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Interested in avoiding the end of semester outline crunch? Thought you might...Check out Taking Stock for some helpful hints in keeping your outlines up to date throughout the semester.

Thanks to Law School Academic Support Blog

Did you know the typical law student carries approximately 28 pounds of books worth about $1000 a semester? So says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A group of representatives from law schools around the country, publishers and e-book makers, are hoping to change that. So much is electronic, it seems only fitting that law schools and publishers follow suit. Of course, there are exceptions to this. But the group, which is meeting in Seattle later this month, feel it is time to start making the move toward an electronic alternative.

If you would like a Quick Tour of the Law Library, we are scheduling several this week -

Wed 8/27 at 1pm & 5 pm
Thurs 8/28 at 5 pm
Fri 8/29 at 12:15 pmSat 8/30 at Noon & 1 pm

Please sign up in advance at the Law Library Information Services Desk.

Tours will begin at the Research Services Desk.

You may save money by finding used law school text books online. The Four L Blog mentions Amazon.com, Ebay, Ebay's Half.com and AbeBooks, and recommends using the book's ISBN number to order, as it is a unique identifier for the book. Some of our staff used Amazon and Half.com to buy law school books. (These services did not exist when I was in law school!) Be sure to allow enough time for shipping, so you can get the books in time to prepare for the first day of classes. For first-day assignments, and the book titles required for each class, with ISBN numbers see First Assignments/Book Lists on the law school's webpage.

The library does not buy a copy of every text book, but we may have copies of some textbooks. Most likely those copies were donated by a student. If our library does not have the book, you may be able to get a copy via Ohiolink. Just check Scholar, the library catalog. Using the advanced search, click on the "other" tab to search by ISBN number. (You can search for title too, but you may not retrieve the most current version of the book required by the professor. If you use an older version, you will have to supplement it with the case opinions added to the new edition). See Circulation Policies and Services for loan periods and the number of times you can renew a book.

If CSU does not have the book, hit the Ohiolink button, and see if you can order the book from another Ohiolink institution. Ohiolink books take at least 3 days to arrive.

If this isn’t law student creativity, I don’t know what is.

José Arcadio Klein, 3L at Harvard, has designed a line of “Learned Handmade Plates.” Klein describes the Legal Plate Project as “represent[ing] an album of the American Law School Experience. The plates are snapshots from the core of law as it is taught. Most law students have been expected to memorize most of the cases depicted here. They have been evaluated on the basis of how well they can reproduce the information these cases contain.”

And indeed, in the collection you can find plates for such classic cases as Ex Parte Quirin, Phillip Morris USA v. Williams, Brandenburg v. Ohio, or A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. and others. There are also commemorative plates for all current Supreme Court Justices [I like the Scalia plate the best].

The plates are on sale through Etsy, the Ebay of handmade goods, minus the bidding. And yes, there’s a graduation sale on the Supremes.

Tip: Et Seq.: The Harvard Law School Library Blog

The Journal of Law and Health presented its 2007-2008 Awards at its annual banquet on April 13th. Also announced were the student Notes selected for publication in the 2008-2009 academic year. Congratulations to all of you!

Awards:

• Editor of the Year - Donald Bulea
• Associates of the Year - Jana Pavlic and Kathryn Kramer

Student Notes accepted for publication:

• Barbara Tyler Best Note Award - Joel Juan Tovanche - Dying to Wait: How the Abigail Court Got It Wrong
• Amy Chaho - To Pay or Not to Pay: Medicare and the Preventable Adverse Event: A Rational Decision of Dangerous Philosophical Change?
• Shannon Folger - The Neglect of the Umbilical Cord: Ohio's Failure to Adequately Promote Banking of Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells and the Need for New Legislation
• Kathryn Kramer - Shifting and Seizing: A Call to Reform Ohio's Outdated Restrictions on Drivers with Epilepsy
• Jana Pavlic - Reverse Pre-empting the Federal Arbitration Act: Alleviating the Arbitration Crisis in Nursing Homes

Lexis Hub was created for new attorneys and law students. You don't need a Lexis account to use the Hub. The site includes:

• Career Guidance: webinars and articles
• Legal Research tutorials and webinars
• Subject Matter Tutorials
• Discussion Boards
• Legal News Feeds

Graduation is a time for celebration and hopefully all of you will remember your time at Cleveland Marshall as a great experience. I'm sure the first question you are asking is, by golly jeez will I still be able to use the Law Library? Well of course you can! As an alumni you can fill out a form for, now get ready for it, an alumni card. Don’t like social interaction? Then here is the link for the online form. The alumni card functions pretty much the same way as your CSU ID. You can still check out books and use Ohio Link. Another benefit is the use of the alumni room which has a computer accessible to the internet and attached printer. You can access Lexis or Westlaw, but only if you have your own subscription. Alumni also have many other services available to them, but I'm still bummed about Borowski blowing another save against the Red Sox last night, so click here for everything else you need to know.

