patman Act; Jurisdictional, Public Policy and Regulatory Limitations on the Domain of Antitrust; and Enforcement, Procedure and Related Matters.
  • Gilbert Law Summaries on Antitrust
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • The topics included are common law restraints of trade, federal antitrust laws (including Sherman Act, Clayton Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, interstate commerce requirement, and antitrust remedies), and monopolization (including relevant market, purposeful act requirement, and attempts and conspiracy to monopolize). Also included are collaboration among competitors (including horizontal restraints, division of markets, and group boycotts), vertical restraints, and mergers and acquisitions (including horizontal mergers, brown shoe analysis, vertical mergers, and conglomerate mergers). Further topics addressed are price discrimination–Robinson-Patman Act, unfair methods of competition, patent laws and their antitrust implications, and exemptions from antitrust laws.
  • Questions and Answers: Antitrust
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • This study guide includes over 150 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 40 questions comprising a comprehensive “practice exam.” For each multiple-choice question, Professor Ghosh provides a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains thoroughly why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question is designed to be answered in fifteen minutes or less. For these questions, Professor Ghosh provides a thoughtful, comprehensive, yet brief model answer. The questions cover: (1) Antitrust policy and background Antitrust economics; (2) Antitrust institutions; (3) Horizontal restraints and cartels; (4) Vertical restraints; (5) Monopolization; (6) Monopolistic conduct; (7) Attempted monopolization; (8) Mergers and acquisitions; and (9) Price discrimination.

More Antitrust Study Aids

Sales

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Sales

  • Sales CALI Lessons
    • Available via CALI
    • CALI currently offers a number of interactive exercises for students studying Sales. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
  • Sales and Leases: Examples & Explanations
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • This text offers introductions, concrete examples, and explanations for understanding UCC Articles 2 and 2A. It addresses efforts to revise Articles 2 and 2A. It also includes recent cases on the scope of Article 2, as well as those on the disclaimer of consequential damages.
  • Principles of Sales Law (Concise Hornbook)
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Articles 1 and 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). It provides a useful resource for students and practitioners dealing with sales or contract issues.
  • Understanding Sales and Leases of Goods
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • This Understanding treatise offers a concise, yet comprehensive survey and analysis of the legal principles that affect the law governing sales and leases of goods. This book presents an integrated treatment of Articles 2 and 2A of the Uniform Commercial Code. The primary focus is on sales, with material addressing lease transactions woven into the text at appropriate points.

Selected Study Aids for Bankruptcy Exam Review and Preparation

  • Gilbert Law Summaries on Sale and Lease of Goods
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • The topics discussed in the Sale and Lease of Goods outline are Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Article 2, sales contract (including offer and acceptance, parol evidence rule, statute of frauds, assignment and delegation, and revision of contract terms). Also covered are types of sales, including cash sale transactions, auctions, “sale or return”, and “sale on approval” transactions, express and implied warranties, and privity.
  • The Glannon Guide to Sales
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • This text includes an introduction to working with the uniform commercial code; discusses the the scope of article 2; formation; the parol evidence rule; interpretation and modification; the statute of frauds; warranties; disclaimer of warranties; third-party beneficiaries; the code scheme for performance; delivery and shipment; excuse of performance; assurances and reclamation; Seller’s remedies; Buyer’s remedies; limitation of remedies; assignment and delegation; the statute of limitations. Coverage of Article 2a looks at leases of goods; software transactions; and International sales.
  • Friedman’s Sales
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • Friedman’s Practice Series helps you develop the skills for spotting issues and preparing answers for your next exam. Real laws school exams test your knowledge of the key concepts and rules with a collection of essay and multiple-choice questions. Set up to mirror actual exams, the series features long essay questions as well as some that are relatively short and medium-length.

More Sales Study Aids

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This week in the Law Library we’re teaching our final research session on cost effective searching, helping you study for final exams, looking at summer and graduate access to legal databases, and watching US Supreme Court and Ohio Supreme Court oral arguments.

This Week’s Research Sessions

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

  • Prof. McCord’s Advocacy, section 4 with Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian, Shannon Kemen
    • Cost Effective Legal Research
    • 9:00am – 10:25am
    • Zoom
  • Prof. McCord’s Advocacy, section 6 with Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian, Shannon Kemen
    • Cost Effective Legal Research
    • 12:30pm – 1:55pm
    • Zoom

Accessing Law Library Study Aids

For an overview of our study aid subscriptions and a demonstration of how to access them, see:

Introduction to Study Aids & Research Guides Video

  • This video introduces you to our four online study aid collections, demonstrates how to access the study aids, and looks at research guides that will help you throughout your law school career. The video is 7:36 minutes long and features closed captioning.

