The Pritzker Legal Research Center will be open the following hours during Spring Break: Saturday, March 24: 9am-5pm Sunday, March 25: CLOSED Monday, March 26-Saturday, March 31: 9am-5pm Northwestern Law faculty, students and visiting scholars will continue to be able…
Yearly Archives: 2018
PowerNotes: a tool to organize your research
Northwestern Law students, faculty and staff now have access to PowerNotes. This tool helps you organize your research and keep track of your sources. Organize Research Sources: With PowerNotes, you can gather information from any online resource. You highlight the…
Posted in Library Resources, Resource Spotlight
New Resources Added in February
We added over 150 new books, journals and government documents to our collection in February. See them all at: http://www.library.law.northwestern.edu/collections/new-books
Posted in Library Resources
Legal Analytics Tools Available Through the PLRC
Did you know that the Pritzker Legal Research Center provides access to numerous legal analytics tools? Researchers can use these tools to, among other things, (1) learn more about the writing and decision patterns of judges, (2) review the litigation…
Resource Spotlight: Ancestry.com
Although it’s often used for genealogy, Ancestry can also be a valuable tool for legal research. Containing census records, military records, and immigration records, it can be helpful when looking into the history of a person or place, and especially…
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Is he safe…or out? The Pritzker Legal Research Center is getting ready for its spring exhibit featuring photographs from past faculty-student softball games. Do you have any photographs or memories from your time on the field? If so, we’d…
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Resource Spotlight: Course Reserves
The Reserves section is located behind the PLRC circulation desk. It contains items of varying type and origin: monographs from the PLRC, monographs from the main library and other campus libraries, periodicals, reporters, statutes, personal copies of books supplied by…
New Resources for 2018
We added over 100 new books, journals and government documents to our collection in January. See them all at: http://www.library.law.northwestern.edu/collections/new-books
Posted in Library Resources
New Acquisition for the Dean Hansell Collection
The Pritzker Legal Research Center is delighted to receive a 17th-century religious and political tract from the Honorable Dean Hansell to add to the collection that bears his name. An alumnus of the Law School (JD ’77), Judge Hansell has…
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