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Hello everyone! You're almost done with the semester! You can do it! Get through these last few weeks and then enjoy the holidays!

The Law Library has several changes to our hours in the next few weeks, so here's an update:

As always, be sure to check our website for the most current hours!

The Law Library has a small collection called the "Food for Thought Collection." The collection was inspired by a PSL professor and contains many non-legal books and a couple of DVDs. The professor begins each class with an excerpt from one of these books. The excerpts are meant to provide more insight on certain issues related to topics students may study.

The "Food for Thought Collection" is located on aisle 38 behind the Academic Success Collection. Books in the collection circulate for 7 days and the DVDs circulate for 24 hours. The following titles comprise the collection.

Affluenza : the all-consuming epidemic / John de Graaf , et al.--HN60 .D396 2005
The ascent of money [videorecording] : a financial history of the world /written and presented by Niall Ferguson --HG171 .F47 2009
The ascent of money : a financial history of the world / Niall Ferguson--HG171 .F47 2008
Beyond conviction [videorecording].--HV8688 .B49 2007
Crash course on money smarts : 15 laws of managing money and creating wealth / Larry J. Koenig--HG179 .K615 2006
The death of innocents : an eyewitness account of wrongful executions / Helen Prejean--HV8699.U5 P745 2005
Giving : how each of us can change the world / Bill Clinton--HM831 .C55 2007
The good women of China : hidden voices / Xinran translated from the Chinese by Esther Tyldesley--HQ1767 .X56 2002
The innocent man : murder and injustice in a small town / John Grisham--KF224.W5535 .G75 2007
The insanity offense : how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens / E. Fuller Torrey--RC443 .T67 2008
The last lecture / Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow--BJ1595 .P345 2008
Making the most of your money / Jane Bryant Quinn--HG179 .Q57 1997
The millionaire next door : the surprising secrets of America's wealthy / Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko--HC110.W4 S73 1998
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / Michelle Alexander--HV9950 .A437 2010
Overcriminalization : the limits of the criminal law / Douglas Husak--KF9223 .H87 2008
A remarkable mother / Jimmy Carter--E874.C375 C37 2008
The road to wealth : a comprehensive guide to your money : everything you need to know in good and bad times / Suze Orman--HG179 .O758 2008
So sexy so soon : the new sexualised childhood and what parents can do to protect their kids / Diane E. Levin & Jean Kilbourne--HQ792.U56L48 2009
The soloist : a lost dream-- an unlikely friendship-- and the redemptive power of music / Steve Lopez--ML418.A96 L66 2008
Tales of a fourth grade nothing / Judy Blume--PZ7.B6265 2007
To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee--PS3562.E353 T6 2002
Touching Spirit Bear / Ben Mikaelsen--PZ7.M5926 To 2005
Your money or your life : 9 steps to transforming your relationship with money and achieving financial independence / Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez--HG179 .D624 2008

Stop by and check out the Food for Thought Collection!

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

The Phoenix School of Law Library will be CLOSED on Thursday 11/25/10 and Friday 11/26/10 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. We wish you all a happy and safe extended weekend! Be sure to take breaks from studying to enjoy time with your family and friends!

Other upcoming changes to our hours are as follows:

As always, visit www.phoenixlaw.edu/libraryhours for more information on changes to the Law Library's hours.

Oral arguments were heard earlier this week by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the stay placed upon Arizona's controversial Immigration law SB 1070. Arizona's governor, Jan Brewer, took time away from campaigning on the eve of election day to attend the court proceedings.

The parties in this case are U.S. government and the State of Arizona. The case first appeared before the Federal District Court for the State of Arizona where a partial stay was granted on some of the most controversial portions of the law. The State of Arizona appealed this stay which brought the case to the Ninth Circuit court. The U.S. government argued that SB 1070 was pre-empted by federal statutes. The State of Arizona argued that the provisions in question were consistent with congressional objectives, and not pre-empted by federal law.

  View a full video of the oral arguments here.

We also invite members of the Phoenixlaw community to stop by our latest library display focusing on SB 1070 and surrounding immigration issues.  The display features the briefs filed in this case, a full transcript of the proceedings, books and magazine articles dealing with immigration law, and immigration law treatises selected from the library’s collection.   We also included a few position statements from organizations representing differing views on the matter.  Stop by and become informed about this controversial issue that has brought national attention to Arizona. Several states appear poised to enact similar laws of their own and are closely following this case.

Hello everyone!

It is all about Citators this week, as the Law Library presents several workshops for Lawyering Process 1 students that will help you practice KeyCiting & Shepardizing cases in print and electronically. Interested in International Legal Research? The Associate Dean of the Law Library, Rob Hudson, will be teaching a workshop all about International Legal Research (food will be present!) on Tuesday. And be sure to check out the Free Online Legal Sources workshop on Wednesday... which will show you just that, free online legal sources! Whew!

Here are the dates & times for the week of October 25th, 2010:

Monday 10/25/10:
 Noon, Citators
 5pm, Citators

Tuesday 10/26/10:
 Noon, Citators
 Noon, International Legal Research (with FOOD!) in room 303 
 
Wednesday 10/27/10:
 Noon, Citators
 4pm, Free Online Legal Sources
 5pm, Citators
 
Thursday 10/28/10:
 Noon, Citators
 7:40pm, Citators

Friday 10/29/10:
 Noon, Citators
 1pm, Citators
 3pm, Citators
 

Please visit our workshop calendar to RSVP. For descriptions of these workshops and others, visit http://www.phoenixlaw.edu/libraryworkshops.

Questions? Call (602) 682-6898 or email.