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The Word Rittenberg
Newsletter of the St. John’s School of Law Rittenberg Law Library
January 2006 Vol. 1, No. 2 Co-Editors: Astrid Emel and Harry Linen
Meet the Editors
By Michael Hayes
Astrid Emel is the Rittenberg Law Library’s Circulation Librarian. She manages the
Circulation/Reserve Department and also does reference work. Astrid received both her
B.A. and M.L.S. degrees from St. John’s University. In addition, she has an interest in
preservation and is currently working with the Library’s collection of rare books. Astrid is
also a member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and the Law Library
Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY). This past summer she attended the AALL
Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX. Outside her professional career,
her passion is traveling; she vacationed in Thailand this past June, and
has traveled throughout Europe and Asia. Astrid can be reached at
emela@stjohns.edu, (718) 990- 6825 or by stopping by the desk.
By Rosemary LaSala
Harry Linen, the Co-Editor of The Word @ Rittenberg, is a 2005
graduate of St. John’s The Peter J. Tobin School of Business with
a degree in marketing. Harry is pursuing his M.B.A. in Marketing
Management and hopes to ultimately establish his own marketing firm. A fixture at the
Rittenberg Law Library, Harry was a student worker at the Circulation/Reserve Desk
from 2001 until 2005. In February of 2005, Harry accepted a full-time position as a
Library Technical Assistant. His duties include, but are not limited to, assisting with the
day-to-day administration of the Circulation/Reserve Desk. He is also the person you
would speak to about fines and overdue items. Harry can be reached at
linenh@stjohns.edu, (718) 990-6825 or by stopping by the desk.
Library Instructional Services
PROFESSORS…reference librarians are available to conduct specialized and advanced
legal research instruction classes geared to your courses. Classes are highly recommended
for paper courses because they can introduce
students to materials and resources not covered
in first-year Legal Research and Writing. Classes
can be tailored around specific subject areas
or types of research. They can be held during
a regular class meeting time or at a time when
students are otherwise available. Tours of the
library can also be arranged in conjunction
with or in addition to specialized legal research
instruction. Contact Barbara Traub at
traubb@stjohns.edu, (718) 990-1668 or
any reference librarian to arrange a class.

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Continuing Legal Education
Program (CLE)
Librarians participate and teach classes in St. John’s Law
School CLE Program. The following topics were offered in
Spring 2005:
• New York Online Research
• The Ethical Aspects of Legal Research
• Selected Bibliography: Filling in the Gaps New York
Treatises, Practice Books, Formbooks and
Regulatory Material in Print
• Public Access to Free Government Information on
the Web
Look for these and other librarian-sponsored topics offered in
Spring 2006 at
http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/graduate/law/academics/cle/.
Did You Know?
You can access the law library’s databases from home! For a database such as
HeinOnline, just visit the law library’s home page at http://lawlibrary.stjohns.edu/.
• Select “Electronic Resources”
• Click on “HeinOnline”
• Enter your user name and password:
For faculty and staff: First seven letters of your last
name and first initial of your first name and the
password you use to log on to your e-mail account.
First-time users, use your eight-digit date of birth
For students: First four letters of your last name and
the last three digits of your social security number;
your password is the same one you use to log into
the computer lab. First-time users, use your eightdigit
StormCard ID number
For subscription databases such as Lexis and Westlaw, you will need a personal password.
For assistance, law faculty and students should contact Archer Boucard at (718) 990-6088 or
boucarda@stjohns.edu.
“Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of
ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without
delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.”
–Libraries
Rare Books Collection—
Preserving Legal History
The Rittenberg Law Library has a collection of historical
books dating back to 1565. The collection has legal New
York related material, Civil Rights titles, bankruptcy related
materials, legal classics from
Great Britain and items in
French and Latin. Many are
recognized legal
classics. Once
housed in
a designated
Rare Book Room
in the library, they
were moved to compact
storage in 2003.

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Check it Out!
Northwestern’s
Oyez Project
Interested in listening to Supreme Court
oral arguments?
