Washington and Lee University School of Law

U.S. Law Week

The law library subscribes to both the print and the online versions of U.S. Law Week. For online access go to the law library research page and click on "BNA" which lists the BNA publications subscribed to by the law library. The BNA page also has links for e-mail notification, which for U.S. Law Week includes a choice of "Supreme Court Today" (daily updates summarizing U.S. Supreme Court docket activities) and "U.S. Law Week" (weekly highlights summarizing major federal/state cases and general legal news).

Faculty Publication

Brian C. Murchison, The Fact-Conjecture Framework in U.S. Libel Law: Four Problems, 13 Media & Arts L. Rev. (forthcoming 2008), available at SSRN.

Faculty Publication

Ann MacLean Massie, Suicide on Campus: The Appropriate Legal Responsibility of College Personnel, 91 Marq. L. Rev. 625 (2008), available at SSRN

SCOTUSblog's Statistical Analysis of the Supreme Court Term

SCOTUSblog has published its "Super StatPack" compilation of statistics with charts, lists, and observations about the just-concluded Supreme Court Term. Find the the complete report (pdf) at StatPack

New Online Archive of Policy Research Launched

Policy Archive, the first free comprehensive online archive of public policy research was launched recently by the non-profit Center for Governmental Studies in partnership with the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library and support from major U.S. charitable foundations. At its launch the archive contains 12,000 policy documents from over 220 think tanks and other research organizations with the plan to increase to 20,000 by the end of 2008. Access at Policy Archive