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Google's Entry Into Legal Research Changes The Game
Posted on November 19, 2009Bob Berring's recent video comments regarding the relative merits of free online legal information from the government and open-access initiatives, apparently generated a lot of very defensive comments from supporters of the work of those open-access organizations...
Jewish Judges Association Presents Awards To Justice Anne M. Burke and Justice Warren D. Wolfson
Posted on November 16, 2009Each year at it's Award Dinner, the Jewish Judges Association of Illinois , presents the "Seymour Simon Justice Award" and "Lifetime Achievement Award" to worthy recipients. Our own Associate Dean Rubin, informed us that last night the Association at it's...
Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibits at The Newberry Library
Posted on November 11, 2009In commemoration of the 200th birthday of America?s sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln,the Newberry Library is hosting the exhibit,"Honest Abe of the West". The exhibit focuses on his career as an attorney in Springfield and as a dedicated leader of the...
Jim Lyons, 1971 DePaul Law Grad Named An Honorary Consul For Ireland
Posted on November 10, 2009Mr. James M. Lyons, a 1971 law graduate of the DePaul Law School and member of the DePaul University College of Law Dean's Council, has been named as an Honorary Consul For Ireland in the Denver area. He will join...
Pioneering DePaul Law School Graduate, Anne M. Sullivan, Dies at 99
Posted on November 06, 2009When Anne Chawk ( Mrs. Anne Sullivan) was born in 1910 there were still numerous horse and buggies on the roads and very few female lawyers in practice. Working her way through school she was only one of five female...
U.S. Courts Provide Helpful Consumer Videos On Bankruptcy
Posted on November 06, 2009Difficult economic conditions have placed many consumers in circumstances in which they may be considering filing for bankruptcy as a way to deal with their excessive debts.Such consumers can find authoritative and understandable guidance on this process, from nine videos...
Prosecutors Unwilling To Learn From Students ?
Posted on November 05, 2009At the web site of the Medill Innocence Project mentioned in the previous posting, David Protess of the project states that "Prosecutors sought the death penalty -- execution by lethal injection. Instead, Judge Richard Samuels sentenced Anthony to natural life...
State's Attorney Seeks Multitude of Documents from NU Innocence Project
Posted on October 22, 2009The Innocence Project at Northwestern University helped to uncover evidence that they claim proves the innocence of a Harvey, Illinois, man who is accused of killing a security guard in 1978. The Cook County state's attorney in turn has subpoenaed...
Professor Bassiouni Quoted Regarding Goldstone Gaza Conflict Report
Posted on October 19, 2009This past Friday The U.N. Human Rights Council voted to endorse a Gaza war crimes report that calls on Israel and Hamas to carry out credible investigations into alleged abuses. If viable domestic investigations do not eventually take place, the...
Tools For Saving Web Pages & Digital Docs
Posted on October 14, 2009A posting last month on the DePaul iddblog (Instructional Design & Development) by Melissa Koenig, "Two Tools For Finding Old Web Pages", got me looking to see if there were other such tools lurking in cyberspace. Her post identified the...
Professor Ottley Speaks on Post-Conflict Justice & Alien Torts Claims Act
Posted on October 07, 2009Panel on "Perils of Preventative Law Enforcement"
Posted on October 07, 2009For more information on this event, contact Dr. Laura Kunard at 312.201.5900 x219 or IPSSJ@adler.edu
Federal Register Made Available in ?XML? ?..So ?
Posted on October 06, 2009The White House Blog announced on October 5 that the Government Printing Office (GPO) is making ten years of the Federal Register available in what is called XML format. Future funding will allow making the remaining issues from 1994 ?...
Bloated & Outdated Browser Bookmarks ? - ?CheckPlaces? a Firefox Add-On to the Rescue!
Posted on October 05, 2009Over the years,as my browser file of bookmarks grew to almost unmanageable proportions, I wondered why no one had developed some software to automatically check for the validity of all these URLs. I recall asking my more computer-savvy colleagues if....
New Law Librarian of Congress Speaks on the Status of the Law Library
Posted on September 28, 2009News of the introduction of the "William Orton Law Library Improvement and Modernization Act" (H.R. 2728),which in part calls for the designation of the Law Library of Congress, as the "National Law Library", has prompted speculation whether the law library...
Professor Tuerkheimer's Article Argues "Shaken Baby Syndrome" Based on Shaky Science
Posted on September 23, 2009A congressionally mandated report to investigate forensic techniques and personnel, released in February 2009, unexpectedly questioned the presumption of scientific validity for most of the traditional techniques used as evidence in the criminal courtroom...
"FDsys", the New GPO Online Public Information System Almost Out of Beta
Posted on September 22, 2009In the early 1990s the Government Printing Office (GPO) implemented GPO ACCESS, a service that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. It has been a mainstay for providing digital government...
Law Libraries to Have Role in New US Courts/GPO Pacer Pilot Study
Posted on September 18, 2009A recent posting on this blog,"Law Librarians Initiate Petition On PACER Service", spoke to the issues surrounding access to the US Courts litigation documents database, PACER. Several user groups are working for greater no-fee access to it's records...
Lack of Comfort With Business Contacts as "Facebook Friends"
Posted on September 17, 2009As the use of social networking sites like facebook for business purposes has grown, it may not always be easy to separate the personal from the professional. When these lines blur, many executives may not be ready for, nor comfortable...
