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Today's Tip - Tracking legal news with Law Ratchet
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Posted by Timothy J. Gallina (Tim) on Fri. November 22, 2013 11:47 AM
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After becoming interested in the HBO show Boardwalk Empire, a show about Prohibition in the late 1920s and 30s, I was inspired to research Prohibition in North Carolina. As of today, North Carolina is one of eighteen (18) US states in which the government controls the sale and purchase of alcohol.
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Posted by Tamia Grace Taylor on Thu. November 21, 2013 10:56 AM
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The law library has added a subscription to HeinOnline’s United Nations Law Collection. The collection “contains exact reproductions of major United Nations legal publications, including the complete collection of the United Nations Treaty Series, the League of Nations Treaty Series, the Monthly Statement of Treaties & International Agreements, UNCITRAL Publications, UNIDIR Publications, the United Nations Legislative Series and much more.
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Posted by Donna L. Nixon on Tue. November 12, 2013 4:34 PM
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If you don't know about Fastcase, you should. Fastcase is an upstart legal research database that uses unique algorithms to bring the best documents to the top of your search results. The North Carolina Bar Association was apparently so impressed by Fastcase that it added Fastcase as one of the benefits of bar membership, replacing Casemaker. Now the UNC Law Library has added a subscription, as well.
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Posted by Donna L. Nixon on Mon. November 11, 2013 4:11 PM
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