The Library has recently published a report describing its future plans and present condition. The report is available in print upon request and is available online at http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/facility/report2006.pdf.
This semester Tarlton will publish an additional three oral histories in its series of publications on important figures in Texas legal history. Robert Dawson, Leon Lebowitz, and Hans Baade will be the subject of histories published this fall. Forthcoming oral history publications include conversations with Russell Weintraub, Patrick Hazel, Oscar Mauzy, James McCartney, and James DeAnda. In 2005, Tarlton published interviews with two outstanding alumni of the law school, Joe Jamail, Jr. and Harry Reasoner.
Two new lawyer-librarians, together with a new Tarlton Fellow, will be joining the Library this September.
Melissa Bernstein has an undergraduate degree from Wellesley in economics (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude), her law degree from Harvard, and a master's degree from Pratt. Melissa is a member of the New York Bar and practiced corporate law in New York and New Jersey (at, among other firms, Chadbourne and Parke). Melissa also interned at the law library at New York University. She brings to the Library a strong transactional background and will complement the Library's strengths in supporting scholarship in business and economics.
Casey Duncan's undergraduate degree is from Hillsdale College (magna cum laude), his law degree (cum laude, Dean's List) from the University of Minnesota (where he was executive editor of the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade), and his master's from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Casey researched constitutional law issues as a research assistant to Professor Michael Paulson at the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the Nebraska Bar.
Leslie Ashbrook is the Library's newest Tarlton Fellow. The Tarlton Fellowship supports recent law school graduates who are pursuing graduate degrees in information science. Leslie's undergraduate degree is from the College of William & Mary and her law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She begins her studies at the University of Texas School of Information this fall, and will be interning in the Library's public services department.
Melissa, Casey, and Leslie will be members of the Library's public services staff and will engage in a wide variety of instructional and research activities. They will be working closely with faculty as liaisons, and will participate in outreach among the law school and University of Texas communities.Writing Watergate, an exhibit in the law school's atrium, examines how a group of skilled writers wrote about Watergate from unique perspectives. The exhibit highlights documents and artifacts from two of the Library's manuscript collections, the Charles Alan Wright Papers and the Harold J. "Tex" Lezar Papers.
Featured in the display are outlines, drafts, memos and correspondence that reflect the unique challenges that Wright and Lezar each faced while working for the White House. Notable items include one of Tex Lezar's early drafts of a statement on the Ellsberg break-in, and the last written exchange between Charles Alan Wright and Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox before Cox was fired in the "Saturday Night Massacre."
The exhibit also includes reproductions of documents in the Woodward-Bernstein Watergate files, on loan from the Harry Ransom Center. The research materials and interview transcripts on display provide a glimpse into their investigation of the Watergate story.
Writing Watergate will be on display in the atrium through November.
Tarlton's new chat reference service allows members of the law school community to virtually communicate with a reference librarian in real time from remote locations. Tarlton reference librarians can answer faculty and student questions using AOL, YAHOO! or MSN chat networks.
The collection in the Library's Hyder Popular Reading Room is being updated and refreshed. New periodicals and books (from Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men to Jon Stewart's America) reflecting high and low popular culture are available for check-out.
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/vlibrary/online/data_sets/index.html
Margaret Warner, the Library's foreign and international and government document assistant at the Library (and a former business and economics librarian at Boston University) has developed a series of webpages designed to provide access to and describe resources that make data and statistical information available or provide gateways to that type of information. Margy's webpages are organized around the following broad topics – law-related data, business and corporate finance data, economic data, demographic data, government information, education data, health data, and labor and human rights data. The resource covers statistics and other information from the United States and other countries and from intergovernmental organizations.
Faculty and faculty assistants can now submit course reserve requests for the fall semester through an online form at http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/lib_reserves. Course reserve requests may also be sent to Abigail Schultz (aschultz@law.utexas.edu; 471-7726) or to your Library liaison. More information about course reserves in the Library is available at http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/faculty/crsres.html.
Tarlton is a founding member of ShareLaw, a consortium of academic law libraries that provides access to the collections of Yale, UC Berkley, the University of Pennsylvania, George Washington University, the University of Washington, the University of Miami and the University of Texas. ShareLaw allows faculty and students to make online requests (through Tarlton's own library catalog, Tallons) for materials from those libraries. Books are delivered within days, often overnight, from participating libraries.
William H. Colby. Unplugged: Reclaiming our Right to Die in America. New York: AMACOM/American Management Association, 2006.
Thomas Alexander Fyfe. Charles Dickens and the Law. Clark, NJ: Lawbook Exchange, 2006.
Thomas G. Hansford. The Politics of Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Brian Harris. Injustice: State Trials From Socrates to Nuremberg. Gloucestershire: Sutton Pub., 2006.
Marc D. Hauser, Fiery Cushman, and Matthew Kamen, eds. People, Property, or Pets? West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2006.
Kerry L. Hunter. The Role of the Supreme Court in American Political Culture: Preserving the Founding Myths. Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
Steven Lubet. Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn From Card Players. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Erik Parens, ed. Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Todd C. Peppers. Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk. Stanford: Stanford Law and Politics, 2006.
Charles J. Shields. Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee. New York: Henry Holt, 2006.
Michael Zweig, ed. What's Class Got To Do With It?: American Society in the Twenty-first Century. Ithica: ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2006.
The Corporation
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Good Night, and Good Luck
A History of Violence
Hotel Rwanda
The Ice Harvest
In Her Shoes
Letters from the Other Side
McLibel
North Country
Shall We Dance?
The Skeleton Key
Syriana
Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices
Boston Legal (season 1)
The Cosby Show (season 2)
Entourage (season 2)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (seasons 1-3)
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (volume I)
JAG (season 1)
Living Single (season 1)
The OC (seasons 1, 2)
The West Wing (season 6)
The Wire (seasons 1-3)
The Journal of Comparative Law is published in the United Kingdom by Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing. The Journal publishes articles on all aspects of comparative law, in all geographical areas of the world, and encourages analytical (rather than purely descriptive) work with a contextual, theoretical and interdisciplinary approach. Articles published in the first issue include Pierre Legrand, “Antivonbar”; Robin Munro, “The Ankang: China 's Special Psychiatric Hospitals”; Andrew Harding, “ Thailand 's Reforms: Human Rights and the National Commission”; and Bernard S. Jackson, “Internal and External Comparisons of Religious Law: Reflections from Jewish Law”. Submission information is available at http://www.wildy.co.uk/jcl/.
The Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law is a joint venture between the American Bar Association's Forum on Communications Law and the Donald E. Biederman Entertainment & Media Law Institute of Southwestern Law School. The Journal's first issue was published last summer. Issues will focus on all aspects of international and comparative media and entertainment law, including topics related to content, regulation, intellectual property, distribution, publishing, internet and technology and transactions. Submission information is available at http://www.swlaw.edu/academics/biederman/journal.
The Journal of Animal Law and Ethics is an ‘independent journal' at the University of Pennsylvania. The Journal was founded by members of Penn's Student Animal Legal Defense League and published its first issue last summer. The Journal provides a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of issues involving animal law and ethics. Submission information is available at http://www.law.upenn.edu/groups/jale/.