CALI

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 reference librarian.

Lexis OverDrive

If accessing study aids from Lexis OverDrive, you will need to login using your UC credentials.

West Academic

To create an account, click the Create an Account link at the top right corner of the Study Aids Subscription page. Use your UC email as the email address. Once you have filled in the required information to set up an account, you will need to verify your email address (they will send you a confirmation email that you will need answer to verify the email address — be sure and check your junk mail). Once you have created an account and logged in, you can use the links below to access individual study aids or you can access all study aids through https://subscription.westacademic.com.

Wolters Kluwer

If accessing study aids from the Wolters Kluwer subscription, you will need to login using your UC credentials.

 

Selected Study Aids to Help with Exam Studying Techniques

  • The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law School
    • Available through the West Academic subscription
    • This work teaches the eight secrets that will add points to every exam answer you write. You will learn the three keys to handling any essay exam, how to use time to your advantage, issue spotting, how to organize your answer, and the hidden traps of the IRAC method. Once you have mastered these skills, you can put your knowledge to the test with sample exam questions and check your answers against those provided. A special section on how to do well on other types of exams, such as open-book, multiple-choice, or policy exams, is also included.
  • How to Write Law School Exams: IRAC Perfected
    • Available through the West Academic subscription
    • Provides students of all levels with a detailed, comprehensive, and practical guide to success on law school exams. This text breaks the well-known IRAC method of legal writing into comprehensible segments and gives students the tools needed to master their law exams. Provides readers with detailed student-written examples of the IRAC method in action. Annotated with line-by-line critiques, these sample essays show readers exactly what can go wrong in a law school exam and how to fix those problems before they appear on a graded paper.
  • Hyped About Hypos
    • Available through CALI
    • Law students often hear about the importance of “doing hypos” but don’t know why they are important, where to find them, how to do them, and so on. This CALI lesson will cover the what, why, when, where, and how of hypos so law students can conquer the material they are learning and be prepared for exams. Learning Outcomes On completion of the lesson, the student will be able to: 1. Define the term “hypothetical” in the law school context. 2. List several reliable sources of hypotheticals. 3. Explain how to use hypotheticals to prepare for an exam. 4. Discuss why using hypotheticals is important for success in law school.
  • IRAC
    • Available through CALI
    • This CALI lesson will cover the basic structure of written legal analysis: IRAC. IRAC stands for Issue, Rule, Application/Analysis, Conclusion. There are slightly different versions of IRAC which may be used for different legal documents. This lesson will focus on IRAC for essay exam writing. Some faculty may prefer CRAC, or CIRAC, where the conclusion is placed first. You may also learn CRREAC for writing legal memos and briefs, which stands for Conclusion, Rule, Rule Explanation, Application, Conclusion. Make sure you know your professor’s structural preferences regarding exams and other assignments. Whether you have the conclusion up front or not, all of legal analysis follows the same basic IRAC framework. It takes some getting used to, but once you understand how to properly work with the IRAC structure, you will be able to analyze any legal question.
  • Law School Exams: A Guide to Better Grades
    • Available through LexisNexis Digital Library (Lexis OverDrive)
    • This text is a handbook for students who want to significantly improve their performance in law school. This book strips the exam format into a series of repeatable steps and building blocks. It also teaches students how to prepare for exams, instead of preparing for class, with proven time-management, outlining, and case-briefing techniques.
  • Law School Exams: Preparing and Writing to Win
    • Available through the Wolters Kluwer subscription
    • Exercises and practice exams, with a focus on essay questions and model answers, help students identify their strengths and weaknesses, plan strategies, and organize their efforts. The text offers techniques for maximizing scores on several types of essay questions, as well as on multiple-choice and other questions. Exam anxiety is tackled by a helpful, positive perspective: the right amount of stress can
  • Legal Writing v. Exam Writing
    • Available through CALI
    • This CALI lesson explains some key differences between legal writing and exam writing. First, the lesson demonstrates the relationship between legal writing and exam writing. Next, the lesson explains the differences between legal writing and exam writing. After you complete this lesson you will be able to transfer writing and analysis skills learned in your legal writing course to your final exams.
  • Mastering the Law School Exam: A Practical Blueprint for Preparing and Taking Law School Exams
    • exams.
  • A Methodical Approach to Improve Multiple Choice Performance
    • Available through CALI
    • This lesson teaches a methodical approach for all law school multiple choice questions. The step-by-step approach provides a framework to work through questions so students can more easily eliminate distractor answer choices. The lesson will thoroughly explore each step in this analytical approach.
  • Top 10 Tips for Successfully Writing a Law School Essay (podcast)
    • Available through CALI
    • Professor Jennifer Martin discusses the top ten mistakes law students make in law school examinations: poor issue spotting, poor knowledge and understanding of the law, poor application of the law to the facts, giving only conclusory answers, lack of organization, errors in the facts, failure to understand the role you are given in the examination, padding, fact inventing, and question begging. She also discusses the hallmarks of a good essay answer.
  • Writing Better Law School Exams: The Importance of Structure
    • Available through CALI
    • This CALI lesson begins with an explicit discussion of legal writing its structural implications. Within that specific context, the program goes on to discuss the tasks to be performed, the tools used in performing those tasks, and methods of sharpening those tools. The program concludes with some interactive opportunities to try the techniques described.
  • Tips for Multiple Choice Exams in Law School (podcast)
      • Available through CALI
      • Prof. Scott Burnham, provides students with advice on multiple choice exam questions. He looks at the parts of a question and identifies types of multiple choice questions such as those that test recall, those that draw on materials discussed in class, and those that require analysis. At the end of this lesson students will know how to decipher what type of question is being asked, how to spot the specific issue in the question, and how to eliminate the other choices.
  • Multiple-Choice Questions: Wrong Answer Pathology
    • Available through CALI
    • This lesson teaches you how to select the right answer in a multiple-choice question by better understanding how to identify wrong answers, based on nine specific types of wrong answers.
  • Your Brain and Law School
    • Available through LexisNexis Digital Library (Lexis OverDrive)
    • Before you can learn to think like a lawyer, you have to have some idea about how the brain thinks. The first part of this book translates the technical research, explaining learning strategies that work for the brain in law school specifically, and calling out other tactics that are useless (though often popular lures for the misinformed). This book is unique in explaining the science behind the advice and will save you from pursuing tempting shortcuts that will take you in the wrong direction. The second part explores the brain’s decision-making processes and cognitive biases.

