This Thursday (April 11) at 1 pm on the first floor of BLS Library, BLS Reference Librarians/Adjunct Professors of Law Loreen Peritz and Sue Silverman will offer a program on free sources for legal research. To accompany their program, Loreen Peritz also created this publicly-accessible research guide: Sources of Free Legal Research. Knowledge of reputable free sources can help you to conduct cost-effective research. Refreshments will be served at this program! Also, our staff noticed that the two bulletin boards for student announcements of BLS events (located outside of BLS Library’s Nash re ..read more

Below is a description of a free, half-hour Zoom program tracing the history of languages in New York City. This program requires free online registration.  Note: BLS Library is purchasing multi-user electronic access to Ross Perlin’s new book, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. (We expect the vendor to provide us with access to this ebook within a few days.) Free Talk at noon today: Live From New Amsterdam: Language City (via Zoom): Featuring: Ross Perlin & Russell Shorto     The description of this program at New York Historica ..read more

Today we are highlighting new and updated library research guides to support our patrons’ work during the spring 2024 semester: Animal Law – updated to support students’ research in Prof. Rodriguez’s Animal Law course. Housing Justice – developed to support the BLS Housing Justice clinic and seminar, supervised by Prof. Barry. Law and Capitalism – created to support students’ research in Prof. Winsberg’s Law and Capitalism in U.S. History course. Native American Law – created to support students’ research in Prof. Benally’s Native American Law course. Pension Benefits and Executive Compensatio ..read more

December 5 @ 12 pm (location: conference table on 1st floor of BLS Library) We understand that some students will be working remotely during the BLS Winter Recess (Dec. 22 – Jan. 2). Today at noon, librarians will discuss how to prepare to access digital books, encyclopedias and databases from remote locations. We also will highlight our newest research guides. (We will record this presentation.) Even if you can only spare a few minutes, please visit us and enjoy a snack! We always appreciate your feedback on the library/our services, and we look forward to providing you with research suggesti ..read more

The website of Lenape Center describes Lenapehoking as “homeland of the Lenape.” Lenapehoking includes the land on which our school currently stands.  See: Brooklyn Law School, Programs on Creating a Living Land Acknowledgment Held with the Lenape Center. Lenape Center is a nonprofit organization that states it is “[c]ontinuing Lenapehoking through community, culture and the arts” and “[w]orking towards the creation of a cultural center.”  Lenape Center’s work includes curating exhibitions (including the virtual exhibit Lenapehoking), developing educational programs, and cr ..read more

Featuring: BLS Book Talk/Discussion (Oct. 30 @ 6 pm) & New BLS Library Display The American Law Institute describes itself as “the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law.” From the bedrock Restatements on contracts, property and torts to the influential Uniform Commercial Code to the current project on Children and the Law, ALI’s legal experts have crafted (and continue to develop) key documents to aid courts, legislatures, agencies and law teachers/students. As ALI celebrates one hundred years of codifying ..read more

Meet BLS librarians & vendor representatives + Enter a raffle to win prizes (including a $100 gift card) for learning about BLS Library’s resources Today from 1-5 pm in BLS Library’s Nash Reading Room (3rd fl.), we are proudly hosting LibraryFest! Enjoy a snack while Receiving a few database tips – this qualifies you to enter the Library’s raffle for gift cards and other prizes Discussing your class paper, note topic or other research interest with a friendly BLS librarian Greeting our two Library Fellows (who are currently editing research guides to help you) We look forward to seeing y ..read more

Check out their new books on the first floor of Brooklyn Law School Library. Brooklyn Law School Library is featuring our faculty’s new books in a rotating display at the first-floor circulation desk. All of these books are available for BLS patrons to check out. Many of these sources also are accessible digitally. The first display showcases (in alphabetical order by author): Miriam Baer, Vice Dean and Centennial Professor of Law, author of: Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime (Cambridge University Press, 2023) For digital access, click: here > in the library’s catalog recor ..read more

Note: BLS students, faculty and administrators can access the sources below on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the BLS proxy instructions. Cambridge Compendium of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration In BLS Library’s SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION – CAMBRIDGE. Preface states: “Like an encyclopedia, the Compendium contains [67] entries for most of the foundational principles and concepts underlying arbitration.”  Each Compendium entry provides an overview of key issues.  Footnotes in an entry highlight many mor ..read more

This summer, attorney and BLS Library volunteer Grace Pickering worked with BLS librarians to substantially revise Researching Copyright Law and to create Researching Trademark & Unfair Competition Law. The home pages of these two guides feature introductory sources in guide boxes Copyright 101 and Trademarks 101. The home pages also highlight sources (examples: podcasts, hearings, case trackers and books) on selected hot topics. Moreover, these guides feature: casebooks, study aids and legal encyclopedia entries; treatises and practice guides; current awareness sources to help law studen ..read more