With the start of the Supreme Court term this week, what better time to look into Court history? In The Great Dissenter, author Peter S. Canellos delves into the life and times of Justice John Marshall Harlan on the bench …
The Insular Cases were a series of Supreme Court decisions that decreed limits to the rights of U.S. citizens in territories based largely on their race. The cases arose from the U.S. acquisition of new territories from Spain after the …
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The law library has two useful databases for researchers from Gale: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs and Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals. U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs contains briefs and related documents from Supreme …
The law library has a new electronic resource for your research needs from Gale: The Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals. This database focuses on the first ninety years of the federal …
The Legal History and Rare Books Special Interest Section (LHRB) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), in cooperation with Gale, a Cengage Company, is conducting its annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. Full- and part-time students currently …
