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Posted by Library
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03/07/2012 at 06:55 PM
HeinOnline offers a wide-range of primary and secondary legal materials for the researcher easily searched within topical libraries and downloadable in pdf format.
For those participating in moot court competitions, the National Moot Court Competition Library provides access to records, briefs, and related organizational materials from the first to the most recent competition. Similarly, the Philip C. Jessup Library includes the Problems, Judges’ Briefs, Rules, and leading written memorials which comprise each competition. Several publications of the International Law...
Posted by David
Logan
03/06/2012 at 04:12 PM
A few weeks ago, I was delighted to learn that Providence Mayor Angel Taveras has appointed a current RWU Law student, José F. Batista ’14, to the city’s Charter Review Commission.
It’s an important and prestigious appointment: the nine-member Commission, which convenes only every 10 years, is charged with reviewing Providence's Home Rule Charter, or City Constitution, and making recommendations for any changes. The immediate past chairman is R. Kelly Sheridan, a partner at the leading firm Roberts, Carroll, Feldstein & Pierce in Providence.
Jose (on the cover of the current edition of...
Posted by Library
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03/02/2012 at 11:21 AM
HeinOnline offers a wide-range of primary and secondary legal materials for the researcher easily searched within topical libraries and downloadable in pdf format.
If you are unable to find a pre-1980s law review or bar journal article on LexisNexis or Westlaw, try searching HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library, which contains law reviews and journals from their inception. The HeinOnline Law Journal Library is the go-to-resource for cite checking law reviews. To access it from off-campus, don’t forget to use the link on the law library’s Database List at /library/research-...
Posted by David
Logan
03/02/2012 at 10:19 AM
RWU Law is committed to both scholarly excellence and outstanding classroom teaching, and we are always glad to have empirical validation of these critical aspects of a quality legal education. Our students glowing comments about their faculty appear in the current Princeton Review of Top Law Schools (like “professors really have made a difference in my life” and “there are more than a few shining stars”) are now bolstered by a summary of student evaluations from fall semester classes. Students are asked a number of questions including a rating of overall teaching...
Posted by David
Logan
03/01/2012 at 02:53 PM
Prof. Carl Bogus’ recent biography of conservative icon William F. Buckley, Jr. has been widely reviewed in the national media. Below are links to the reviews, both in print and on tv and radio. My favorite: the masterful one-sentence review appearing in the NY Times Sunday magazine of February 26: “How liberals should write about conservatives.”
Congratulations Carl!
CSPAN
NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
WASHINGTON TIMES
LIBRARY JOURNAL
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
WASHINGTON POST
UNIVERSITY BOOKMAN
NEW REPUBLIC
MINNEAPOLIS...
03/01/2012 at 11:10 AM
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Posted by David
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02/28/2012 at 10:06 AM
The Rhode Island Supreme Court was recently the venue for oral arguments in an exciting free speech case, and in a highly unusual turn of events Associate Dean Andy Horwitz was pitted against Megan Maciasz (’08). It was Megan’s first appearance before the Court, though she was advantaged by her previous service as law clerk to Chief Justice Paul Suttell. Her job: defend the City of Providence’s noise ordinance, and Dean Horwitz went into battle ably assisted by 2L Andrew Fischer, who worked on the brief and consulted on strategy for the argument. Below are Andrew’s...
Posted by Library
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02/24/2012 at 02:28 PM
The National Jurist, the leading publication for law students, listed the ten best websites for law students in the February, 2012 issue. They are:
ABA Journal
Above the Law
The Careerist
Jurisprudence on Slate.com
Law Professor Blogs Network
Legal Blog Watch
Lowering the Bar
SCOTUSblog
The Prime Time Crime Review
Wall Street Journal Law Blog
For news about legal education and law practice, sign up for free access to the digital edition of the National Jurist as well as free access to the National Jurist Insider e-Newsletter and the Employment Insider e-...
Posted by David
Logan
02/23/2012 at 05:46 PM
Prof. Jorge Elorza and I are active in Latino Dollars for Scholars, the Rhode Island chapter of a national effort to provide stipends for Latinos attending college. I had the honor of delivering the keynote address at this year’s awards banquet, and it was a great opportunity to address so many bright and ambitious young people, plus their families, friends, and supporters in the community. I spoke on the need to improve the representation of all people of color in the legal profession, and the efforts we have made at Roger Williams Law to target the best and brightest Latinos,...
Posted by David
Logan
02/17/2012 at 09:55 AM
In the span of 8 years, the Association for Public Interest Law (APIL) Auction has gone from 75 folks in jeans and sweatshirts, sitting in folding chairs in the SOL atrium, to more than 400 spiffy attendees in one of Rhode Island’s most revered venues, the ballroom on the top of the Biltmore Hotel in Providence. And what a night it was, where students, faculty, staff, alums and many of our supporters in the legal community came out to mingle and bid on 100’s of wonderful items and packages, from north to south (vacations in a ski chalet in Vermont and a trip to Disney World),...