Category: What’s New

Now at W&L Law: CALI Tutorials & Texts on 50+ Legal Subjects

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The Law Library is happy to announce full access for W&L Law students and faculty to CALI, the premier online platform for interactive legal-subject tutorials.

With over 1,000 online lessons spanning 50+ topics of doctrinal law and practice-oriented skills, CALI content is created and used by law professors nationwide to provide self-directed yet rigorous guidance for students, both as assigned course materials and as extracurricular supplements.

Popular for first-year and upper-level elective subjects, CALI lessons can also provide valuable reviews of core concepts for 3Ls preparing for the bar exam. Extensive selections of outlines, ebooks, and podcasts on law school subjects are also available.

Current W&L Law students can click here for the Authorization Code to sign up for a free account. Faculty should email LawRef@wlu.edu to request access.

Please contact the Law Library with any questions. We hope you enjoy this great resource!

New Labor and Employment Database on HeinOnline

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W&L Law Library is pleased to announce access to Labor and Employment: The American Worker on HeinOnline.

Launched in February 2023, this comprehensive database is dedicated to all the ways America works: the history of organized labor in the United States, its influence on labor law, and the many ways people work for a living

It contains thousands of books, documents, and articles about the American workplace, from the labor rights movement in the 19th century to the struggles of today. Topics include the establishment of a minimum wage and the 40-hour workweek, collective bargaining, contracts, workplace hazards and safeguards, as well as efforts to make the workplace equitable for all. New scholarly articles and content are added each month.

Labor and Employment: The American Worker and other HeinOnline content is accessible to all current W&L students, faculty, and staff, as well as all University alumni through the Friends of the Library program.

For more information about the new collection, see HeinOnline’s LibGuide or watch their brief video. Also feel free to reach out to a librarian at LawRef@wlu.edu for guidance or research assistance.

 

 

New Free Books Shelf – Take It Or Leave It!

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Stop by the W&L Law Library’s new Free Books Shelf in the 3rd floor Reading Room!

Titles range from tax to torts, evidence to Spanish, casebooks to romance novels – free to a good home! Donations are also welcome: Just leave your unwanted books on the shelf or tuck them in with their proper topic for someone else to find and enjoy.

Happy reading!

New York Times Cooking Now Available at W&L

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Content at cooking.nytimes.com is now provided by W&L Libraries.

Just in time for holiday food and festivities, the W&L University Library and Law Library are pleased to announce complimentary access to New York Times Cooking.

Accessible at cooking.nytimes.com, New York Times Cooking is a leading online kitchen resource that helps home cooks of every level discover, save, and organize both classic and innovative recipes and learn to become better cooks.

To access NYT Cooking, you must have a current NYT individual digital subscription, which is also free for current W&L students, staff, and faculty. To sign up, follow the instructions in this secure document on Box (valid W&L credentials required).

Happy holidays and happy cooking!

W&L Law Library Celebrates Faculty and Student Scholarship

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W&L Law Fall Scholarship Celebration

On October 6, the Washington and Lee Law Library hosted the fourth W&L Law Fall Scholarship Celebration. The event was co-sponsored by the Frances Lewis Law Center and took place in the Law Library’s main reading room from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Faculty, librarians, staff, and administrators mingled with law students over hors d’oeuvres and wine to peruse the formidable scholarly output of the W&L Law community. Spouses, alumni, faculty from W&L’s undergraduate campus, and others with ties to the University were also in attendance.

On display were dozens of the 13 books, 21 chapters, and 159 articles, essays, and notes authored by the W&L Law faculty and student body between October 2019 and October 2022. Also accessible via interactive screens was the W&L Law Scholarly Commons, the Law School’s open-access online repository of over 19,400 academic works, archival records, and institutional documents. It has gained over 900,000 downloads from 225 countries and territories in 2021 and 2022 alone.

Melanie Wilson, dean of W&L Law; Christopher Seaman, director of the Frances Lewis Law Center; Andrew Christensen, Head of Digital Initiatives and Outreach; and Jenny Mitchell, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, provided welcoming remarks, alongside W&L Law Library director Michelle Cosby, who also led all attendees in a celebratory toast.

The event brochure, which includes a comprehensive list of recent W&L Law scholarship, is available to download in PDF. Additional photos from the Celebration are available in the W&L Law Scholarly Commons.

New at W&L Law: Quimbee Study Aids

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Happy fall semester 2022!

W&L Law Library is excited for the new year to begin, and also to announce complimentary access to Quimbee Study Aids for students at W&L Law.

On August 26, all enrolled students were sent an email with instructions on how to activate a Quimbee account under the new W&L Law group.

Quimbee includes hundreds of video lessons covering dozens of law school courses, transcripts of these lessons, and thousands of practice questions with explanations to supplement other study methods.

Content is available through Quimbee.com or through the Quimbee iPhone, iPad, and Android apps.

The Quimbee Study Aids collection includes:

If you have questions about Quimbee or using or finding any of the Library’s resources, please contact us at lawref@wlu.edu and a librarian will respond to you promptly.

