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Read moreGeography and the Law: Identifying Legal Deserts with GIS Mapping Tools
In 2016, during Geography Awareness Week, Ex Libris Juris featured a brief discussion of GIS mapping technology and its applications for understanding Access to Justice (A2J). In the years since, opportunities for GIS data analysis in the A2J community have only grown. Today, November 20, is GIS Day, the perfect time to highlight additional uses of GIS software for analysis of datasets relevant to law. An assortment of GIS applications for legal contexts are mentioned in the list below, alongside two additional short compilations—a sampling of StoryMaps and a beginner’s collection of mapping tools for your own GIS projects.
Read moreThe Heimlich Maneuver at 50
To mark the 50-year milestone of the Heimlich Maneuver’s introduction, and to recognize the legacy of Dr. Henry Heimlich himself, we at the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library are sharing resources. Read more to learn about the Good Samaritan Law in Texas, restaurant liability for choking incidents, and other related issues at the intersection of public health, safety, and law, including the debate surrounding Heimlich’s technique and what the Red Cross currently recommends when administering aid in choking incidents.
Read more70 Years Toward Equality: A Look Back at Brown v. Board of Education
The case summary cards displayed in this post were extracted from an exhibit, held in the Hainsworth Law Library, on the occasion of Brown’s 65th anniversary in 2019, providing library visitors with an opportunity to “visually experience the journey of the precedent in Brown v. Board of Education as it traveled ‘with all deliberate speed’ through federal and Texas jurisprudence, including the 48 years separating the first federal district opinion and the opinion finally declaring Topeka’s schools to be desegregated.”
Read moreDig It! Trees and the Law
This blog post was originally published on April 24, 2020, and was last updated on April 25, 2024.
Today is Arbor Day, a national event held annually on the last Friday in April, and earlier in the week, on April 22, we celebrated Earth Day. In recognition of these twin occasions, we at the Hainsworth Law Library have compiled a brief list of resources about trees and the law.
Image credit: https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b48810/
Do you specialize in an unusual branch of the law? Or does the law leave you stumped? What exactly is the root of your legal concern? On this Arbor Day, leave it to us at the Hainsworth Law Library to answer your questions with the following resources:
Legal Disputes Concerning Trees: A Beginner’s Guide (Library of Congress)
Neighbor Law: Trees (State Law Library of Texas)
Tree Disputes with Neighbors FAQ (Nolo Legal Encyclopedia)
Tree Law is a Gnarly, Twisted Branch of the Legal System (Atlas Obscura)
From the Harris County Law Library collection:
Additional tree-related links of interest:
