• Summer Holidays: Memorial Day
    For many, Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer. Americans often take advantage of the three-day weekend to take short vacations, visit with family and friends, or have barbeques. Officially, it is an American holiday observed on the last Monday of May to honor the members of the U.S. military who died while serving. Memorial Day’s origins began three years after the Civil War. Local…
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  • Law Library Summer Resources
    No matter what you’re doing this summer the Law Library has your back!, Got a summer job?,   Great! Need access to the legal research databases you’ve come to know and love like Bloomberg Law, Lexis, and Westlaw? Fortunately, they all offer summer access to current students! To get the details about permissible uses of these databases, visit our summer access page .  In addition, other databases will be available to current students this summer. Find all RWU Law licensed databases in…, Graduating?, Will you soon be saying goodbye to law school? Now you can take your good friends, Bloomberg Law, Lexis Advance, and Westlaw Edge with you wherever you happen to go. We have obtained extended access for these legal research tools for our recent grads. Visit our website for more information about post-graduate access to these databases. The Law Library also permits alumni to check out library…, Questions about Legal Research?, Do you remember the 10 minute rule? The 10 minute rule still applies while you’re taking summer classes or working on summer jobs and externships or even after you graduate. The 10 Minute Rule is, if you cannot figure out how to do some legal research that you need to do within 10 minutes, contact a law librarian and ask for some help. Writing to   lawlibraryhelp@rwu.edu will send a message to…
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