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Museletter: December 2002, James Wirrell

Museletter

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B.N.A Services Online: Easier Access to Useful B.N.A. Titles by James Wirrell

Winter Break Hours: Happy Holidays!

Website of the Month -- Finding Basic British Law on the Internet

Winter Closings

Holiday Humor

Museletter: November 2002, James Wirrell

Museletter

This Issue:

Let's Get Technical: Meet the Technical Services Staff by James Wirrell

Exam Hours

Website of the Month: Virginia General Assembly's Legislative Information System (http://leg1.state.va.us/lis.htm)

ID Please: Restricted Access to the Law Library During Exam Period Evenings for Certain Users Will Begin Again

"New Books" Function on Library Catalog

Lexis and Westlaw Updates

Richmond Law Magazine: Fall 2002

Richmond Law Magazine

Features:

Fulfilling the Promise

Top Legal Minds

Museletter: September/October 2002, James Wirrell

Museletter

This Issue:

In the Public Eye: Meet the Reference and Circulation Staff by James Wirrell

Faculty and Students: Don't Forget the Law Library's Electronic Exam Site!

Hein-On-Line Update

Muse Library Facts

Website of the Month: http://www.yourdictionary.com

Meet Marcella!

Lexis and Westlaw Updates

Museletter: August 2002, James Wirrell

Museletter

This Issue:

Welcome New and Returning Students by Timothy L. Coggins

Electronic Reserves - Coming to a Computer Near You!

Library Policy Reminder [Drink; cell phones]

Library Fines - a Reminder!

Muse Library Facts

"My Account" on Voyager - Manager Your Library Account Online

Museletter: April/May 2002, Gail F. Zwirner

Museletter

This Issue:

ID Please: New Policy Restricts Access to the Law Library During Exam Period Evenings for Certain Users

Lexis and Westlaw Provide Summer Access for Students Involved in Law School Activities

Alcoa-Reynolds Building - Law School Will Not Move by Timothy L. Coggins

Spring Exam Schedule

10 Tips for Summer Associate Research Survival: A View from a Former Law Firm Librarian (Repeated by request, previously published in April 2001 Museletter) by Gail F. Zwirner

Carrel Information by Deborah Barlett

[Library Hours]

Richmond Law Magazine: Spring 2002

Richmond Law Magazine

Features:

Legal Leaders

Interpreting Islam

Pulling His Weight

Museletter: February/March 2002, Gail F. Zwirner

Museletter

This Issue:

Reference Source of the Month: Hein Online by Gail F. Zwirner

[Library Hours]

Museletter: January 2002, Gail F. Zwirner

Museletter

This Issue:

Law School Expands Wireless Network Access by Timothy L. Coggins

Reference Source of the Month: West's Annotated Code of Virginia by Gail Zwirner

Recent Faculty Publications

One-L Lexis and Westlaw Training Schedule (Required for Law Skills) (Weeks of January 21 and January 28)

OP/ED: Will a National Tragedy Force U.S. Supreme Court to Join Other Courts and Accept Electronic Filings?

Digital Handshakes In Cyberspace Under E-Sign: "There's A New Sheriff In Town!", Michael H. Dessent

University of Richmond Law Review

Without doubt, electronic commerce has increased the efficiency of businesses and consumers seeking to purchase goods, services, or intangibles by placing these objects just a keystroke away. If you already enjoy buying lingerie and foie gras over the Internet, you will love the new Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act ("E-SIGN") Want to borrow $10,000 at four in the morning over the Internet to buy a car? E-SIGN allows it. Or how about entering a "cybersigning chat room," extending a "digital handshake," and then buying that cherished wedding gown? E-SIGN allows this to happen. In this era of …

(En)Raged Or (En)Gaged: The Implications Of Racial Context To The Canadian Provocation Defense, Camille A. Nelson

University of Richmond Law Review

Ice hockey is Canada's national pastime, much like baseball is for many Americans. This fact makes the case of Regina v. Smithers all the more interesting.

The Incalculable Risk: How The World Trade Center Disaster Accelerated The Evolution Of Insurance Terrorism Exclusions, Jane Kendall

University of Richmond Law Review

"The deliberate and deadly attacks, which were carried out yesterday against our country, were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war."

- President George W. Bush, September 12, 2001.

The Puffery Of Lawyers, Rodney A. Smolla

University of Richmond Law Review

Lawyers advertise to attract clients. Politicians advertise to attract voters. Businesses advertise to attract customers. All of these advertisers advertise with a common subtext: choose me, because I'm better than the rest. Hire me, vote for me, buy my product, and good things will happen. The message may be blunt, explicit, direct, linear. But often it is not. The bludgeon is not the tool of choice in modem mass advertising. The message, more commonly, is presented with subtlety, often merely suggested, often presented with indirection, irony, camp, or comedy. Information as such is not the point. The stuff of modern …