Yearly Archives: 2022

Northwestern Law’s Best Books of 2022

Always fans of book recommendations, the Pritzker Legal Research Center is pleased to compile this list of the best books read by members of the Northwestern Law community in 2022. [Links to titles in images.] Want to add your favorite?

Posted in Holidays

Restricted Access for Exams Dec. 2-15

During reading periods and final examinations, access to the library is generally restricted so that Northwestern law students can study and take exams. During this time, the only students who are admitted are Northwestern law students. Students from other universities

Posted in Access

Thanksgiving Hours

The library circulation and reference desks will close early on Wednesday, November 23 at 5:00 pm. The circulation and reference desks will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25 for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Northwestern law students, faculty, and

Posted in Holidays

Student Library Assistant Positions Available for Spring

The Pritzker Legal Research Center is looking for reliable law students to work at the library circulation desk next spring. In particular, we are looking for students with availability on Thursday evenings and Saturday or Sunday afternoons. Duties include the

Posted in Employment, Position Available

Resource Spotlight: ProQuest Legislative Insight and Supreme Court Insight

The Pritzker Legal Research Center recently subscribed to two additional resources from ProQuest: Legislative Insight and Supreme Court Insight.  Both are accessible directly via the embedded links, as well as through the law library’s A-Z list of databases. Legislative Insight

Posted in Library Resources, Resource Spotlight, Uncategorized

Resource Spotlight: CountryWatch

The law library recently subscribed to CountryWatch, which provides up-to-date political, economic, and business information and news on countries around the world. The key features highlighted below are located under the “Intelligence Zone” tab on the website. Country Reviews provides

Posted in Resource Spotlight

Hiring: Law Library Reference Intern

The Pritzker Legal Research Center of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law invites service-oriented library science graduate students to apply for the part-time temporary position of Law Library Reference Intern for Summer 2022.  Responsibilities and Opportunities. The intern will provide research,

Posted in Employment

NU Library Search Assistant available in Chrome

Northwestern University Libraries has created a Chrome extension that provides a shortcut to searching library collections via NUsearch, Google Scholar or other libraries via Worldcat. Enter your search in the shortcut search bar or you can highlight terms in the

Posted in Resource Spotlight

Book Release Discussion with Paul Gowder, Feb. 7

We invite you to join us for the latest in the Pritzker Legal Research Center’s Faculty Book Release Discussion series, featuring Professor Paul Gowder.  Paul will discuss his latest book, The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project

Posted in Events

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