U.S. politics has been abuzz since the recent release of a report by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III, which details findings of a two-year investigation into possible Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post have made the entire Mueller Report available online. It can also be downloaded …
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On November 16, 2018, a press release was issued by the U.S. Department of Education announcing a proposed new rule related to Title IX. The press release includes links to the proposed rule in its entirety, as well as a one-page summary and a section-by-section summary. Title IX is a federal law under which sex-based discrimination is prohibited …
Administrative Law Research: The Department of Education’s Proposed Title IX Rule Read More »
Happy new year! I hope you had some wonderful, relaxing time off for the holidays and are getting ready to hit the ground running in 2019. As many legal researchers know, researching court dockets to find criminal complaints and other filings can be frustrating and time-consuming. While the subscription database BloombergLaw (https://www.bloomberglaw.com/) and its comprehensive docket database (including …
Updated at 11:44am to include a PDF of the statement. Today at 10am, a statement for the record from our faculty director and Vice Dean, Library And Information Resources, Jonathan Zittrain, will be part of House Judiciary Committee’s IP Subcommittee hearing on Judicial Transparency and Ethics. You can watch the hearing live at the link! Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Courts, Intellectual …
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This time around, rather than looking at a brand new publication, I have decided to focus on the new edition of a treatise that was first published in 1984: World Criminal Justice Systems: A Comparative Survey Richard J. Terrill 9th edition, 2016 Law Library Reference Reading Room (Langdell 4th Floor), REF HV 7419 .T47 2016 This is not …
It’s spring break at Harvard, although March can bring decidedly un-springlike weather to New England. After an unusually mild winter (except for one weekend of record-breaking cold), the first weekend of spring break started off as mild and sunny as a fine day in late April, and is now, well, very March-like. Weather is a perennial topic of …
852 RARE: David Sewall: Lawyer, Federal Judge, Weather Aficionado Read More »
According to the US Constitution, The President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” U.S. Const. art. II, §3, cl. 1. President Barack Obama will deliver his last State of the Union address to a …
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right and a desire to know;” John Adams Trying to research and review all of the information that the government releases on any particular topic can be overwhelming. Add in trying to stay up to date on current happenings in the government generally, and …
Review: Voxgov.com – A Discovery Engine for Government Info Read More »
Come hear about the Yo.YourHonor.Org campaign! Brown Bag with cookies Monday, April 6th, 12:30-1:30pm Lewis 214B, Harvard Law School (maps) Carl Malamud is visiting the Library to talk about the Yo.YourHonor.Org campaign currently underway to make U.S. District Court documents on the PACER system much more broadly available. Carl Malamud is the founder of Public.Resource.Org, a non-profit that …
On September 17th of this year, the Library of Congress celebrated Constitution Day by releasing a new resource, the Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation. This document contains the full text of the United States Constitution as well as in-depth analysis of each individual clause. As part of the analysis, the document includes discussions of …
App of the Month: U.S. Constitution – Analysis and Interpretation Read More »