Last week, the UW Law School hosted a symposium on the Bhopal Disaster, which killed thousands of people in the Bhopal region of India, left a long legal trail, and is still controversial to this …
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The Indigo Book – a Free Legal Citation Guide Based on the Bluebook
A free alternative to The Bluebook legal citation guide is now available. The Indigo Book, formerly called “Baby Blue,” is available online without charge in PDF or HTML. To make legal citation more accessible, the …
Tips for Enabling and Completing Fillable PDF Forms
Have you ever been asked to complete and electronically submit a fillable PDF form only to find that you couldn’t save it after you’d finished completing it? That all you could do was print it, …
Dive into Criminal Justice Data and Statistics with "Hall of Justice"
Stats and data about any aspect of the legal world have often been notoriously difficult to track down. I know that when I am asked a question about stats at the reference desk, I always …
Data Visualization Tools – Infographics, Timelines, Flowcharts, Maps, and Mindmaps
If you’re looking for creative ways to visualize your data, check out the following list of tools. Most are free, web based, and relatively easy to use. Infographics Infographics are visual representations of information, data …
Hein Online adds an email delivery option
Good news for all you Hein-heads out there (I am certainly one of them). Hein Online recently added a great new feature to their interface where you can email a link to a Hein …
Study Identifies Gaps in the Research Sources Being Taught in Law School
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Rebecca S. Trammell, Law Library Director of Stetson University College of Law has recently completed a dissertation on Technology & Legal Research: What Is Taught & What Is Used in the …
Free Tool to Convert, Merge/Split, Compress & Unlock PDF Files
I recently discovered a new, free tool called Smallpdf that allows you to do some sophisticated PDF management that you can’t do with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. For example, with Smallpdf, you can convert …
Search for Fair Use Cases using the US Copyright office's new index
Copyright and it’s component Fair Use, are two of the stickiest and (at least for me!) most headache-inducing areas of law. There are so many shades of gray and changes that it can be difficult …
Nimbus – Free, Versatile Screen Capture Tool
Sometimes I find it useful to take screenshots to capture various things for instructional or documentation purposes. I’ve used several different tools over the years but came across one today that I really liked. It’s …