Lymon P.Q.Johnson and Robert V. Ricca, (Not) Advising Corporate Officers About Fiduciary Duties, 42 Wake Forest L. Rev. 663 (2007) available at Lexis and Westlaw.

Mark A. Drumbl, The Expressive Value of Prosecuting and Punishing Terrorists: Hamden, the Geneva Conventions, and International Criminal Law, 75 Geo.Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (2007)(Symposium on the New Face of Armed Conflict: Enemy Combatants After Hamden v. Rumsfeld) available at Lexis, Westlaw.

The Law Library of Congress contains approximately 75,000 volumes of printed Congressional Hearings. The Law Library’s hearing collection is a rich resource for anyone interested in the history of issues that still face our country today. As part of the Law Library’s transition to the digital future, a collaborative pilot project was undertaken with Google, Inc. to digitize the entire collection and make it freely available to Congress and the world. Three collections have been selectively compiled to provide users with a test experience: Census,U.S.Freedom of Information/Privacy,and Immigration These selected Hearings, presented as Adobe Acrobat PDF files, are samples of a larger group that will be digitized and made available as a result of this project. Ultimately, both the Library and Google will provide full-text access to the larger group of Hearings. Census

The Law Library has a new self check-out terminal at the Circulation Desk. The terminal is primarily intended for users who wish to check-out, and remove from the building, books from the new titles, open reserve, and stacks collections outside the hours the Circulation Desk is staffed. Note that users should also leave a shelf-slip when removing a book from the stacks or new titles areas. Due to the limited (48 hour) check-out time on open reserve books no shelf-slips are used in that area. Remember that certain categories of books do not circulate outside the building, such as reporters, looseleafs, Shepards, bound law reviews, and statutes. To operate the self check-out terminal touch the screen and then follow the directions, which are to swipe your University ID card, and then to hold each book's barcode in front of the scanner, and finish by pressing “Log Out” on the screen.

Rodney A. Smolla,Contemplating the Meaning of "The Rule of Law", 42 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1 (2007) (Reflections on the Rule of Law America's 400th Anniversary at Jamestown) available at Westlaw.

David Millon, The Impact on Shareholders and Other Constituents, 2 J. Bus. & Tech. L. 101 (2007) (Roundtable - The Criminalization of Corporate Law).

The Boston Library Consortium, Inc. (BLC) has announced a major partnership with the Open Content Alliance (OCA) with a plan to build a freely accessible library of digital materials from all 19 member institutions. With the move, the BLC becomes the first large-scale consortium to embark on such a self-funded digitization project with the OCA. The effort will draw on the vast collective resources of the BLC members to make "high-resolution, downloadable, reusable files of public domain materials," using Internet Archive technology, for roughly ten cents a page. The scanning center for the BLC/OCA partnership is located at the Boston Public Library (BPL). BLC members include: Boston College, Boston Public Library, Boston University, Brandeis University, Brown University, the Marine Biological Laboratory & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, the State Library of Massachusetts, Tufts University, University of Connecticut, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts Boston, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, University of New Hampshire, Wellesley College, and Williams College.

With HeinOnline's rapid growth of full-text online volumes it has been increasingly difficult to know what sources are available. To address this, HeinOnline has a new feature allowing word searches of the title names for the approximately 3,000 titles within HeinOnline's over 25 different "libraries". When you first access HeinOnline you will see a "Title Lookup" box, and if, for example, you entered, ENGLISH CONSTITUTION, then HeinOnline would return a list of the eight classic legal titles currently available in full-text that have "English Constitution" as a phrase in the title, followed by those that have both "English" and "Constitution" somewhere in title, followed by an extensive list of items that have either "English" or "Constitution" in the title. Had you instead entered "ENGLISH CONSTITUTION" (with quotes) then HeinOnline would have returned only the eight titles with that exact phrase in the title. In addition to the main entry page, "Title Lookup" is available as a tab while looking at each HeinOnline library. If for example you were in the "Law Journal Library" you could click on the "Title Lookup" tab, enter "Harvard" and see a clickable list of all the journals in HeinOnline with the word "Harvard" somewhere in the title.

A. Benjamin Spencer, Civil Procedure: A Contemporary Approach (Thomson West 2007).

Blake D. Morant, Larry A. DiMatteo, Robert Prentice, & Daniel D. Barnhizer, Visions of Contract Theory: Rationality, Bargaining, and Interpretation (Carolina Academic Press 2007).

Russell A. Miller, Collective Discursive Democracy as the Indigenous Right to Self-Determination, 31 Am. Indian L. Rev. 341 (2006-2007)

Rod Smolla, Courageous Judge Staked Out Middle Ground, Rich. Times-Dispatch, Sept. 19, 2007, at A13, available at Westlaw

The University Counseling Center received grant money to supply throughout campus some lights that emulate summer outdoor light levels. Two of these lamps have been placed in the law library on the side wall areas of the upper and lower stacks. The lights have very bright lamps that, aside from lighting the reading surface, are designed also to impact your mood as the light is absorbed via the skin. The instructions are for users to ideally get an exposure of 30 minutes per day, preferably in the morning, by sitting 12-20 inches from the lamp with the lamp shining on the user's face.

The law library is now subscribing to an online service Foreign Law Guide. Previously this was an eight volume looseleaf set in the reference collection. Foreign Law Guide gives an overview of each country's legal system and discusses the major sources of law and how to find them in books, periodicals, gazettes, webpages and databases. The emphasis is on statutory sources, and translation sources to the extent that they exist. So if you're ever looking for say the Family Code for [fill in the country] Foreign Law Guide would be a good place to look for hints as to possible sources.

The HeinOnline law journals library has a new enhanced "Citation Navigator". No more scrolling down long lists of journals. Now you can simply copy and paste your needed citation and HeinOnline will retrieve the article for you (remembering that HeinOnline will often not have articles from the most current volume of a journal).