Reminder — UC Libraries Platform Change (beginning May 3rd)

User access to library electronic resources is controlled by UC credentials and the library proxy server. To improve management of this, the libraries are changing proxy servers at the end of the spring semester. All URLs containing the library proxy will need to be changed to the new server address. The library has created tools to assist in changing/creating proxy URLs. Please plan to change library resource links in course syllabi, Canvas, personal bookmarks, etc. starting in the month of May. The library will maintain the old server through the end of 2021, so access will be continuous for summer semester and ample time is provided for the URLs to be updated.

  • May 3rd: server address changes
    • From: http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.abc.com
    • To: (May 3rd): http://uc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.abc.com
    • The proxy tools page will be updated May 3rd to assist with editing URLs
  • After May 3rd, example of new proxy URL for the title “very short introductions”
    • https://uc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.veryshortintroductions.com/
  • May 3rd through 2021: change library resource links in course syllabi, Canvas, personal bookmarks, etc.
  • January 2022: outdated URLs will no longer work for library resources

The libraries will continue to send information about this platform change. We appreciate your assistance and attention!

 

Access to Lexis, Westlaw, & Bloomberg Law for Summer or After Graduation

Summer 2021 Access

Lexis

If you’re already registered for Lexis, you don’t need to do anything else to get Summer Access.  Access is unlimited for any purpose.

Westlaw

You can use Westlaw over the summer for non-commercial research. You can turn to these resources to gain understanding and build confidence in your research skills, but you cannot use them in situations where you are billing a client. Examples of permissible uses for your academic password include the following:

  • Summer coursework
  • Research assistant assignments
  • Law Review or Journal research
  • Moot Court research
  • Non-Profit work
  • Clinical work
  • Externship sponsored by the school

B-Law (Bloomberg Law)

If your workplace has a Bloomberg Law account, you are expected to use that, but there are no restrictions on your student Bloomberg accounts over the summer.

