Library Hours
The hours of the Fred Parks Law Library have returned to normal operating hours. The staff wishes all our graduates good luck on the bar exam!
A little Facebook decorum, please!
I should preface this post by assuring you that in the context in which the following FB comment appeared, it was most certainly written in seriousness.
Houston Area Law Librarians (HALL) is presenting a full-day seminar, "Legal Research Around the Globe," on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, here at South Texas College of Law. Students can attend at the member rate full day or half day. The State Bar of Texas has approved the program fro 5.50 hours of MLCE credit.
The program will cover subjects such as international law practice, international tax law and Islamic finance, as well as the laws of China; Argentina, Brazil & Mexico; Commonwealth countries; and, the European Union. Speakers include law librarians from South Texas College of Law, the University of Houston, the University of Texas, and representatives from LexisNexis and Westlaw.
You can see the full announcement for the seminar on the HALL website http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/hall/meeting/sprsem10.pdf. For more information about HALL, see the home page at http://houstonlawlibrarians.com/.
The program will cover subjects such as international law practice, international tax law and Islamic finance, as well as the laws of China; Argentina, Brazil & Mexico; Commonwealth countries; and, the European Union. Speakers include law librarians from South Texas College of Law, the University of Houston, the University of Texas, and representatives from LexisNexis and Westlaw.
You can see the full announcement for the seminar on the HALL website http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/hall/meeting/sprsem10.pdf. For more information about HALL, see the home page at http://houstonlawlibrarians.com/.
Library acquires rare sixteenth-century treatise on Arbitration
by Heather Kushnerick, Special Collections Librarian
The Special Collections Department is proud to announce the recent acquisition of a first edition Tractatus de compromissis, in quo omnia ad arbitrorum, by Camillo Borrello. Published in 1597, it is a treatise on arbitration and award in canon and Neapolitan feudal law. South Texas College of Law is one of four institutions in the United State to have a copy of this work. UC-Berkeley Law School, Princeton and Harvard Law also have copies, though Princeton and Harvard have the 1600 edition.
The library also recently acquired Sir Thomas Smith’s De republica Anglorum libri tres. Quibus accesserunt chorographica illius descriptio aliiq[ue] politici tractatus.. Described as "the most important description of the constitution and government of England written in the Tudor age”, it went through eleven editions between 1584 and 1691. The library’s 1641 edition is the fifth and final Latin edition. Published in miniature format by Elzevier, it measures 2½ inches by 4½ inches.
For photographs of these “new” old books, visit our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Houston-TX/South-Texas-College-of-Law-The-Fred-Parks-Law-Library/294526053119?ref=ts
The Special Collections Department is proud to announce the recent acquisition of a first edition Tractatus de compromissis, in quo omnia ad arbitrorum, by Camillo Borrello. Published in 1597, it is a treatise on arbitration and award in canon and Neapolitan feudal law. South Texas College of Law is one of four institutions in the United State to have a copy of this work. UC-Berkeley Law School, Princeton and Harvard Law also have copies, though Princeton and Harvard have the 1600 edition.
The library also recently acquired Sir Thomas Smith’s De republica Anglorum libri tres. Quibus accesserunt chorographica illius descriptio aliiq[ue] politici tractatus.. Described as "the most important description of the constitution and government of England written in the Tudor age”, it went through eleven editions between 1584 and 1691. The library’s 1641 edition is the fifth and final Latin edition. Published in miniature format by Elzevier, it measures 2½ inches by 4½ inches.
For photographs of these “new” old books, visit our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Houston-TX/South-Texas-College-of-Law-The-Fred-Parks-Law-Library/294526053119?ref=ts
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