Due Process: Georgetown Law Library Blog

The inaugural 2012 issue of the Georgetown Law Center, Business, Economics & Regulatory Law Research Paper Series (Vol. 14, Issue No. 1) has just been just been released by SSRN.

This issue includes the following new works of scholarship from Georgetown Law faculty:

• The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel: The Evolution of Global Health Diplomacy by Allyn L. Taylor and Ibadat S. Dhillon (Realizing Rights)
• Looking at the Lanham Act: Images in Trademark and Advertising Law by Rebecca Tushnet
• The Dodd-Frank Act and Housing Finance: Can It Restore Private Risk Capital to the Securitization Market? by Adam J. Levitin, Andrey D. Pavlov (Simon Fraser University) and Susan M. Wachter (University of Pennsylvania)

Registered SSRN users can subscribe to this series for free.

Recent faculty publications and working papers are also available via the Georgetown Law Scholarly Commons.  The Georgetown Law Center’s SSRN series and the Scholarly Commons are administered by the Georgetown Law Library.

This entry was posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:53 PM and has received 342 views. Print this entry.

The inaugural 2012 issue of the Georgetown Public Law & Legal Theory Paper Series (Vol. 14, Issue No. 1) has just been just been released by SSRN.

This issue includes the following new works of scholarship from Georgetown Law faculty:

• Turning the Corner on Mass Incarceration? by David Cole
• Scary Monsters: Hybrids, Mashups, and Other Illegitimate Children by Rebecca Tushnet
• Tragic Rights: The Rights Critique in the Age of Obama by Robin West
• On Constitutional Disobedience by Louis Michael Seidman

Registered SSRN users can subscribe to this series for free.

Recent faculty publications and working papers are also available via the Georgetown Law Scholarly Commons. The Georgetown Law Center’s SSRN series and the Scholarly Commons are administered by the Georgetown Law Library.

This entry was posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:02 AM and has received 543 views. Print this entry.

Over the years, a number of Georgetown Law graduates have published interesting and useful books.  The Georgetown Law Library is proud to feature almost two dozen of these, all written by people who graduated in classes ending in 1 and 6.  Take a look at the online exhibit of alumni author works to see the breadth of works this group of graduates has written.  During the current Law Center Reunion, all of these items are on display near the reunion registration desk in the Hotung Building.

This entry was posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM and has received 5396 views. Print this entry.

The Library will be holding two RA orientation training sessions for new research assistants.  In the orientation, RAs will learn about library services and policies and will gain an introduction to our databases and to best research practices.

The sessions will be:

• Friday, September 23, 2011 from 11 am to noon
• Friday, September 30, 2011 from 11 am to noon

 All sessions will be held in EB Williams Room 320

Please RSVP to Thanh Nguyen (nguyent2@law.georgetown.edu) with which session you plan to attend.

This entry was posted on September 16, 2011 at 9:43 AM and has received 6700 views. Print this entry.

September 17th is designated as Constitution Day according to 36 U.S.C. 106 and the Georgetown Law Library has put together an exhibit tracing the legislative origins of this celebration. You can stop by the Williams library atrium to see this display. Additionally, our Constitution Day Research Guide identifies treatises, journal articles and web sites for further study of the Constitution.

Locally, the National Archives will be celebrating the Constitution with a number of activities. You can also check out their official Facebook page of the U.S. Constitution.

This entry was posted on September 13, 2011 at 8:39 AM and has received 6908 views. Print this entry.

Each spring for the last five years, the Law Library has conducted a survey of our students.  In 2011, 403 students responded to our survey, and we published summary charts of the responses back in March. Now we're publishing a survey response, to show examples of changes to library spaces, content and services guided by the useful student input.

We just published the Spring 2011 Law Library Survey Response, where you can see highlights of a new exam archive system, information on new lounge seating in the Williams library, as well as highlights to changes to our collection of reserve materials.

You can view all survey materials on the Annual Law Library Survey page.

We appreciate student input. Throughout the year, we hope to continue this dialog through our Law Library Feedback Blog, a place where we post answers to your student questions. You can send comments and suggestions through our suggestion page.  The library will use the Feedback Blog to respond.

This entry was posted on September 6, 2011 at 11:59 AM and has received 7148 views. Print this entry.

We thought you might like to see a few images of Tuesday's earthquake at the Georgetown Law Library. We were fortunate that no structural damage was done in either the Williams or Wolff library. On Wednesday morning, all employees pulled together to return order to the 4th and 5th floor of the Williams library, so that it could be reopened well before noon.

This entry was posted on August 25, 2011 at 3:11 PM and has received 7871 views. Print this entry.

The Library will be holding two RA orientation training sessions for new research assistants.  In the orientation, RAs will learn about library services and policies and will gain an introduction to our databases and to best research practices.

The sessions will be:

• Wednesday, May 25, 2011 from 11 am to noon
• Thursday, June 2, 2011 from 11 am to noon

 All sessions will be held in EB Williams Room 320

Please RSVP to Thanh Nguyen (nguyent2@law.georgetown.edu) with which session you plan to attend.

Still need a job?  The Library’s Faculty Services Department is seeking several research assistants for the summer. Interested students should provide a resume and cover letter to Thanh Nguyen, Faculty Services Librarian, Edward Bennett Williams Library, Room 204D, or via email at nguyent2@law.georgetown.edu

This entry was posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:04 AM and has received 17548 views. Print this entry.

Now in its 24th year, the annual Home Court basketball game pits Georgetown Law faculty against Members of Congress to raise money to benefit the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. This year's event takes place on March 30 at Trinity Washington University. Full details are on the Home Court website. To help celebrate and honor this important event, Georgetown Law Library has created a gallery of photographs from past Home Court events, taken from the Law Center Archives. In the photos, you'll find images of competitions from 1990 through 1994, including some related events. View the Gallery of Home Court Photos 1990 – 1994.

This entry was posted on March 23, 2011 at 12:51 PM and has received 17749 views. Print this entry.

We've added a new set of photo galleries to the Georgetown Law Library website, providing an online equivalent to visual exhibits we use on touch screen displays in the two library locations.  One of these is the Visual History of Georgetown Law Library: With Images from Our Archives.

Here you can find a historical overview of Georgetown Law Library, spanning from 1887 to the present. The display includes depictions of our first card catalog (printed in 1888), an 1891 photo of a coffee shop next to the Law Center, and many other images, culled from our Archives.

This entry was posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:40 PM and has received 17933 views. Print this entry.