Library News & Events
You can browse for events by using the links below, or search our entire calendar by clicking here http://morris.law.yale.edu/iii/calendar/month.
Watch the Book Talk: Legality
Meet the author, Scott Shapiro, and listen to a discussion of his new book. "Legality" analyzes law as planning, how plans function and how they are interpreted. The book is available in the law library here.
Upcoming Westlaw Webinars
Throughout the month of April there are various webinars and in-class workshops to help students prepare to practice. Upcoming webinars are listed below, a full list of programs is available here.
Prepare to Interview
April 13, 2012 from 2:00- 2:30pm
Looking for the right legal position? Want to find a way to connect with your alumni? Find out more about the law firm or business you are interested in and learn about networking resources during this online training presented by Westlaw. Register by clicking HERE.
WestlawNext Folders and Productivity Tools
April 16, 2012 from 2:00 – 2:30pm
Join us for this session to learn about folders and other productivity tools on WestlawNext presented by Westlaw. Register by clicking HERE.
WestlawNext Advanced Searching
April 19, 2012 from 12:30 – 1:00pm
Join us for this session to see how you can more easily and efficiently conduct your legal research using WestlawNext presented by Westlaw. Register by clicking HERE.
How to Succeed as a New Associate in a Law Firm
Tuesday, April 24 at 11:00am ET, 10:00am CT
In this 30-minute webinar, new associate Brittany Lopez talks about what it takes to make the transition from law school to law firm. Learn what to do and not to do as you leap from student to practitioner. Click here to register.
The Basics of Starting a Solo Practice
Thursday, April 26 at 11:00am ET, 10:00am CT
Hear Phil Wormdahl discuss starting his own solo law practice. You will learn the most effective ways of getting clients, whether to charge for a first consultation, what resources you need to stay current, and much more! Click here to register
Lexis Webinar: Top 5 Cost-Effective Research Tips
On Tuesday, April 10th at 3:00PM, LexisNexis will host a webcast entitled, Top 5 Cost-Effective Research Tips. Carolyn Bach, Manager of LexisNexis Faculty Programs, will demonstrate specific Lexis Advance features to help ensure you are researching in the most cost-effective manner. Ms. Bach has more than 15 years of experience in the legal industry, including several years working in the litigation departments of large law firms. You'll also be able to get answers to your questions live during the session.
Ensure that you're well-prepared for any summer research assignment for a firm or organization. Register for the April 10th webcast.
New Law Library Acquisitions for March 2012
The Law Library's list of new acquisitions for March 2012 is available here.
Use the subject, category or language facet to refine the list. The full and refined lists are searchable.
Book Talk: The Last Utopia
Meet Visiting Professor Samuel Moyn and listen to a discussion of his most recent book The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, with commentary by Yale Law Professor John Fabian Witt .
For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence.
Lexis Table Day
Table day with Lexis reps from the Law Firm and Government markets to help students with their "prepare to practice" questions.
Book Talk: Church, State and the Crisis in American Secularism
Meet the author, Bruce Ledewitz, and listen to a discussion of his new book, Church, State and the Crisis in American Secularism
Yeshiva student turned secularist, Bruce Ledewitz seeks common ground for believers and nonbelievers regarding the law of church and state. He argues that allowing government to promote higher law values through the use of religious imagery would resolve the current impasse in the interpretation of the Establishment Clause. It would offer secularism an escape from its current tendency toward relativism in its dismissal of all that religion represents and encourage a deepening of the expression of meaning in the public square without compromising secular conceptions of government.
Oral Arguments for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
March 26, 2012: Anti-Injunction Act
Department of Health and Human Servs. v. Florida 
Transcript, Oral Argument, S.Ct. Docket
March 27, 2012: Minimum Coverage/Mandate
Department of Health and Human Servs. v. Florida
Transcript, Oral Argument, S.Ct. Docket
March 28, 2012: Medicaid
Department of Health and Human Servs. v. Florida
Transcript, Oral Argument, S. Ct. Docket
March 28, 2012: Severability
Nat'l Fed. of Ind. Business v. Sebelius
Transcript, Oral Argument, S.Ct. Docket
A copy of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is available to read online or in print. A great summary of the legislation is available in the CRS Report, ACA: A Brief Overview of the Law, Implementation, and Legal Challenges (Mar. 23, 2012). The 11th Cir. Opinion and the related docket information is also available online through PACER: 11-11021, 11-11067, N.D. Florida (Pensacola) 3:10-cv-91.
How-To Write Your SAW/Substantial Paper
Book Talk: Corruption and Human Rights in India
On Monday, April 2nd at 6:15 p.m. meet author C. Raj. Kumar and listen to a discussion of his new book Corruption and Human Rights in India: Comparative Perspectives on Transparency and Good Governance, with commentary David Singh Grewal.
Corruption in India has become a growing and pervasive concern. It undermines not only the democratic institutions, but also the social fabric, political and bureaucratic structure of the Indian society. This book examines corruption from a human rights perspective. It differentiates between two approaches to dealing with corruption, the criminal law enforcement approach to recognizing criminal culpability and the human rights approach to seeking accountability for corruption.
