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COMMENT
•Dave Kalikhman struggles with the BCLS Smoking Policy. • From the
Editor's Desk: How to help The A/ledger expand.
-PAGE 2
FROUC & BANTER •Anthony DePaolo is not bitter~ but law school·
is like riding the T. • Larry Dobrow reveals.the secrets to 2 L
survival.
-PAGE 4
NEWS & VIEWS
• The Making of BCLS, "The Party School." •west PubHshing gets a
favorable court ruling.
-PAGE 5
-PAGE 7
Big plans for 1994-95 LSA Enthusiastic board seeks student
involvement By Stephanie Munro 3L Editor
Well, here it is, the start of a brand new year of fun under the
fluorescent lights at BCLS. The LSA has some new twists as well as
some old favorites to keep us amused and informed as we make our
way through this bizarre ritual that we call law school.
A student government member at New England School of Law has begun
an inter-school council for Massachusetts law schools. LSA
President Julie Schwartz and Vice President Joan Tagliareni will
be· attending the first meeting next week. The council will plan
social events, speaker series, symposiums, and the like for law
students statewide. 1Ls: this will provide
Continued on page 2 1994-95 LSA members Rebecca Perez, Julie
Schwartz, and Joan Tagliareni.
Oxford library blends eras By Sean Denniston 2L Contributor
With the large hole in the ground be tween Stuart and Barry wings
being "con sideration," BCLS is in the process of constructing a
new (and improved) law library. During construction of our soon
to-be-new-and-improved law library seems a good time· to write
about another law library, the Bodleian Law Library of Oxford
University. In late March - early April, I traveled to England to
attend the wedding of a friend, despite the concerns of my friends
and classmates who thought the timing was foolhardy (to put it
nicely) with the LR&W (now called LRR&W) Advocacy
Memorandum soon due. Act ing carefree and nonchalant, I ignored
their concerns, but before long the dread of the "Advocacy" caught
up with me and I was spending my sober minutes (and hours) at the
"Bod."
Oxford University, known for"dream ing spires" and Gothic
buildings (real and Victorian fake), has libraries with every type
of architecture to cater to every study environment: from the
Gothic (real) of the original Bodleian with hammer beam ceil ings
and manuscripts chained to the desks; the smooth classical revival
Greek and Roman lines of the 1700s; the heavy Vic torian of Empire
with Indian motifs and memorials to sons of Oxford serving God,
Queen, and Country; to 1960s modem of concrete and plate
glass.
The Bodleian Law Library is 1960s modem, but it's still rather nice
modem. The library is the largest part of the St. Cross Building
built in 1964 by British architect Sir Leslie Martin. St. Cross is
said to resemble an Aztec Temple with its cream color stone and
center steps leading to different parts of the building. Perhaps
out of post-war economics, the Law Li brary shares common spaces
such as lec ture halls and "laos" (bathrooms) with two other
specialty libraries, the English
Visions of the future for BCLS? The Bodleian Law Library at
Oxford.
Faculty (the lending library for English majors) and the Institute
of Economics and Statistics.
St. Cross is located about ten minutes from Carfax (the City
Centre) and much of "traditional" Oxford. The entrance of the
Bodleian Law Library is a row of center stairs which contains the
English Faculty entrance to the left and the Law Faculty offices to
the right (the Institute of Eco nomics and Statistics is entered
at a ground level entrance on the side of the St. Cross building).
Appropriately (?), the Law Li brary is at the top of the "temple"
(the "temple of the law"?) housed in what looks like a large block
completing the "temple look."
Once you have entered and presented your readers' card, you see a
large inner courtyard of marble, chrome and dark wood. It looks
like a private law firm library writ large. However, it is still
Ox ford, a plaque in Latin thanks (I think) the generosity of one
A.L. Goodhart. The "in ner courtyard" dominates the entire center
area with a large sky light (always risky in Oxford because of the
rain), and, what
might be disconcerting for the American students, long tables
almost the width of the "inner courtyard." Readers, please be
assured the tables are of high quality mahogany with long brass
lamps the length of the table (complete with green shades). On
three sides of the courtyard are more shelves of books and carrels
(individual and smaller tables). The re served Faculty carrels are
located along windows overlooking the "the Parks". On the second
level, a "balcony" sur rounds the courtyard and is again filled
with shelves of books and carrels. There are also two lower stack
levels.