Want a glimpse into John Roberts’ legal
career before he became Chief Justice?
Check out Northwestern University’s Oyez Project. Oyez
has made available over 2,000 hours of oral arguments in
MP3 format, free of charge. Project founder Jerry
Goldman, a political science professor at Northwestern,
first had the idea to bring together Supreme Court oral
arguments in 1989. According to Goldman, listening to
the oral arguments brings a greater understanding to the
nuances of a case.
Recently added to Oyez are select arguments of John
Roberts before the Supreme Court. You can even take a
virtual tour of Justice John Paul Stevens’ chambers and the
Supreme Court Library. The site also has biographies of all
the justices—although some are scant—that illuminate the
diverse judicial backgrounds and philosophies of all those
who have served on the Court. Look for this site to
continue to grow: Goldman hopes to make available all
of the 4,000 plus hours of taped oral arguments since
October 1955, the date when the Supreme Court first
used sound recordings.
Visit http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage for more
information.
This year they have been placed in a secure location in the library until a new
permanent home can be found. A new project has been initiated that includes
restoration of valuable titles and placing fragile books in phase boxes. Phase
boxes, also called slipcases, clamshell boxes and pull cases, are book containers
made of rigid archival materials to keep books tightly covered
and protected. By the end of 2006, all the books in
this collection will be in our online catalog. Some
books in this collection are already in our online
catalog, with the location listed as “Rare.” A list of
all the items in the collection can be accessed at the
Reference Desk.
Tax History Project
Interested in seeing the tax returns
of George W. Bush or Bill Clinton?
Already dreading April 15th— Tax Day—and want to
know the origins of American taxation?
Check out the Tax History Project from Tax Analysts.
The project began in 1995 as a public service initiative
to provide “scholars, policymakers, journalists and the
general public with information on the history of U.S.
public finance.”
See how the federal government handled taxation during
the Great Depression and World War II in the Price of
Civilization section. Or learn about the origin of the
income tax in the site’s virtual museum of American tax
history. And of course, check out the tax returns of
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Franklin
Roosevelt, among other presidents and vice presidents
who have made their tax returns public.
Visit http://www.taxhistory.org/ for more information.
“A library is not a luxury but one
of the necessities of life.”
–Henry Ward Beecher

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HeinOnline
HeinOnline, the most comprehensive historical legal database, has released new titles in the Law Journal Library and the Legal Classics
Library. Links for all the titles in the latest release of HeinOnline (nearly 88,000 pages) have been added to our online catalog.
You can gain access to all these titles by searching for them in our catalog http://lawlibrary.stjohns.edu/screens/idx_opac.html
or you can connect directly to HeinOnline at http://www.heinonline.org. There are 725 journals in the Law Journal Library and
more than 2,000 titles in the Legal Classics Library. Current volumes have been added to titles already available.
In instances where we own a paper copy in the Law Library, a link was simply added to the record in our online catalog. In
cases where we do not own the paper, you can link to the available volumes from our online catalog.
