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FindLaw Legal News provides current news stories and significant legal filings and documents.  Take a look!

Black’s Law Dictionary is now an iPhone/iPod touch application.  Read more about it here and here.

Check out the law library’s Featured New Books for April. Titles include In reckless hands : Skinner v. Oklahoma and the near triumph of American eugenics by Victoria F. Nourse and The Scotia widows : inside their lawsuit against big daddy coal by Gerald M. Stern.

BU Today has published an interview with Prof. Robert Volk on legal developments related to same-sex marriage. Among his observations: “I predict that in the next few years, there’s going to be a clump of states in the Northeast that legalize same-sex marriage.”

Westlaw provides a wide range of study aids for law students.  Take a look!

Awaits your questions.

LexisNexis has put together canned outlines for Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Property, Torts, and Trusts and Estates.  Give ‘em a look.  They could help with exams.

Student passwords for Lexis and Westlaw are assigned for law school-related uses during the academic year. Follow the links below to find out what services are available to you during the summer from Westlaw and Lexis:

• Graduating students
• Continuing students

Please note that these restrictions are mandated. If you have any questions, please come by the reference desk in the reading room or contact Jennifer Duperon at 3-8853, jduperon@bu.edu, or in Room 332.

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