On April 6th and 7th, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School is hosting a conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford. You might know that you can get a PDF of the opinion, but did you also know that you can …
from yesterday’s Boston Globe: “History professor Neil Waters says Wikipedia is an ideal place to start research but an unacceptable way to end it.”
All material owned by the Law library with an Item Status “Ordered-Received” (material already purchase but not yet processed by the library’s catalogers) can now be requested directly through Hollis. The request feature is identical to the one used to recall material from another patron, or from the depository. See Below: Although the new feature currently applies only …
from today’s Boston Globe: Phyllis Ames Cox; potent presence behind Watergate prosecutor
As part of a year long review of library services, the Library Advisory Committee would like to meet with students to discuss all aspect of library services. If you are a 1L or LLM and interested in participating, please email [email protected] by February 16th. The group will meet at 12:00 p.m. on February 22nd. A light lunch will …
from today’s Harvard Crimson: First Hispanic To Lead Harvard Law Review Sixteen years after Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) became the first African-American to lead the Harvard Law Review (HLR), Andrew M. Crespo ’05 has been elected the journal’s first Hispanic president in 120 years.
Reference librarians are available to meet with any HLS student working on a major paper. Send an {encode=”[email protected]” title=”email”} with your topic and general availability to Karen Storin Linitz, Head, Anglo American Reference Dept., and a reference librarian will contact you to set up a time to meet. Consultations usually are between 45 and 60 minutes long, and …