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Spring Break is finally here! The Law Library will be open following hours...

Saturday, March 13th---9am-5pm

Sunday, March 14th---CLOSED

Monday-Thursday---8am-8pm

Friday---8am-6pm

Saturday, March 20th---CLOSED

Sunday, March 21st---10am-10pm

Enjoy!

The Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Washington College of Law have joined in sponsoring Reproductive Justice, Law & Policy, a new interdisciplinary subject-matter ejournal that will focus on scholarship from law, political science, medicine, history, economics, reproductive technology and other disciplines. C|M|Law’s own Prof. April Cherry is on the advisory board of the journal. You can browse archives of abstracts and associated full-text of papers published in Reproductive Justice, Law & Policy on SSRN.

Watch this short video: Valparaiso Law-Prof. Alan White-U.S. Mortgage Crisis History for a quick explanation of how the mortgage crisis came about. Thanks to Professor Kermit Lind. For a humorous, yet enlightening take on the issue, see The Subprime Primer, a short slide show.

Yesterday’s post on the International Law Prof Blog alerted me to a new venue for scholarship—the Minnesota Journal of International Law Online. Following the fresh tradition of timely online legal analysis, the Journal will take advantage of a streamlined publication process to produce shorter topical pieces that respond to international events as they happen, rather than at the typical snail’s pace of legal scholarship.

The Journal is soliciting articles of between 1500 to 3000 words, which will be published on a rolling basis after a rigorous cite checking process. In keeping with the collaborative nature of the project, the Journal is hoping to draw authors from the ranks of academics, practitioners, judges, students, bloggers, and other pundits.

Starting today, students can take an Ohio Legal Research Distance Learning Class via TWEN to earn Library Research Certificate Points. Instead of attending a classroom lecture, read a few pages and then answer quiz questions to complete the unit. The units are: 1. Ohio secondary sources, 2. legislation and legislative history, 3. administrative regulations and 4. case law and administrative decisions. Some of the quiz questions are to see if you viewed the unit materials, others are short research questions.

We estimate that the entire lesson will take two hours to complete. You will earn 25 research certificate points upon completion of units one and two, and 25 more point upon complete of units three and four. The quizzes must be completed by April 20, 2010 at midnight to earn the points. You do not have to complete the entire lesson all in one sitting.

To take the class:

• Log on to Westlaw
• Click on the TWEN link (near the top of the page)
• Click on "add a course" (to the right of "My Courses")
• Click on the box next to Ohio Legal Research Distance Learning 2
• Scroll down and hit submit
• The lesson will then appear in the "My Courses" list when you log onto TWEN. Click on the lesson title, Ohio Distance Learning, to access.

If you have any questions about the lesson, contact myself (sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu), Kevin Garewal (kevin.garewal@law.csuohio.edu) or Jan Novak (jan.novak@law.csuohio.edu). Feel free to come to the library and ask us questions about the lesson, too.

For information on other Research Certificate Seminars offered this Spring, see our prior post.

The 2010 Cleveland-Marshall Enrichment Fund Visiting Scholar, Frank Partnoy, the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance at the University of San Diego, will speak on Wed. March 10^th, at 5 p.m. in the Moot Court Room. Professor Partnoy’s book, The Match King, chronicles the life and mysterious death of Ivar Kreuger, “the grandfather of all Ponzi and Madoff schemes.” See the Law Library’s New Arrivals Shelf for: The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals (Public Affairs) (HD 9660 .M473 S864 2009) and F.I.A.S.C.O. : Blood in the Water on Wall Street (W.W.Norton) (HG 6024 .U6 P37 2009b). Also in our collection: Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets (Times Books) HV 6769 .P37 2003.

Professor Partnoy teaches and writes in the areas of corporate law, corporate finance, and financial market regulation. See his Faculty Page ; his Site, & his articles posted on the Social Science Research Network to learn more about credit rating agencies, hedge fund activism, credit derivatives, shapeshifting corporations, and more.

• Faculty and students can use their iPhones to post to a document page or forum using the HTML editor.
• Red customer support button in the upper right - no more digging for the TWEN support line!
• Wiki - number of stored versions has increased, but still can not form subgroups. Editing power is either for all students or just administrators.
• Easily move documents from one page to another (Select document, then click on Move - under the Actions tab)
• Add a link underneath a document page (Select document, then click on Add>Add a Link.

For detailed information, see February 2010 Release Notes or this 5 minute tutorial.

