June is Caribbean Heritage Month, and we are pleased to honor two notable Americans of Caribbean heritage.
In 1990 Antonia C. Novello, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H, who was born in Puerto Rico, was appointed as the first female and first Hispanic U.S. Surgeon General by President George Bush.
Dr. Novello
by Dan Brackmann, guest author
AILALink is the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s “one-stop shop for immigration law research.” Within it, you will find primary materials, governmental memos and cables, government manuals, conference proceedings, and digital versions of most of AILA’s various treatises (under “AILA Books” in the left-side navigation bar), many of which discuss immigration
by Dan Brackmann, guest author
With the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States’ entry into the Second World War, this Resource Review highlights Hein’s new Military Legal Resource library. Based on materials scanned from the U.S. Army’s JAG School, this collection includes obvious elements such as the legislative history of
We interviewed author and law professor Marcia Zug about her book available January 9, 2024, You’ll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love.
What prompted you to write this book?
My great aunt Rosie left New York City and traveled to Europe in the 1930s to marry a Jewish man who
by Dan Brackmann, guest author
This month’s Resource Review is highlighting Constellate, a text analysis learning tool by JSTOR, Portico, and partners that the university has a three-year subscription to try out. The primary purpose of Constellate is teaching people the techniques and methods of text analysis, from teaching the Python and R coding languages,
From 1969 to 1973, the Gavel Raps was considered the official Student Bar Association newspaper at the University of South Carolina School of Law. The USC SBA continued to support the Gavel Raps from 1973 to 1995, but not as an official law school publication.
Now Online
Thanks to the digitization work of law librarians
by Dan Brackmann, guest author
Textual analysis is a research method rapidly gaining popularity in many different academic disciplines. Text analysis is a subset of data mining, using computational methods to study natural languages as unstructured data sets, allowing researchers to explore connections between words and topics and uncover patterns, trends, or relationships within
The South Carolina Law Review was called the Year Book of the Selden Society from 1937 to 1948. At the time, it was published by the USC School of Law’s student chapter
Google Scholar is a free resource for case law. If all you want to do is pull up a case with a known citation, it works pretty well. Except when it doesn’t.
Sometimes Google Scholar Doesn’t Work As Expected
Here’s an example. Try searching for the drag-racing case State v. Fair, 209 S.C. 439, 40
Congratulations to reference librarian Dan Brackmann, incoming parliamentarian of the University of South Carolina’s Faculty Senate!
“A consultant trained in parliamentary law who advises the chair and others on matters of parliamentary law and procedure. • The parliamentarian, who is often a professional, only advises and never ‘rules’ on procedural issues.”
PARLIAMENTARIAN, Black’s Law