New Additions to HeinOnline's Legal Classics Library:
• Administrative Justice and the Supremacy of Law in the U.S. John Dickinson (1927)
• American Conveyancer George T. Curtis (1847)
• American Precedents of Declarations, Collected Chiefly from Manuscripts of
Chief Justice Parsons and Other Accomplished Pleaders in Massachusetts,
Digested and Arranged Under Distinct Titles and Divisions with a Prefixed
Digest of Rules and Cases Concerning Declarations John Anthon (1848)
• American Slave Code in Theory and Practice; Its Distinctive Features Shown
by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts William Goodell (1853)
• Bankruptcy in United States History Charles Warren (1935)
• Bench and Bar of Other Lands William L. Burdick (1939)
• Burge's Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws William Burge (1907-1914)
• Business — A Profession Louis D. Brandeis (1933)
• Chapters on Current International Law and the League of Nations John Fischer Williams (1929)
• Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian William S. Holdsworth (1929)
• Civil Code of the German Empire (1909)
• Code Napoleon Verbally Translated from the French Bryant Barrett (1811)
• Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in England
and America Joseph Story (1886)
• Commentaries on Equity Pleadings, and the Incidents Thereof, According
to the Practice of the Courts of Equity of England and America Joseph Story (1848)
• Commentaries on the Law of Bailments Joseph Story (1870)
• Commentaries on the Law of Statutory Crimes Joel Prentiss Bishop (1883)
• Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty Hugo Grotius (1950)
• Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development William Stubbs (1880-1884)
• Course of Legal Study; Respectfully Addressed to the Students of Law
in the United States David Hoffman (1846)
• De Foro Legatorum Liber Singularis. A Monograph on the Jurisdiction over
Ambassadors in Both Civil and Criminal Cases Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1946)
• De Jure et Officiis Bellicis et Disciplina Militari Libri III Balthazar Ayala (1912)
• De Jure Praedae Commentarius Hugo Grotius (1950)
• Dissertation on the Freedom of Navigation and Maritime Commerce, and
Such Rights of States, Relative Thereto, as Are Founded on the Law of Nations:
Adapted More Particularly to the United States; and Interspersed with Moral
and Political Reflections, and Historical Facts William Barton (1802)
• Drafting of the Covenant David Hunter Miller (1928)
• English Constitutional History Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
• Final Report of the Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure (1941)
• Forms in Chancery, Admiralty, and at Common Law; Adapted to the Practice
of the Federal and State Courts (1842)
• Foundations of Legal Liability-A Presentation of the Theory and Development of
the Common Law Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
• General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons and Movements in Continental
Legal History (1912)
• Growth of American Administrative Law Ernest Freund, et al. (1923)
• Henrici de Bracton de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (1878-1883)
• History of Continental Civil Procedure Arthur Engelmann (1927)
• History of Continental Criminal Law Carl Ludwig von Bar (1916)
• History of Continental Criminal Procedure with Special Reference to France A. Esmein (1913)
• History of French Private Law Jean Brissaud (1912)
• History of French Public Law Jean Brissaud (1915)

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• History of Germanic Private Law Rudolf Huebner (1918)
• History of Italian Law Carlo Calisse (1928)
• History of the Criminal Law of England James Fitzjames Stephen (1883)
• International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States Cheney Charles Hyde (1922)
• Intervention in International Law Ellery C. Stowell (1921)
• Law and Morals Roscoe Pound (1924)
• Law of Nations Considered as Independent Political Communities-On the Rights
and Duties of Nations in Time of Peace Travers Twiss (1884)
• Law of Quasi Contracts Frederic Campbell Woodward (1913)
• Legal Rights, Liabilities and Duties of Women Edward D. Mansfield (1845)
• Legislative and Documentary History of the Bank of the United States: Including
the Original Bank of North America M. St. Clair Clarke & D.A. Hall (1832)
• Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law - A Study in Medico-Sociological Jurisprudence Sheldon S. Glueck (1927)
• Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court 1862-1890 Charles Fairman (1939)
• Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Vols. 1-8, Supp. A, Supp B.,
Opinions and Judgment (1946-1948)
• Prize Law during the World War - A Study of the Jurisprudence of the Prize Courts James Wilford Garner (1927)
• Problems of the Roman Criminal Law James Leigh Strachan-Davidson (1912)
• Progress of Continental Law in the Nineteenth Century (1918)
• Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions
of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F. A. Sandford Benjamin C. Howard (1857)
• Restraints on the Alienation of Property John Chipman Gray (1895)
• Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies Luther S. Cushing(1914)
• Science of International Law Thomas Alfred Walker (1893)
• Seidman's Legislative History of Federal Income Tax Laws 1938-1861 J.S.Seidman(1938)
• Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions, with Occasional Annotations Joseph Story(1829)
• Selections from Three Works of Francisco Suarez (1944)
• Studies in Comparative Jurisprudence and the Conflict of Laws George Merrill (1886)
• Study of Mutual Funds (1962)
• Three Books On the Law of War and on the Duties Connected with
War and on Military Discipline Balthazar Ayala (1912)
• Tractatus De Bello, De Represaliis et de Duello Giovanni da Legnano (1917)
• Treaties and Conventions Concluded between the United States of America
and other Powers (1873, 1889)
• Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States Francis Wharton (1857)
• Treatise on the Law of Agency Floyd R. Mechem (1914)
• Treatise on the Law of Fire and Life Insurance Joseph K. Angell (1855)
• Treatise on the Law of Real Property Alfred G. Reeves (1909)
• Treatise on the Specific Performance of Contracts John Norton Pomeroy (1926)
• Works of the Honorable James Wilson James Wilson (1804)
New Journals Added to HeinOnline's Law Journal Library:
• Arab Law Quarterly Vols. 1-15 (1985-2000)
• Bench and Bar Vols. 1-28,1-14,43 (1905-1920)
• Business Law Journal Vols. 1-19 (1923-1932)
• Cleveland State Law Review Vols. 1-52 (1952-2005)
• Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Vols. 1-14 (1991-2005)
• Federal Reserve Bulletin Vols. 66-90 (1980-2004)
• Florida State University Law Review Vols. 1-31 (1973-2004)
• Human Rights Law Review Vols. 1-2 (2001-2002)
• International Financial Law Review 2003-2004
• International Tax Review Vols. 1-14 (1989-2003)
• Journal of Intellectual Property Law Vols. 1-10 (1993-2003)
• Journal of Law & Education Vols. 1-33 (1972-2004)
• Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence Vols. 1-22 (1844-1855)
• Managing Intellectual Property 2002-2004
• Maryland Law Review Vols. 1-2 (1901-1903)
• Monthly Labor Review Vols. 103-127 (1980-2004)
• Social Security Bulletin Vols. 43-65 (1980-2004)
• The Trademark Reporter Vols. 1-93 (1911-2003)
Note: HeinOnline Cataloging Aid catalogs this title as Trade-mark Reporter
• Uniform Law Review Vols. 1-8 (1996-2003)
• Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics Vols. 1-3 (2002-2003)

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Calendar of Hours and Events
Winter/Spring 2006 Hours:
January 3 - January 8 Monday – Thursday 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Friday 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday noon - 8 p.m.
January 9 - April 21 Monday – Thursday 8 a.m. - midnight
Friday 8 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Sunday noon - 11 p.m.
April 22 - May 11 Monday – Friday 8 a.m. - 1 a.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. - 1 a.m.
Sunday 10 a.m. -1 a.m.
April 22 - May 11 Final Examination Period.
Access limited to St. John’s Law students and staff.
May 12 Friday 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.
May 13 Saturday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
May 14 Sunday noon – 8 p.m.
Special hours will be posted for the following holidays and recesses:
January 16 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
February 20 Presidents’ Day
April 12-17 Easter Recess
Note: This schedule was prepared for early publication and may be subject to change. Remember
the library’s hours are always subject to changes due to weather, student’s needs and changes in
the law school’s Academic Calendar.
Special Library Features
January – Visit the first floor of the library to see highlights of the Ron Brown Civil
Rights Collection.
February – The library will feature items about presidents and presidential documents.
March – Federal Government Information month. Visit the library to learn more about
our Federal Depository Program.
April 2-8 – National Library Week. Stop by to see a display about libraries.
May – Taking a legal history course? Visit the library’s display which will contain
materials that can be used for research for the Fall 2006 Legal History Topic.
Information Technology
Hours of Operation:
Monday–Thursday: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Fridays: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Contact Information:
Kasra Hafezi
IT Director
(718) 990-5868
hafezik@stjohns.edu
Information Technology
IT Hotline (718) 990-1430
lawhelpdesk@stjohns.edu
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Fun Corner
Q. When was the Rittenbery
Law Library opened?
A. 1994
Q. How much shelf space is
available?
A. 46,729 linear feet
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Q. How many hours a week is
the library open?
A. Over 99 hours per week
Submissions
to The Word @ Rittenberg
can be submitted by e-mail to:
Astrid Emel
emela@stjohns.edu
Harry Linen
linenh@stjohns.edu