HeinOnline Now Available for W&L Alumni

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W&L Law Library is pleased to announce a new subscription to HeinOnline for all Washington and Lee University alumni. Graduates of the Law School, as well as W&L’s undergraduate schools, are eligible for access at no cost.

The special subscription includes full access to HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library, a collection of over 3,000 fully searchable scholarly and professional journals, browsable or downloadable in PDF and dating back to their first issue ever published. The one-of-a-kind database spans more than 42 million pages and 40 disciplines.

Access to the journals is complemented by Fastcase, a leading next-generation legal research service with tools to make case law research faster than ever: Case citations within articles are highlighted and hyperlinked to the judicial opinion in Fastcase. Users can also look up a case directly in Fastcase with HeinOnline’s citation tools.

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A selection of the 3,000+ publications in HeinOnline

HeinOnline is the latest of several online research databases that the W&L University Library and Law Library offer for alumni, including JSTOR and Project MUSE. All are accessible through the the Colonnade Connections / Friends of the Library webpage. To create a Colonnade Connections account, register online or contact the W&L Office of Alumni Engagement.

For more information about the HeinOnline Law Journal Library, see their Quick Reference Guide and introductory YouTube video. Also feel free to reach out to a librarian at LawRef@wlu.edu for guidance or research assistance.

New Washington and Lee Law Journal Rankings Now Online

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W&L Law Journal Rankings

The 2021 Washington and Lee Law Journal Rankings are now available at go.wlu.edu/lawjournals.

Maintained by the W&L Law Library, the Rankings are a world-recognized resource for identifying and comparing law journals by subject, country of publication, or rank across several categories relevant to scholars and publishers.

Data for 2021 includes the top 400 U.S.-published law journals and the top 100 law journals published outside the United States, based on citation counts and publication statistics for a 2017-2021 survey period.

New Rankings are released annually based on data up through the preceding calendar year. Historical data from the 1996-2003 to 2016-2020 survey periods remains accessible on the site for reference and comparison.

For more information about W&L Law Journal Rankings, please visit the the How to Use and Methodology pages of the site. Questions and comments are welcome at LawJournalRankings@wlu.edu.

Summer/Post-Graduation Access to Research Platforms & Databases, 2022

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Congrats to all W&L Law students on wrapping up the school year, and especially to our 3Ls on their momentous achievement of completing law school!

Westlaw, Lexis, and Bloomberg Law provide access of varying duration and scope during the summer to current law students and after graduation for alumni. Other online resources provided by the W&L Law Library also remain available.

Reminder: Always check with your supervisor before using your academic database accounts on work projects this summer. Although it may be permissible by the vendor’s rules, your employer may prefer that you use other resources.

  • Bloomberg Law
    Law students enjoy full and uninterrupted use of their BLaw accounts during the summer, without restrictions from Bloomberg. Account and log-in required. Graduating students automatically retain full access to their academic Bloomberg Law account for up to 6 months after graduation.
  • LexisNexis
    Law students enjoy full and uninterrupted use of their Lexis accounts during the summer, without restrictions from Lexis. Account and log-in required. Graduating students automatically retain full access to their academic Lexis account for up to 6 months after graduation. Graduates going into non-profit work may apply for LexisNexis ASPIRE access which lasts 12 months beyond graduation; details at http://lexisnexis.com/grad-access.
  • Westlaw
    Law students continue to have full access to their Westlaw accounts during the summer, however use is permitted only for non-profit purposes such as summer classes, law school research assistant/journal/clinic work, or unpaid public interest work. Account and log-in required. Graduating students may retain full access to their academic Westlaw account for up to 18 months after graduation (up to 60 hours of use per month) through the Grad Elite Practice Ready program; register at https://lawschool.thomsonreuters.com/grad-elite-status.
  • Other Databases via W&L Law Library
    The range of additional databases available to W&L students for legal research can be found on the Law Library’s Databases and Online Resources page. Frequently used resources include HeinOnline, ProQuest, Law360, and Law.com. W&L log-in and password are required off campus.
  • Graduate/Alumni Access to Online Resources
    W&L Law students graduating in May will lose remote access to all library subscription resources in early August, when their University computing accounts take on “alumni” status. However, all alums may access a selection of research databases through the University Library, including EBSCO Academic Search Complete, EBSCO Business Source Complete, JSTOR, and Project Muse (see https://library.wlu.edu/services/#alum). The Law Library is also happy provide research assistance for alumni. Please email us at LawRef@wlu.edu or call 540-458-8552.

W&L Law Library Newsletter – New Spring Issue

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Exams are here! Graduation, summer jobs, and the bar exam are almost here!

The W&L Law Library has your back. The April issue of our Newsletter points you toward info and resources to help you wrap up the school year with success—packed with info for students, faculty and the whole W&L Law community.

Read it here online or pick up a print copy at the Circulation Desk or Steinheimer Lobby area (near Level 1A entrance).

April Newsletter
April W&L Law Library Newsletter at the Circulation Desk