July means only one thing. . . new databases at PierceLaw! Read on for the details.

New databases include:

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Ever wonder what this search box on the left side of the library’s page does?

Read more to find out.

Recently there has been much discussion on the proposal to merge the Southern New England School of Law with the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. (See: here, here, and here.)

The desire for a state law school in Massachusetts is nothing new. A 1973 article from the Boston Bar Journal (available here via HeinOnline's Bar Journal Library) discusses the viability of a UMass law school with many of the same pros/cons as in the 2009 debate. Read more. . .

HeinOnline, long a resource for full text journal articles, now contains dozens of state bar journals. Like most HeinOnline resources the bar journals are full text and scanned copies of the original articles. (No hard to read format changes!) Additionally the bar journals available cover back to the first issue of publication. Read more. . .