Illinois Law to Allow Challenges to Burge Torture Confessions & Convictions
Posted on September 08, 2009A previous blog posting from last year, "Feds Catch Up With Burge - Indictment by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald", reported that decades after the events of police torture by Chicago Police Commander Burge and his officers, some measure of legal...
Law Librarians Initiate Petition On PACER Service
Posted on September 03, 2009A group of law librarians have drawn up a petition regarding the PACER litigation documents service operated by the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AO).On September 11 a representative from Stanford Law Library, University of Texas Law Library and...
DePaul "Rule of Law" Journal Launched by Students
Posted on September 02, 2009DePaul law students with a particular interest in international law have created a new Online journal focused on the concept of ?The Rule of Law?. It will be a student-run publication with faculty advisors from DePaul?s International Human Rights Law...
Rinn Law Library Director, Allen Moye, Publishes Legal Research Article
Posted on August 31, 2009Associate Professor & Director of the Rinn Law Library, Allen Moye, has recently had an article published in Legal Reference Services Quarterly entitled "Tubs, Buckets, and a Variety of Lumber: Developing a Strategic Approach to Legal Research". (Volume 28, Issue...
LLMC-Digital On the Move - Partnering With Google, Fastcase & LA County Law Library
Posted on August 21, 2009The non-profit corporation founded in 1976 by several U.S. law libraries and known by the not so exciting name of the Law Library Microform Consortium, is transforming itself into a significant provider of digital legal information with the involvement of...
Law Professor Havel's New Book on the Future of International Aviation
Posted on August 11, 2009"Ongoing deregulation of the international air transport industry has revealed a compelling need for entirely new forms of governance. In his new book, ?Beyond Open Skies: A New Regime for International Aviation? ( Kluwer 2009 ), DePaul University College of...
ABA Meeting - Former Attorneys General On Investigation of Interrogations
Posted on August 06, 2009On Friday July 31, at the recently concluded ABA annual meeting in Chicago, there was a special session with six former Attorneys General. They were asked about current Attorney General Holder?s consideration of an investigation into the interrogation practices in...
Law Library of Congress Preparing "Lawyers Handbook"
Posted on August 05, 2009The Law library of Congress has an online ?handbook for lawyers? in the works. This is according to an informational report from AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION STANDING COMMITTEE ON THE LAW LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, at the recently concluded ABA conference in...
Keep Up With ABA Meeting On NLJ Blog
Posted on July 30, 2009The American Bar Association Annual Meeting begins today in Chicago. See previous blog posting, here. Various news media will be covering it. But to get some of the inside developments including some that may not make the morning paper or...
Federal Courts Try to Deal With Dead Links In Opinions
Posted on July 29, 2009Most of us who use the internet for research find ourselves providing links to online materials to backup a quote or lead our readers to additional information. But as we well know, the passage of time, even a brief one,...
New Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct In Effect In 2010
Posted on July 24, 2009?A new legal thriller is about to be published that every lawyer in Illinois should read. It has elements of intrigue, disputes over money, conflict, and sex and it will definitely have something of interest for every lawyer. It is...
Three Latinas at DePaul Law School Reflect On Sotomayor
Posted on July 20, 2009An article in yesterday's Chicago Tribune by Oscar Avila, presents the views of three female law students with Latino backgrounds from the DePaul University Law School, on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and how this historic...
Screening and discussion of ?The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court?
Posted on July 17, 2009On Friday July 17 2009 from 5:30-8:00pm, at Chicago_Kent Law School,in the 10th floor Event room ( 565 West Adams Street Chicago, IL 60661 ), there will be a showing of the film The Reckoning: The Battle for the International...
?Separation of Powers? In Britain ? First Supreme Court To Open In October
Posted on July 17, 2009While the American legal system owes much to the traditions of the British legal system, there has been a longstanding and significant difference regarding the location of the final arbiter of legal questions. Under the doctrine of separation of powers,...
DePaul Law Alum To Run For Illinois Governor
Posted on July 09, 2009Illinois State Senator Kirk Dillard (R ? Hinsdale), a 1982 DePaul Law School graduate who also serves on the Dean?s advisory council, is declaring his candidacy for governor. An article in ?The Times? newspaper ( Ottowa, Streator) indicates that Mr.....
New Google Operating System ? More About the Web Than the Box
Posted on July 08, 2009The announcement that Google plans to develop its own operating system ( OP ) that can be used on the newer smaller netbook computers, has people wondering whether this may fundamentally challenge Microsoft in its traditional stronghold. Microsoft is well...
American Bar Association Units Re-examine Law School Accreditation
Posted on July 06, 2009While the American Bar Association annual meeting in Chicago is about a month away, the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility just recently finished its 35th National Conference on Professional Responsibility (May 27-30) in our town. While several issues were on...
DePaul Law Librarian Speaks At Wayne State Seminar
Posted on July 02, 2009A previous posting on this blog reported that one of our reference Librarians and legal research instructors, Mark Giangrande, was invited to participate in a seminar at Wayne State University Law School, entitled ?Getting Started ? Switching Gears: Practical Advice...
