Congratulations to law school graduates at HLS and elsewhere! You have accomplished great things during a difficult few years, and we are so excited to celebrate your day with you. While you are making your own memories this weekend, enjoy this HLS Commencement image from fifty years ago, featuring Karen J. Orlin and others from the class of …
Check out HLSL Research Librarian / Instruction Coordinator AJ Blechner’s newly updated research guides: Prepare to Practice and Local Law Libraries. Prepare to Practice This research guide is a great place to start if you’re starting summer employment or a new job. Topics include 50-state surveys, legislative history, regulations, dockets, forms, current awareness, and more. Want to learn …
Time flies, and summer is almost here. Whether you’re looking forward to a great summer job opportunity or you’re about to graduate from HLS, there are online research resources available to you. Here’s what you need to know about access to your Bloomberg Law, Lexis, and Westlaw accounts … plus a bit more. BLOOMBERG LAW RETURNING STUDENTS’ SUMMER …
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It’s hard to believe the semester is almost over! As you prepare for exams, remember that your friends at the HLS Library are here to provide research support, exam prep tips, a building full of friendly faces … and some cute animal pictures. We’re here for you, and we know you’ve got this! Prepare for Exams Research Librarian …
To celebrate National Library Week 2022, we collaborated with Jack Cushman of HLS’s Library Innovation Lab to use GPT-3 (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3), a language prediction model created by OpenAI. We asked GPT-3 several versions of this prompt: “To celebrate National Library Week, here is what I love about the Harvard Law School Library.” We’ll be sharing GPT-3’s …
Tuesday, April 5, 12:30pm-1:30pm Eastern time via Zoom WebinarsWritten By Mark Tushnet, Cambridge University Press, published January 2022 Join us for a discussion on The Hughes Court From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 with author Mark Tushnet and panelists Nikolas Bowie, Richard Fallon, Kenneth Mack, and Adrian Vermeule. This event is free and will be recorded. Registration is required. If …
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You’re about done with your brief, but still have one more thing to do: your Table of Authorities. Don’t worry if you haven’t started this yet. It’s a good idea to do this at the end. Creating your Table gives you one more chance to check your citations and your work. And, if you do this too early …
You’ve added all of your Headings with Heading Styles, but do they do anything other than look good? Definitely! They let you use Word’s powerful organizational tools – Navigation and Table of Contents. Navigation It’s hard to move between sections when you are working on a long document. You can use your Heading styles to move between sections …
Join the HLS Library on Tuesday March 29 at 12:30pm on Zoom for a HLS Library Book Talk! This event features a discussion on Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights with co-editors Michael Ashley Stein and Vikram Patel and panelists. This event is free and will be recorded. Registration is required. If you, or an event participant, …
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So you’re working on a document that requires no numbers on the first page, Roman numbers for a Table of Contents and similar material, and Arabic numbers for the content. Is there a way to do this without numbering each page by hand? Yes! The secret is a hidden tool called “Section Break Next page.” Hidden Characters If …
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