For BU Law students only:  Don’t forget that you can find old exams online beginning with Fall 2004 on the law library’s webpage.  Access is restricted to BU Law students.

For information on the location of older exams, see the webpage.

Westlaw is advertising some new resources for clinical programs.  I’ve attached the flyer.  The most interesting of these resources appears to be Enhanced Dockets, which features expanded scope and coverage for dockets and, for the first time, permits a user to update a docket on her own.

If you have any questions on these resources, please ask a reference librarian.

Clinic Resources from Westlaw 

Sometimes the hardest part about preparing for exams is getting started.  LexisNexis has several resources that can put you on the right path.

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Printed schedules for Thanksgiving Recess, Reading and Exam Period are available at the circulation desk.

Thanksgiving Recess                 Pappas             Annex

Wed., Nov. 21                         8am - 6pm         9am - 3pm
Thurs., Nov. 22                         CLOSED             CLOSED
Fri., Nov. 23                            10am - 9pm         CLOSED
Sat., Nov. 24                          10am - 9pm          CLOSED
Sun., Nov. 25                         11am - 11pm       Noon - 8pm

Check out this fun profile of BU’s own Professor Mark Pettit at NPR.org.  Rock On!

The best places to check for federal legislative history materials from the last 15 years or so ago are the government websites GPO Access (from the Government Printing Office) and Thomas (from the Library of Congress).  If you have questions about using these terrific resources, please see a reference librarian.

Check out the latest content added to Hein Online.  If you haven’t used Hein yet, take a look!

The SJC announced yesterday that it will provide briefs in PDF format for cases scheduled to be argued, starting with its September 2007 sitting.  The briefs will be linked from the case dockets.  You may search for SJC (and Mass. Appeals Court) case dockets at http://www.ma-appellatecourts.org/search.php.

In addition to the docket and briefs, webcasts of SJC Oral Arguments are also available.  Hosted by Suffolk University Law School, the webcast archive goes back to September 2005.

You can now get Gallup polling information for free as they no longer charge for their product.  Just register on the site and you’ll get full access.

Law Blogs are all the rage.  Some of the best include:

• The Becker-Posner Blog (from Gary Becker and Richard Posner of Chicago)
• Balkinization (from Jack Balkin at Yale)
• The Volokh Conspiracy (from Eugene Volokh (and others) at UCLA)
• Law Professor Blogs (a compilation of subject area blogs)
• The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part (a supplement to the Yale LJ)
• SCOTUSblog (awesome blog from Akin Gump on the U.S. Supreme Court)

This only scratches the surface.  You can find many more law blogs by using the Library’s Law Blog Portal. Take a look!