Category: Law Library

NEW Asia Study Abroad Program and Travel Resources from the Law Library

Dean Matthew J. Wilson recently signed an exciting partnership agreement with Nagoya University in Japan and Kyung Hee University in South Korea. With this agreement, all three universities will be working together to provide an amazing study abroad experience in Asia for Akron law students. The four-week program will prepare students for international careers as well as the practice of law across cultures.

For more information, the Law Library has recently created a useful Asia Study Abroad Travel Guide. The library has also recently acquired new books on travel in Asia, which are available in the casebooks section for four hours at a time. The books available are:

  • Tokyo by Rebecca Milner and Simon Richmond
  • Seoul by Trent Holden and Simon Richmond

See someone at the circulation desk to borrow these books.

Studying abroad can not only provide academic benefits, but professional ones as well. We encourage all Akron law students to look through the new Travel Guide and books to learn more about Asia and consider if studying abroad is for them.

(This post and the Travel Guide were written by Kent State Library Student Kaleigh Pisani-Paige.)

 

Looking for a Paper Topic?

The library’s guide, Picking a Paper Topic can help!  The guide links to blogs and legal news sites where you can get ideas, as well as suggestions for using Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg and BNA to find topics.  The guide also shows you how to find circuit splits, which can make for great paper topics.  You can always contact a reference librarian for more help picking or narrowing your paper topic.  Call  the reference desk, (330) 972-7330, or stop by, or see the  Contact information for library staff.

Free Ebooks via Akron Law Digital – Including Understanding, Q & A Study Aids

Akron law students, faculty and staff now have 24/7 online access to many titles published by Lexis in eBook form. This includes the Question and Answer and Understanding study aids series.

Go to Akron Law Digital and sign in using your University of Akron email address.

Study aids can be checked out by an unlimited number of Akron Law users. You can download the book using Read in Browser, or you can download in Kindle or ePub format. By using Read in Browser, your highlights and notes are retained for you next time you check out the book. Read in Browser format also contains page number references, which may be useful for assigned reading.  Read in Browser also links citations in the ebooks to Lexis Advance.

Besides study aids, there are also primary and secondary sources published by Lexis, including many Ohio treatises, and large treatises such as Nimmer on Copyright and Page on the Law of Wills. The library hopes to put more titles on the Akron Law Digital platform in the future.

Akron Law Digital is linked from the Law Databases page on the library home page, as well as these guides:  Study Aids for First Year Courses and Study Aids for Upper Division Bar Courses & the Bar Exam.

Bloomberg Law Now Provides Case Analysis for Ohio Statutes

Bloomberg Law’s Case Analysis functionality has been expanded to Ohio Laws and Regulations. Users can now pull up an Ohio statute or regulation and click on the Case Analysis tab located along the top of the page to quickly view opinions discussing the provision they are researching. This feature allows users to filter the relevant opinions by Keyword, Date, Court, or Topic to easily identify the most useful results. Bloomberg Law also classifies and assigns a strength of discussion score to the opinion text surrounding each citation, enabling users to focus on the legal discussions most likely to inform their research.

Case Analysis functionality has been added to the Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Court Rules and Ohio Administrative Code.

This functionality has been available for a while now for the United States Code. It is somewhat like the case notes in Lexis and Westlaw, except that the Bloomberg Case Analysis is a straight list of cases citing the code section, whereas Lexis and Westlaw has human editors that pick and choose what cases to put into the case notes.  The strength of discussion indicator and filters on Bloomberg help indicate which cases may be more important.

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