Post Graduation Access

Lexis

When you graduate, you’ll automatically have seamless Lexis+ access for 6 months, excluding public records. Continue to use your law school username and password while you prepare for the bar exam and employment. Plus, access exclusive resources and a Rewards program for graduates.

Lexis Aspire Program

Any graduating student who has verifiable employment with a non-profit organization can apply via Lexis ASPIRE program for 12 months of free Lexis access. Students can visit http://www.lexisnexis.com/grad-access for details on either of these offers.You’ll also have access to exclusive resources related to the transition from law school to employment and a Graduate Rewards Program.

Westlaw

May 2021 Graduates will see grad access info when they sign on to the Westlaw Law School Portal. Access is “normal” until May 31st. Starting June 1-Nov 30th graduates will have 60 hours of usage per month for 6 months. Direct link to extend for grad access is https://lawschool.westlaw.com/authentication/gradelite

All graduates will also automatically retain access to a number of job searching databases for 18-months following graduation for 1-hour a month. Please contact the Westlaw Representative for more information.

B-Law (Bloomberg Law)

2021 Graduating students will have unlimited and unrestricted Bloomberg access until Nov. 30, 2021.

 

April Arguments at the United States Supreme Court

US Supreme Court - corrected

From SCOTUS Blog:

Monday, April 26, 2021

  • Thomas More Law Center v. Bonta — whether exacting scrutiny or strict scrutiny applies to disclosure requirements that burden nonelectoral, expressive association rights; and whether California’s disclosure requirement violates charities’ and their donors’ freedom of association and speech facially or as applied to the Thomas More Law Center.
  • Guam v. U.S. — whether a settlement that is not under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act can trigger a contribution claim under CERCLA Section 113(f)(3)(B); and (2) whether a settlement that expressly disclaims any liability determination and leaves the settling party exposed to future liability can trigger a contribution claim under CERCLA Section 113(f)(3)(B).
  • Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta — whether the exacting scrutiny the Supreme Court has long required of laws that abridge the freedoms of speech and association outside the election context – as called for by NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson and its progeny – can be satisfied absent any showing that a blanket governmental demand for the individual identities and addresses of major donors to private nonprofit organizations is narrowly tailored to an asserted law-enforcement interest.

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

  • U.S. v. Palomar-Santiagor — whether a defendant, charged with unlawful reentry into the United States following removal, automatically satisfies the prerequisites to asserting the invalidity of the original removal order as an affirmative defense solely by showing that he was removed for a crime that would not be considered a removable offense under current circuit law, even if he cannot independently demonstrate administrative exhaustion or deprivation of the opportunity for judicial review.
    HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association — whether, in order to qualify for a hardship exemption under Section 7545(o)(9)(B)(i) of the Renewable Fuel Standards, a small refinery needs to receive uninterrupted, continuous hardship exemptions for every year since 2011.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

 

April Oral Arguments at the Ohio Supreme Court

You can view the live stream of oral arguments on the Court’s website or see them after the arguments take place in the Ohio Channel archives.

Ohio Supreme Court Chamber

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

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This week at the Law Library we’re looking at Bluebook citation, highlighting Law Library exam resources, reminding you about our upcoming change in accessing library electronic resources, and taking a look at the April US Supreme Court arguments.

Got the Bluebook Blues?

Are you working on a seminar paper and need to use academic Bluebook format and now are feeling a little lost? Wrangle those citations into line with a little help from the Law Library! Check out our Bluebook Citation 101 — Academic Format guide for examples and explanations.

Bluebook Citation Guide Academic Format

Exams Are Coming — The Law Library Can Help!

Be sure and check out the many resources that the Law Library provides to help you with final exams:

Reminder — UC Libraries Platform Change (beginning May 3rd)

User access to library electronic resources is controlled by UC credentials and the library proxy server. To improve management of this, the libraries are changing proxy servers at the end of the spring semester. All URLs containing the library proxy will need to be changed to the new server address. The library has created tools to assist in changing/creating proxy URLs. Please plan to change library resource links in course syllabi, Canvas, personal bookmarks, etc. starting in the month of May. The library will maintain the old server through the end of 2021, so access will be continuous for summer semester and ample time is provided for the URLs to be updated.

