Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween Week! This week in the Law Library we're celebrating Halloween, teaching Fair Housing Act Research, AI and the Law, and Advanced Legal Research. We're also continuing to raise awareness about domestic violence and cybersecurity.
This Week's Research Sessions
Monday, October 26, 2026
Lawyering I, Cohort 4
- 9:00am - 10:25am
- Fair Housing Act Research
- Susan Boland, Associate Director
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Introduction to Law & the Legal Profession
- 12:30pm - 1:50pm
- Ron Jones Electronic Resources Instructional Services LibrarianRon Jones Electronic Resources Instructional Services Librarian
AI & the Law
- 1:30am - 2:50pm
- Profs. Laura Dixon-Caldwell, Shannon Kemen, Ashley Russell, and Michael Whiteman
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Advanced Legal Research Civil Litigation
- 3:05pm - 4:05pm
- Laura Dixon-Caldwell, Instructional & Reference Services Librarian
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Introduction to Law & the Legal Profession
- 12:30pm - 1:50pm
- Electronic Resources Instructional Services LibrarianRon Jones Electronic Resources Instructional Services Librarian Ron Jones
AI & the Law
- 1:30am - 2:50pm
- Profs. Laura Dixon-Caldwell, Shannon Kemen, Ashley Russell, and Michael Whiteman
Asynchronous
Advanced Legal Research: Beyond the Basics
- Instructional & Reference Services Librarian Ashley Russell
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Begun in 1981 by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, it is a Day of Unity to connect battered women’s advocates across the country. In 1989 Congress passed Public Law 101-112 declaring the month of October to be Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This month's theme builds on the 2025 theme "With Survivors Always" and incorporates "Survivors Deserve Action."
This week our featured resources are all about Family Law and domestic violence.
Featured Study Aids
- CALI currently offers interactive exercises for law students on intellectual property. 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.
Family Law Examples & Explanations
- Available through the Aspen Learning Library subscription, this study aid continues to identify and explore new trends in family law practice. It includes central topics such as alternative dispute resolution, domestic violence, alternative reproduction, premarital agreements, and professional responsibility. New to the 7th edition is an introductory chapter regarding the evolving definition and regulation of families in America and significant updates to chapters covering parentage, abortion, adoption, assisted reproductive technology, and alternative dispute resolution, including updated discussions of recent cases and legislation.Analysis is first provided for a topic and then examples are given to help students understand the analysis. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.
- Available through the West Academic study aid subscription, this Law Stories title presents the back stories- historical, procedural, personal and political - of eleven significant family law cases. The essays, written by leading family law scholars, cover four main areas: marriage (Reynolds, Loving, Goodridge), parenting and custody (Troxel), separation and divorce (McGuire and O'Brien) and the definition of family (Moore v. East Cleveland). Other essays investigate well known state and federal cases on such topics as child kidnapping, the intentional infliction of emotional distress, the Indian Child Welfare Act and frozen embryos.
- Available through the LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this text helps students understand the basic principles and underlying policies of the topics covered in a general family law course. The content in this book is drawn from the table of contents of all the major family law teaching texts and includes all of the major topics covered in those texts. The book includes traditional family law topics such as marriage and divorce, but also covers child law topics such as the constitutional rights of parents and the definition of parents, among others. It provides a roadmap at the beginning of each chapter to focus attention on the important topics that will be addressed and a checkpoints list at the end of each chapter to summarize the important concepts as an aid to student comprehension and retention.
Featured Database
Global Database on Violence against Women and Girls
- A one-stop source on the measures governments are taking to build a world free from violence against women and girls. With 10,000+ measures from 194 countries and territories, the database offers key insights into efforts around the world.
Featured Guide
- This guide provides a quick overview of general and law materials. It covers browsing for materials by call number range, using encyclopedias for background research and how to locate articles, textbooks, treatises, statutory law, administrative materials, agency publications, legislative histories and websites of interest.
Featured Treatise
- Available on Lexis, this treatise provides guidance for every stage of a family law proceeding from initial client contact through modification and enforcement. Some of the topics covered in this comprehensive, up-to-date work include: Strategy; Temporary relief; Child custody; Valuation and distribution of property upon dissolution of marriage; Child support; Spousal support; Domestic violence; Tax considerations; Discovery, pre-trial, and trial techniques; Modification and enforcement of support orders; Divorce, support and benefits relevant to military families; Paternity proceedings; Adoption; Unmarried cohabitants; Counsel fees; Attorney ethics; and more.
