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QUIZ BOWL COMES TO THE LAW SCHOOL
by Nonie Watt
How many amendments are there to the United States Constitution?
What was the offense committed in Crime and Punishment?
If you can answer these questions and oh, about 200 more just
like them, have we got a deal for you. The Law Library is pleased
to announce the First PossiblyAnnual Law Library Interrogatories!
Faculty, staff and students are all invited to participate.
Teams of four (plus an alternate) will square off against each
other putting their knowledge of trivia to the ultimate test.
Question categories will include Entertainment, History, Arts/Literature,
Science/Nature, The Law, and Law School/IU History.
An entry fee of $50 per team will reserve a place in the competition
for your team. Funds raised from the fees
will be used to support selected student activities such as offsetting
travel expenses to national meetings and job fairs.
Prizes will be awarded to the winning team members and all participants
will receive lovely parting gifts. While the exact date has yet
to be chosen, we expect the Law Library Interrogatories
to take place some time in late January. So it's not too early
to start auditioning friends and colleagues for your team.
Please unite with us through this lively competition in supporting
the activities of the students of this law school. Your participation
will be greatly appreciated. More information will be provided
as soon as it becomes available.
Final Note: There are twentyseven amendments to the
Constitution and Crime and Punishment was about a murder.
See how easy this is!
Law Library Thanksgiving Break Hours
November 25-30, 1997
November 25, Tuesday 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
November 26, Wednesday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
November 27-28, Thursday-Friday CLOSED*
November 29, Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
November 30, Sunday RESUME REGULAR HRS
*The Library will be closed on Friday, November 28th due to a
scheduled University power outage.
BOOK OF THE MONTH
Cray, Ed. Chief Justice: a biography of Earl Warren.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. KF8745.W3 C73 1997.
The readers of this column know of my interest in biographies.
I have reviewed numerous ones over the years that I have written
this column. This month is no exceptionI will review
a new biography on Chief Justice Earl Warren, written by the respected
journalist and author, Ed Cray.
Cray has written a fascinating book on a man recognized as one
of the most influential Americans of the 20th century. A recent
ranking of the 10 best U.S. Supreme Court justices had Earl Warren
at 3rd, following John Marshall and Oliver Wendell Holmes. What
is less wellknown is Earl Warren's career prior to the Supreme
Court as Governor and Attorney General of California and District
Attorney for Alameda County, California. Cray's book reveals
this early career and influences it had on Warren's tenure on
the Supreme Court.
Earl Warren was born in Bakersfield, California. He eventually
went to college at the University of California at Berkeley.
Upon graduation from law school at Berkeley, he took a job in
the district attorney's office in Alameda County, eventually working
his way up to becoming the district attorney. From there he was
elected attorney general of California, unfortunately leading
the movement to have all JapaneseAmericans removed and interned
after the outbreak of the war in the Pacific. In 1942, he was
elected governor of California. He was Thomas Dewey's running
mate in 1948, and a favorite son candidate for the Republican
nomination for President in 1952. Upon the death of Chief Justice
Fred Vinson in 1953, President Eisenhower appointed Warren to
the U.S. Supreme Court as the Chief Justice.
The second part of this book then discusses the more wellknown
part of Earl Warren's career. Some of the most significant cases
ever decided by the Supreme Court were determined during Warren's
tenure on the court, including Brown v. Board of Education
which was decided during Warren's first year on the court. Warren's
personable style and his leadership ability were two attributes
the Supreme Court sorely needed to make these momentous decisions.
In addition, Cray discusses Warren's falling out with President
Eisenhower, his intense dislike of Richard Nixon, and his good
friendship with Harry Truman and John Kennedy. His role as the
chairman of the Warren Commission which investigated the assassination
of President Kennedy is detailed, along with his dismay as to
the election of Richard Nixon as president in 1968. Warren retired
in 1969, and he died in 1974. He was buried in Arlington National
Cemetery.
This book has received mixed reviews. Lucas Powe, Professor of
Law at the University of Texas Law School, wrote a glowing review
for the History Book Club. In his opinion it is the best biography
written of Earl Warren. Powe's comment was that after reading
the book, he wanted to go out and stuff the ballot box for Warren.
On the other hand, a review by Kim Eisler, editor for Washingtonian
magazine, written for the Legal Times is more critical.
Her criticism is that Earl Warren has never been completely explained,
and that Cray fails to do this as well.
In my opinion, the book probably falls in between these two extremes.
Warren's role in changing America is clearly documented, and
it is a story that I found fascinating. Earl Warren was his own
man, and his views changed over time. These attributes led to
Eisenhower's statement that appointing him was "the biggest
damn fool thing I ever did," while Harry Truman asked Warren
to be one the speakers at the dedication of his presidential library.
This is a very interesting book, and I recommend it.
Michael Maben
Cataloging Librarian
NEW & NOTEWORTHY: "For a Lawyer without
Books...
Thomas Jefferson and Bolling v. Bolling: Law and the Legal
Profession in PreRevolutionary America. Edited and
Introduced by Bernard Schwartz, with B.B. Bernstein and Barbara
Wilcie Kern. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1997.
[KF 228 .B65 J44 1997]
One of the really nice things about your education at the IU School
of Law is that you are able to use an exceptional library collection.
As a research institution with a long history, the IU Law Library
collection goes beyond the average law school library's acquisition
of reporters, looseleafs, and law reviews. A recent example of
an acquisition that many less researchoriented law libraries
probably passed on, is the Huntington Library Press' publication
of Thomas Jefferson's manuscript (handwritten) of arguments from
a 177071 Virginia case.
