Month: January 2009

Law School Exchange, a new online networking and content sharing site from West and Foundation Press, allows law profs to share, digitally publish, and find teaching materials in collaboration with an online community of peers. West and from Foundation Press publications will also be available. Integration with TWEN makes delivering digital course materials directly to students easy. Law School Exchange is free.

The five-volume Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, which contains among its 1,100 entries several by members of the W&L School of Law faculty — Dean Rodney Smolla, Ann Massie, Scott Sundby, and the late Louise Halper has been acquired by Leburn Library. It is part of the Gale Virtual Library and there is a link in Annie.

FormFinder is a new tool and database that allows users to easily find their form faster. FormFinder includes a new single access point for Westlaw’s most extensive collection of forms with better organized content and improved search functionality. FormFinder searches hundreds of thousands of forms on Westlaw, pulling from major national treatises and form sets, as well as from state-specific and practice-area analytical titles, regulations and statutes. Please note that this is a separate product/database than FORMS-ALL. The main differences between the two are the following: FormFinder’s easy-to-use search template allows users to pinpoint the form they need, FormFinder has twice as many actual forms, and FormFinder includes only forms. (FORMS-ALL includes non-form content such as analytical and explanatory documents)

Elizabeth J. Fowler & Timothy Stolzfus Jost, Why Public Programs Matter–And Will Continue to Matter–Even After Health Reform, 36 J.L. Med. & Ethics 670; available at Westlaw