Surviving Exams & Reading Days

Don't let Reading Days & Exams drive you up the wall - check out these links and the de-stress information table from the Health & Counseling Center.

April 23rd & 24th
De-stress information table near suite 115
Provided by the Health & Counseling Center and Student Affairs

Stretching at your desk

• Finger stretch - slideshow, Mayo Clinic
• Lower back stretch, standing - video, Mayo Clinic
• Forearm and wrist stretches - video, Mayo Clinic
• Shoulder and upper back stretches - video, Mayo Clinic
• Neck stretches - video, Mayo Clinic
• Stretching exercises at your desk: 12 simple tips - handout, WebMD

Stress

• Stress - handout, Health & Counseling Ctr.
• Stress and Tension Headaches - handout, Health & Counseling Ctr.
• Anxiety - handout, Health & Counseling Ctr.
• Relaxation & Imagery - Kaiser Permanente

Exercise

• Exercise & Hydration - handout, Health & Counseling Ctr.
• Exercise at your desk - handout, WebMD
• The Lunch Hour Workout - handout, WebMD

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

• Office ergonomics - handout, WebMD
• Preventing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - handout, WebMD
• Preventing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - handout, Kaiser Permanente
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Fast Facts - blog, WebMD

Judges' Day resources

To follow up on Judges' Day, held April 19th at the Sturm College of Law, here are the program handouts and resources for further study:

Handouts:

• Judges Day program
• Brief summaries from the oral arguments
• Slides on Standards of Review & Oral Arguments
• Slides on Oral Arguments Dos & Don'ts for Appellant & Appellee

Still interested?

Advocacy, briefs & clerkships

• 73 ways to win [videorecording] : a treasury of litigation tactics and strategies / [presented by] the American Bar Association Section of Litigation and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education
• A practical guide to appellate advocacy / Mary Beth Beazley
• Appellate advocacy in a nutshell / by Alan D. Hornstein
• The art of oral advocacy / by David C. Frederick ; foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Advanced cross-examination techniques / Larry S. Pozner, Roger J. Dodd
• 2006 Appellate practice in federal and state court / CLE in Colorado, Inc.
• Persuasive written and oral advocacy in trial and appellate courts / Michael R. Fontham, Michael Vitiello, David W. Miller
• Colorado appellate law and practice / by Anne Whalen Gill
• Colorado appellate handbook / Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc., the Colorado Bar Association and Denver Bar Association
• Appellate brief writing in Colorado / CLE in Colorado, Inc.
• Winning on appeal : better briefs and oral argument / by Ruggero J. Aldisert
• Law Clerks at the Colorado Supreme Court
• Law Clerks at the Colorado Court of Appeals
• Law Student Clerkship Program at the Office of Administrative Courts, CO Dept of Personnel & Administration

Find more...
Search the library catalog for these subjects:

• Appellate procedure – Colorado
• Appellate procedure – United States
• Trial practice

Project Homeless Connect 6

Project Homeless Connect 6 is still looking for volunteers! If you are curious about what is involved in being a Client Support Services volunteer, feel free to contact Esti in Reference.

WLL resources on homelessness and poverty law:

• Educating children without housing : a primer on legal requirements and implementation strategies for educators, advocates, and policymakers
  
• Homelessness [microform] : recent statistics, targeted federal programs, and recent legislation (2005)
• Defending the right to a home : the power of anti-poverty lawyers
• Representing the poor and homeless : innovations in advocacy
• Coping with homelessness [electronic resource]
• Out of place [electronic resource] : homeless mobilizations, subcities, and contested landscapes
• Bringing justice home [videorecording] : housing and homelessness
• International poverty law : an emerging discourse

Useful statutes:

• CRS §22-33-103.5 Attendance of homeless children (Title 22: Education)
• CRS §§26-7.8 -101 et seq. Homeless Prevention Activities Program
• CRS §§22-23-101 et seq. Education of Migrant Children
• CRS §§26-5.7-101 et seq. Homeless Youth Act
• CRS §§26-5.9-101 et seq. Homeless Youth Services Act
• 42 USC §§13301 - 11435 Homeless Assistance
• 38 USC §§2001 - 2066 Benefits for Homeless Veterans

Error in Nimmer on Copyright

LexisNexis has alerted us of the following:
"a technical problem with the online version of Nimmer on Copyright resulted in the omission of Chapter 8, "The Nature of the Rights Protected by Copyright," from the online treatise between March 20 and March 27."

So if you ran a search in this treatise during that time period it would be a good idea to re-run the search to make sure you did not miss any important material from Chapter 8.

Earth Day 2008

Earth Day was created in 1970 and is celebrated on April 22, 2008 in the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency was also created in 1970. See a timeline of EPA history and a list of ideas to save energy, use less water, and tips to reduce, reuse & recycle.

The Environmental & Natural Resources program at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law ranked #13 in a recent U.S. News & World Report survey. In addition, the program was awarded the 2007 Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy by the American Bar Association.

The Westminster Law Library has created a handout of commonly used Environmental Law Resources and subscribes to a variety of environmental & natural resources databases for your legal research needs. The Legal Information Institute from Cornell provides links to federal and statutory & regulatory material in the area of environmental law.

The NaturalResources WebLinks site was developed by the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law LLM and MRLS students in conjunction with professional law librarians. It provides links to free resources for researchers in the natural resources and environmental law fields. WebLinks covers a broad range of specialized and country-specific information, including legislation, legal databases, government agencies and search engines. Although mainly in English, Spanish and Chinese search interfaces have also been added.

Celebrate Earth Day by sending an e-card from the Nature Conservancy or take the ecological footprint quiz from Earth Day Network to see what impact your life-style has on the environment.

And don't forget that DU's Sturm College of Law was the first law school to build a green building according to LEEDS certification!

Law School Survey of Student Engagement

Don't forget to participate in the LSSSE!

The Sturm College of Law has chosen to participate in this year's LSSSE as an important part of our strategic planning and the assessment process. Please take a moment to give us your opinion!

A link to the LSSSE survey was e-mailed to each student. Responses are completely anonymous. If you have accidentally deleted or misplaced your LSSSE e-mail, please contact the Dean's Suite.