American Bar Association Annual Meeting In Chicago
Posted on June 30, 2009ABA 2009 Annual Meeting The Premier Educational Forum for Legal Professionals July 30 to August 4, 2009, Chicago, Illinois The Opening Assembly will be held Saturday, August 1, at 5:30 p.m. at Symphony Center. The President?s Reception will immediately follow...
Chicago City Council Page Revamped by City Clerk
Posted on June 23, 2009A June 2009 notice on the City Clerk?s website announces significant changes to its City Council pull down menu. Here are some highlights of the enhancements : UPDATED and REORGANIZED PULL DOWN MENU ? A new menu heading Key Legislation/Votes...
"Data.gov" Debuts Promising Huge Quantities of Re-usable Government Data
Posted on June 17, 2009In a Fall 2008 article in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology, entitled, "Government Data and the Invisible Hand",( 11 Yale J.L. & Tech. 160 (2009), the authors recommended that,"In order for public data to benefit from the same...
DePaul Invites Law School Deans to Address Impact of "Vanishing Trials"
Posted on June 15, 2009Dean Weissenberger and the DePaul University Law School are inviting law school deans to a symposium entitled " Vanishing Act: Legal Education in a World Without Trials" on July 31-Aug. 1, to coincide with the annual American Bar Association meeting....
Library Catalog System Upgrade
Posted on June 13, 2009DePaul's library catalog and the statewide I-Share catalog will be undergoing a system upgrade beginning 3AM on Sunday, 6/14, scheduled to be completed on or before Wednesday, 6/17. During the upgrade: Renewals/My Account: It will not be possible to access...
"Gender and Judging" - Articles from International Journal of the Legal Profession
Posted on June 10, 2009The International Journal of the Legal Profession is published in Britain and takes a very broad view of its subject matter which includes "the organization, structure, management and infrastructure of the legal professions of the common law and civil law...
State Dept. IG Critical of Process To Publish Foreign Relations of the United States
Posted on June 09, 2009The "Foreign Relations of the United States" (FRUS) series is a government publication that most of us have probably seen on library shelves or possibly used for a school paper. But since its inception in 1861 in the Lincoln administration,...
ICC "Legal Tools" For Public Being Updated
Posted on June 05, 2009"The Legal Tools were initially created to assist the International Criminal Court - Office of the Prosecutor (ICC-OTP) with legal research and drafting regarding the elements of crimes, modes of criminal liability and key procedural and evidentiary questions...
Staff Member Mark Giangrande on Panel at Wayne State Law School
Posted on June 04, 2009Mark Giangrande, one of our reference librarians and legal research instructors, has been invited to the Wayne State University Law School, to be part of a panel on "Practical Advice for Attorneys in Transition", on June 20, 2009. The presenters...
Sound Recordings of the Judge Sotomayor Firefighter Case
Posted on June 03, 2009From a posting to the Law Librarian Blog by our reference librarian Mark Giangrande: The Wall Street Journal posted the audio of the Second Circuit hearing in Ricci v. DeStefano, the New Haven firefighter case in which Judge Sotomayor presided....
Law Professor Bandes Speaks to Value of "Empathy" for All Judges
Posted on May 27, 2009With the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor by President Obama for the Supreme Court, the flurry of debate around questions of his singling out empathy as an essential quality for a Supreme Court Justice, has gone into high gear. In...
Learning the Facts About GITMO
Posted on May 26, 2009For those who may be attending the screening of the Guantanamo docu-drama, "The Response", mentioned in the previous posting or anyone interested in the important legal and moral issues raised by the Guantanamo prison's existence, here are some background materials...
Film: "The Response" - Guantanamo Courtroom Drama
Posted on May 22, 2009AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION PUBLIC PROGRAM "The Response," Guantanamo Courtroom Drama Screening and Q&A with filmmaker,Sig Libowitz The ABA Public Program Series will continue with a screening of "The Response," a courtroom drama based on actual transcripts of the Guantanamo military...
Get Your Free Case Law on the Web !
Posted on May 19, 2009A March 19, 2008 posting on this blog, FastCase Inc. Enters Rich Public Legal Portal Arena, provided a listing of a dozen free major online legal research portals that were available on the web. These are still around today. Some...
Law Day Release of New Books on U.S. Constitution By American Constitution Society
Posted on May 18, 2009On Law Day, May 1,The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) has released two important new books on the Constitution. The ACS is one of the nation?s leading progressive legal organizations, comprised of lawyers, judges, students and policy...
Disbarment Complaints Mounted To Address Conduct of Bush-era Legal Advisers
Posted on May 18, 2009A previous posting on this blog, "The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld", Book From The Center for Constitutional Rights, highlighted the legal case that could be brought against high level Bush Administration officials for alleged violations of domestic and international law...
DePaul Law Professor Franklin Quoted In Story About Obama Supreme Court Nomination
Posted on May 13, 2009A May 13 Washington Post article that is looking at the qualifications that President Obama may be considering in his appointment of a new Supreme Court justice, quotes Professor David L. Franklin on the issue. Franklin, now a faculty member...
Modern-day Cassandar, Brooksley Born, Might Have Prevented "Credit Tsunami"
Posted on May 11, 2009The May 2009 ABA Journal reprints an interesting biographical article from the Stanford magazine about attorney, Brooksley Born, who in the 1990s took on the Wall Street and the US government as head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (...