The real test for any library is its usefulness for students and I
wondered if I could have done my Advocacy Memo without dragging my
cases across the Atlantic? The answer was yes! In writing a memo,
one often starts by researching materials you don't need but are
often more interesting than the actual assign ment. With over half
a million volumes in the Bodleian Law Library, these materi-
Continued on page 7
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Goal: A bigger, better Alledger By David Feldman
Editor-in-Chief
· This is the first issue of the 1994-95 Alledger. Our overall goal
remains the same as in the past: to provide an informative and
entertaining amiy of articles and features for the BCLS community.
Another, more specific goal may be reached this year, but only with
added contributions from students and other potential contributors:
The Alledger is seeking to expand to a 12-page format. With many
advertisers already lined up for the year, we probably have the
funds. Plus, we've got the desire. The other required ingredient
for expan sion is simple: more articles and features. This can
come about only through further contribution from the BCLS
community.
The Alledger staff enjoys putting out its printed product every 3
weeks. We are, however, always striving to improve. Improvement
will probably be facilitated once some myths are dispelled. Two
common myths:
Myth 1: Controversial articles cannot be printed in The Alledger.
Not true. No professor or dean edits The Alledger prior to publica
tion. With one exception (where an article posed potential danger
to BCLS students), no Alledger article has ever been rejected due
to the content of the article. If you've got something to say or
reveal, say or reveal it in The Alledger!
Myth 2: The Alledger is not serious enough for professor con
sumption. The Alledger does pride itself on providing some wacky
relief to the sometimes mundane nature oflaw school life. However,
the paper also values serious editorials and articles. One thing
which has been totally lacking from the paper recently is professor
contri butions. Hey professors! Got comments or complaints about
the 90s law student? Got something to say about the law that's more
suited for our pages than for class or law reviews? You know where
our mailbox is. Use it!
So, enjoy this issue of The Alledger. If you think you might want
to enjoy more pages of The Alledger in the future, how about
getting the ball rolling? After all, this is the newspaper of the
BCLS community.
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CONTRIBUTORS Sean Denniston
Ban forces smokers outside- for now By Dave Kalikhman 3L Associate
Editor
The day: July 1, 1993. The event: Boston College institutes a
"Smoking Policy." The Irony: There is no smoking in this
Smoking Policy. Shunned and insulted by the Adminis
tration, the smokers ofBCLS have taken to the outdoors to satiate
their nicotine hunger. Not heat, not rain, not snow, not frost, not
wind, nor any combination of the above can stop these resilient
smokers from lighting up. They flock outside by the one, two, or
even three with Marlboros in mouth. And because desperate times
call for desperate measures, some students have resorted to less
conventional means to get around the smoking ban. A source who
requested to be left unnamed has disclosed to this reporter that
smoking law students conduct nightly "smoke-ins" in our beloved
Room 315 dur ing the weeks before fmals.
The smoking policy has drawn a spec trum of opinions from both
smokers and non-smokers. One non-smoking student stated: "I like
the policy but I sympathize with the fact that life as a smoker is
be coming more and more difficult."
Another non-smoker commented: "I think [the smoking policy] is
good." And one non-smoker exclaimed: "I agree with it because you
couldn't smoke pot any way."
Comments from BCLS smokers in cluded this gem: "I don't understand
this recent concern with smoking. If people don't want to inhale
things that might hurt them, why don't they not breathe?"
Another student pointed out," smok ers are people too." One
student, with smoke coming out of her mouth, stated, "We'd like a
little room in the basement somewhere, at least in the
winter."
Sorry my little Camel light, but rules are rules, and the smoking
restrictions stand. For now.
Menu of activities on tap Continued from page 1
a great opportunity for that "networking" thing that the Career
Center is telling you to do.
