Author of the Week: Patrick Butler

Patrick is an Electronic Resources and Reference Librarian as well as an Adjunct Professor at UConn School of Law in Hartford, Connecticut. Patrick is responsible for maintaining and developing access to electronic resources, administering the integrated library management system, and exploring and implementing relevant and emerging technologies. Patrick also provides reference, research, and educational services to the law school community. He received his J.D. from the UConn School of Law and an M.L.I.S. from St. John’s University.  

Author of the Week: Dean Eric J. Gouvin

Eric Gouvin is Dean and Professor of Law at the Western New England University School of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts. Professor Gouvin teaches in the areas of corporate and commercial law. He has written on many different topics, often focusing on the intersection of corporate law and banking law, many times with an international or comparative law perspective. He is a co-author of the treatise Blumberg on Corporate Groups with Professors Phillip Blumberg and Kurt Strasser at the University of Connecticut School of Law and Professor Nicholas Georgakopolous at Indiana University (Indianapolis) School of Law. Professor Gouvin received his B.A. from Cornell University and his J.D. and LL.M. degrees from Boston University School of Law. He also holds an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. After graduation from law school Professor Gouvin practiced law for five years with a firm specializing in corporate and commercial matters. He has been a member of the Western New England law faculty since 1991. He is actively involved in the ABA and the AALS. He has been a member of the CALI Board of Editors and is currently a member of the Board of Editors of the Kauffman Foundation's eLaw website.

Author of the Week: Professor Joseph M. Grohman

Subsequent to earning a Masters of Arts in Education from California State University, Long Beach, California, Prof. Grohman earned his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in 1975. After practicing law for eight years in Florida, he joined the law faculty of the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in 1983. His subjects are Property, Contracts, Corporations and Real Property Closing Workshop, among others. He has authored and co-authored various articles, treatise chapters and the like, the list of many of which may be found in the publications section of his website.

Author of the Week: Michelle Hook Dewey

Michelle Hook Dewey received her Master of Library & Information Science degree from the University of Illinois. She has a J.D. and an LL.M. in health law and policy from Southern Illinois University. Michelle previously worked as a reference assistant and teaching fellow at S.I.U. While there she was responsible for the design and teaching of an online legal research and writing course for SIU’s Masters of Legal Studies program, assisting with the instruction and development of hybrid law classes and providing in-depth reference and research assistance to faculty and students. Michelle is currently a Law Reference Librarian & Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois.

Bankruptcy Law and Practice

This is the Fifth Edition of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, a Casebook Designed to Train Lawyers for the Practice of Bankruptcy Law. It is designed for a one-semester course in debtor/creditor law and bankruptcy. The book deals with both creditor remedies and debtor protections, starting with state law collection remedies, exemptions, and the important special protections for secured creditors under both Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and state real property recording acts.

Law of Wills

The purpose of this casebook is to train law students to think and act like probate attorneys. This book is meant to be used in conjunction with the author's book on the law of trusts. This book's focus is problem-solving and legal application; the book includes numerous problems, so law students can learn to apply the law they learn from reading the cases. It also contains collaborative learning exercises to encourage students to engage in group problem-solving.

Author of the Week: Anne Mostad-Jensen

Anne Mostad-Jensen is Head of Faculty Services at the Thormodsgard Law Library at the University of North Dakota School of Law. She received her B.A. from Concordia University-St. Paul, her Masters in Library and Information Science from St. Catherine University, and a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law. She teaches Advanced Legal Research. She has also presented nationally and has published articles in AALL Spectrum and Boston College Law Review.

What Color is Your C.F.R.?

What Color is Your C.F.R.? is  a problem-based law workbook with a colorful twist. Conceived and written by law librarians, it uses easy to understand plain language and is a light-hearted but helpful supplement to instruction on basic legal research. The book takes a non-traditional approach to legal research and uses short legal research exercises and coloring. 
 

26 Pages in PDF

Published August 2016

Author of the Week: Deborah E. Schander

Deborah Schander is Research Services Librarian/Lecturer in Law at the Alyne Queener Massey Law Library at Vanderbilt Law School. Previously, she was the Coordinator of Digital Projects and Outreach at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. Deborah teaches general legal research courses for 1Ls, and an upper level course on Transnational Legal Research. She received her JD and MLIS from Florida State University in 2007. She is an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), including its southeastern (SEAALL) chapter.

Author of the Week: David Matchen Jr.

David E. Matchen, Jr. (J.D., M.L.I.S.), is the Head of Circulation at the University of Baltimore Law Library, where he also serves as part of the library’s team of reference librarians. Prior to joining UB in 2008, David practiced law in Illinois with a concentration in admiralty and transportation matters. When not troubleshooting or unearthing arcana, David is an instructor for the newly-endowed Fannie Angelos Program for Academic Excellence, and also preps students for the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) and the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). David is a past board member of the Law Library Association of Maryland, and presently serves as the Vice-President/President-Elect of the University’s Library Faculty Senate.

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