Due Process: Georgetown Law Library Blog

By now you've heard that author John Grisham will be at Georgetown Law on February 23rd to discuss his book, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town.

If you would like to read The Innocent Man , please come to Williams library and check out one of our three copies.  Or check out the other available Grisham books and DVDs.

Also, have you heard that you can get your name in Grisham's next novel?  Or name a character yourself?  See the details at Westblog.

This entry was posted on February 11, 2009 at 1:46 PM and has received 29696 views. Print this entry.

You don't have to go to Border's or Barnes & Noble to find the most popular books of the past year.  Check out these titles, named in the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2008, the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2008, Library Journal Best Books 2008, or Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Titles, 2008, available for you with a swipe of your GoCard!

• Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
• The Boat
• Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
• The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power (make sure to read about the roles played by Georgetown Law Faculty and Students)
• Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide
• The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution, and How It Can Renew America
• The Innocence Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System
• iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era
• My Guántanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told
• Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
• Over a Barrel: The Costs of U.S. Foreign Oil Dependence
• The Post-American World
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
• The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It

This entry was posted on January 6, 2009 at 2:34 PM and has received 31900 views. Print this entry.

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall's 100th birthday is today, July 2, 2008.

These books are available (some electronically) to help you celebrate:

• Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 (1994)
• Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991 (1997)
• Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey (2008)
• Against the Death Penalty: The Relentless Dissents of Justice Brennan and Marshall (1996)
• Thurgood Marshall: Champion of Civil Rights (1993)
• Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall (1993)
• Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. and Thurgood Marshall on Capital Punishment: Its Constitutionality, Morality, Deterrent Effect, and Interpretation by the Court (1997)
  

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NPR is looking for suggestions for its upcoming living legends series.  Submit a name at the  News & Views web site if there is someone you would like to see interviewed or profiled.

This entry was posted on June 26, 2008 at 9:32 AM and has received 43740 views. Print this entry.

June 19th is celebrated as Black Independence Day--the day that Black residents of Galveston, Texas learned of their freedom in 1865.  The day has come to be known as Juneteenth, and is celebrated throughout the United States.

The Root, Henry Louis Gates' web site, has a good Primer on Black Independence Day.  You can also come to the library and check out and read Ralph Ellison's novel, Juneteenth.

You might also find the following titles interesting--they approach the issues of slavery and freedom from unique perspectives: Rebels, Reformers, & Revolutionaries: Collected Essays and Second Thoughts;  Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation; and Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America.  These are just some of the many resources our library offers on slavery and emancipation.  Find more using GULLiver.

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The University of Georgia's new Civil Rights Digital Library provides organized access to the resources of nearly 100 digital collections to provide a single source for online civil rights research.

The excellent interface allows browsing (Events, People, Places, Topics, Collections) and searching of the collections. There are articles, photographs, legal and government documents, moving images, posters, broadsides and other sources (see the complete list of media types).  The collections of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland, the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas, Yale Law School, and the Virginia Center for Digital History Information at U.Va. are just a few of those included (click here to see more).

This entry was posted on June 12, 2008 at 2:47 PM and has received 46377 views. Print this entry.

Georgetown has released the list of 2008 commencement speakers. Joel I. Klein, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education, will speak at the Law Center ceremony, which will be held Sunday, May 18.

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The TaxProf Blog has posted a list of law school commencement speakers for 2008.

Georgetown traditionally announces the speaker a few weeks before the ceremony. See the announcements for 2007 (Nina Totenberg), 2006 (John Roberts) and 2005 (Lee Hamilton).

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Check out Time's top 15 green site suggestions.  And for a legal Earth Day flavor, take a look at our Environmental Law Research Guide.

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On April 16, 1862, eight months before the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Emancipation Act and ended slavery in the District.

The D.C. Government celebrates Emancipation Day today with a series of events including lectures, performances and a parade.

You can read more about Emancipation Day in First Freed: Washington, D.C. in the Emancipation Era which is available on the 5th floor of Williams Library.

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