In a valuable new development, West is making flashcards available electronically to PhoenixLaw students through the Library-funded Study Aid subscription.

Log in to Westlaw with your Library-issued username and password and follow the instrucrtions below:

Unlock your creative and artistic juices!  The West Virginia University Festival of Ideas in conjunction with the West Virginia University College of Law invites law students to submit abstracts for a student poster session.   The conference is titled "Business and Human Rights: Moving Forward, Looking Back." 

This is a unique opportunity to present and display your AWR thesis and conclusion succinctly and creatively on a large poster board.  Usually, conference poster sessions are held in a conference room or exhibit hall.  The posters are displayed and attendees browse the various poster displays.  The session enables scholars to showcase their research and answer questions about their work. 

The top three poster winners will present in a special session and will be invited to convert their posters into papers for potential publication.  Last but definitely not least, the first, second, and third place poster winners will receive a monetary prize.

For more information and deadlines, please consult: "Business and Human Rights: Moving Forward, Looking Back: Call for Papers." 

If you have any questions regarding this conference or this call for papers, please e-mail: dblanke4@mix.wvu.edu.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2013

Notification of Acceptance of a Paper: June 30, 2013

Poster Submission Deadline: August 15, 2013

Conference Dates: September 23 – 24, 2013

Creating a Poster Tips:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/drs18/postershow/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqgjgwIXadA (how to video)

http://writingcenter.tamu.edu/2009/types-communication/academic-writing/research-posters/

http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/posters.html  (free poster templates)

On April 25, 2013, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) introduced the Phoenix Law Review Victim's Rights Issue Volume 5 during a Congressional hearing on the proposed National Victims' Bill of Rights.  You can view the special edition on HeinOnline.

The Phoenix Law Review members worked on this special edition of the journal related to the new proposed national Victim's Rights Amendment.  The law review board also traveled to Washington last April to attend the first of many hearings on the bill.

Phoenix School of Law's Adjunct Professor Steve Twist worked with the Law Review group on the special edition and arranged for them to meet the Arizona delegation to Congress.

View the hearing here.

(Still of the April 25, 2013 Hearing)

Congratulations to Eric Mollenhauer!

Winner of the library’s contest idea for entering an inventive, original, or

creative service or resource that the library can implement or add. Four of his

entries were selected by the judges:

a)    Interactive learning games

b)    Review room on topics

c)    Unique learning space

d)   Youtube tutorials

Thank, Eric for submitting your ideas! We will be working to implement them

over the next year.

 Need to do a little fine tuning of the citations in your AWR paper? Need a review of footnoting? Then the Library’s workshop on Bluebooking for AWRs is for you!

Please join us on Tuesday April 30^th at noon in Room 1337 for this 50 minute workshop.

This is the last Library workshop for this semester,but in the future, take a look at our library workshops page to view a list of workshop descriptions and a link to the workshop calendar

Don’t forget the Library now offers legal research instruction tailored for your study group! Any group of 5 or more can order a custom session.To request a session, complete this form.