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This Week in the Law Library ... Sept. 30, 2024

This week in the Law Library we're teaching secondary sources and Advanced Legal research, shining a spotlight on health law resources, raising awareness for domestic violence and cybersecurity, and celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

This Week’s Research Sessions

Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024

Lawyering I, Cohort 3

  • 10:40am - 12:05pm
  • Room 145
  • Laura Dixon-Caldwell, Instructional & Reference Services Librarian
  • Researching Cases & Using Citators

Lawyering I, Cohort 5

  • 1:30pm - 2:55pm
  • Room 145
  • Laura Dixon-Caldwell, Instructional & Reference Services Librarian
  • Researching Cases & Using Citators

Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024

Advanced Legal Research Ohio Legal Research

  • 2:00pm - 2:55pm
  • Room 245
  • Ronald Jones, Electronic Resources Instructional Services Librarian & Shannon Kemen, Legal Technology & Research Instructional Services Librarian

Friday, Oct. 4, 2024

Advanced Legal Research Criminal Law Procedure

  • 11:10am - 12:05pm
  • Room 245
  • Associate Dean Michael Whiteman and Instructional & Reference Services Librarian Ashley Russell

Spotlight on Health Law Research

Law Library Health Law Display

Featured Study Aids

Health Care Law and Ethics

Available via the West Academic Study Aid subscription,  this study aid considers how law and ethics respond to these driving social, economic, and political forces of innovation, crisis and reform. Topics include health insurance reform, health care finance and delivery structures, treatment relationships, facility and insurance regulation, corporate and tax law, refusal of life support, organ donation, and reproductive technologies.

Health Law Hornbook

Available via the West Academic Study Aid subscription, this text presents an up-to-date overview of health law as it affects the professionals, institutions, and entities that deliver and finance health care in the United States. Considers the law's response to quality and error through institutional and professional regulation, and malpractice litigation against professionals, hospitals, and managed care organizations. Surveys tax, corporate, and organizational issues. Explores the government's efforts to control costs and expand access through Medicare and Medicaid. Examines government attempts to police anticompetitive activities, fraud, and abuse. And considers the legal and ethical issues involving death, human reproduction, medical treatment decision making, and medical research. The Affordable Care Act, HIPAA, HITECH, and other new statutory and regulatory changes of the past few years are thoroughly incorporated in all aspects of the legal discussion.

Health Law Questions & Answers

Available via the LexisNexis Digital Library, this study guide will aid in the mastery of a wide range of topics, spanning from fraud and abuse to public health, hospital governance to human subject research, antitrust to medical aid in dying, and beyond. It offers questions regarding the Affordable Care Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and recent Supreme Court cases. In total, this study aid features over 250 multiple-choice and short-answer questions, arranged by topic for easy use. The text includes detailed answers to each of the questions, highlighting not only the correct answer but also the reasoning as to why the other responses are not correct, so that you develop a more complete understanding.

Featured Database

Bloomberg Law Health Law Practice Center

This Bloomberg Law practice center provides access to health law news, case law, statutes, regulations, analysis, and practice tools, as well as access to Bloomberg Law's legal analysis and practical guidance from expert legal practitioners.

Featured Guide

Health Law Guide

This guide provides a general overview of health law. It covers locating articles, treatises, statutory law, administrative materials, agency publications, legislative histories and websites of interest.

Featured Treatise

Health Care Law

Available on Lexis, this treatise covers the entire spectrum of legal issues affecting health care law practice, serving as a primary reference work and authority. Leading figures in their fields discuss the broad range of concerns of health care law practitioners today, such as: Corporate and administrative issues; Health care payment systems and HIPAA; Relationship of individuals to health care organizations; Reimbursement and payment; Financial issues; Liability; Patients' rights; and Mental health law.

Featured Video

Public Health Law Past and Present

Through the use of laws and policies, public health practitioners of the 19th and 20th centuries eliminated or greatly reduced the incidence of diseases like tuberculosis, dysentery, and cholera in the United States. Their legacy of using legal tools to ensure the health and well-being of people and their communities continues today.

Laws and policies stop the spread of communicable disease, ensure that our food is safe for consumption, establish guidelines and codes for safe housing, and much more. Equally important, however, are our civil liberties. Public health officials and policymakers—those responsible for designing, implementing, and enforcing these policies—must always take into account the rights of affected individuals.

This free Public Health Law Academy training was created by ChangeLab Solutions and supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For more resources on this topic and additional trainings, please visit Public Health Law Academy.

Featured Website

US Dept. of Health & Human Services

The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month

October National Domestic Violence Month with a purple ribbon and a woman with defensive hands up that have stop the violence written on her palms

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Begun in 1981 by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, it is a Day of Unity to connect battered women’s advocates across the country. In 1989 Congress passed Public Law 101-112 declaring the month of October to be Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This year's theme is Heal, Hold & Center.

University of Cincinnati Help for Student Victims & Student Survivors

This website is designed to provide resources for victims or survivors of sexual harassment, including sexual assault, dating or domestic violence, gender-based harassment, or stalking. Staff are available 24-hours a day for confidential advice and assistance. Even if you are unsure what to do, call Counseling and Psychological Services at 513-556-0648 and you will be connected with a confidential counselor who will listen to you and help guide you as you figure out what you want to do next. There are a variety of resources to support you and help provide the assistance and services you need.