  • May 3rd: server address changes
    • From: http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.abc.com
    • To: (May 3rd): http://uc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.abc.com
    • The proxy tools page will be updated May 3rd to assist with editing URLs
  • After May 3rd, example of new proxy URL for the title “very short introductions”
    • https://uc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.veryshortintroductions.com/
  • May 3rd through 2021: change library resource links in course syllabi, Canvas, personal bookmarks, etc.
  • January 2022: outdated URLs will no longer work for library resources

The libraries will continue to send information about this platform change. We appreciate your assistance and attention!

 

April Arguments at the United States Supreme Court

US Supreme Court - corrected

From SCOTUS Blog:

Monday, April 19, 2021

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

  • U.S. v. Gary — whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitled to plain-error relief if the district court did not advise him that one element of that offense is knowledge of his status as a felon, regardless of whether he can show that the district court’s error affected the outcome of the proceedings.
  • Greer v. U.S., whether, when applying plain-error review based on an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, Rehaif v. United States, a circuit court of appeals may review matters outside the trial record to determine whether the error affected a defendant’s substantial rights or impacted the fairness, integrity or public reputation of the trial.

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

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This week in the Law Library we’re teaching low cost and free resources and cost effective research, announcing an upcoming UC Libraries platform change, reminding you about helpful resources for preparing for oral arguments, viewing April Ohio Supreme Court arguments, and starting to prepare for final exams!

This Week’s Research Sessions

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

  • Prof. McCord’s Advocacy, section 4 with Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian, Shannon Kemen
    • Low Cost & Free Legal Resources
    • 9:00am – 10:25am
    • Zoom
  • Prof. Oliver’s Advocacy, section 3 with Electronic Resources​  & Instructional Technology Librarian Ron Jones
    • Cost Effective Research
    • 10:40am – 12:05 pm
    • Zoom
  • Prof. McCord’s Advocacy, section 6 with Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian, Shannon Kemen
    • Low Cost & Free Legal Resources
    • 12:30pm – 1:55pm
    • Zoom
  • Prof. Oliver’s Advocacy, section 1 with Electronic Resources​  & Instructional Technology Librarian Ron Jones
    • Cost Effective Research
    • 1:30pm – 2:55pm
    • Zoom

Thursday, April 15, 2021

  • Prof. Lenhart’s Advocacy, section 2 with Associate Director Susan Boland
    • Cost Effective Research
    • 1:15pm – 2:45pm
    • Zoom

UC Libraries Platform Change (beginning May 3rd)

User access to library electronic resources is controlled by UC credentials and the library proxy server. To improve management of this, the libraries are changing proxy servers at the end of the spring semester. All URLs containing the library proxy will need to be changed to the new server address. The library has created tools to assist in changing/creating proxy URLs. Please plan to change library resource links in course syllabi, Canvas, personal bookmarks, etc. starting in the month of May. The library will maintain the old server through the end of 2021, so access will be continuous for summer semester and ample time is provided for the URLs to be updated.

  • May 3rd: server address changes
    • From: http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.abc.com
    • To: (May 3rd): http://uc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.abc.com
    • The proxy tools page will be updated May 3rd to assist with editing URLs
  • After May 3rd, example of new proxy URL for the title “very short introductions”
    • https://uc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.veryshortintroductions.com/
  • May 3rd through 2021: change library resource links in course syllabi, Canvas, personal bookmarks, etc.
  • January 2022: outdated URLs will no longer work for library resources

The libraries will continue to send information about this platform change. We appreciate your assistance and attention!

Just in Time for Oral Arguments

Oral Advocacy Guide

oraladvocacyguide

 

This guide describes resources that can help you for Moot Court, Appellate Advocacy, and other activities and groups on oral advocacy.

Oral Advocacy Study Aids

 

Oral Advocacy Helpful Video

 

April Oral Arguments at the Ohio Supreme Court

You can view the live stream of oral arguments on the Court’s website or see them after the arguments take place in the Ohio Channel archives.

Ohio Supreme Court Chamber

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Wednesday, Apri 14, 2021

 

Exams Are Coming — The Law Library Can Help!

Be sure and check out the many resources that the Law Library provides to help you with final exams:

Celebrate National Library Week!

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National Library Week

National Library Week

This week in the Law Library, we’re celebrating National Library Week! The theme for National Library Week 2021 is “Welcome to Your Library.” During the pandemic, library workers continue to exceed their communities’ demands and adapt resources and services to meet their users’ needs during these challenging times. Whether people visit in person or virtually, libraries offer endless opportunities to transform lives through education and lifelong learning. First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and observed in libraries across the country each April. All types of libraries – school, public, academic and special – participate. Follow  National Library Week activities at our library, the American Library Association, and I Love Libraries on social media by tracking the hashtags:  #NationalLibraryWeek | #LibrariesTransform.

