The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States, with recent data for states and metro areas, as well as some on foreign countries. Beginning in 2012, this former government publication is available through ProQuest.
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Posted by Donna L. Nixon on Thu. December 27, 2012 11:47 AM
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The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical & Empirical Study of Rational Choice
by Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, and Richard A. Posner (Harvard University Press, 422 pp.)
This book is an attempt by a political scientist (Epstein), an economist (Landes), and a judge (Posner) to employ statistical methods to understand how federal judges make their decisions. Are they machines who objectively apply the law to the facts set before them? Are they enrobed ideologues who use the bench to shape society to their ends? The authors provide “a unified theory of judicial decision-making” to make sense of what is actually going on in the process. There are separate chapters, each saturated with tables of data, on the Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, and federal district courts.
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Posted by Nick Sexton on Tue. December 18, 2012 10:12 AM
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HeinOnline has added a collection of early federal and state case reports. It includes "the entire Federal Cases 30 book series (1894-1897) which contains more than 20,000 cases. Also included is the Trinity Series, which includes American Decisions, American Reports, and American State Reports." Cases range from as early as 1760 to 1912.
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Posted by Donna L. Nixon on Tue. December 4, 2012 9:08 AM
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Attention, News & Observer readers!
The newspaper has announced that beginning on December 19, 2012, non-subscribers will only be able to access a limited number of articles for free without being asked to subscribe. You can get a print-alone subscription (daily, Friday-Sunday, or Sunday only), an on-line only subscription, or a print-and-online subscription.
Please note, however, that you have always been able to access the paper for free through the UNC Library system as follows:
News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C. : 1894)
- From 1880 to 1899 in 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
- From 1880 to 1899 in Gale NewsVault
- From 01/01/1991 to present in America's News
You will still be able to do so, of course, after December 19.
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Posted by Barbara J. Kaplan on Tue. November 20, 2012 4:13 PM
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The
Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
by Jeffrey Toobin (Doubleday, 325 pp.)
Jeffrey Toobin has
written about the Supreme Court before in his 2007 book, “The Nine: Inside the
Secret World of the Supreme Court” (also available in the law library). “The
Oath” is Toobin’s examination of the sometimes contentious relationship between
President Obama’s administration and Chief Justice Roberts’ Supreme Court.
Toobin provides insightful sketches of Obama, Roberts, and other key figures. He
also focuses on various cases before the Supreme Court (e.g., Citizens United and the health care
reform law) that are of high interest both to the administration’s policy aims
and the Court’s legacy. Toobin shows how
the subjects of his book unite and divide on the major issues of the moment.
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Posted by Nick Sexton on Fri. November 16, 2012 9:13 AM
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