Health Care Conference in Spotlight

"New Directions in American Health Care: Innovations from Home and Abroad," co-sponsored by the Law School, was a major campus conference of the past week. Conference participants included Professors Janet Dolgin (Conference Co-Director), Akilah Folami, Alan Jakimo, Ashira Ostrow, Vern Walker, and Joel Weintraub. The Conference poster session featured posters illustrating student research papers written for Professor Jakimo's course, "The Law of Drug Discovery, Development, and Commercialization."

Among the Conference panelists was a speaker from the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that produces policy research and data with an aim of promoting a high performing health care system in the United States. Two great resources for comparative health care statistics are the Commonwealth Fund's "Mirror Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care," and for the states, "Aiming Higher: Results from a State Score Card on Health System Performance, 2009."

Have you visited the Library's current lobby display that highlights the Conference keynote speakers and their works, related library resources, and participating Law School faculty? If not, it will be on view until the end of March.


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What Employers Want You to Know

Get the inside scoop - from Aurelia Sanchez of Rivkin Radler and Jim Murphy of Bloomberg - on what research skills and knowledge employers want you to have.

Jim and Aurelia will be here for our librarians' panel on Cost Efficient Research and other Law Practice Survival Tips this Monday, March 15 , 12:10 - 1:30pm in Room 242. No need to sign up, come even if you can only stay for part. And don't forget . . . there will be pizza!

This is our feature workshop in the Library's Top 10 Research Skills series. A full schedule is on the Library’s LexLounge group page in the Discussion Forums.

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Obligatory Canine Microchipping?

I figured that that slightly surreal headline might catch your attention. According to this story, it appears that British dog owners may soon be legally obligated to equip their pets with subcutaneous microchips to aid in the pets’ identification.

The story continues, “Postmen are delighted, but civil libertarians grumble that Britain's sprawling surveillance state now wants to track the nation's estimated 8 million dogs”.

Did anyone notice that cats are not mentioned anywhere in the article?

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Hein Online: U.S. Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, & Appeals

Hein Online: U.S. Federal Agency Library is a complete collection of some of the United States' most important government institutions. This case law, also know as decision law, is the body of reported opinions that are published by each agency and thereby become precedent and the basis for future decisions.

We do have most of the older material available in print or microfiche, and more current materials is usually available on an agency's website. This Hein Library offers the advantages of all Hein databases and depth and breadth of coverage. If you are engaged in regulatory research and need to find agency decisions be sure to check here.


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International Labour Organization (ILO): NATLEX

NATLEX is a database of national labor, social security and related human rights legislation maintained by the ILO's International Labour Standards Department.

Records in NATLEX provide abstracts of legislation and relevant citation information, and they are indexed by keywords and by subject classifications. Each record in NATLEX appears in only one of the three ILO official languages (English/French/Spanish). Where possible, the full text of the law or a relevant electronic source is linked to the record.



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Research: What Employers Want You to Know

To help you refresh your skills, the Library will present our TOP 10 Research Skills Workshops March 10-24.

Start with:
“ Civics 101: What Every Lawyer Should Know But Doesn’t"
Wednesday, March 10, 12:10-1pm in Room 242

and

"Location, Location, Location: Where to find Statutes and Regulations”

Monday, March 15, 5:10-6pm in Room 242

And don’t miss our feature workshop on Monday, March 15, 12:10-1:30pm in Room 242 . A law firm and corporate librarian will share their insights on Law Practice Survival Tips and Cost Efficient Research.

A full schedule is on the Library’s LexLounge group page in the Discussion Forums. No need to sign up. Pizza will be served.

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Copyright Protection On Social Networking Sites

The ubiquity of social networking sites and their widespread use have begun to raise many questions, such as those that involve personal privacy.

Another issue is protecting the content of what users post to their sites and profiles. This article from the Legal Intelligencer offers an interesting overview of the intellectual property issues implicated in the use of social networking sites.

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Securities Law Research Guide

The Securities and Exchange Commission web site has a nice guide on researching Federal Securities laws. The guide has a list of major securities statutes, an explanation of SEC rules and rulemaking, links to the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations, an explanation of SEC interpretive releases, and much more. It is a nice place to start securities research.


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HeinOnline's Taxation and Economic Reform in America

HeinOnline's Taxation and Economic Reform in America feature provides access to an archive covering 225 years of American tax and economic reform. The library includes legislative histories, law review articles and current legislation.


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Government Twitter

Many government agencies are now on Twitter. For attorneys who work in heavily-regulated practice areas, keeping track of these tweets can be useful. This is a fairly comprehensive list of federal Twitter accounts.



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