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Sitting for the bar exam this week? Tired of reviewing doctrine, but still looking for something to get you in the right head space before the big days? Check out our new title, Bar Exam Success: A Comprehensive Guide by Sara J. Berman. Bar Exam Success has lots to offer! It will teach you how to develop a plan for success, find and use quality expert help, maximize your schedule for productivity, prepare with practice tests, eliminate distractions and embrace success, and more. No time for all of that reading? Check out the “handy tips for bar days” at the end of Chapter 9. There, you’ll find ten quick test-taking tips specific to each of essays, MBEs, and MPTs. Whether you need some last minute tips before this week’s exam or are looking to get a head start on July’s, Bar Exam Success is an excellent resource now available on the new books shelf. To those sitting for the bar this week, BEST OF LUCK from all of us at the O’Quinn Law Library!

The ABA's State and Local Government Law Section has recently published the fourth edition of America Votes!: Challenges to Modern  Election Law and Voting Rights , which is now in the library's collection on the new title's shelf ( KF4886.A86 ). The twenty-one chapter book is edited by Benjamin E. Griffith and John Hardin Young , and is separated into five parts. Each chapter is authored by attorneys or legal scholars who are experts in the field. The first part, "Voter Qualification and Participation," begins with a discussion of immigration, citizenship, and the 2020 census, the connection between Florida felon re-enfranchisement law and poverty, strict construction of voter registration laws (Georgia's 2018 election experience), Native American voting rights, millennials and electoral access in 2018-2020, and a holistic approach to assisting minority language voters. The second part covers the voting process and explores topics such as voter ID laws, ...