Corporate Practice Resources

BC Law Library offers access to a number of research tools for corporate practice.  Here is a sampling of resources related to corporate practice; the links provided will lead you to the BC Law Library's database list.

BloombergBNA Corporate Practice Library - Serves as a gateway to such tools as Corporate Counsel Weekly, selected BNA Portfolios related to corporate practice, Daily report for Executives, and links to U.S. Code, Code of federal regulations and Delaware Corporation Law.

TheCorporateCounsel.net -  Yes, the title is all one word. Provides practical guidance on legal issues involving corporate and securities regulation and corporate governance practices - as well as many other areas affecting today's corporate practitioner. The site features news, specialized topic areas, sample documents and law firm memos.

Corporate Governance Library (CCH Intelliconnect) - Combines treatise sources such as Banks & Banks Corporate Legal Compliance Handbook and Brown's Regulation of Corporate Disclosure and other sources with news and current awareness features.

Interested in exploring more corporate practice research sources?  Contact the BC Law Library by e-mailing lawref@bc.edu or use our Chat Reference service.

Interactive Map of the Economic and Political Impact of Immigrants

Today, the Immigration Policy Center of the American Immigration Council released the 2013 state-by-state fact sheets on the demographic and economic impact of new Americans, Asians and Latinos.  Fact sheets and accompanying information graphics for a particular state may be accessed in the Immigration Policy Center's interactive map.  For links to the 2013 fact sheets for all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and the United States, click here.  These updated fact sheets demonstrate in numbers and percentages the contributions made by immigrants to the U. S. economy as a whole and to the economy of individual states.

U.S. Immigration Legislation Online

In 2007, students enrolled in the Exploring American Culture:  Race, Ethnicity and Immigration course at the University of Washington-Bothell created an online annotated bibliography of U. S. immigration legislation from the 1790 Naturalization Act to the 2006 Secure Fence Act.  The bibliography is arranged chronologically and provides the session law citation, the Congress, date of enactment and a link to a pdf of the full text of the session law as reported in the Statutes at Large.  Each session law is briefly summarized and is followed by useful links to further information.  This resource is useful in getting a birds-eye view of the changes in immigration statutes over the past 220 years.  Thanks to Professor Laura Murray-Tjan for pointing out this statutory research resource.

New Self-help Tool Launched by Massachusetts Probate & Family Court

This  month, the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court, the Massachusetts Justice Project and other collaborators announced a new online resource to help self-represented litigants more easily complete court forms in child support cases.  This tool takes a litigant through an interactive interview and compiles the answers to prepare legal forms.  The press release announcing the launch of this tool noted that the "Massachusetts Probate and Family Court is among an increasing number of courts around the country partnering with legal aid programs to develop online document assembly interviews to increase and improve access to the courts."

The interviews, supporting educational videos and written content can be accessed at
http://www.masslegalhelp.org/legal-forms.

Supreme Court Decisions Reduced to Haiku

Tired of reading excessively long Supreme Court cases?  How fortunate for those of us with shorter attention spans and even shorter memories that Houston IP lawyer Keith Jaasma condenses U.S. Supreme Court decisions to seventeen syllables in his Supreme Court Haiku Reporter.  Not only is it entertaining reading, it might also be a valuable study aid to help young law students memorize all these pesky case names for a closed book exam.

PALMprint - Preserving legal research sources

Boston College Law Library has joined the PALMprint ("Preserving America's Legal Materials" or PALM) initiative with other law libraries to commit to the preservation of print legal research source materials.  PALMprint focuses on the need to ensure future access to key primary U.S. legal material in print format.   The cooperating law libraries will work with the Legal Information Preservation Alliance  and NELLCO (a consortium of law libraries) to accomplish this preservation goal.

New database: Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution

The law library recently acquired the digital edition of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution.  This important historical source, a twenty-five volume set in print, is a landmark work in historical and legal scholarship.  It draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution’s progress through each of the thirteen states’ conventions. This digital edition allows users to search the complete contents by date, title, author, recipient, or state affiliation and preserves the copious annotations of the print edition.  It also includes an index and is easily browseable via a detailed table of contents.  All pages of the text are available in PDF version of the print edition, in addition to the default web-based presentation.  The database is now featured in our law library database list. 

Keep an eye out, as we are in the process of purchasing the remainder of this Founding Era collection, which includes the papers of James and Dolley Madison, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.