TMLL Library News

Oxford's U.S. Constitutional Law Database

We are very excited to add the new Oxford University Press electronic resource U.S. Constitutional Law to our suite of databases available via Research Port on the library website.  Designed as a comprehensive platform covering American constitutional law and interpretation at the federal and state levels, UCL combines primary source and archival material with scholarly commentary from the colonial era and founding to the modern day.

The full reference edition of American Constitutionalism, co-edited by the law school’s own Mark Graber, is a centerpiece of the digital scholarship on offer through UCL, and we expect to see Oxford continue to add such high quality content to the resource as time goes by. Professor Graber isn’t the only Carey faculty member with work available on the platform, however: the full text of Dan Friedman’s volume on Maryland in the Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the US can also be found, demonstrating UCL’s welcome focus on constitutionalism at the state level.

The library will enjoy one year of complementary access to US Constitutional Law, so we encourage you to explore the site over the next few months and give us your feedback, which will help us when we decide whether to make it a permanent part of our electronic research collection.

Connect to US Constitutional Law HERE (off-campus users may be prompted for their UMID and password before being able to proceed).

New Scholarship in the Digital Commons

Last month, DigitalCommons@UM Carey Law had 44,233 full-text downloads.  New additions to the Commons this month include:

Academic Journals:
Volume 74, Issue 1 of the Maryland Law Review

Volume 18, Issue 1 of the Journal of Health Care Law and Policy.

Volume 10, Issue 1 of the Journal of Business and Technology Law.

Articles and Reports:
Danielle Keats Citron and Frank Pasquale, Promoting Innovation While Preventing Discrimination: Policy Goals for the Scored Society, 89 Washington Law Review 1413 (2014).

Frank Pasquale, The Hidden Costs of Health Care Cost-Cutting: Toward a Postneoliberal Health-Reform Agenda, 77 Law & Contemporary Problems 171 (Fall 2014).

Leigh Goodmark, Stalled at 20: VAWA, the Criminal Justice System, and the Possibilities of Restorative Justice,  CUNY Law Review (2014).

Michelle Harner, Reporter, and the ABI Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11, Final Report (2014).

Book Gallery:
Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information (2014).

Renée Hutchins and Ric Simmons, Learning Criminal Procedure (2014).

Rena I. Steinzor, Why Not Jail? Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance, and Government Inaction (2014).

Danielle Keats Citron, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014).

Robert V. Percival, Jolene Lin, and William Piermattei, Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads (2014).

Rena I. Steinzor, Winning Safer Workplaces: A Manual for State and Local Policy Reform (2014).

Garrett Power, Constitutional Limitations on Sovereignty (2014 edition).

Susan N. Gary, Jerome Borison, Naomi R. Cahn, and Paula A. Monopoli, Contemporary Trusts and Estates: An Experiential Approach (2nd ed. 2014).

Karen H.Rothenberg and Bush, Lynn Wein Bush, The Drama of DNA: Narrative Genomics (2014).

Samuel Donaldson and Donald B. Tobin, Federal Income Tax: A Contemporary Approach (2d ed. 2014). 

Westlaw Password Reset

If you haven't reset your Westlaw password already, you will be prompted to update your password before signing into TWEN, WestlawNext or lawschool.westlaw.com. Follow the  Academic OnePass Reset Instructions to Change Your Westlaw Password Today. If you have questions, call Westlaw Support at 1-800-850-WEST (9378).

HeinOnline Enhancements

The Law Library is continually adding new a-la-carte libraries from HeinOnline to it’s subscription based service.   Below are the newest additions that went live this month:

ABA Law Library Collection Periodicals
List of Content Included

This collection digitizes ABA Law Library Collection Periodicals, along with 45 previously only available to ABA section members. It provides access to current volumes of included periodicals and covers all subject areas of American law.



State Reports: A Historical Archive
List of Content Included

State Reports: A Historical Archive includes reports for all 50 states as well as the linking to the full text of the state report in HeinOnline when available. This provides the researcher with a convenient state-by-state bibliographic guide to published court reports and how they interrelate with the National Court Reporter, for the first time ever in a digital format. Search by publication title or let an interactive map guide you through this extensive new collection in HeinOnline.