The South Dakota Law Review Symposium - Asset Protection and Trust Innovations

The South Dakota Law Review will hold its annual symposium tomorrow, April 1st. This year's topic "Asset Protection and Trust Innovations: South Dakota’s Role in Paving the Way for Innovations Nationwide" will feature keynote speaker, Jay Adkisson of Riser Adkisson LLP. Additionally there will be a "Hot Topics" panel and "Asset Protection" panel featuring practitioners and professors from across the nation.

Events start at 9 a.m. and will conclude at 5:30 p.m. For more information and further reading, you can check out our LibGuide here.

NALSA Symposium Tomorrow!

The 14th Biennial Indian Law Symposium will be held March 30 and 31. This year's topic is ICWA: Old and New Challenges. For this symposium, the McKusick Law Library has created a LibGuide for you that includes the schedule, some additional materials about or relating to the Indian Child Welfare Act, and materials from the Dillon Lecture and past symposiums. You can check it out here. We also have a small display featured in our Native American Collection providing easy access to materials on ICWA.

And as always, if you have any questions or would like more information, feel free to visit us up at the Circulation/Reference Desk!

Judicial Voices Project

As many of you know, today at the Law School Courtroom a panel discussion on the "Judicial Voices Project" was held. We here at the Law Library would like to remind you all of website celebrating the South Dakota Supreme Court's 125th Anniversary. The purpose of this oral history archive is to capture a "snapshot" of the South Dakota Supreme Court on this occasion for future generations.

Judge Mildred Ramynke via Judicial Voices Project

Included you'll find oral histories of past and present members of the Court, staff, and practicing attorneys. There is also a timeline, photos, and documents to complement these primary sources. Be sure to check out the Digital Library of South Dakota too!

October in the Law Library

So it Begins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Welcome returning students and class of 2018! As summer draws to close and the fall 2015 semester begins, the McKusick Law Library wants to help you start out the new semester with a bang. To this end, we are showcasing some of our services, tools, and study aids throughout the library. The lower level features a display offering information on study aids for 1L courses. On the main floor you'll find titles covering academic success and study tips for Law School students.

Be sure to check out the Law Library's LibGuides as well! Curated by our Law Librarians, these guides provide additional research assistance and resources to help you reign triumphant over the first semester of the school year. And of course, always come see your librarians with any questions and/or suggestions. 

Again, welcome! We look forward to meeting you, and assisting you with your information and legal research needs. 

LibGuide and Display to Accompany Thurgood Marshall Lecture to be Held April 14

This year, the USD School of Law/BLSA Thurgood Marshall Lecture will be held on April 14, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. in the Law School Courtroom.  This year's speaker is Judge Curtis L. Collier, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee.  The title of Judge Collier's lecture is "The Lawyer: A Force for Change in Society."  The Law Library has updated its Thurgood Marshall Lecture LibGuide to include additional information on Judge Collier.  The LibGuide, available here, also features additional reading information about Thurgood Marshall, including his personal life and career, his Supreme Court jurisprudence, and his lasting impact on American civil rights and constitutional law. 

The Law Library is also featuring a display which includes many of the titles and articles included in the LibGuide, such as:

Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary / by Juan Williams

Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 / by Mark V. Tushnet

Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991 / by Mark V. Tushnet

Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings - Thurgood Marshall / J. Clay Smith, editor

Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall / Carl Thomas Rowan

New LibGuides and Display: 3rd Annual OUTlaws Lavender Lecture and USD Law Review Symposium: "Many Voices: A Discussion of LGBTQ Marriage Rights and Transgender Rights"

The University of South Dakota Law Review annual symposium will be held this Friday, March 27 in the School of Law Courtroom, beginning at 10:00 a.m..  This year's theme is Many Voices: A Discussion of LGBTQ Marriage Rights and Transgender Rights.  The three symposium panels will feature legal scholars, professors and practitioners who have written from both sides of the debate.

The 3rd Annual OUTlaws Lavender Lecture will be held the evening prior to the symposium, Thursday, March 26 at 5:30 p.m., also in the Law School Courtroom.  This year's lecture will feature Professor Ryan Scott, who teaches at Indiana University Maurer School of Law.  Professor Scott's presentation will elaborate on the unsuccessful uses of the "gay/trans" panic defense and a recent ABA resolution which might lessen the effectiveness and use of the defense.

The Law Library has prepared a display to accompany the lecture and symposium.  The Law Library has also published a LibGuide to accompany the Lavender Lecture available here, and a LibGuide to accompany the symposium, available here.  The display and LibGuides offer additional information about the presenters and their publications as well as other information and resources relevant to the lecture/symposium topics.

For more information, see the official USD press release for the Lavender Lecture and Law Review Symposium here. 

South Dakota State Bar Law School Committee Visit is Today, March 27

The South Dakota State Bar Law School Committee will be visiting the Law School on March 27, 2014.  For more information on the Law School Committee, please see here for the State Bar's committee roster.  The members of the Law School Committee are listed at page 3.

All Law School students are reminded that an Open Comment session will be held in the Courtroom at 12:45 p.m.  Law School students are encouraged to attend.