DePaul Litigation Lab Recognized For Innovation
Posted on May 08, 2009preLaw magazine, a National Jurist publication, in their Winter 2009 issue, listed the DePaul Law School Litigation Lab in their cover article, "Most Innovative Law Schools", which included ten law schools nominated by law school deans.The innovations could be in...
New "Google Public Data" Service To Use Innovative "Gapminder Software"
Posted on May 05, 2009A posting on the April 29 Google Blog announces an initiative by Google to use new software to make public statistics from the US government much more accessible and useful for users than the standard tables and cross tabulations usually...
Law Professor Bassiouni Working with "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative"
Posted on April 30, 2009Professor Bassiouni's participation at a conference on the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, on on April 13-15, 2009 at Washington University , is evidence that he may be "retired" from DePaul but he is clearly still very active on issues of...
DePaul Law Professor Bassiouni in Retirement ....Not So Much.
Posted on April 28, 2009Almost two years ago, the DePaul Law school held a major reception to honor Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni on his retirement from the law school. See the previous blog posting, Professor Bassiouni Praised at Dinner & in Congress. But Professor...
DePaul Law Recognized in U.S. News' 'America's Best Graduate Schools'
Posted on April 27, 2009"The College of Law's overall ranking moved up to 87 from its 88th place showing last year. Six law schools tied with DePaul this year--Indiana University-Indianapolis; Loyola University Chicago; Marquette University; Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-Newark; St...
GPO Launches Federal Digital System ( FDsys)
Posted on April 24, 2009A previous posting on this blog, New GPO "Future Digital System" Now In Beta, alerted users of online US government information about the testing of the new system intended to replace the previous online information service, GPO Access. Yesterday, GPO...
Illinois State Bar Association Provides Members with Subscription to Fastcase
Posted on April 20, 2009In an article in the April,2009 issue of the Illinois Bar Journal, Helen W. Gunnarsson, a lawyer in Highland Park, and an Illinois Bar Journal contributing writer, does a pretty good job of selling ISBA members on their newest benefit...
DePaul Sex Trafficking Conference Presents Results of Study of Ex-pimps By Senior Research Fellow, Jody Raphael
Posted on April 17, 2009According to a Chicago Sun Times article, details of a pilot project which interviewed five pimps and madams, were discussed at a video linkup conference on sex trafficking at DePaul University, this week. The project is part of the continuing...
National Technical Reports Library From NTIS Debuts
Posted on April 15, 2009The National Technical Information Service is the nation?s largest source of government-funded scientific, technical, engineering and business-related information. It acquires, indexes, abstracts, and archives the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports...
The President & The Poet - The Abraham Lincoln & Robert Burns Connection
Posted on April 08, 2009As the nation, the state of Illinois and the Illinois legal community commemorate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, there is another historical figure whose 250th anniversary also occurs this year. That figure is Robert Burns, Scotland's national bard...
MIT Faculty Vote To Make Pubs Open Access
Posted on April 02, 2009Last July, a posting on this blog reported that the faculty of Harvard university had voted unanimously to make their scholarly articles available online for free. (See : Harvard Law Makes Scholarly Articles "Open Access"). Recently the faculty at the...
Genocide Prevention Month in April / Illinois Holocaust Museum To Open
Posted on April 01, 2009"Genocide survivors from Darfur and five other civilian slaughters are uniting with each other and advocates to observe Genocide Prevention Month in April 2009. The survivors come together because the tragedies of Darfur, Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, the Holocaust, and Armenia...
Illinois Obama License Plate
Posted on March 31, 2009From the Illinois State Library E-news : Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White and the Illinois Library Association (ILA) are pleased to announce the availability of an official Barack Obama special event Illinois license plate. The plates are...
More Online JSTOR Titles Available to DePaul Users
Posted on March 30, 2009Alert from Bart Davis, Collection Development Assistant, DePaul University Libraries : The DePaul University Libraries now subscribes to even more collections from JSTOR. We now have access to all of the Arts & Sciences Collections (I-VI and the Complement), the...
iTunes University Gets Some New Competition
Posted on March 27, 2009For several years many educational institutions , including Depaul, have contracted with Apple Inc. to use their online iTunes University to make educational audio and video content available online to their own users and sometimes also to the public...
Fees For Judiciary PACER Service Questioned by Sen. Lieberman
Posted on March 26, 2009A posting on this blog from Dec. 2007, " FDLP LIBRARIES OFFER FREE ACCESS TO COURT E-RECORDS ", reported that at the urging of American Library Association and the American Association of Law Libraries, the Administrative Office of the US...
Unemployed Lawyers May Give Legal Aid A Boost
Posted on March 19, 2009In this spiraling economic crisis that has also hit the usually insulated law firms, a temporary silver lining may be appearing for agencies that provide legal services to those near the bottom of the economic pyramid. According to a CNN...
Law Professor Shaman Quoted On Special Election Proposal For Former Obama Seat
Posted on February 26, 2009Online Sources for Conference Report on "the Economic Stimulus Act"
Posted on February 23, 2009From a recent posting to GovDoc-L by Rick McKinney, Assistant Law Librarian Federal Reserve Board Law Library, Washington, DC :1) The Legislative Source Book (http://www.llsdc.org/sourcebook) of the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, DC (LLSDC) now has a 1...