The Cleveland State Law Review presented its 2007-2008 Awards at its annual banquet on April 4th. Also announced were the Associate Notes selected for publication in the 2008-2009 academic year. Congratulations to one and all!

Awards:

• Chief Justice Samuel H. Silbert Award for Outstanding Editor of the Year - Susan Whittaker Hughes
• Associate of the Year - Kristen Stuber
• Executive Editor of the Year - Michael Carey
• Managing Editor of the Year - Bozana Lazic
• Research Editor of the Year - Alexis Osburn

Associate Notes accepted for publication:

• Best Note Award - Jessica MacKeigan - Violence, Fear, and Jason's Law: The Needless Expansion of Social Control over the Non-Dangerous Mentally Ill in Ohio
• David Thomas - Dangerously Sidestepping the Fourth Amendment: How Courts Are Allowing Third-Party Consent to Bypass Warrants for Searching Password-Protected Computers
• Kristen Stuber - No Cracks in the Wall: The Standing Barrier and the Need for Restructuring of Animal Protection Laws
• Shimshon Balanson - Holding Nature Responsible: The Natural conditions Exception to Water Qualtiy Standards of the Clean Water Act
• Kelly Wilson - Catching the Unique Rabbit: Why Pets Should Be Reclassified as Inimitable Property under the Law
• Adam Fletcher - Alternative Liability and Deprivation of Remedy: Teaching Old Tort Law New Tricks
• Lucas Franklin - The Laboratory of Judicial Debate: Examining a Commodity-Based Approach to Punishing Sex Offenses in Light of the 2007 Circuit Split over the Application of Section 2L1.2 of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines
• Brenda Sweet - Banning Residency Requirements: Has the Ohio Legislature Overstepped Its Constitutional Authority to Enact Laws for the General Welfare of All Emplyees?

Do you have conflicting feelings about law school - the classes, the studying, the people? Then you might relate to "Jesse's Two Sides" ....

Thanks to Jan Novak and the Law Librarian Blog.

Studies have shown that law school is a breeding ground for depression, anxiety and stress. Ruth Ann McKinney, Depression and Anxiety in Law Students, 8 J. Legal Writing Institute 229 (2002). A booklet issued recently by the American Bar Association may help. Hidden Sources of Law School Stress, by law professor Lawrence Krieger examines why law school is so stressful, and what you can do about it. The ABA's Mental Health Toolkit , p. 12-17, 37-44, tells students how to cope and get help. The Toolkit also advises Student Bar Associations and school administration on helping students with stress. Source: Dan Slater, Is Lawyer Malaise Moving From the Firm to the Campus? Wall Street Journal Law Blog.

We also have free counseling services on campus at the CSU Counseling Center. Feel free to contact them at (216)-687-2277.

You know you love it -- the blood, the gore, the autopsies, the DNA investigations.

If you're a fan of forensics, come join the Journal of Law and Heath and the Criminal Law Society this evening at 5:00 p.m. to hear the Cuyahoga County Coroner Frank P. Miller speak on the topic "The Role of Forensic Science in Suspicious Death Investigations." The event will take place in the Moot Court Room of the Law School.

Don't worry, you'll be home in time to catch tonight's episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation at 9.

Cleveland Marshall's Employment Law Clinic told the Ohio Supreme Court that a proposed rule allowing Ohio courts to sell records in bulk would have a negative impact on job-seekers whose records were expunged. The Clinic's comments were written by law student Thomas Fitzpatrick under the supervision of Clinical Professor Gordon J. Beggs. The comments state that a background check company that buys the court records may not update the records for later expungements. Bulk sales of records should be disallowed, said the Clinic, unless adequate safeguards can be made to ensure that background check companies keep up-to-date records.

See our prior post: Groups Weigh In on Proposed Ohio Court Record Privacy Rules

Here is a bit of wisdom from Nancy Soonpa of the Legal Writing Professor Blog:

"I tell them [students] about what I remember most clearly from my first year after grades came out: the change in speaking patterns in the classroom. Suddenly some spoke with a voice of authority, and others stopped speaking entirely. Alas, neither change enriched the classroom experience. Getting good grades doesn't make one's comments inherently more valuable, nor low grades, less."

Nancy Soonpa, first class of the semester, Legal Writing Professor Blog, Jan. 9, 2008.

For more inspiration, and great tips on how to improve grades (everything from getting a new roommate to a post-class review of notes), see: Betsey McKenzie Spring Semester Blues - Treating 1-Ls Right,Out of the Jungle Blog, Jan. 9, 2007.