South Dakota Supreme Court To Hold March Term of Court at Law School - Library Display and Resources

The University of South Dakota Law School welcomes the South Dakota Supreme Court, which will hold their March Term of Court at the Law School March 24 to March 26.  The official press release is available here, which discusses the cases that will be heard during the Term.  Additionally, the press release includes the link to the Court's Current Term of Court Calendar (also available by clicking here), which provides additional information about each of the cases as well as options for downloading the related briefs. 

The McKusick Law Library is also featuring a display which provides the case schedule, as well as print copies of the briefs associated with each of the cases (an additional copy of each brief is also available in the Reserve Room).  The display also offers biographical information about each of the Supreme Court Justices, available from the UJS website, as well as a print copy of the Photographic History of the South Dakota Supreme Court, also available electronically here. 

Furthermore, the display includes a print copy of the March Term of Court Booklet, which provides official case summaries as well as important information on Supreme Court process and courtroom protocol.

Suggested Reading from Gunderson Lecture

On Monday, October 28, Robert Keatinge presented the 2013 Clark Y. Gunderson Lecture at the Law School.  Held annually as a lecture or symposium with the support from the University of South Dakota Foundation, the Gunderson Lecture is the Law School's preeminent lecture honoring Clark Y. Gunderson, a USD School of Law faculty member from 1934 to 1963.  Robert Keatinge is an attorney of counsel with the law firm of Holland & Hart, LLP in Denver, CO and practices in the areas of business organizations, taxation, and professional responsibility.  He has also taught at the University of Denver College of Law, Suffolk University School of Law and the University of Miami School of Law.  The title of Keatinge's lecture was "There is No Right Answer to the Wrong Question: Whither the Law?" To accompany the presentation, Keatinge provided a list of books for recommended reading.  Available in the McKusick Law Library are the following titles:

Sol Linowitz, The Betrayed Profession (2003)

Richard Susskind, The Future of Law (1996)

Richard Susskind, Transforming the Law (2003)

These titles are currently featured in a library display, and are available for checkout.
In addition to these titles, the following titles were also on Keatinge's recommended reading list:

Richard Susskind, Tomorrow's Lawyers (2013)

Richard Susskind, The End of Lawyers (2010)

Brian Tamanaha, Failing Law Schoools (2012)

Bruce MacEwen (President of Adam Smith, Esq.), Growth is Dead, Now What?: Law Firms on the Brink, an Inquiry Into the Economics of Law Firms (2013)

Steven J. Harper, The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis (2012)

(This entry was originally written and posted by Sarah Kammer)

Dakota Days - Legal Research CLE

Darla Jackson and Marsha Stacey will be co-presenting a Continuing Legal Education program titled “Conducting Free, Low Cost, and Other Electronic Legal Research” from 3:00 - 4:30PM on October 4, 2013 (during Dakota Days) at USD Law School Room 102. Attendance at the program is free to all who are interested in improving their legal research skills. Registration is requested but not required.

Additional details regarding the program and registration are available via the September 2013 issue of the State Bar of South Dakota Newsletter at page 30.

(This entry was originally written and posted by Darla Jackson)

Upcoming Presentation on Tribal/State Relations and Library Display

On Thursday, September 19 at 3:00 p.m., the USD Native American Law Student Association and the USD School of Law are hosting a presentation by P. Sam Deloria, board member of the American Indian Graduate Center, Albuquerque, NM.  Deloria will speak on Tribal/State Relations in the Law School Courtroom.  After Mr. Deloria's presentation, there will be a discussion panel with other experts in the area, including Professor Frank Pommersheim of USD Law, J.R. LaPlante, director of the South Dakota Department of Tribal Relations, and Philip Mahowald, general counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota.  Both LaPlante and Mahowald are graduates of the USD School of Law.

To accompany the presentation, the law library is currently featuring a display which features a recent article by Tasse Hanna, Sam Deloria, and Charles E. Trimble, The Commission on State-Tribal Relations: Enduring Lessons in the Modern State-Tribal Relationship, 47 Tulsa L. Rev. 553 (2011-2012).  The display also features print titles on tribal/state relations, as well as information on the South Dakota Department of Tribal Relations website and resources.

(This entry was originally written and posted by Sarah Kammer)

Constitution Day is September 17

Constitution Day, September 17, was established by Congress in 2004 to recognize the ratification of the United States Constitution.  The Constitution was signed by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787.  The law library is currently featuring a display that includes several titles which focus on the history of the Constitution.  The display also offers information on USD's Constitution Day program, which this year features Law Professor Frank Pommersheim.  Professor Pommersheim, a nationally-recognized expert in Indian law, will be speaking in the Law School Courtroom at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, September 17.  The title of Professor Pommersheim's address is “Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution” which is also the title of his recent book, featured in the law library's display.  The display also offers biographical information about Professor Pommersheim as well as copies of recent articles he has published in the South Dakota Law Review.  The Constitution Day program is free and open to the public, and students and professors alike are encouraged to attend.  To link to the official USD press release about the program, click here.