Former Judge Earl Strayhorn , DePaul Law Grad '48, Dies at 90
Posted on February 19, 2009[ Pictured: Judge Earl Strayhorn (?48), & Justice Stevens at Justice Paul Stevens Award ceremony, 2004]Judge Strayhorn was born in Mississippi and moved his family to Chicago. He attended Tilden High School and graduated from the University of Illinois...
Law Library Commemorates Lincoln
Posted on February 17, 2009Associate Director Mary Lu Linnane has created a fascinating new display commemorating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The display centers on Lincoln's relationship with the Supreme Court and highlights several documents from our collection signed by a number...
ISBA Donates Lincoln Bust to Illinois Supreme Court
Posted on February 16, 2009The Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), as part of the celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, commissioned a sculpture of Mr. Lincoln that was presented in a special session to the Illinois Supreme Court on January 12,2009. The...
Law Faculty Contribute To Latest "Vincentian Heritage" Issue
Posted on February 11, 2009"Vincentian Heritage is a journal dedicated to promoting a living interest in the historical and spiritual heritage of the wide-ranging Vincentian family under the patronage of Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) and Saint Louise de Marillac (1591-1660)...
Wikileaks Site Posts All Electronic CRS Reports
Posted on February 09, 2009The website Wikileaks which specializes in posting leaked documents from dissident communities and anonymous sources to foster transparency in government, has posted the total output of Congressional Research Service (CRS) electronically available to Congressional offices...
Law Professor Wayne Lewis Featured in New DePaul Publication
Posted on February 05, 2009Law Professor Wayne Lewis is featured in the inaugural issue of the new online DePaul University publication, "Distinctions". According to Provost Helmut Epp, the new publication is meant to make both internal and external constituencies aware of significant work and...
ABA Program on Lincoln & The Popular Culture
Posted on February 04, 2009Features selected clips and images from film, television and advertisingPresenters: Christine Corcos, Associate Professor of Law, Louisiana State UniversityDavid Hundley, Chicago Litigator and Cinema Mishmash Blog AuthorIntroduction of ProgramHenry F...
Inauspicious Start For ICC's First Trial
Posted on January 30, 2009A story from the January 30 issue of the Christian Science Monitor, describes what may be considered a serious misstep in the International Criminal Court's (ICC) first trial for war crimes. It was in a case that had been years...
New GPO "Future Digital System" Now In Beta
Posted on January 29, 2009At the 2009 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting held in Denver, CO, Jan 23?28, Ric Davis, Acting Superintendent of Documents,informed the attendees that the Government Printing Office's FUTURE DIGITAL SYSTEM (FDsys), was now in public Beta...
Presidential Documents On New Schedule
Posted on January 28, 2009In what may seem more symbolic than substantive, what use to be the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (WCPD) has become the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents (DCPD), with the start of the Obama Administration. The longstanding WCPD has been...
Presidential Documents On New Schedule
Posted on January 26, 2009In what may seem more symbolic than substantive, what use to be the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (WCPD) has become the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents (DCPD), with the start of the Obama Administration. The longstanding WCPD has been...
Former U.S. Attorney Patrick Collins to Head Illinois Reform Commission
Posted on January 23, 2009The Inauguration rightfully held most Illinois citizens' attention on Tuesday. But another event that day in Illinois, should also be recognized as offering hopeful changes to our local Illinois political system. The llinois Reform Commission met for the first time...
Chicago Tribune Article on Occasion of Professor Colliton's Death
Posted on January 21, 2009In addition to the formal death notice, a Tribune reporter has written an article that provides some insight into James Colliton the man and the teacher. He will be missed a lot.James Colliton, 1944-2009: DePaul professor was an expert on...
Flap Over Disclosure Bill a Window On "Secret Law"
Posted on January 16, 2009A recent posting on the Secrecy News Blog of Federation of American Scientists tells about a disagreement between the current US Attorney General Mukasey and Obama's incoming head of Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), Prof. Dawn Johnsen...
College of Law Students: the Law Library wants to hear from you!
Posted on January 12, 2009The 2009 Annual Survey on Library and Computing Services is now posted. DePaul Law students, please take a few moments to complete it at:http://www.itd.depaul.edu/quickdata2/viewwebform.asp?id=4562The staff and administration of the Rinn Law Library is very interested in your opinion and feedback...
Abraham Lincoln Symposium By Seventh Circuit Bar Association
Posted on January 12, 2009Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Program Abraham Lincoln His Legal Career and His Vision for AmericaPresented by the Seventh Circuit Bar Associationco-sponsored by The Chicago History MuseumFebruary 6, 2009 Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center78 East Washington, Chicago, IL The symposium will...
Foreclosure Loan Modification Proposal From Columbia Professors
Posted on January 09, 2009An article in the current online ABA Journal By Martha Neil , reports on a research paper from the the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate at the Columbia Business School that proposes different measures that the federal government can...
"The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld", Book From The Center for Constitutional Rights
Posted on January 07, 2009Many concerned US citizens tend to think of war criminals as being the people that the International Criminal Court or other International Criminal Tribunals, indict and attempt to capture and bring to trial, from places like the Democratic Republic of...