Featured Video
Domestic Violence Laws and Policies: Past, Present, Pending, and Potential (YouTube)
- A video of the Rappaport Center panel presentation “Domestic Violence Laws and Policies: Past, Present, Pending, and Potential” with moderator Susan M. Finegan, Moderator, Member and Chair, Pro Bono Committee, Mintz; Rachel Biscardi, Managing Attorney, Family Law Unit, Northeast Legal Aid; Emily Dillan, Law Clerk, Bristol County Probate and Family Court and 2021 Rappaport Fellow; and Hema Sarang-Sieminski, Deputy Director, Jane Doe, Inc..
Featured Website
Domestic Violence Awareness Project
- DVAP is to support and promote national, tribal, territorial, state, and local advocacy networks in their ongoing public education efforts through public awareness, strategies, materials, resources, capacity-building, and technical assistance.
More Resources for Domestic Violence Awareness
Richard L. Davis, Domestic Violence Intervention, Prevention, Policies, and Solutions
- Law Stacks HV6626.2 .D394 2008
- Domestic violence does not begin the day an adult heterosexual male decides to beat and batter an adult heterosexual female. Domestic violence is a complicated and multifaceted enigma that includes child, sibling, spousal, intimate partner, and elder abuse. This book presents a perspective that emphasizes evidence-based information that challenges the effectiveness of existing policies and procedures and introduces 10 recommendations for change. The book summarizes many important federally sponsored reports and provides unique meta-analysis styled empirically based overviews of contemporary research and intervention efforts.
Domestic Violence (Michael Freeman ed.)
- Law Stacks HV6626 .D639 2008
- Domestic violence - domestic hooliganism it has been called - is one of the cancers of our age. This volume offers a challenging selection of materials as a picture of a multi-faceted problem. The issues embraced range from criminal and civil law responses and the value of mediation, to the impact on children, and to the cultural context.
Domestic violence against women
- Law Library, Morgan Hum Rts ; K3240.4 .G58
- A collection of international conventions, charters, rules of courts and commissions, etc., dealing with human rights and violence against women.
- Law Library, Morgan Hum Rts ; HV6626.2 .S54 2016
- Specialized public resources for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) are increasingly common and diverse—from protection order courts and dedicated domestic violence units in police precincts to a vast network of community-based emergency shelters and counseling services. Yet little consensus exists regarding which resources actually work to reduce violence and help survivors lead the lives they would like to live. This book is an account of these resources and IPV survivors' experiences with them in three communities in the United States. Through detailed observations of services such as court procedures, public benefits processes, and community-based IPV programs as well as in-depth interviews with dozens of IPV survivors and practitioners, Shoener describes how our current institutional response to IPV is often not useful—and sometimes quite harmful—for IPV survivors with the least material, social, and cultural capital to spare. For these women, as the interviews vividly record, IPV has long-term economic and social consequences, disrupting career paths and creating social isolation.
Jeannie Suk, At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution Is Transforming Privacy
- Law Library Stacks KF9322 .S85 2009
- Legal scholar Jeannie Suk shows how the legitimate goal of legal feminists to protect women from domestic abuse has led to a new and unexpected set of legal practices. Suk examines case studies of major legal developments in contemporary American law pertaining to domestic violence, self-defense, privacy, sexual autonomy, and property in order to illuminate the changing relation between home and the law. She argues that the growing legal vision that has led to the breakdown of traditional boundaries between public and private space is resulting in a substantial reduction of autonomy and privacy for both women and men.
October Is Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October is also National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Cybersecurity Awareness Month was launched by the National Cyber Security Alliance & the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in October 2004. The theme this year is "Securing the Next 250."
Learn More About Cybersecurity
- A widely read cybersecurity news site.
- Features the latest in cybersecurity news, focusing on data breaches, cyber attacks, vulnerabilities, malware and more.
- Brian Krebs worked as a reporter for The Washington Post from 1995 to 2009, authoring more than 1,300 blog posts for the Security Fix blog, as well as hundreds of stories for washingtonpost.com and The Washington Post newspaper.
- Part of the SANS Technology Institute, the Internet Storm Center (ISC) provides authoritative data on cyber attacks across diverse industries and regions worldwide.
- Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the Chief of Security at Inrupt, Inc. in addition to being a Harvard University fellow and a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow and serves as an advisory board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org.
Posted October 26, 2026 by Susan Boland