The recently issued 2007 Law School Survey of Student Engagement report aims to provide law schools with insight into the actions and feelings of their students. More than 27,000 law students at 79 U.S. and Canadian law schools completed the online survey on which the report was based. The study looks at law student participation in class, involvement in law school organizations, interaction with professors and more. Comparisons are made by age and race of the student, as well as law school characteristics such as public vs. private, size and selectivity.

See the Jan. 3, 2007 Chronicle of Higher Education article by Sara Lipka "Younger Law Students Report More Collaboration and Older Students More Diligence in Survey of Engagement" for highlights of the report.

Some may breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of an open book exam. Oh Contraire!

Preparation for exams, closed or open book, should be approached in the same manner. While the information is in front of you, you will not have time to flip through your notes to search for the information you need. Most open book exams are not just testing the law but the application of the law to a certain set of facts, and the questions are more complex. You need all the time you can get. Having a well written outline will assist you in finding the information and organizing your answer. See The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law School by Charles Whitebread and “When you come to a Fork in the Road, Take It, and Other Sage Advice for First-Time Law School Exam Takers” (Spring 2006) 22 Ga.St.U.L.Rev 653

For additional tips on exam prep, check out Preparing for Exams.

The Law Library will be closed Monday, October 8th in observance of Columbus Day. Don't forget to follow Monday's class schedule on Tuesday.

Ms. JD is a blog geared toward females throughout the legal community, law students and professionals alike, to share their thoughts/concerns on issues ranging from family/work balance to going solo and everything in between. It also provides an opportunity to network with others across the country. Ms. JD was launched in 2006 by a group of female law students looking to create a community to share their experiences and work toward resolving issues. For information on posting entries or becoming an editior for Ms. JD, check out What is Ms. JD .

ACS ResearchLink strives to bring together students looking for research topics and public interest attorneys needing legal research and analysis. The Topics Search Page contains a database of real-world legal questions submitted by attorneys. When a student finds a topic of interest, they can apply to work on that topic with help from the attorney, if the student has a supervising professor. The resulting paper may be published on ACS ResearchLink. ACS ResearchLink was launched by the American Constitution Society. ACS ResearchLink is a great way for students to find paper topics of real world interest, increase the chance of getting published, develop relationships with practitioners and perform work in the public interest.

The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Journal of Law and Health has transitioned to an online publication. Starting with volume 20, due to be published this Spring, the journal will be available on the Journal of Law and Health web site. To commemorate this online event, the Journal also redesigned its web site. Key features of the new web site include links to the current issue, archives, decisions citing Journal articles, information on the Journal, Journal staff, Journal Lecture Series, Membership information, and submission information. This is a fine example of student initiative and excellence here at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

With input from our faculty, especially our Legal Writing Faculty, we bring you this list of more Cleveland-Marshall student articles which have been published in other legal publications. We are proud of our students/alums, and we encourage further additions to this list. (Links to LexisNexis text require passwords; link to HeinOnline on the CSU Campus.)

Max Dehn, How It Works: Sobriety Sentencing, the Constitution, and Alcoholics Anonymous, 10 Michigan State Univeristy Journal of Medicine and Law 256 (2006)

Darren Handler, An Island of Chaos Surrounded by a Sea of Confusion: The E911 Wireless Device Location Initiative, 10 Virginia Journal of Law and Technology 1 (2005)

Robert Sieg, Attempted Possession of Child Pornography - A Proposed Approach for Criiminalizing Possession of Child Pornographic Images of Unknown Origin, 36 University of Toledo Law Review 263 (2005)

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At the November 9th-11th Region VI National Moot Court Competition in Columbus, the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law team won top honors. Team members Gregory Jolivette, Kelly Means, and Karen Swanson-Haan wrote the best respondent's brief and the best brief overall, and Karen Swanson-Haan was named Best Oralist. Most importantly, the team was judged the best in the region, defeating 18 other moot court teams from law schools in Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio, including Case Western Reserve University and Ohio State University. Click here for additional news on the Region VI Competition. For additional information on the National Competition, connect to the American College of Trial Lawyers National Moot Court Competition page.

Congratulations to the Cleveland-Marshall students/recent alums who have written the following articles published in other law reviews. (Links to LexisNexis text require passwords; link to HeinOnline on the CSU Campus.) We plan to periodically highlight these achievements for our readers.

Ashoke Talukdar - The Voice of Reason: The Corporate Compliance Officer and the Regulated Corporate Environment, 6 University of California, Davis Business Law Journal 45 (2005)

Sue McGrath - Only a Matter of Time: Lessons Unlearned at the Food and Drug Administration Keep Americans at Risk, 60 Food and Drug Law Journal 603 (2005)

Marcus Misinec - When the Game Ends, the Pandemonium Begins: University Liability for Field-Rushing Injuries, 12 Sports Lawyers Journal 181 (2005)

Darren Handler - The Wild West: A Privacy Showdown on the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Systems Technological Frontier, 32 Western State University Law Review 199 (2005)

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