Congressional Report Highlights Bioterrorism
Posted on January 05, 2009During the first week of December when most of us were either doing some holiday shopping or wondering whether we could do any holiday shopping, a special commission created by Congress in the aftermath of Sept. 11, released a report...
Responses to Illinois Governor's Situation - Some of the Legal Provisions Involved
Posted on December 12, 2008After the recent surprise arrest of Illinois governor Blagojevich based on a criminal complaint by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, state officials and lawmakers are considering several responses to deal with this situation.One of the options that has actually been considered...
Holiday Closing of DePaul Libraries
Posted on December 10, 2008The DePaul Rinn Law Library & the DePaul University libraries will be closed from Dec. 23, 2008 through January 01,2009. This is part of a university-wide closing policy. During this time facility repair & maintenance are carried out. Mail is...
Professor Landsman Presents Paper & Testifies re. Right To Counsel in Civil Cases
Posted on December 10, 2008Dean Glen Weissenberger has informed the law school community about recent significant contributions by DePaul law professor Stephan Landsman :"Please join with me in congratulating Stephan Landsman. Stephan just concluded the organizing and presentation of an ABA Litigation Section Symposium...
Empirical Study of Supreme Court Clerk's Influence, in Current DePaul Law Review
Posted on December 09, 2008Two political scientist have co-authored what they consider the first truly empirical study of the potential influence that the law clerks of the Supreme Court Justices may have on how cases are selected and decided by the Court. Todd C....
New Legal Magazine : "Women Legal"
Posted on December 09, 2008Women legal is a new legal magazine with a focus on women in the legal field published by Ark Group Ltd., (London, UK ; Peoria, IL)"Researched and developed over the past 12 months by the editorial teams behind Managing Partner,...
Wilson Myers's War For Legal Reform In Iraq
Posted on December 05, 2008While The material for this posting is a bit less timely for a blog, its relevance to similar work undertaken by DePaul Law School's International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) in Iraq, makes it worth providing it for our readers....
Amazing Free Portal For Worldwide Science Information
Posted on December 03, 2008The increasing application of scientific knowledge to such areas of law as patents, intellectual property, health care & biotechnology, energy & environmental issues, and global commerce, places a premium on attorneys who are able to locate and use scientific information...
Recent & Forthcoming Faculty Books From Carolina Academic Press
Posted on December 02, 2008"Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Law" by Patty Gerstenblith is one of the first legal casebooks to address the rapidly emerging fields of art and cultural heritage law, utilizing an interdisciplinary approach. This book addresses artists? rights ..., the functioning...
Public Safety Codes Now At Public.Resource.Org's "Code City"
Posted on November 25, 2008Two previous postings on this blog reported on the efforts of the organization Public_Resource.Org to make federal court cases publicly available on their web site : Landmark Online Public Release of Federal Cases, Activist Carl Malamud Challenges Westlaw With Online...
Are Grammar Snobs Great Big Meanies ? - Guide to Style Guides
Posted on November 24, 2008An article by Jill Koch Hayford, an associate professor of legal writing at Marquette University Law School, in the Nov. 2008 Wisconsin Lawyer Magazine, provides a useful overview of writing style guides. She covers general guides and also law-specific ones...
C.A.L.L. Meeting Hears From Dean VanZandt re. New 2 Year Law Program
Posted on November 24, 2008This past Thursday at the Chicago Association of Law Libraries business meeting, Dean David E. Van Zandt of the Northwestern University Law School, was the guest speaker on their new 2 years law degree which is scheduled to start in...
Free Trial for DePaul Users: Lawinfochina
Posted on November 18, 2008DePaul faculty, students, and staff interested in Chinese legal issues now have access to a free trial of Lawinfochina, China's counterpart to Westlaw and Lexis, through December 13, 2008. This includes access to English translations of major legislation, treaties, and...
Testimony of Dr. Eric Camayd-Frexias speaking at Symposium re. ICE workplace raid in Postville, Iowa
Posted on November 17, 2008Tommorow the DePaul Center for Public Interest Law (CPIL) will be co-sponsoring the 3rd Annual Vincentian Public Interest Law Symposium: Immigration Raids, Due Process, and the Separation of Powers: Implications from Postville and Beyond One of the important featured speakers...
Rinn Law Librarian Mark Giangrande a Contributing Author to New Elsevier Book On Explosives Detection
Posted on November 14, 2008A new book from Elsevier entitled, "Aspects of Explosives Detection", edited by Maurice Marshall and Jimmie Oxley, is mostly a detailed and sophisticated technical text aimed at law enforcement and homeland security professionals. Most of the chapter contributors are academic...
Plum Book Now Available Online From U.S. Government Printing Office
Posted on November 12, 2008The 2008 edition of the United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions, commonly known as the Plum Book, contains information re.thousands of Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government that...
Nonprofit Law Podcast - Guide to the Laws Impacting Nonprofits
Posted on November 12, 2008"The nonprofit law podcast is a weekly show highlighting legal issues facing nonprofits. Hosted by Tim Mooney, an attorney with over a decade of experience in nonprofit law, this entertaining and informative program helps staff, officers and directors of nonprofits...
From the Baseball Diamond to the Corner Office - Sabermetrics in Recruiting
Posted on November 10, 2008In a late Summer podcast of Lawyer2Lawyer , entitled "Recruiting at Law Firms: A Recruiter and a Law Student's Perspective, co-host J.Craig Williams interviewed two 3L law students and a recruiter from a large law firm. Among the issues discussed...
