Delaware Uniform Citation
Posted by admin on Oct 16, 2007
The Litigation section of the Delaware Bar Association has just released a new
booklet, Delaware Uniform Citation. According to the author of
the booklet, Blake Rohrbacher, it was produced with three objectives:
ï To clarify which citation format is actually preferred and used by Delaware courts.
ï To provide guidance on citing Delaware sources not addressed in The Bluebook.
ï To provide helpful information on Delaware sources and citations in general.
Read more about Delaware Uniform Citation on page 27 of the October
2007 issue of InRe: The Journal of the Delaware State Bar Association.
Download your own copy of DUC at:
http://www.dsba.org/SecComm/Litigation/PDFs/DE_Uniform_Citation.pdf
CALI Lessons Offers Interactive Lessons to all Widener Students
Posted by admin on Oct 4, 2007
Don’t forget to check out the CALI lessons.
If
you are unfamiliar, CALI lessons are interactive, computer-based
tutorials provided by the non-profit Center for Computer-Assisted Legal
Instruction (www.cali.org). There are over 625 lessons available to help you study 32 different legal subject areas at www.cali.org.
Lessons
are completely free for our law students. They are great for mastering
material during the semester and for studying for exams.
When registering a new account at cali.org, you must use our schoolís authorization code to create the account. Please contact the reference desk to get the CALI authorization code for Widener.
You
only need to use this authorization code once. After that, you may use
the email/password you used to sign up in order to login at cali.org.
If you need a CALI CD stop by the reference desk, we have plenty of CDs available (The CDs are optional but can be great for using CALI when you can’t get internet access).
Good luck with the rest of the semester!
Exam Archive Now Online
Posted by admin on Oct 4, 2007
The Delaware campus library’s archive of old exams is now available online. To access the exams visit the library web site: http://law.widener.edu/LawLibrary/Services/ExamArchive.aspx. To get the username and password for the exams, please contact the reference desk, by phone 302-477-2114, in person, or by email at Law.LibRef@law.widener.edu
The exams are now only available online. You can no longer get them from the library circulation desk.