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Law School Hints and News

Law school is a stressful, trying process. It requires you to spend hours attending classes, planning, writing, and scheduling numerous pulls on your time. The constant tension of law school can take its toll on even the most dedicated of students and can lead to anxiety, sleepless nights, and layers of personal and professional stress.

Sometimes taking a step away from things, in both a literal and figurative sense, is the best thing to do. Health professionals are recommending that people take occasional breaks from their daily routines and visit nature in one form or another. Just taking a walk outside and getting sunlight has been shown to improve the health and mood of individuals. With all the great beaches and nature parks in Florida, you may want to take a little time away from the demands of law school and enjoy some time outdoors. Please do not forget your sunglasses, sunscreen, and water when you go!

Monthly Showcase

In October, we celebrate the life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If you would like to check out any of these books, please ask the circulation staff to place a hold on it for you, and you will receive it at the end of the month.

Articles:

The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court by David Schultz
ISBN: 0816050864
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
From the structure of the Supreme Court to its proceedings, this completely up-to-date encyclopedia presents the cornerstone of the American justice system. More than 500 A-to-Z entries - written by leading academics and lawyers - offer a comprehensive review of critical cases, issues, biographies, and topics important to understanding the Supreme Court. Important legal documents such as the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights are included, as well as a listing of all the Supreme Court Justices and who appointed them. Helpful charts display how a case makes it to the Supreme Court, and tips on how to research and look up court cases make this authoritative, accessible reference ideal for comprehensive research.
The Supreme Court in the American Legal System by Jeffrey A. Segal; Harold J. Spaeth; Sara C. Benesh
ISBN: 9780521780384
Publication Date: 2005-08-01
This book examines the American legal system, including a comprehensive treatment of the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite this treatment, the 'in' from the title deserves emphasis, for it extensively examines lower courts, providing separate chapters on state courts, the US District Courts, and the US Courts of Appeals. The book analyzes these courts from a legal/extralegal framework, drawing different conclusions about the relative influence of each based on institutional structures and empirical evidence.
The Supreme Court in Conference (1940-1985) by Del Dickson (Editor)
ISBN: 0195126327
Publication Date: 2001-07-12
The Supreme Court in Conference offers a fascinating and unprecedented look at the private debates between Justices on nearly 300 landmark cases from 1940-1985. Major decisions such as Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education are covered and the notes of Justices Felix Frankfurter, WilliamO. Douglas, Frank Murphy, Robert Jackson, Harold Burton, Tom Clark, Earl Warren and William Brennan are opened to shed light on what goes on behind the closed doors of the secretive conference room.In this unique and revealing work on some of the most profound rulings made at a turbulent time in American history, the reader is given insight into how and why certain decisions were reached.
Landmark Supreme Court Cases by Gary Hartman; Roy M. Mersky; Cindy L. Tate
ISBN: 0816069239
Publication Date: 2006-10-01
A guide to groundbreaking cases in the American legal system. Through its interpretations of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court issues decisions that shape American law, define the functioning of government and society, and address the most important issues of the day. Famous cases like Roe v. Wade, Plessy v. Ferguson, Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sanford, and Miranda v. Arizona are among the most important decisions made by the court, but many others have also had a profound impact on the American way of life.
Deciding to Leave by Artemus Ward
ISBN: 0791456528
Publication Date: 2003-01-30
The first sustained examination of the process by which justices elect to leave the United States Supreme Court.
Supreme Court in American Politics by Isaac Unah
ISBN: 9781403972408
Publication Date: 2011-04-08
The Supreme Court's involvement in many hot political and personal conflicts makes crucial an understanding of its internal workings and evolution. This book gives students a firm historical and institutional base upon which to evaluate contemporary Supreme Court decisions and the impact of those decisions on the lives of ordinary citizens.
A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court by Paul M. Barrett; Rodney A. Smolla (Editor)
ISBN: 082231665x
Publication Date: 1995-07-28
Despite its importance to the life of the nation and all its citizens, the Supreme Court remains a mystery to most Americans, its workings widely felt but rarely seen firsthand. In this book, journalists who cover the Court--acting as the eyes and ears of not just the American people, but the Constitution itself--give us a rare close look into its proceedings, the people behind them, and the complex, often fascinating ways in which justice is ultimately served.
The Supreme Court by Peter Charles Hoffer; Williamjames Hull Hoffer; N. E. H. Hull
ISBN: 9780700615384
Publication Date: 2007-09-06
For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's history. Now a veteran team of talented historians-including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series-have produced the most readable, astute, and up-to-date single-volume history of this venerated institution, as engaging for general readers as it is rigorous for scholars.
Cardozo by Andrew L. Kaufman
ISBN: 0674096452
Publication Date: 1998-05-01
This is a biography of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, a longtime member and chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals and justice in the Supreme Court of the United States during the turbulent years of the New Deal.
First One Hundred Eight Justices by Roy M. Mersky (Compiled by); William D. Bader (Compiled by)
ISBN: 0837734312
Publication Date: 2004-05-01
"The first one hundred justices explores a variety of the justices' own characteristics, including their scholarship, legal learning and analytical abilities, craftsmanship and technique, opinion output, impartiality, and quality of statesmanship. The scope of the original book has been expanded."

FAMU Law Library Online Repository

Be sure to visit the Library’s Online Repository at http://commons.law.famu.edu/.

The Repository holds a variety of publications and documents that could be useful for projects and research. Alumni, faculty, and student academic publications are available free to access to anyone on the web and cover a wide variety of topics. Through the online repository platform, FAMU College of Law’s Scholarly Commons scholarship has reached thousands of researchers around the world. To see the readership that the College's scholarship has, you can view the daily downloads of the Repository’s holdings through a map located at the bottom of the main page.

The Repository also hosts materials on FAMU College of Law’s founding, including information on the efforts of Virgil Hawkins to enter into the profession of law.

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