Mardi Gras Hours Announcement

The Loyola New Orleans Law Library will be CLOSED next Monday and Tuesday (February 20 & 21) for Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras. Regular hours return 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning the 22nd.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

The Legal History of Mardi Gras in Louisiana

As the Carnival Season is gearing up to full speed, and with Fat Tuesday two weeks from today, the law library has a new exhibit, “The Legal History of Mardi Gras in Louisiana.” It features some historic items from our collection, a summary of the Mardi Gras Krewe de-segretation legal battle of 1991-1992, and some humorous examples of how lawyers and the law are often the subject of parody and satire during Mardi Gras.

For those who can’t stop by and see it (and the exhibit comes down promptly on Ash Wednesday!) here is a slide show of the exhibit and some of the specific items in it.



(You'll need to advance the slides manually.) You can also view a full size version of the slide show.

Happy Mardi Gras!!!

Interested in some non law school reading?

If you are interested in some non law school reading perhaps you can check out Goodreads.com . Goodreads has been called "a book oriented social network" but maybe a better description is a digital bookclub. Goodreads combines ratings, reviews, recommendations, discussions, and a host of other neat options for those reading the same or similar books as the user. I will admit that I am a new user myself to Goodreads but from what I have seen so far I like it for helping determine that next possible reading selection.

Library Hours for Spring 2012

Just a quick note that regular library hours return to the Law Library on Sunday, January 8th.

Regular Hours consist of

Sunday: 10 am - 11 pm
Monday - Thursday: 7:30 am - midnight
Friday: 7:30 am - 9 pm
Saturday: 9 am - 10 pm

Today in 1991: Mardi Gras Krewes Desegregated

Twenty years ago today, the New Orleans City Council passed an ordinance that requires each Mardi Gras Krewe to provide an affidavit that they have:

“[N]o written or unwritten provision in its charter, bylaws, rules, regulations or policies which call for the refusal, withholding or denying of membership, or any of the services, accommodations, advantages, facilities or privilege offered by the respondent to members or others, because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or ancestry...” New Orleans City Code 34-3.

CALI Lessons and Reviewing for Final Exams

If, now, at the end of the semester, you are scrambling for some additional materials to review and you’re thinking about using CALI Lessons, realize that thousands of students around the country may be having the same idea.

ABA Journal Blawg 100

It is now time for the ABA to seek votes for the ABA Journal Blawg 100. If you are reading this blog you are obviously not opposed to reading blogs and there are lots of interesting legal based ones out there.

What I like about this process that the ABA Journal goes through is you not only get to see the results but lots of contenders so there might be something that interest you that could get trimmed BUT you still can find out about those possibilities in this process (see the blog directory for the master list of possibles).