Created during the Cold War to commemorate the Rule of Law as opposed to totalitarianism, the ABA continues to create themes for the celebration of Law Day as well as special programs….
Start off your Law Day by listening to ABA President Mary Smith and Law Librarian of Congress Asilhan Bulut discuss this year’s theme […]
LLAGNY’s Professional Advancement Committee teamed up with Deliberate Solos for yet another excellent CLE program…. held in March at The New York Law Institute ….Click here for my Law Lines review of “Emerging AI Issues for Lawyers”.
NYLI T.V. is now showing…. environmental resources to help you celebrate Earth Day….
To research New York’s take on environmental laws, check out….
Environmental Law and Regulation in New York… the title says it all… available @ NYLI
And then, there is always the nutshells… NYLI’s nearly 200 including..
Available as an eBook at NYLI….
And… we can’t forget […]
Reminder…. Favorite Library Memory Contest deadline is April 25th…
Write up your favorite library memory… and you may win a prize at our annual celebrity drawing…..
So…. don’t delay… email me (emoog@nyli.org) your entry today….
Last year’s celebrities…. New celebrities will be time traveling in from Victorian London for this year’s drawing….
Celebrate the guitar this month — the instrument of the Medieval troubadour, folkie protester. Country star and the Rock and Roll rebel….
A guitar as a local marker in Tutweiler, Mississippi, on the “Blues Trail” in the state’s vibrant Mississippi Delta region. Library of Congress image.
Before we starting mentioning NYLI music law resources such […]
At February’s meeting, LLAGNY Book Club had a spirited discussion of poet Sylvia Plath’s classic novel The Bell Jar….
Check out my full review as posted on Law Lines by clicking here ….
And remember to check the calendar for future book club information and all things LLAGNY….
April means showers, a fool or two, taxes due, Poetry Month & Library Week…
And, once again, it’s the month The New York Law Institute runs a contest….
Submit your favorite library memory – it could be anything from your first trip to get a card, first library job, or a more recent recollection…
Please no […]
As NYLI comes to its conclusion of celebrating Women’s History Month, we’d like to focus on a name far from household knowledge… Helen Marot.
Helen Marot part of feature article from NY Tribune article on Women’s Suffrage and the Labor Movement (NY Tribune; March 3, 1915, pg. 7)
Any one of her many careers — as […]
Uniform Commercial Code…. Uniform Telehealth Act… Uniform Probate Code… Who designs and sews up these uniforms anyway, lol?
Around since 1892 (and still active!) – the Uniform Laws Commission provides all 50 States with non-partisan and well drafted legislation for vital areas of state statutory law.
The ULC has also developed Model Laws. Jurisdictions may […]
Irish immigrants have been part of the American landscape since before the American Revolution…
Great resources of Irish History…& both available in NYLI’s eBook collection….
And some early & notable members of The NY Law Institute were Irish American Lawyers. There’s Thomas Addis Emmet….
“Thomas Addis Emmet” photograph from The Emmet […]