DePaul Law Grad, Judge M. Carol Pope Appointed to Illinois Appellate Court
Posted on November 04, 2008Judge M. Carol Pope graduated with honors from DePaul University College of Law in 1979. While there, she was the Law Review lead articles editor. The Illinois Supreme Court has assigned the Eighth Judicial Circuit judge, to the Illinois Appellate...
Video Podcasts of Bar Skills Workshops,Now Available!
Posted on October 31, 2008If you plan to take the Illinois bar exam this February and missed any of the recent Bar Skills Workshops conducted by Professor Alba, you can now view them at your convenience by clicking on the following link: https://itunes.depaul.edu/login.aspx. Log...
DePaul Senior Research Fellow, Jody Raphael, on CNBC Program
Posted on October 31, 2008"Dirty Money: The Business of High-End Prostitution" will air on Tuesday November 11th at 10PM & 1AM ET. It's about the clandestine world of prostitution among the super rich. The program will feature interviews with two authors : Michael Bader,...
Law Professor on "60 Minutes" Show on "Credit Derivatives"
Posted on October 28, 2008Sunday night the CBS news program "60 Minutes" had a segment on the role that credit default swaps play in the current economic crisis. It was a follow-up to a program three weeks ago on the crisis in the credit...
PACER Adds Audio to Docket
Posted on October 24, 2008Pacer has added audio from selected District and Bankruptcy courts to the docket listings in the service. These recordings will be available for download for a fee of 8 cents aside from any fees associated with the docket reports. Some...
University "Legal Hold and Record Preservation" Policy
Posted on October 23, 2008DePaul has recently communicated the policy on "Legal Hold and Record Preservation" to employees. [ accessible to DePaul staff ] It relates to the process of discovery in which relevant information is exchanged between parties in a lawsuit. It is...
Feds Catch Up With Burge - Indictment by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald
Posted on October 22, 2008The US Attorneys Office for the Northern District of Illinois has indicted former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge for obstruction of justice and perjury stemming from statements that Burge made in the civil suit of Hobley v. Burge, et al.,...
Election Related Lawsuits - More to Come ?
Posted on October 21, 2008An article in today's Chicago Tribune reports on the efforts of both the Obama and McCain campaigns to recruit a large number of volunteer attorneys to protect the integrity of the voting process. A spokesperson from the Obama campaign is...
Two Impressive Writing & Citing Add-Ons For Firefox Browser
Posted on October 20, 2008The WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library , produced by Bonnie Shucha, Head of Reference, has two postings about free products that can greatly simplify the writing process for users of the Firefox browser : CiteGenie Creates Bluebook Citations...
Law Library Adds Records for "BNA-ALL" to Online Catalog
Posted on October 16, 2008Almost a year ago, this blog alerted DePaul law users to the subscription that the law library has to over 130 databases from the publisher BNA ( Bureau of National Affairs), in areas like antitrust, corporate law, health care, IP,...
New ABA Magazine to Cover Intellectual Property Law
Posted on October 13, 2008The first new magazine introduced by ABA Publishing in nearly seven years, called "Landslide",is debuting with the Sept/Oct 2008 issue. It is published by the ABA's Section of Intellectual Property Law and " is dedicated to sharing IP knowledge and...
Illinois Attorney General's Landmark Settlement in Predatory Lending Suit
Posted on October 09, 2008On October 6, law suits originally brought against Countrywide Financial ( acquired by Bank of America) by Attorneys General Lisa Madigan of Illinois and Jerry brown of California, later joined by several other states and the City of San Diego,...
Author, Tom Geoghan, Discusses His Book "See You In Court"
Posted on October 07, 2008The Center for Public Interest (CPIL) Law lunch panel features Tom Geoghan, attorney and author of "See You in Court" October 15, 11:50 a.m. in Lewis Center, 25 E. Jackson, Room 903, Chicago, ILThe book is about the issues with...
Publisher Backlash Against NIH Open Access in Conyers Bill
Posted on October 07, 2008A February 13, 2008 posting on this blog, "Significance Of Recent NIH Research Deposit Law", reported on the passage,as part of ?Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008?, of a new NIH deposit law that required authors of NIH-funded (National Institutes of...
LLMC Digital (Law Library Micorform Consortium) Debuts New Interface
Posted on October 03, 2008Most law library users have never heard of LLMC. It is not surprising since the inital mission in 1976 was one of preserving legal titles in print and microform. Something only librarians would normally be aware of. It has been...
Recent Congressional CRS Reports On the Financial Services Crisis
Posted on October 01, 2008C R S Report for Congress Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 August 19. 2008 "The Housing and Economic United States Recovery Act of 2008. P1. 110-289. is likely to affect most owner-occupied housing in the through a variety...
DOJ Inspector General Report on US Attorney Firings
Posted on September 30, 2008Yesterday the report of the joint investigation by Dept of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) on the removal of nine U.S. Attornyes in 2006 was released. The investigation was begun in March....
Passing of Law Professor Brian Havel's Father, Miroslav Havel
Posted on September 29, 2008On September 5, Dean Weissenberger informed us of the death of Miroslav Havel, the father of DePaul law Professor Brian F. Havel.Yesterday,the Chicago Tribune had a story about his father: Glass artist, designer 'Maestro of Crystal' traveled from Czechoslovakia, helped...
