Are you in a course in which the Professor enjoys discussion
of current happenings in law? Do you want to find an easy, authoritative way to
keep up to day on what’s happening in the legal world? Or, maybe you’re looking
for a topic for a paper and want to look at current topics to find inspiration
– and information!
The Law Library’s homepage contains a link to Jurist’s Paper Chase, the University of
Pittsburgh’s blog for current domestic, foreign, and international law. This
source is constantly updated with the “headline” legal news from around the
world, so with a simple click, you can review the headlines, and, with another
click, have access to an excellent summary of the issue. Even better, from a research
point of view, each article contains links to any primary documents, press
releases, or prior posts related to the story.
A favorite paper topic for the last several years has been
“piracy.” Students who start with Jurist posts (use the simple search box in
the upper right hand corner) get a quick look at all the latest laws and cases
dealing with piracy, and can then use that information to begin an outline of
the topic and formulate a research strategy.
Written by Joan Policastri, Foreign, Comparative and International Law Librarian
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