In South Carolina, subversive organizations must register with the Secretary of State within thirty days after coming into existence in the State. No Joke: South Carolina Now Requires Subversives to Register from The Raw Story.com, citing S.C. Code Chapter 23-29 . A subversive organization is one which "directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, of this State or of any political subdivision thereof by force or violence or other unlawful means." Failure to register may result in up to a $25,000 fine or 10 years in prison.

The article incorrectly states that the statute was passed in 2009. The history line in S.C. Code Ann. § 23-29-10 on Lexis indicates that the legislation existed in 1951 and was amended in 1952 and 1962. The South Carolina legislature was probably concerned with Communists at the time, not terrorists. There appears to be no case law concerning this statute on Lexis or Westlaw.

In Ohio, applicants for state issued licenses, public employment or public contracts must fill out a form indicating the applicant has not supported a terrorist organization. See S.B. 9, the Ohio Patriot Act, specifically Ohio RC 2909.32, 2909.33, and 2909.34. There has been litigation on these statutes. See State ex rel. Triplett v. Ross, 111 Ohio St.3d 231, 2006-Ohio-4705.

"Was There Really Anything New in the General Motors Bankruptcy Case?"

Find out on Wednesday, March 3^rd at 5 p.m., Moot Court Room. Don’t miss this low cost (free) way to know more than the average person about the General Motors bankruptcy case from the presiding judge, the Honorable Robert E. Gerber, from the Southern District of New York.He’ll discuss the initial phase of this case now known as In re: Motors Liquidation Company, No. 09-50026, the 4^th largest bankruptcy filed in U.S. history . See Judge Gerber’s Profile with links to his opinions, including Decision on Debtors’ Motion for Approval of (1) Sale of Assets to Vehicle Acquisition Holdings LLC; (2) Assumption and Assignment of Related Executory Contracts, and (3) Entry into UAW Retiree Settlement Agreement.

Haven’t taken Bankruptcy yet?

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From: Alana Jochum, Editor-in-Chief, Cleveland State Law Review: The Cleveland State Law Review is making history as the Supreme Court hears arguments in the Second Amendment rights case of McDonald v. City of Chicago today.

Patrick Charles, a Cleveland-Marshall alumnus, published his article “Arms for Their Defence: An Historical, Legal, and Textual Analysis of the English Right to Have Arms and Whether the Second Amendment Should Be Incorporated in McDonald v. City of Chicago," * with the Law Review this fall. It has been cited in numerous amicus curiae briefs before the Court and stands a good chance of being cited in the Court’s opinion or dissent.

Congratulations to our outstanding alumnus, Mr. Charles, as well as the many members of the Cleveland State Law Review who put countless hours into bringing this influential article to press. *57 Clev. St. L .Rev 352 (2009)

Have you ever had to trace the legislative history of a federal law, particularly an older law? Ever wonder if there was an easier way to do it? Well, there is a resource called the U.S. Serial Set that has been digitized by Lexis to help with the researching process. The Lexis Serial Set covers 1789-1969. The Serial Set contains Committee Reports, House and Senate Documents and other publications.

Access the digital Serial Set via our Electronic Resources page under LexisNexis Congressional . The resource may be accessed in the Law Library computer lab only.

For newer legislation, our subscription to LexisNexis Congressional contains Committee Prints (1995-2004), Hearings (abstracts & indexing 1970-, selected full text 1988-), Bills (1989-), Public Laws (1988-), Daily Congressional Record (1985-). It also has CIS Legislative Histories (1969-current), which are lists of all the legislative history documents available for piece of legislation.

For more sources for legislative history, see our Legislative History Research Guide.

For those of you who have an iPhone, Meebo just announced an iPhone app. Meebo chat is what the law library uses for chat reference. Go to the library home page and click on this button:

The library received the following new studies in the Glannon Guide series, which "uses explanatory text and multiple-choice questions to thoroughly review course content" :

• Glannon Guide to Torts KF1250.Z9 H375 2009
• Glannon Guide to Property KF561 .S627 2008
• Glannon Guide to Secured Transactions KF1050.Z9 B87 2007

We also acquired the following titles in the Essentials Series, which are concise paperbacks summarizing the major concepts in clear, informal language:

• International Criminal Law: Essentials KZ6326 .S59 2009
• Regulation of the Legal Profession KF311 .G56 2009
• Family Law KF505 .B35 2009
• Securities Regulations KF1439 .C48 2008
• Civil Procedure KF8840 .S482 2007
• Mergers and Acquistions KF1477 .C374 2009

All of these books can be found in room A066 on the Atrium level of the library. To find more study aids, see the library's Study Aids guide.

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