Welcome, Class of 2021! The Law Library has compiled a list of textbooks for you, organized by section and class. The list is available at: https://bit.ly/2OqYrZv and includes links to the University Bookstore and several online retailers. The list is still incomplete but will be updated as more information becomes available.

Enjoy the rest of your summer! We look forward to seeing you soon!

Injury and Injustice: the Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress is a new publication just received by the Law Library. Injury and Injustice is co-edited by SUNY Distinguished Service Professor David M. Engel and features chapters by Professor Engel (“Chairs, Stairs, and Automobiles : the Cultural Construction of Injuries and the Failed Promise of Law”) and Professor Samantha Barbas (“Privacy and the Right to One’s Image : a Cultural and Legal History”).

Part of the Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series, “This book addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Topics include the tension between physical and reputational injuries, the construction of human injuries versus injuries to non-human life, virtual injuries, the normalization and infliction of injuries on vulnerable victims, the question of reparations for slavery, and the paradoxical degradation of victims through legal actions meant to compensate them for their disabilities. Authors include social theorists, social scientists and legal scholars, and the subject matter extends to the Middle East and Asia, as well as North America.”–Publisher description.

To explore more works by Professors Engel and Barbas, visit the Law Library’s Digital Commons Author Gallery and the Law School’s Faculty Profiles.

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Summer Session I (Bar study) – May 21-July 22*

Post-Bar, we’ll be open Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and closed Saturdays-Sundays through Orientation week.

Related links: Full Law Library schedule ; Schedule of all University Libraries

We’ll re-open Tuesday, May 29, at 9:00 a.m.

The Law Library will be closed during commencement weekend (Saturday-Sunday, May 19-20) and then will begin summer hours on Monday, May 21.  We’ll be open on the following schedule until the bar exam:

Summer Session I (Bar study) – May 21-July 22**

**Exceptions to Regular Hours

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We’ve also set up the Law Library ping pong table in the basement of O’Brian Hall. Please stop by the Circulation Desk to borrow some balls and paddles and head downstairs to de-stress after studying!

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Reading/Exam Period – May 5-20, 2018