(This entry was originally written and posted by Sarah Kammer)

May, Adam, Gerdes, Thompson Writing Competition

May, Adam, Gerdes, Thompson Writing Competition for 2013 has announced the winners of this years writing competition. The first place winner, carrying a $400 prize, is Andrew Twinamatsiko for his paper on the Government-Speech Doctrine. The second-place winner with a $200 prize is Aaron Pilcher, who examined the solar power industry. Recipient of the third-place $100 award is Kelsea K. Sutton, whose paper focuses on antitrust issues in the meat packing industry.

Two of the winners have worked in the Law Library. Aaron Pilcher has worked as a student library assistant for the past two years and Andrew Twinamatiko worked as a student library assistant for one year.

The competition is unique in that it allows the students to have their papers read and scored by judges and attorneys from throughout the state. The judges for the competition are as follows:
David Gerdes, Chair, May, Adam, Gerdes & Thompson LLP — Pierre
Timothy M. Gebhart, Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP — Sioux Falls
Tara L. Glasford, Adj. Prof., Bus. Admin., University Center/DSU — Sioux Falls
Melissa E. Neville, Bantz, Gosch & Cremer, LLC — Aberdeen
Doug Hoffman, Judge, 2nd Judicial Circuit — Sioux Falls
Jane Pfeifle, Lynn, Jackson, Shultz & Lebrun, PC — Rapid City
Justin Bell, May, Adam, Gerdes & Thompson LLP — Pierre

(This entry was originally written and posted by Candice Spurlin)

50 Years Since Gideon v. Wainwright

Monday, March 18, marked the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case which established the right to state-funded counsel in criminal cases for defendants who cannot afford an attorney on their own.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the case, the South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association and the South Dakota Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers will be presenting a reenactment of the trial on Tuesday, April 2 at 6:30 p.m. in the Law School Courtroom.

Click here for a copy of the Court's opinion, available via Google Scholar.

For further information, consider the following titles available in the McKusick Law Library:

Gideon’s Trumpet / by Anthony Lewis

Gideon’s Trumpet (video) / directed by Robert Collins

Gideon’s Broken Promise: America’s Continuing Quest for Equal Justice: A Report on the American Bar Association’s Hearings on the Right to Counsel in Criminal Proceedings / American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants

Justice Denied: America’s Continuing Neglect of Our Constitutional Right to Counsel: Report / National Right to Counsel Committee

Public Defenders: Pragmatic and Political Motivations to Represent the Indigent / by Michael Scott Weiss

(This entry was originally written and posted by Sarah Kammer) 

South Dakota Supreme Court Display

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, March 18-20, the South Dakota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in eight cases in the Courtroom at the USD School of Law. The Law Library's current display on the Court features portraits and biographies of the five Supreme Court Justices, a Photographic History of the South Dakota Supreme Court as commissioned by the Supreme Court Centennial Committee, a list of proper Courtoom Protocol, and a schedule of the cases in which arguments will be heard. For more information on the South Dakota Supreme Court, visit the Court's website.

(This entry was originally written and posted by Marsha Stacey)

Briefs filed in South Dakota Supreme Court cases available in Law Library Reserve Room

On March 18, 19 and 20, the South Dakota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in nine cases. The dates, times and case summaries for each of the arguments are found on the Law School website. In addition, the briefs filed by the attorneys in these cases are available in the Law Library's Reserve Room by circulation/reference desk at the east entrance to the Law School. You are welcome to read the briefs in the Reserve Room or check out a brief for up to three hours. When checking out a brief, please sign your name and state the name of the case on the sign-out sheet.

Did you know? The Law Library also has print copies of the briefs filed in most of the cases before the South Dakota Supreme Court from 1949 to the present. For more information, ask one of our librarians.

(This entry was originally written and posted by Marsha Stacey)

American Bar Association Accreditation Visit to USD School of Law

As you may be aware, the American Bar Association accreditation visit to the USD School of Law is scheduled for February 2013. You can learn more about the ABA accreditation process and the USD visit by reviewing the LibGuide prepared by the USD Law Library staff at http://libguides.law.usd.edu/aecontent.php?pid=414936&sid=3391753.

(This entry was originally written and posted by Darla Jackson)

USD Law Team Wins International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology & Privacy Law

Congratulations to 2L Christopher Dabney and 3L Kara Frankman, winners of the International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology & Privacy Law held October 25-27, 2012 at the John Marshall School of Law in Chicago. The team also received an award for the best respondent’s brief. To link to the University's press release, Click Here.

(This entry was originally written and posted by Sarah Kammer)

Congratulations to the Winners of the Intra-School Negotiation Competition

This past weekend, the USD Law ADR Board hosted the the 1L Intra-School Negotiation Competition. The final round matched the team of Ashlee Wendt and Melissa Knight against Tony Teesdale and James Shanor, with the Wendt/Knight team emerging as the victors. Congrats to Ashlee and Melissa!

For those interested in learning more about legal negotiation and alternative dispute resolution, the law library has a variety of resources available.

To view the library's titles on alternative dispute resolution, Click Here.

To view the library's titles on negotiation, Click Here.

(This entry was originally written and posted by Sarah Kammer)