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This week in the Law Library we’re teaching Researching Case Law and Using Citators, Researching Secondary Sources, AI & the Law, Finalizing Canvas Courses, ALR Civil Litigation, and celebrating Taft Week.

This Week’s Research Sessions

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

AI & the Law

• 10:40am - 12:05pm
• Profs. Laura Dixon-Caldwell, Shannon Kemen, Ashley Russell, and Michael Whiteman

Lawyering I, Cohort 2

• 10:40am - 12:05pm
• Researching Cases & Using Citators
• Susan Boland, Associate Director

Technology Tuesdays

• Finalizing Canvas Courses 
• 12:15pm - 1:15pm
• Zoom
• Shannon Kemen, Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian​

LLM Research & Writing

• 1:30pm - 2:55pm
• Researching Secondary Sources
• Shannon Kemen, Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian​

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Advanced Legal Research Civil Litigation

• 3:05pm - 4:05pm
• Laura Dixon-Caldwell​, Instructional & Reference Services Librarian​

Thursday, September 25, 2025

AI & the Law

• 10:40am - 12:05pm
• Room 235
• Profs. Laura Dixon-Caldwell, Shannon Kemen, Ashley Russell, and Michael Whiteman

Celebrate Taft Week!

This week is Taft Week at the College of Law. Check out our small display in the Law Library Services suite (Room 110) and our Taft Week Guide!

Taft Week Events

• Taft Week Scavenger Hunt
  • Monday – Friday: Find the Taft photos hidden throughout the law school for a chance to win prizes
• Legally Blonde Movie Night
  • Tuesday, Sept. 23 5pm – 7pm in Room 160
• Taft Week Speaker: Former Ohio Governor Bob Taft (UC Law ’76)
  • Wednesday, Sept. 24 12:15pm – 1:15pm Room 160
• Taft Week Trivia Night
  • Thursday, Sept. 25 5pm – 7pm Room 160
• Taft Week Donuts & Coffee
  • Friday, Sept. 26 12:15pm – 1:15pm Atrium

In honor of Taft Week, this week's featured resources all relate to William Howard Taft. Did you know the Taft administration brought nearly twice as many anti-trust cases in half the time as Teddy Rosevelt's administration?

Featured Study Aids

• Antitrust: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library study aid subscription, this study aid features an explanation of the economic basis of American antitrust law and expanded treatment of advanced economic topics, like oligopoly theory, monopolistic competition, and the economics of vertical restraints. It extensively lays out the real-world practical background of antitrust law and gives full coverage to topics in the Sherman and Clayton Acts; price discrimination and the Robinson-Patman Act; the process of merger review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, and others. Furthermore, it incorporates the Supreme Court's decisions in FTC v. Actavis and FTC v. Phoebe Putney; important lower court developments, like the Seventh Circuit's ruling in Minn-Chem v. Agrium; and the 2010 revisions to the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. This new edition covers the “two-sided” or “platform” market theory introduced in the Supreme Court’s seminal 2018 decision in Ohio v. American Express; revised its coverage of conspiracy, monopolization, and merger law in light of key lower-court decisions, like United States v. AT&T, New York v. T-Mobile, Steves & Sons v. JELD-WEN, Viamedia v. Comcast, SC Innovations v. Uber Technologies, and the Alston NCAA litigation; and expanded treatment of advanced antitrust economic theory in a substantially revised Appendix, including a full examination of bargaining theory and other developing models, and their performance before the courts.
• Presidential Power Stories
  • Available through the West Academic study aid subscription, this book tells the story of a dozen notable presidential power disputes in our nation’s history. Ranging from the Neutrality Controversy of 1793 to the Supreme Court’s decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in 2006, the chapters present a diversity of presidential powers issues as well as a dispute’s historical and legal background.
• Understanding Antitrust and Its Economic Implications
  • Available through the LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, the seventh edition of Understanding Antitrust and Its Economic Implications attempts to offer an accurate and balanced description of the current state of antitrust law as well as its historical foundations and the evolution of the law. Although the state of the law has remained much the same since the last edition, applications of it continue to evolve. Highlights include: (1) Implications concerning the use of leverage; (2) Bundled discounts; (3) Post-Leegin vertical restraints; (4) New merger guidelines; (5) Relevance of the Robinson and Patman Act; (6) Summary judgment consequences; (7) Strategies associated with delaying entry into a market; (8) Insights into whether the goal of antitrust is efficiency or consumer welfare; and (9) Conflicting opinions on whether the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act focuses on an antitrust claim or a jurisdictional issue.

Featured Book

• William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (H. Jefferson Powell ed., 2002).
  • Available at Law Stacks  JK516 .T34 2002. William Howard Taft is the only individual to have served as both the President and the Chief Justice of the United States of America. In the years between the two appointments, Taft taught law at Yale University and gave a series of lectures in which he reflected on the theory and the practices of the presidential office. Taft's lectures have long been out of print, but are now available with a new foreword, introduction and endnotes by constitutional law scholar H. Jefferson Powell. Powell shows how Taft used his lectures to deftly and humorously reply to the criticisms of his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, and the pretensions of his successor, Woodrow Wilson. The lectures in the volume create an image of the presidency that is wise and chastened, and one that honors the president's duties to the law and to the demands of political leadership.

Featured Database

• HeinOnline U.S. Presidential Library
  • Available on HeinOnline, this database contains the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Daily and Weekly Compilations of Presidential Ddocuments, Public Papers of the Presidents, documents relating to impeachment, Title 3 of the CFR, and other related works.

Featured Guide

• Taft Week:  William Howard Taft
  • This guide features resources for learning more about William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, as well as former Dean of the College of Law.

Featured Video

• National Constitution Center, William Howard Taft and the Constitution (Youtube)
  • Author Jeffey Rosen discusses his book on only man to serve as president and chief justice – William Howard Taft. Rosen argues that Taft was our most judicial president and presidential chief justice and explores Taft’s crucial role in shaping how America balances populism with the rule of law. The discusion will be moderated by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, who calls Taft “the most under-appreciated constitutional gure since George Mason.”

Featured Website

• Library of Congress, William Howard Taft: A Resource Guide
  • This resource guide compiles links to digital materials related to Taft such as manuscripts, broadsides, government documents, newspapers, images, sheet music, and films that are available throughout the Library of Congress website. In addition, it provides links to external Web sites focusing on Taft and a bibliography containing selected works for both a general audience and younger readers.

Posted September 22, 2025 by Susan Boland

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