The new LSA bulletin board outside of room 315 is designed to be a
helpful guide to information about life at BCLS. It features two
memo boards with events happening "Today at BCLS " and "To morrow
at BCLS," as well as monthly calendars for the entire year.
LSA still has its usual office hours in the usual office, but this
year they are also having an LSA table in the snack bar. This is an
informal atmosphere in which to ask questions, raise concerns, or
just meet some members of your student govern ment. Both Julie and
Joan stress that input from the entire student body is welcome. LSA
has a host of committees to be joined; there is something for every
interest. Sign up and straighten out the parking situation (or
achieve world peace, whichever comes first); plan social events;
work on BCLS curriculum choices (PLEASE); 3Ls, help plan your
Commencement Week events.
Another new opportunity to make yourself heard to the Powers That
Be is to sign up for a "Chat With the Chief," and do lunch with
Dean Soifer. Signup sheets are located outside the LSA of fice (by
the bookstore). But move fast, because rumor has it that 1Ls have
al ready monopolized one or more ses sions. The Town Meetings
will con tinue, but with a change in format. LSA would like to
keep this channel of com munication with the faculty open; any
suggestions are welcome.
Activities like Bar Review, the book co-op, the fall semi-formal,
the debate series, and the infamous annual Hallow een party will,
happily, continue in their fine tradition. These are excellent
oppor tunities to hone your razor-sharp client interviewing skills
(see if you can find anyone who really knows what in the
world they're doing in law school) and, most importantly, to
remember how to relax and be a real person (NO weighty~
philosophical, roundabout, irrelevant hy pos allowed). And yes,
everyone really does dress up for the Halloween party. It's all
part of being a creative, innovative, highly paid- sorry, I was
having an 80s flashback- I mean, highly liked BC law yer.
Other activities include, of course, sports! The fall softball
league is under way, and interest has been expressed in a co-ed
intramural soccer league. Signups are available at- you guessed it-
the LSA office. Watch for flyers in the hall ways and
announcements in The Counse lor. Any questions or comments,
contact LSA Sports Commissioner Christine Spinna (3L).
Spring Preview: for second semester entertainment, we have the
ever-popular Law Revue show (BCLS students parody ing life here),
the Dean's Prom, Field Day, Diversity Month, and a talent show;
pro ceeds from the latter will benefit charity. January or
February will see the begin ning of a faculty search; if you
desire to put in your two cents, please sign up with the search
committee.
Finally, 3Ls will be happy toknowthat our graduation ceremonies are
in the com petent hands of the 3L representatives: Rebeca Perez,
Denise Pelletier, and Paul Mastrocola. Planning is already under
way for obtaining a speaker and for orga nizing Commencement Week
events, in cluding the traditional Ritz Hotel Gala. Rebeca noted
that suggestions for fun and exciting events to do before the Big
Event are welcome; one idea was a day trip to Newport. And keep in
mind that the Graduation Committee will need many more members by
springtime.
In short, LSA is your voice here in the wonderful world of law
school. If you would like to make changes, waves, or just new
friends, get involved!
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Emptying the.drawer of a legal mind By Anthony DePaolo 3L Staff
Writer
"Mama, I don't want to go to school today!/ think/' d rather go
outside and play."
- Extreme
To everyone affiliated with BCLS, I wish you a hearty welcome back
to New ton- the Anal Retentive Neighborhood Association Capital of
Massachusetts. In case you were wondering, that big hole in the
ground just to the left of Stuart House is where the college is
putting an extra 6,000 seats to bring the capacity of Alumni
Stadium to an even 50,000. As these seats are obstructed view,
season tickets for them will only cost you either one of your
great-grandchildren or a Boston Red Sox World Series champion wall
pennant whichever comes first. As the school administration has
told us, unfortunately, the excavation work and heavy machin ery
"may" cause a parking problem or two on campus.
No way? Way. Anyway, I'm having trouble coming
up with something to write about. Sure, I've had three months to
experience some thing sufficiently interesting to embellish in one
of these articles, but I really can't think of anything. Don
"Train" Fehr and Dick "Horse" Ravitch, the two people I would like
to see drifting in a raft off the
coast of Florida, have ruined my rotisserie baseball season. Sure,
I was in seventh place and had no chance of winning, but I had the
Big Hurt on my team, and I miss the box scores. No matter, however,
be cause at least I'll get a refund for the 9,000 tickets I bought
for the season-ending Sox-Yanks series at Fen way. I had to take
out an extra Law Access Loan to pay them off (please don't mention
that to Laurie Hogan).