Nominate a Library Star

While we cannot have in-person celebrations, it is still a good time to highlight the critical role library workers play in keeping our libraries running. How about taking our celebrations online? Let’s take this time to flood social media (using the hashtag #NLWD21) with words of gratitude for all library workers. Start by nominating library workers as Stars for the ALA-APA Galaxy of Stars.
Nominate a stellar library worker!

This Week’s Research Sessions

Monday, April 5, 2021

  • Prof. Smith’s Advocacy, section 5 with Associate Director Susan Boland
    • Cost Effective Legal Research
    • 1:30pm – 2:55pm
    • Zoom

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

  • Prof. Oliver’s Advocacy, section 3 with Electronic Resources​  & Instructional Technology Librarian Ron Jones
    • Low Cost & Free Legal Resources
    • 10:40am – 12:05 pm
    • Zoom
  • Prof. Oliver’s Advocacy, section 1 with Electronic Resources​  & Instructional Technology Librarian Ron Jones
    • Low Cost & Free Legal Resources
    • 1:30pm – 2:55pm
    • Zoom

Thursday, April 8, 2021

  • Prof. Lenhart’s Advocacy, section 2 with Associate Director Susan Boland
    • Low Cost & Free Legal Resources
    • 1:15pm – 2:45pm
    • Zoom

Edible Books Festival

Toxic Torts in a Nutshell edible book

Join UC Libraries all week as participants create edible books for the viewing delight of all. Each day, April 5-9, the various edible books will be featured. Like, share and comment on your favorite entries. The entries with the most likes by 8pm, Thursday, April 8 will be awarded the honors of Best Student Entry and Best Overall. Visit the Libraries Events Page daily to see more entries and to vote for your favorites! In addition, the entries will be judged according to such categories as “Most Delicious,” “Most Creative,” “Most Checked Out” and “Most Literary,” as well as “Best Student” entry and “Best Overall” entry. All awards will be announced Friday, April 9.

 

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Welcome back! We hope everyone had a restful and restorative spring break! This week at the Law Library we’re discussing study aid resources, looking at resources that can help with your upcoming oral arguments and helping you study for the MPRE. Additionally we’re previewing US Supreme Court arguments and celebrating Women’s History Month. Looking for a little fun? Create an edible book for the International Edible Book Festival!

This Week’s Research Sessions

Monday, Mar. 22, 2021

  • Associate Director Susan Boland will meet with LLM students to go over Law Library Study Aid resources
    • 12:40pm – 1:00pm
    • WebEx

 

Featured Guide

Oral Advocacy Guide

oraladvocacyguide

 

This guide describes resources that can help you for Moot Court, Appellate Advocacy, and other activities and groups on oral advocacy.

 

Featured Study Aids

 

Featured Video

The MPRE is Coming and the Library Can Help!

Are you studying for the MPRE? Looking for study resources? Check out the MPRE resources on our Bar Exam Study Guide and the Legal Ethics / Professional Responsibility Study Aids!

MPRE Study Resources

 

March Arguments at the United States Supreme Court

US Supreme Court - corrected

From SCOTUS Blog:

Monday, March 22, 2021

  • Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid — whether the uncompensated appropriation of an easement that is limited in time effects a per se physical taking under the Fifth Amendment.– whether the uncompensated appropriation of an easement that is limited in time effects a per se physical taking under the Fifth Amendment.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

  • U.S. v. Cooley — whether the lower courts erred in suppressing evidence on the theory that a police officer of an Indian tribe lacked authority to temporarily detain and search the respondent, Joshua James Cooley, a non-Indian, on a public right-of-way within a reservation based on a potential violation of state or federal law.

 

March is Women’s History Month

The National Women’s History Month theme for 2021 continues the 2020 theme Valiant Women of the Vote. The theme honors the women who fought to win suffrage rights for women, and the women who continue to fight for the voting rights of others.

