Labor Day Holiday Hours

Just as a clarification for our users. We will be open regular hours over the Labor Day Weekend.

We have had a few patrons ask if the schedule had just not been posted yet but there is no change from our regular hours of:

Monday - Thursday: 7:30 am - midnight
Friday: 7:30 am - 9:00 pm
Saturday: 9:00 am - 10:00 pm
Sunday: 10: am - 11:00 pm

As always our hours can be found on our website - http://law.loyno.edu/library

Speaker Series' Begin for the 2012-13 year

On Thursday, August 23, 2012, the College of Law will co-host, along with the Louisiana Supreme Court Historical Society, a lecture by Catherine MacMillan, Reader in Legal History at Queen Mary, University of London, and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London.  Dr.

MacMillan's lecture is entitled "Judah P. Benjamin: The Early English Career of an American Political Exile." 

Dr. MacMillan is a highly regarded legal historian and the author of the recently published Mistakes in Contract Law (Hart Publishing), a history of doctrine of contractual mistake in English law in which Benjamin's contributions to this development are examined. She is currently at work on a legal biography of Benjamin.

The lecture will take place in Room 344, from 12:30 to 2:00 pm.  Lunch will be provided.

Please join us for what should be a stimulating lecture. We will be joined by some members of the Louisiana Supreme Court Historical Society, including Donna D. Fraiche, one of our most loyal alumna, who serves as President of the society.

** While this is not a library specific lecture we thought our followers would be interested in this opportunity.

Summer Break Schedule

The Law Library is now on it's "break schedule" as we are in between the Summer and Fall semesters and past the Louisiana Bar Exam. We are open Monday - Thursday 8:30 am - 6 pm; Friday 8:30 am - 5 pm; Saturday 10 am - 6 pm; and Closed on Sunday. This will be in effect until August 8th.

Temporary closure of the 2nd floor of the law library

The 2nd floor of the law library will be partially closed starting on Wednesday, June 6th due to some electrical updates that will be taking place. Please excuse any inconvenience

A Very Good Read

from the founder of Fastcase:

The Pursuit of Happiness – Ed Walters’s Commencement Address at the University of Illinois College of Law, May 12, 2012

New Faculty Publications on SSRN

The latest issue of the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Faculty Legal Studies Research Paper Series, distributed by the Social Science Research Network, was recently distributed to all our subscribers. The RPS list highlights recent publications by the law school faculty, and is available for anyone to subscribe to through our page on SSRN.

Back that Data Up!!!

Over the weekend, a student asked me for help with her laptop. But the Blue Screen of Death indicated that Windows 7 couldn’t find her hard drive, couldn’t load Windows, and thus couldn’t get to the class notes and outlines that she needed to study for exams.

Her computer was only two years old, but she wasn’t sure if she had her purchasing and warranty information. Its possible to retrieve data on a bad hard drive, but in more situations that is not going to be cheap or quick. And, worst of all, this student had not backed up her notes and other law school documents. All I could offer her was my sympathy, and the suggestion to find some local tech support help: the law school, like most institutions, just doesn’t have the time or resources to perform data recovery services for students.