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01/29/2010 at 01:00 AM
The Law Library provides free access to the L.O.I.S. Primary Law Library to all currently enrolled students. The L.O.I.S. Primary Law Library offers full-text access to federal and state cases, statutes, administrative regulations, and court rules. Cases and statutes may be retrieved by citation and cases by party names. There is keyword and field searching of documents. Free 24/7 technical support is provided. Content is continually being added.
Unlike LexisNexis and Westlaw, the L.O.I.S. Primary Law Library is free to law school students who work for attorneys...
Posted by David
Logan
01/29/2010 at 01:00 AM
Mike Daly (2002) lent a laboring oar to the new edition of a well-known casebook, Marine and Coastal Law, which is used by undergraduate, graduate, and law professors across the country. Mike co-authored this edition with Dennis Nixon, professor of marine affairs and associate dean for research and administration at the Graduate School of Oceanography of the University of Rhode Island, and Susan Farady, director of our highly-regarded Marine Affairs Institute. The team was ably assisted by the research efforts of 3L Jackson Parmenter.
Mike was a terrific student at RWU, clerked...
Posted by David
Logan
01/25/2010 at 01:00 AM
Peter F. Kilmartin ’98 is the Rhode Island House Representative for District 61, Pawtucket, and serves as the House Majority Whip, as well as a member of the House Committee on Corporations, House Committee on Labor, House Committee on Rules, and the Joint Committee on Highway Safety. In the past year, Kilmartin sponsored a bill to ban texting while driving in R.I. that was passed unanimously in November 2009. Kilmartin was a strong supporter of the bill because of a near tragic experience he had with a texting driver while on duty as a Pawtucket police officer in 1997: “I...
Posted by David
Logan
01/20/2010 at 01:00 AM
The Association of American Law Schools is the by-invitation-only organization for the best law schools in the country, and I am pleased to report that at the organization’s 2010 Annual Meeting, Roger Williams was recognized for its excellent and innovative public interest programs (already ranked by National Jurist Magazine #2 in New England).
The AALS Section on Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities awarded the prestigious Deborah Rhode Award to Dean David Logan. The award was based upon a range of programmatic accomplishments in recent years, including securing funding for the...
Posted by Library
Blog
01/19/2010 at 01:00 AM
The Law Library subscribes to the Justis database to offer its patrons full-text access to all United Kingdom legislation in force or repealed from 1235 to the present. Full-text statutory instruments are also searchable in Justis. Statutory instruments set out detailed provisions under the authority of the enabling Acts of Parliament. Coverage of the statutory instruments is from 1671 to present. These documents are available as pdf files.
In addition, searchable articles in the Justis database contain press releases and announcements from most of the major government...
Posted by Library
Blog
01/16/2010 at 01:00 AM
The Law Library staff welcomes our incoming first-year students and returning students. We wish all a successful academic year. We are here to help you with your studies and research, so please do not hesitate to ask staff at the Circulation Desk or the Librarian on duty at the Reference Desk if you need assistance!
Posted by Library
Blog
01/11/2010 at 01:00 AM
The Law Library staff worked during the holiday break to improve off-campus access to the law school’s various research databases. Changes no longer need to be made to your favorite web browser’s settings in order to access these databases.
When accessing a particular database from the WebCatalog or the law library’s web pages, you will be prompted at an Off-Campus Database Login page to type in your name and the barcode located on the back of your law school ID. Should you receive an error message, contact the law library to verify that your patron record is up to date!...
Posted by David
Logan
01/06/2010 at 01:00 AM
Late in the fall semester, Roger Williams University School of Law hosted its Sixth Annual Legal Career Options Day, and over 150 law students had the chance to speak with almost 60 attorneys in our Atrium. Attorneys conducted table talk and shared information about their careers and employment options with their firms and institutions. Career Services Dean Anthony Bastone once again recruited a broad cross-section of successful attorneys, manifesting the “versatility of the J.D. degree.”
Our special guests included The Honorable Paul D. Stickney, Federal Magistrate Judge in the U...
Posted by Hala
Furst
12/20/2009 at 01:00 AM
You may have heard that there was a blizzard working its way up the eastern seaboard this weekend. It hit Rhode Island about 8 hours after I finished my last final for the year. While I still have a paper to write by Tuesday, it felt pretty good to watch the flakes fall from the coziness of a friend’s apartment, knowing that I was done studying for at least the next three weeks. As much as I would like to go sledding, the 9 degree wind chill suggests that Mother Nature would like me to finish that paper before I leave for home tomorrow.
Not that my break will be that relaxing. Unlike first...
Posted by David
Logan
12/18/2009 at 01:00 AM
When I first met Hala Furst, at an admitted student function in the spring of 2007, I was impressed by her smarts and effervescence (plus cool “real world” experiences: an actress in California, a concierge in Minneapolis, and even work with MTV).
I was delighted that Hala matriculated at RWU and I had the pleasure of teaching her Torts that fall. An especially articulate participant on class discussions (and in the informal sessions I regularly have immediately after class, when questions and insights are freshest), I was not surprised to watch her become one of our top student...