Empirical Research Fellow

The Library Research Services department in the library welcomes a new Empirical Research Fellow, Alex Billy, who will be joining the library on September 2 for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Alex is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Georgetown University, and holds a B.S. from Saint Vincent College and an M.A. in Economics from Georgetown University. Alex has also served as a research assistant for Professor Neel Sukhatme and provided support in synthesizing data and conducting field experiments.  Alex will be available to assist you with your projects and is scheduled to work for 15 hours a week in the Library. He will work with our team in Legal Research Services generally, and some of the more specialized assistance his position can offer includes identifying the correct empirical design for research projects, scraping publicly available data, data cleaning, technical writing of research papers, and executing analyses in code.

We would like to express our deep gratitude to Professor Sukhatme for his critical guidance and recommendations throughout the entire hiring process.

Please send your request for an appointment with Alex and a description of your research assignment to LRS at lawlibraryresearch@georgetown.edu or contact Thanh Nguyen at 202-662-9073.

Lexis CourtLink

Docket research is now available with the new CourtLink® on Lexis Advance®. All faculty and students now have access to the court coverage of the CourtLink service, redesigned with familiar Lexis Advance features as well as enhanced capabilities and faster navigation. Lexis Advance CourtLink provides:

•  A single, simplified search form
• One-click set up for alerts and tracks
• The same unmatched court coverage
• Access with one ID (Lexis Advance ID)

To access, sign in to lexisadvance.com with your LexisNexis® ID and select the product switcher menu, top left.

Lexis Advance CourtLink Quick Reference Guide

Lynda.com is now LinkedIn Learning

On August 1st, 2019, Georgetown University Library upgraded from Lynda.com to LinkedIn Learning. For more information, please see the Lauinger Library’s announcement.

Law School Symposia Tracker

If you are interested in keeping up to date on law school conferences and symposia, the Legal Scholarship Blog tries to keep up with all new additions and maintains a list.

New databases

The law library is starting the new academic year with some new databases as well as enhanced access to some news sources.

• We have subscribed to Ancestry, Library Edition for the Georgetown Law Center. This resource covers not only the vital records commonly associated with genealogy research such as birth, marriage, and death, but also census data, voter listings, military service, immigration, and more.
• We also now have access to the New York Times web edition via individual login. Faculty should contact Library Research Services for assistance in setting up access. Similar access has been arranged for the Washington Post web version back to 2001.
• Finally, the law library has been given extended trial access until January 15, 2020,  to access to Pakistanlawsite, a project of PLD Publishers, which is the largest legal publishing house in Pakistan, publishers of law reports since 1949. It contains electronic versions of case law, statutes, and selected journals. At www.pakistanlawsite.com please enter
  Username: georgetown    .
  Password : abc123

The Lauinger library has also announced access, by acquisition or trial, to new electronic sources over the summer.

• The Edward Hermon Papers collection is now available in DigitalGeorgetown. This manuscript collection provides a wealth of information about British society in the second half of the nineteenth century, and relates particularly to research in British architecture, sports,, and psychiatry.
• An extended trial Through April 2020 has been set up for Dimensions Plus (Digital Science), an easy to use, linked-research data platform within which users can explore the connections between grants, publications, clinical trials, patents and policy documents. Dimensions Plus integrates citations with a global grants database, clinical trials from a range of international registries, worldwide coverage of patents, plus data metrics and trends in order to provide a broad view of the research process and the research community.

Lastly, we have subscribed to more Wolters Kluwer’s titles through their Cheetah platform which are activated via IP range access.  Please see the list below of these subscriptions.  If you have any technical or searching issues for these titles, please contact Smita Parkhe.

• Litigation Integrated Library
• Corporate Governance Core Library
• Practical Guide to SEC Proxy and Compensation Rules
• Practical Guide to Section 16: Reporting and Compliance
• Capital Markets Handbook
• Civil RICO Practice Manual
• COBRA Handbook
• Competition Law of the European Community
• Complete Guide to Human Resources & the Law
• Almanac of the Federal Judiciary (Directory of Federal Court Guidelines)
• Distribution Law: Antitrust Principles and Practice
• Electronic Discovery: Law & Practice
• Equal Employment Opportunity Guide
• Foreign Commerce and the Antitrust Laws
• Fundamentals of Securities Regulation
• International Securities Law Handbook
• IP & Antitrust
• Limited Liability Companies: Formation Operation and Conversion
• Lubaroff & Altman on Delaware Limited Partnerships
• Multistate Guide to Benefits Law
• Offerings of Asset-backed Securities
• State by State Guide to HR Law Human Resources
• Takeover Defense: Mergers and Acquisitions
• Takeovers: A Strategic Guide
• U.S. Regulation of the International Securities and Derivatives Markets
• Cybersecurity & Privacy Integrated Library

Faculty Scholarship Report

If you would like materials added to the Faculty Scholarship Report, please send them to LibFacPubs@law.georgetown.edu.