University of Cincinnati College of Law Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic

Law students can gain hands-on experience as you learn how to provide holistic legal services to survivors of domestic violence. At the Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic, you’ll work alongside clinic staff to learn every aspect of civil practice, from initial interviews through advocacy.

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month


October is also National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Cybersecurity Awareness Month was launched by the National Cyber Security Alliance & the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in October 2004. Starting in 2023 with the launch of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency’s cybersecurity awareness program, Secure Our World is the enduring Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme. This theme recognizes the importance of taking daily action to reduce risks when online and using connected to devices.

Keeping Health Data Safe

  • App with care!
    • Only download from trusted sources and immediately configure privacy and security settings.
  • Make health portal passphrases unique and strong
  • Use 2-Factor authentication on insurance, health portals, and financial accounts
  • Shred paper documentation containing health information
  • Wearable tech is watching!
  • Share with care
    • Public chat forums and boards on medical subjects are not private and secure

Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month

Miniature flags representing Hispanic Nations

Photo by Texas Military Department, CC BY-ND 2.0

Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 to October 15 and celebrates the contributions and importance of Hispanics and Latinos to the United States and those American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. This year’s theme is "Pioneers of Change: Shaping the Future Together."

UC Celebrations & Events

UC Alumni Association Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

The UC Alumni Association proudly joins with our Hispanic and Latino Bearcats to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15. The full UC success story cannot be told, and would not be so inspiring, without the great contributions of our Hispanic and Latino alumni and students.

UCBA Hispanic Heritage Month Display

Browse the online guide of suggested reads!

Poet Laureate: Manuel Iris
Sept. 30, 2024
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Blue Ash Muntz 119 Lobby

Manuel Iris is a Mexican-born American Poet, writer, and educator. He was the poet laureate of the city of Cincinnati Ohio, from 2018 to 2020. In 2021he was inducted into the national system of art creators of Mexico, in the discipline of poetry. He has published ten collections of poems in Spanish and English. Books by the poet will be raffled off during the event ;participants can receive raffle tickets in the auditorium lobby.

Dorores Film + Discussion

Oct. 1, 2024
4:00pm - 6:00pm
7th Floor Student Lounge at the Steger Student Life Center

Join the Women's Center and Ethnic Programs and Services to watch and discuss the documentary, Dolores, about Dolores Huerta, one of the most important, yet least known activists of our time. We'll have popcorn, snacks and plenty of community as we discuss the roles women often juggle as wives, mothers, activists, and advocates for social justice.

Dolores Huerta was an equal partner in founding the United Farm Workers, the first farm workers union with César Chávez. Tirelessly leading the fight for racial and labor justice, Huerta evolved into one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century — and she continues the fight to this day, in her late 80s. Yet she also faced criticism for defying traditional gender roles, organizing tirelessly and advocating publicly for justice while also as a wife and mother.

Featuring interviews with Gloria Steinem, Luis Valdez, Angela Davis, her children and more, Dolores is an intimate and inspiring portrait of a passionate champion of the oppressed and an indomitable woman willing to accept the personal sacrifices involved in committing one’s life to social change.

5 Resources to Learn More about Hispanic Heritage

Library of Congress, A Latinx Resource Guide: Civil Rights Cases and Events in the United States

This research guide from the Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress focuses on 20th and 21st century court cases, legislation, and events that had important impacts on civil rights in Chicana/o/x, Hispanic, Latina/o/x, Mexican-American, and Puerto Rican communities the United States. Each page provides an overview and timeline of a civil rights topic and some breadth of research material for further study at the Library of Congress or your local library. The facts presented draw from Library of Congress materials and external sources listed.

The first of its kind, this comprehensive online compendium of Civil Rights resources includes references to search and seizure, legal representation, self-incrimination, immigration, medical care, and equal access to educational resources. The Hispanic Reading Room will link this guide to webinar and podcast content in which scholars and community members help contextualize these court cases, legislation, and events. Since civil rights events are ongoing in Latinx communities, these references aim to connect the past with the present.

Library of Congress, Latinx Studies: Library of Congress Resources

This guide highlights resources part of the Library of Congress collections related to the history, cultures, literature, politics, experiences, and performing arts of the Latinx community in the United States. In this guide you will find links to primary sources through a curated list of collections organized by format, electronic databases to locate journals and scholarly articles, and a bibliography with links to search the Library of Congress Online Catalog.

National Archives, Hispanic / Latino Heritage Records

View records in the National Archives that are related to Hispanic heritage. Topics include entertainment, sports, arts & culture, prominent Hispanic Americans, and Hispanic and Latino issues in the United States.

National Archives, Records of Rights

The Records of Rights exhibition is a permanent exhibition documenting the ongoing struggles of Americans to define, attain, and protect their rights. Sections related to Hispanic heritage include:

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino "¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States"

Reexamine what you know about U.S. history by learning more about Latino identity, immigration, historical legacies, and how Latinas and Latinos have shaped the nation. Listen to first-person oral histories, examine 3D objects, dive into historical biographies, and explore some of the objects found in the exhibition to see how the past relates to the present.

Posted Sept. 30, 2024 by Susan Boland

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