Legal citation is very specific, and citation managers have not been built to deal with lawyers’ needs. So why bother using a citation manager at all? Wouldn’t lawyers be better off referencing manually?
Should lawyers use a citation manager?
Book of the Week: “Capitalism: a conversation in critical theory” by Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi
In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as “capitalism”, upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique.
They show how, throughout its history, various regimes of capitalism have relied on a series of institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproduction, and human and non-human nature, periodically readjusting the boundaries between these domains in response to crises and upheavals. They consider how these “boundary struggles” offer a key to understanding capitalism’s contradictions and the multiple forms of conflict to which it gives rise.
Publisher: London : Polity, 2018
Call Number: 330.122 HEIA 122232
Nancy Fraser will be present at the Institute, on Thursday, 11 October, for a public lecture on democracy’s crisis and the political contradictions of financialised capitalism.
Tear down this (pay)wall!
The most frequent question asked at the reference desk (beyond the unsurprising “Where are the toilets?”) is “Help! I can’t access this article I need!”. Catherine Brendow gives you some tips on the best (legal) ways to get access to paywalled articles.
Finding your course readings
Welcome, new students! As a new academic year is starting, you might be wondering where to find the readings for your courses. Here are a few starting tips on finding documents in the Library and online.
Book of the Week: “Sex and secularism” by Joan Wallach Scott
Joan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history.
“Challenging the assertion that secularism has always been synonymous with equality between the sexes, Sex and Secularism reveals how this idea has been used to justify claims of white, Western, and Christian racial and religious superiority and has served to distract our attention from a persistent set of difficulties related to gender difference―ones shared by Western and non-Western cultures alike.”
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2018
Call Number: 305.3 HEIA 120474
Joan Wallach Scott will be present at the Institute, on Tuesday, 25 September, for the Opening lecture of the academic year, “Gender equality: why is it so difficult to achieve?”
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