I could write about the young lady I saw on the "T" today. For you
uninformed, recent LSAT-taking One-L's, see if you can answer this
question:
"T" is to transportation as: a) Post office is to mail delivery b)
Dominoes is to pizza c) Clinton is to universal coverage
health care d) Castro is to travel agent e) all of the above, maybe
Answer: e, maybe. If you answered
correctly, you have just gained admit tance to Harvard Law School.
If you an swered incorrectly, you still have gained admittance to
Harvard Law School be cause ( 1) your father just donated the GNP
of Japan to the school's endowment, (2) your mother was a Kappa,
and (3) your golden retriever is a member of the DAR the Dogs of
the American Revolution. If I've learned anything in law school,
suc cess is not about what you know, but about who your parents
know.
Where was I? Oh yeah- the chick on
the T. I was returning from my first day of my ULL placement (ULL
stands for "Ur ban Legal Lawnmowers." Supposedly, it's supposed to
train you for your post-gradu ation legal career. Gosh, I hope the
name was a joke ... ) when I saw this young lady reading a
newspaper called "The Law Register." I think it was BU's law school
newspaper because I saw some pages ripped out of the middle of the
issue. Anyway, I think she was trying to make the world realize she
was a law student. What's my point? I guess I am of the belief that
it is betternot to advertise your present education situation,
especially on public transportation. You know, with all those crazy
people out there. Like Kimberly on "Melrose Place." Or worse, the
people that watch "Melrose Place." ·
Well, I'm still at a loss for subject material for this article. I
could take the safe route and write an advice column for lLs, but
that's a dead horse beaten every year in the first issue. Anyway,
I'm not sure I can relate to what they're going through anymore.· I
went to a party last weekend and met a guy who just started at
another law school. We were talking shop over a couple Dixie pints
of Otto's Special Warm D-U Stout when he asked me ifl still did
briefs in preparing for class. When I responded "No, I only wear
boxer shorts," he kind oflooked at me funny and walked away. Hey,
it was his loss: I was about to offer to sell him my copy of The
Buffalo Creek Disaster at cost. When he got wind
of my offer, he traversed a long bridge and started to cross back
over it, but I revoked the offer before he fully crossed it. What
is the significance of that? I have no idea, but I'd say ask Ingrid
about it in a couple of months.
As an alternative, I could write a bit o1 advice to the 2Ls. I'd do
this in a heartbeat, but so many of them look so happy, 1 figure
I'll let them be ignorantly blissful for a couple of weeks before
things start tc go downhill. Hey kids, I'll let you in on a secret:
the second year oflaw school is ten thousand times worse than the
first. At least it was for me. I could tell you all about that, but
there aren't enough issues of The Alleger to carry the full story.
I'll limit my gripes to an occasional relevant snippet in upcoming
articles. In the mean time, enjoy those on-campus interviews, and
save a big bag to collect all those thin letters telling you how
qualified you are and wishing you so much luck in the future. No,
I'm not bitter. Lastly, I guess I could give some advice to the
3Ls, but I think you're all sick of me. I'll just say a few things.
First, when seeing a friend for the first time after the summer, it
is not proper to greet them with, "Did you.. re~ ceive a full-time
offer yet. ... ?" Try ad dressing them by their name, then get to
the dirty question. Second, we '11 be'Gheck ing attendance at Bar
Reviews this year, and if you don't attend at least 80%, you will
not be allowed to graduate.
I'm outta here.
Second year: The horror! The horror! By Larry Dobrow 3L Executive
Editor
If your second year at Boston College Law School was or is to be
anything like mine, you did or will do at least some of the
following: offer a thunderously in competent interpretation of
Glenshaw Glass in your Tax class; read well in excess of 400 pages'
of printed material, including all three Beatles biographies and
that smutty adults-only Judy Blull).e novel; screw up your ankle
and wind up gimping through pollution-black piles of snow on
crutches; use said crutches to pocket an eight ball at Boston
Billiards and earn a free drink from the adoring hostess; attend
exactly two Constitutional Law II classes; fight crime and intoler
ance; and buy a new stereo receiver.
