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Spring 2020 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood Apr 2020

Spring 2020 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood

Law Library Newsletter

Copy of the Spring 2020 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.


Fall 2020 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood Jan 2020

Fall 2020 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood

Law Library Newsletter

Copy of the Fall 2020 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.


Fall 2019 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood Oct 2019

Fall 2019 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood

Law Library Newsletter

Copy of the Fall 2019 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.


Spring 2019 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood Apr 2019

Spring 2019 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood

Law Library Newsletter

Copy of the Spring 2019 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.


Fall 2018 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood Oct 2018

Fall 2018 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood

Law Library Newsletter

Copy of the Fall 2018 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.


Spring 2017 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma Wood Apr 2017

Spring 2017 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma Wood

Law Library Newsletter

Copy of the Spring 2017 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.


Fall 2017 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood Jan 2017

Fall 2017 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood

Law Library Newsletter

Copy of the Fall 2017 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.


Fall 2016 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma Wood Oct 2016

Fall 2016 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma Wood

Law Library Newsletter

Copy of the Fall 2016 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.


Spring 2016 Newsletter, Emma Wood Apr 2016

Spring 2016 Newsletter, Emma Wood

Law Library Newsletter

Copy of the Spring 2016 UMass Law Library Newsletter.


Living Among Guatemalan Mayans Is Fascinating Experience, Irene Scharf Jan 2007

Living Among Guatemalan Mayans Is Fascinating Experience, Irene Scharf

Faculty Publications

I have just lived a dream. Five years ago I learned of a school where students of all ages could study Spanish intensively while living among the Guatemalan Mayans. Peace Accords had been signed in 1996, the government was encouraging tourism, and it was, finally, safe to visit.

Why a dream? Because, 25 years ago, when I traveled through Central and South America, I promised my family I would avoid Guatemala because of the perceived was dangers. During that trip, as I met my Europeans and other who had visited, remained safe, and found it a fascinating country, I vowed …


Looseleafing The Flow: An Anecdotal History Of One Technology For Updating, Howard T. Senzel Jan 2000

Looseleafing The Flow: An Anecdotal History Of One Technology For Updating, Howard T. Senzel

Faculty Publications

This work will show that there is a great gulf between the culture of lawmakers and the culture of those who comply. Lawmakers - legislators, administrators, and especially judges - function by producing primary authorities in law. The texts of these authorities are the law itself. Because they were created in the course of deciding actual cases - cases which produced insights to a truth of lasting value, these texts have an authority equal to all the other insights produced down through the ages. The excitement that accompanies such insights tends to blind lawmakers to the chore of compliance. Those …