Happy Constitution Week!

This week in the Law Library we’re celebrating Constitution Week! We're also teaching how to research Statutes and Secondary Sources, making PowerPoints accessible, Advanced Legal Research Transactional Law,  AI & the Law, Bioethics, and Disability Law.

• Bioethics
• 10:30 - 11:30am
• Instructional & Reference Services Law Librarian Ashley Russell

• Researching Statutes
• 10:40am - 12:05pm
• Instructional & Reference Services Librarian Laura Dixon-Caldwell

• Making PowerPoints Accessible
• 12:15pm - 1:15pm
• Zoom
• Shannon Kemen, Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian​

• 12:30pm - 1:50pm
• Electronic Resources Instructional Services LibrarianRon Jones Electronic Resources Instructional Services Librarian Ron Jones

• 1:30am - 2:50pm
• Profs. Laura Dixon-Caldwell, Shannon Kemen, Ashley Russell, and Michael Whiteman

• 11:10am - 12:05pm
• Instructional & Reference Services Librarian Laura Dixon-Caldwell

• Researching Secondary Sources
• 3:05pm - 4:30pm
• Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian Shannon Kemen

• Researching Cases & Citators
• 9:00am - 10:25am
• Susan Boland, Associate Director

• Researching Disability Law
• 10:30 - 11:00am
• Instructional & Reference Services Law Librarian Ashley Russell

• 12:30pm - 1:50pm
• Electronic Resources Instructional Services LibrarianRon Jones Electronic Resources Instructional Services Librarian Ron Jones

• 1:30am - 2:50pm
• Profs. Laura Dixon-Caldwell, Shannon Kemen, Ashley Russell, and Michael Whiteman

In honor of Constitution Week and Day, check out some of our Constitutional Law resources below!

Thursday, Sept. 17
12:15-1:15 p.m.
Room 160

About the Lecture

Constitutional law is not only about what the Constitution means, but how those rights are enforced. This lecture explores constitutional enforcement through three areas of Professor Crocker’s recent research: immunities from money damages, injunctions against unlawful actions, and consistency among constitutional rights.

About the Lecturer

Katherine Mims Crocker is a scholar of federal courts, civil-rights litigation, constitutional law, and state and local government law. She is a faculty member at Cornell Law School and an affiliate of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Professor Crocker previously taught at Texas A&M University School of Law and William & Mary Law School and practiced appellate litigation at McGuireWoods LLP. She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia, where she graduated first in her class, and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University.

Constitutional Law CALI Lessons

• Available on CALI, these are interactive exercises for students studying Constitutional Law. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. You can get this code from any reference librarian or at the Circulation Desk.

Examples & Explanations Constitutional Law: National Power & Federalism

• Available via the Aspen Learning Library study aid subscription, provides an examination of constitutional doctrine pertaining to national power and federalism. Both this book and its companion volume, Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: Individual Rights, combine detailed textual material with real-world examples and explanations that apply the relevant constitutional doctrine to specific fact patterns. New to the Tenth Edition: inclusion of more than 50 new Supreme Court cases, and over 15 new state and lower federal court decisions; nearly 200 Examples & Explanations, many of them new and updated, examination of the role of stare decisis, as exemplified in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org. (2022), in overruling decisions like Roe v. Wade (1973); discussion of the evolving “major questions doctrine” as a limitation on Congress’s power to delegate authority to federal agencies, as applied in West Virginia v. EPA (2022) and Biden v. Nebraska (2023); expanded consideration of a President’s constitutional immunity from criminal prosecution, as delineated in Trump v. United States (2024); exploration of the role that a state law’s extraterritorial effects may play, and when a balancing of its burdens and benefits is appropriate. under the dormant Commerce Clause, as set forth in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross (2023).

Understanding Constitutional Law

• Available via the LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this study aid covers all of the central concepts and issues students encounter in any basic constitutional law course. Structure of Government issues revolve around the twin themes of federalism and separation of powers. Individual rights and liberties follow a concept organization-Due Process, Equal Protection, and First Amendment. Clearly written and authoritative, Understanding Constitutional Law addresses the central concepts and issues students encounter in most Constitutional Law casebooks. “Structure of government” issues revolve around the twin themes of federalism and separation of powers. Individual rights and liberties follow a concept organization – Due Process, Equal Protection, and First Amendment.

Constitutional Law Stories

• Available via the West Academic study aid subscription,
  Dorf’s Constitutional Law Stories provides a student with an understanding of 15 leading U.S. constitutional law cases. It focuses on how lawyers, judges, and socioeconomic factors shaped the litigation, and why the cases have attained landmark status.

World Constitutions Illustrated

• This database, available on HeinOnline, provides access to the current constitution for every country in its original language format along with an English translation, as well as substantial constitutional histories for each country.

Exam Study Guide — Constitutional Law

• This guide page features study aids to help you with understanding Constitutional Law and for review and exam preparation.

Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance & Procedure

• Available on Westlaw, Nowak and Rotunda's Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure provides scholars, practitioners, judges, and officials with an up-to-date analysis and synthesis of federal constitutional law. The focus is primarily on the Supreme Court and incorporates the political, historical, and economic background of court decisions.The text analyzes constitutional questions in terms of precedent, political science theory, economics, and American history, making the leading cases understandable concerning both their overall significance and the precise legal rules they establish.

Federal Law Part I: Overview of Constitutions, Statutes, and Legal Authority

• This video introduces US Constitutional and statutory law. It explains where they fit in the hierarchy of legal authority, what a session law is, what a code is, and the difference between official and unofficial codes. The video is 11:24 minutes long and features closed captioning

Federal Law Part II Video: Researching Constitutional & Statutory Law on Westlaw

• This video provides an overview of researching the US Constitution, federal statutes, and federal court rules on Westlaw. It covers retrieving by citation; using the notes of decision; making sure a statute is still good law; finding materials citing a statute; navigating to the United States Code Annotated when you don’t have a citation; and using statutory finding tools such as the table of contents, index, and popular names table. This video is 10:36 minutes long and it is closed captioned and features a table of contents.

Federal Law Part III: Researching Constitutional & Statutory Law on Lexis

• This video covers researching the US Constitution, federal statutes, and court rules on Lexis. It covers finding statutes, court rules, and constitutions by citation, finding them when you don’t have a citation, navigating the annotated code, using the annotations, and shepardizing them. It is closed captioned and is 10:26 minutes long. It also features a table of contents.

Constitution Annotated

• The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation ("Constitution Annotated" or "CONAN") provides a legal analysis and interpretation of the United States Constitution based on a comprehensive review of Supreme Court case law and, where relevant, historical practices that have defined the text of the Constitution. This regularly updated resource is written in "plain English" and useful for a wide audience: from constitutional scholars to those just beginning to learn about the nation's most important legal document. In publication for over 100 years, the Constitution Annotated is a comprehensive, government-sanctioned record of the interpretations of the Constitution.

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