I don't mention all this right off the bat to raise expectations
(not that I have an inflated sense of self, but I heartily advise
you not to set your sights on the breathtak ing acmes over which I
have soared dur ing my time here). I say it only to hammer in the
point that any way you look at it, your second year of law school,
even at a happy factory like BCLS, isn't so much a miserable
experience as a thoroughly pointless exercise.
Sure, this may well be a welcome change from the feelings of
scathing hot resentment toward the human species as a whole
inspired by nine months as a 1 L. But as bad as your first year of
law school at BCLS might have been, at least it held
some kind of promise. If you studied real hard, crossed your
Ks and dotted your Ps, and repressed any and all sexual impulses,
there was the chance- albeit a chance slim as Charo being chosen to
give the Class of '95 convocation speech- that you could break on
through the pearly gates of Law Re view. Second year, there's no
such poten tial salvation, just a lot of job-hunting workshops and
resume critiquing sessions and mock interviews with leaden-headed
alumni who wouldn't be participating in the program if they didn't
come across as such losers in their own interviews.
Anyway, let me cut to the chase. Last year I wrote a similarly
ill-conceived col umn instructing lLs how to get by at this joint;
I'm told one or two of them might even have read it. So, in keeping
with a self-created tradition as firmly entrenched in our culture
as labor problems in profes sional sports, I hereby present
helpful advice for 2Ls.
• Ignore your schoolwork. Consider ing that you can count the
number of upper level courses that strictly employ the Socratic
Method on one pinky toe, it's pointless to delve into your
schoolwork with any more enthusiasm than that nec essary to
achieve whatever level of grade you're after. Yes, there are
several inter esting courses to take during your second year
here---criminal law comes immedi ately to mind-but you should not
allow any of these to interfere with your life. There's so much
television, so little time.
• Get a resume. At this point, you probably can't distinguish
between are sume and a legume (the key difference: employers don't
wipe their asses with vegetables). But it's important that you
create one of these puppies, if only be cause having one seems to
be a necessary prerequisite to getting a job. Which, in theory, is
the only justification for the second year of law school.
You weren't good enough,
or smart enough, or good-looking enough, and it is pointless to
shift the blame to some entity
which is nice enough to try to avoid hurting your feelings by
using
a lame excuse.
• If you play bass guitar, please give me a call. This is
important. We've got a drummer and a guitarist who can sing if
prodded, but we're missing a bassist ideally, a solid Bill Wyman
type with a P.A. system and connections at Columbia Records. If you
fit the bill, I promise to be your friend.
• Learn to take rejection person ally. Don't believe that you
weren't hired simply because you didn't "fit into the firm's hiring
needs at the present juncture" or because the firm "has al ready
completed its hiring process for the upcoming summer." If you
applied to a job and were rejected, it's your own goddamn
fault.
You weren't good enough, or smart enough, or good-looking enough,
and it is pointless to shift the blame to some entity which is nice
enough to try to avoid hurt ing your feelings by using a lame
excuse. Once you learn to cope with your own' particular brand of
ineptitude, you may well wonder why potential employers don't like
you; on the other hand, you won't really blame them.
• B.C. Law is not a party school. Sure, diversity month was really
rockin' last semester, and sure, things got pretty out of hand when
we tied those books to our heads during that student-staff hoop
contest. But where I come from, you've got to log some serious
hours in the 'brary and attend at least four seminars on Pachy
derm Law before you achieve the es teemed label of "party school."
I'll tell you this for nothing: I don't think we're there quite
yet.
• The "National Jurist" law school lifestyle magazine. Do these
guys need me, or what? I'm holding out for fifty grand and a date
with the chick on the cover.
Best of luck this year. Never call me.