 

National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Parades for suffrage

3 More Great Resources for Exploring the Valiant Women of the Vote

  • Archives of Women’s Political Communication
    • The Archives of Women’s Political Communication is an online archives launched in 2007 by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University devoted entirely to women’s political speech. It also features the speeches of historically significant women, social activists and women who have used their position of celebrity to advocate for political causes.
  • Black Women’s Suffrage
    • Black women played significant leadership roles leading up to and during the United States Women’s Suffrage Movement and beyond, yet their stories and contributions are not widely known and the critical roles Black women played at the forefront of the campaign for women’s rights are too often forgotten. The content featured in this collection explores linkages between women’s suffrage and other social causes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (anti-slavery, anti-lynching, education reform and civil rights) as well as racism within the Suffrage Movement.
  • Library of Congress, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection
    • The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection is a library of nearly 800 books and pamphlets documenting the suffrage campaign that were collected between 1890 and 1938 by members of NAWSA and donated to the Rare Books Division of the Library of Congress on November 1, 1938.

UC & College of Law Events

All Month

  • 21 Day Racial Equity & Social Justice Challenge presented by the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati
    • The challenge is designed to create dedicated time and space to build more effective social justice habits, particularly those dealing with issues of race, power, privilege, and leadership. Participants will be presented with challenges such as reading an article, listening to a podcast, reflecting on personal experience, and more. Participation in an activity like this helps us to discover how racial injustice and social injustice impact our community, to connect with one another, and to identify ways to dismantle racism and other forms of discrimination. This is an exciting opportunity to dive deep into racial equity and social justice.

Monday, March 22, 2021

  • Women in Leadership and Learning (WILL) Film Series – American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
    • 5:00 – 7:00 pm.
    • The WILL Film Series is a monthly meetup facilitated by students for their peers to discuss intersectional feminism and social issues presented film. Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) was a Chinese American philosopher, writer and activist in Detroit with a thick FBI file and a surprising vision of what an American revolution can be. Rooted in 75 years of the labor, civil rights and Black Power movements, she continually challenged a new generation to throw off old assumptions, think creatively and redefine revolution for our times. We will meet online together to watch the film at 5:00 pm. We will do some quick introductions and hit play at 5:15 pm. For more information about the film visit the American Revolutionary website.
    • RSVP via CampusLINK

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

  • The Ohio Innocence Project’s Wonder Women: Highlighting Women Working in Wrongful Conviction
    • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
    • WebEx

Thursday, March 25, 2021

  • A Talk with Dean Verna Williams and the Honorable Leondra Kruger
    • 12:15 – 1:15 pm.
    • Justice Kruger was appointed to the California Supreme Court in November 2014, confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments on December 22, 2014, and sworn in by the Governor on January 5, 2015. Immediately before joining the court, Justice Kruger served in the United States Department of Justice as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. From 2007 to 2013, she served in the Department as an Assistant to the Solicitor General and as Acting Deputy Solicitor General. During her tenure in the Office of the Solicitor General, she argued 12 cases in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the federal government. In 2013 and in 2014, she received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service, the Department’s highest award for employee performance.
    • Registration for this event is required.
  • NBLSA Anti-Racism Initiative – Continuing the Conversation on Natural Hair.
    • 12:00pm
    • Professor Wendy Green, from the Drexel Kline School of Law, will speak about her instrumental role in increasing public awareness about the issue, as well as securing legal redress (specifically in history-making state and federal legislation known as the C.R.O.W.N. Acts (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Acts)) for grooming codes discrimination African descendants encounter for their natural and protective hairstyles such as afros, twists, lots, and braids. MILS board member Stephanie Lewis will explore how mindfulness can support the legal advocacy work related to these important issues (and its attendant fallouts!). NBLSA Parliamentarian Simone Yhap will moderate the conversation as we continue the fascinating and educational dialogue.
    • Register here to attend

 

International Edible Books Festival

Know of a book good enough to eat?! Create an Edible Book for UC Libraries International Edible Books Festival! The only restrictions? Your creation must be edible and have something to do with a book. This year’s Edible Books Festival will take place the week of April 5-9. Each day, a few edible book entries will be showcased on the Libraries Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram feeds and on this page. As in previous years, entries will be judged according to such categories as “Most Delicious,” “Most Creative,” “Most Checked Out” and “Most Literary,” as well as “Best Student Entry” and “Best Overall.” The week will culminate with the announcement of the winners.

If you are interested in creating an edible book, e-mail melissa.norris@uc.edu by Friday, March 26 with your name and the title of your creation.

Looking for inspiration? Visit UC Libraries on Facebook to see photos from the 2019 festival.