Not only is the account significant in that it is one of the most
complete existing accounts of a late 18th century American case,
but also because the attorneys involved were future forefather
Thomas Jefferson, and his mentor and law teacher George Wythe.
Edited by longtime New York University law professor, Bernard
Schwartz, the manuscript is prefaced by a 125page introduction
which tries to place the Bolling manuscript in perspective.
Schwartz leads the reader through a discussion of the law in
prerevolutionary America, the legal profession at the time,
18th century American legal education, and Jefferson as a lawyer.
In addition he gives a detailed analysis of the Bolling
case and the two attorneys' arguments, guiding the reader to a
better understanding of colonial law and the bar just before the
Revolution.
From the Introduction:
"The JeffersonWythe arguments illustrate, better than
any contemporary evidence, the conception of law that prevailed
at the time and, moreover, demonstrate how the law was used in
an actual case by opposing attorneys. The manuscript confirms
the existence of a developed legal system and its already central
place in colonial society. It shows that an instrumentalist idea
of law, primarily American in origins, was already developing.
Both counsel in Bolling stressed the social purposes to
be served by the arguments they presented."
In addition to the introduction, and the manuscript itself, the
transcription is augmented by a glossary of legal terms and phrases
translated from Latin, Law Latin, and Law French. The book concludes
with two indexes, one identifying judges, legal commentators,
and other individuals mentioned in the manuscript, and a second
"Authority Index" indexing references to statutes, cases,
legal treatises and commentaries, form books, and law dictionaries
cited in the manuscript.
As one would expect of a monograph published by one of the most
respected and famous rare book libraries in the world, this book
is handsomely constructed; heavy paper, fine linen cover, clean
and sharp typeface, and a photoreproduction of several manuscript
pages on the end pages.
... Would be like a Workman without Tools."
Thomas Jefferson, 1769
Dick Vaughan
Acquisitions Librarian
LAW LIBRARY STAPLER WOES
As you may or may not have noticed, the Law Library has recently
had to purchase another heavy duty electric stapler. The last
one was broken when someone who did not know how to fix the stapler
tried to remove a jammed staple. This is the third electric stapler
we have had to purchase for student use in the last two years.
Because these staplers are quite expensive, we will not be able
to buy another if this one is broken. Please do not try to fix
the stapler yourself! If there is a problem, ask for assistance
at the Circulation Desk. We like to provide these types of services,
but have limited funds. Help us out and be kind to the staplers!
Due to an IU system-wide upgrade of the library circulation software,
which occurred this Summer, fine statements haven't been printed
and library fines haven't been transferred to the Bursar since
mid-June 1997. Contrary to what you might think, this really
wasn't an improvement to the system!
If you have been negligent in returning or renewing your library
materials on time, then you probably have overdue fines on your
account. Never fear... the billing system is back up and running.
We have fine statements for every unpaid overdue fine that you
have accumulated in your Law School career. We are checking them
for accuracy and will be delivering them to your mailboxes as
soon as possible.
As of November 8th, all unpaid library fines over
$5.00 will once again automatically transfer to the Bursar on
a weekly basis.
Please bring your payments, or questions, to Jennifer or Lisa
in the Circulation Office.
Jennifer Bryan
Head of Circulation & Patron Services
WORKING THE HALLS
New Faculty Publications:
Rob Fischman. The Problem of Statutory Detail in National
Park Establishment Legislation and its Relationship to Pollution
Control Law, 74 DENVER UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 779 (1997).
Happy November Birthday to:
Professor Jost Delbrück, on November 3rd;
Professor Dan Conkle, on the 10th;
Professor Doug Boshkoff, on the 11th;
Dick Vaughan, in the Library, on the 12th;
Professor Tom Schornhorst, on the 18th;
Professor Cathy Crosson, on the 21st;
Dodie Bowman, on the 2nd floor, on the 26th; and,
Angela Lieurance, in the Capital Campaign Office,
on the 28th.
Welcome!
To Wendy Brim. She is the Library's new Assistant to the
Director.
To Dave Lankford. He is the Library's new Media Center
Coordinator.
Hope you all have a great day!!!
The Suggestion Box
(Each month in this space
Associate Director Linda Fariss replies to suggestions received
by the Library)
Suggestion: Printers in computer labs. Please fix the
printers and then have consultant on duty during the day to fix
them if the need arises.
Response: Believe me, we have been equally frustrated by
the printers in the labs! There has been a twofold problem -
the printers belong to UCS and they have to fix them and, obviously,
we have not had a staff person in the labs for a long time.
The first part of the problem is difficult for us, but we have
been in constant communication with UCS about the printers and
they now seem to be more responsive. Fortunately, the second
part of the problem we have now solved - on Monday Dave Lankford
began work in the computer labs. He will be available full-time
to offer assistance to students in the computers labs and the
laptop room. Hopefully, things in the Computer Labs will now
run more smoothly. Thanks for the suggestion.
LAW SCHOOL EXAMS ON THE WEB
IU Law School Exams are available online through the Library's
web site. Visit the Exam File online at http://www.law.indiana.edu/exams/
The online Exam File contains selected exams from the past 10
years. Exams will be added as they become available. You can
print these exams from the convenience of your own home or from
the Library computing facility.
Accessible exclusively to IU Law School students and faculty,
the Exam File is password protected. The Library has already
e-mailed the password to you. However, if you have forgotten
the password or did not receive the e-mail, you can contact Jennifer
Bryan (jlbryan@law.indiana.edu) in the Library, and she will provide
you with the necessary information.
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