Party_ school hoax exposed BCLS students: Books on brain? By David
Feldman Editor-in-Chief
"When students take on faculty mem bers in the annual
end-of-the-year basket ball game at Boston College Law School, the
professors get an unusual handicap the students must play with
books strapped on their heads."
So begins an article in the August/ September issue of The National
Jurist, which lists BCLS among five "party schools" which "have
their own versions of 'Animal House' fun." BCLS received
recognition as a party school based on Diversity Month events,
intramural sports and th~t wacky fun that occurs at the end
of4he•yeat ·basketball game.
The books-strapped-to-heads reference puzzled many BCLS students.
Commonly asked questions included, "Does that ac tu~lly happen?",
"Did that ever happen?", and "How could one possibly strap a book
to one's head anyway?". CrackAlledger researchers think they have
found the an swers: No, no and we don't know. No member of the
faculty basketball team nor any student who has ever played against
the professors can recall the book-on-the head handicap being
implemented, men tioned or momentarily thought about. Last year,
no basketball game was even played.
The Alledger was not satisfied with chalking up the
books-on-the-head line to another example of journalistic misinfor
mation. We wanted to know why and how such a line found its way
into the National Jurist article.
Two people are quoted in the BCLS section of the article: Dean of
Students Lis'!- DiLuna . and 1994 graduate Tom Ragland. DiLuna was
assumed to be clean. Suspecting that Mr. Ragland may have invented
the books-on-the-head tradition, The Alledger attempted to track
down the 94 grad. Nothing turned up.
Finally, The Alledger got serious: We contacted The National Jurist
itself. Mr. Jack Crittenden, publisher of The Na tional Jurist,
kindly returned our tele phone call. Although he was unaware of
the sources of information for the "Party Schools" article, he
informed us that all writers for The National Jurist are "pro
fessional journalists" and the magazine is distributed at 85 law
schools.
Still unsatisfied, TheAlledgercontacted Ms. Jodi Cleesattle,
editor-in-chief of The National Jurist and co-author of the "Party
Schools" article. Ms. Cleesattle informed us that the methodology
for the article was tocontactvariouslawschoolsandaskdeans,
Continued on page 7
West obtains courl injunction West Publishing News Release-West
Publishing Com
pany, announced on September 1 that it has obtained a permanent
injunction in U.S. District Court in Atlanta against On Point
Solutions, Inc., a CD-ROM publisher operated by disbarred Atlanta
lawyer Mitchell Gross. The injunction re quires On Point to
destroy the April1993 version of its Florida Cases on Disc CD-ROM
product, and prohibits On Point from any future use of the data
computer-scanned from West's books in the creation of the
product.
West filed suit in September, 1993, alleging that On Point had
included West's copyrighted headnotes on certain older case reports
contained on the April 1993 version of the On Point disc, and that
a portion of the On Point disc had been created wrongfully by
computer-scanning copyrighted vol umes of West's Florida Cases
advance sheets.
The injunction, entered by U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Shoob,
resulted from a stipulated motion for its entry by West and On
Point. As stated in the injunction, On Point
acknowledges that its use of West's headnotes infringed West's
copyrights. On Point also admitted that it infringed West's
copyrights by scanning West volumes and storing those volumes in
its computer database as an intermediate step in creating the April
1993 version of its CD-ROM.
Dorothy M. Molstad, spokesperson for West, said that, "Once the
facts were established, On Point quickly agreed to destruction of
the infringing material and entry of a stipulated injunction.
Computer-scanning of copyrighted material is a copyright
infringement even if an attempt is later made to delete the
copyrighted material."
Charles Murphy, West's Atlanta counsel, added, "West asks only that
other legal publishers compete fairly with West. The fact that it
was a relatively simple matter for On Point to replace the data
copied from West books with material ob tained directly from the
courts proves that there is no need for anyone to copy West's
copyrighted compilations in order to compete with West."
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September 23, 1994 • THE ALLEDGER • Page 7
Legal books as far as the eyes can see at the Oxford ''Bod''
Continued from page 1
als abound. Among those items is an al most complete set of all
legal books, re porters, and treatises ever published in the
United Kingdom. This is complemented by extensive holdings on the
law of Eu rope from the Channel to the Urals (in cluding the
European Community, East em Europe, and the former Soviet Union),
the old Empire and present Common wealth, and International Law.
