fun at the library

One of the things I've come to love about being a college student is that I have unlimited free access on campus to Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Academic Universe is a stripped-down version of Lexis. It doesn't have all the fancy features that Lexis does, but it does give me access to all the cases, which is what's most important. I spent several hours between classes today researching a particular question of how American courts have dealt with Muslim family law. The fruit of my efforts is a new series of posts at The Niqabi Paralegal about Muslim marriage contracts and the dower. While I was at it, I also found some interesting law journal articles written by Muslims dealing with such topics as whether imams (Muslim prayer leaders) should have a clergy-pentitent privilege and how Muslims and other religious people can work as public defenders. I love research. That's why I'm going into the legal field.