Among those particularly Oxford items were three shelves of books
on the law of Zanzibar. The stereotype of Oxford and its exten
sive use of Latin and Greek may perhaps be traced to the large
number of books on Roman Law, Canon Law, Legal History, and
Jurisprudence. The library also pos sesses a collection of rare
books of mul tiple ages and languages. The modern student is
"represented" in this continuity by graduate theses bound and
secured behind locked bookshelves with wire grates.
The next step in the memo would have been looking up the law and
pulling re lated cases. I would have been able to achieve this
because the library contains the US Code and Regulations, the
Ameri can Digest and National Reporter System (up to the 3d Series
of the Federal Report-
ers), early state reports and the consoli dated laws of all 50
states. To make sure one's cases are still good law, one can
"Shepardize", using the Bodleian's run of Federal and state
Shepards including the latest supplement (February 1994).
Law Reviews and other secondary materials are often important for
discus sion on a particular legal matter. The Bodleian Law Library
contains many major law reviews including a complete run of Boston
College's and other top 24 schools including Harvard, Iowa, NYU,
Georgetown, Texas and Minnesota. Ad ditionally, a complete set of
ALRs (com~ plete with pocket parts), Corpus Juris Secundum, and
Restatements are all avail able for the Oxford Scholar or the
procras tinating American. While not required, it is often useful
to look up past writings of your professors- BCLS faculty past and
present are represented in books by Dan Coquillette (two books,
including one on Francis Bacon); Frank Upham; seven books by last
year's Huber Distinguished Visiting Professor, John Finnis; and
Hugh Ault's Tax Casebook.
These days, one will almost always carry out an initial computer
search on their memo topic. The spectrum of Com puter Aided ~gal
Research (CALR) at Oxford is assisted by the Bodleian cata-
The National Jurist honored BCLS as a "party school," but
why?.
Mystery source baffies pros at The National Jurist, Alledger
Continued from page 5
students and faculty what unique social. activities were conducted
at the school. The source of the books-on-the-head fabrica tion?
DiLuna and Ragland are both inno cent. Cleesattle revealed that
there was a third person consulted other that DiLuna and Ragland
who "informed" the co-au thors of the books-on-the-head
tradition.
She recalled that "Tom [Ragland] said he didn't know about that"
tradition and in quired, "Did somebody just make that up?".
It seems that the answer to that inquiry is a resounding, "Yes."
Perhaps next week The Alledger will track down the mysteri ous
"third person" who convinced The National Jurist that strapping
books on one's head was a valued tradition atBCLS. Until then,
party on.
Among those particularly Oxford items were three
shelves of books on the law of Zanzibar.
The library also possesses a collection
of rare books of multiple ages and languages.
logue (of the entire library of around six million books), the
Legal Journal Index for British and European documents, and BARD
(Bodleian Access to Remote Data bases) which links Oxford to
library com puters all over the world including Harvard, Missouri,
and Boston University. Inter estingly, there was no Westlaw or
Lexis.
Although I had already pulled my Ad vocacy Memo cases at BCLS, I
none theless wondered about photocopying-!
walked into the photocopying room to find the exact same copying
system as the oneatBCLS. There were three photocopi ers in
excellent shape and all three could
. copy A4(th.eBritish 8 112X 11) and larger sizes, and reduce. To
my disappointment, the copy card featured no lions or uni corns,
or the shield of the University, but just "Bodleian Law Library" in
black let tering. I suppose the library takes itself seriously and
realizes it's an invaluable resource without having to invoke the
trappings of Oxford . .
I suppose the reason for writing this article, and hoping it will
be of interest to the larger BCLS Community, is that when our hole
in the ground becomes founda tions, and eventually becomes a
library, a future BCLS law student will be able to look up a
Trespass Statute from Scotland, France, or Zanzibar and cite a
custody case from South Africa, Poland, or Hong Kong with the same
ease I could pull a sexual harassment case from the 8th Cir cuit
at Oxford.
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