The Financial Services Breakdown - Some Recent Legal Views
Posted on September 26, 2008Attorney Bob Ambrogi conducts a conversation with two top legal experts about the unprecedented Lehman Brothers, Holdings, Inc. chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and its implications, in the podcast, The Legal Side of the Lehman Brothers Collapse. A Georgetown University Law...
Book Discussion: "The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power"
Posted on September 24, 2008The DePaul College of Law International Human Rights Law Institute is sponsoring a discussion of the book with its author Jonathan Mahler, a writer for The New York Times Magazine. The publisher's web site says about the book, "At its...
"A Day Off The Desk"
Posted on September 23, 2008Maria Willmer, one of our reference librarians has written an article entitled, "Working Smarter...A Day off the Desk" from the Spring issue of the CALL Bulletin. It is mentioned on the first page of Law Librarian's Bulletin Board, v. 20,...
U of C Law Teachers respond to Justice Scalia's Comments
Posted on September 23, 2008Scalia says U. of C. has gone liberal BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Chicago Sun Times, September 17, 2008 Justice Scalia, in comments to the conservative Federalist Society, at Chicago's Union League Club said that, "I took nothing but bread-and-butter classes,...
Digital Alternatives For Legal Course Books ?
Posted on September 22, 2008A September 22, National Law Journal article, "Are E-Books the Future of Legal Casebooks?" by Amanda Bronstad, in which one of our reference librarians, Mark Giangrande, is quoted, takes look at some of the issues at the upcoming, "Workshop on...
Center for Art, Museum & Cultural Heritage Law Symposium
Posted on September 19, 2008Acquiring and Maintaining Collections of Cultural Objects: Challenges Confronting American Museums in the 21st Century - 8th Annual Symposium. Presented by the DePaul University College of Law, and Co-Sponsored by the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation...
Scalia Critic Praises Professor Landsman
Posted on September 18, 2008An anonymous comment was made in response to the posting entitled, "Nino Scalia shares some thoughts on legal education - No "law and" nonsense for you." by Paul Campos on the "Lawyers, Guns and Money" blog. Both the posting and...
Google's New Browser - Chrome
Posted on September 17, 2008What You Need to Know About Chrome, Google's Shiny New Browser LAWTECH GURU BLOG by Jeff Beard Includes link to Google video on Chrome features
DePaul Center for Animal Law Conference
Posted on September 17, 2008The DePaul Center for Animal Law is sponsoring an upcoming conference on the issue of Companion Animal Hording in October. For members of the public and also members of the legal community,such an issue is probably still novel and perhaps...
Government Docs on HeinOnline
Posted on September 16, 2008Most law library users make use of our subscriptions to HeinOnline for the law journal collection. But Hein has been continuously adding a great deal of government information to their online subscriptions. A recent blog posting by Shawn Nevers from....
Voter & Election Information Sources
Posted on September 11, 2008"The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and...
Updates to Chicago Municipal Information Sources
Posted on September 09, 2008Recently, two members of the Chicago Association of Law Libraries, Scott Berg from City of Chicago Department of Law Library and Jean Wenger of the Cook County Law Library, provided some very useful information about current sources for City Council....
Center for Church/State Studies?Breakfast Forum
Posted on September 09, 2008?Have Faith: The IRS? Church Tax Inquiry into the Appearance of Senator Barack Obama before the United Church of Christ ? A Case Study of the Limits on Religious Expression during a Presidential Election.? Donald Clark, Jr.,Nationwide Special Counsel, United...
CIPLIT Hosier Scholars Series: "In Defense of the Public Authorship in Copyright"
Posted on September 09, 2008Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology Hosier Scholars Series : In Defense of the Public Authorship in Copyright, Lior Zemer, Professor, Radzyner School of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya ..."The core argument is that since copyright...
Illinois Judicial Council Scholarships Awarded to Three DePaul Students
Posted on September 08, 2008We are pleased to announce that three DePaul students, Eric Eversly ('10) , Eric Puryear ('10) and Lorna Scaife ('10) were among twenty recipients from across the nation to be awarded Illinois Judicial Council Law School Scholarships. The awards were...
MIT Students Sued Over Security Class Project
Posted on September 08, 2008Massachusetts Institute of Technology students, ZACK ANDERSON, RJ RYAN, ALESSANDRO CHIESA, had submitted a paper for a network security class they were taking,that uncovered security weaknesses in the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ) fare card using RFID (Radio-frequency identification)...
Follow Up Stories to DePaul Chicago Sex Trafficking Study
Posted on September 03, 2008One of our blog postings in May, reported on the release of the study "Domestic sex trafficking of Chicago women and girls", by Jody Raphael of the DePaul Law School's The Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center and Jessica...
Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies (JLJS) Inaugural Lecture and Reception
Posted on August 28, 2008Elizabeth Shivers, of Our Staff, Featured in New Movie, "The Express - The Ernie Davis Story"
Posted on August 27, 2008One of our long-time law library staff members, Elizabeth Shivers, has a significant role in the new movie, "The Express - The Ernie Davis Story". You might have some trouble identifying Elizabeth since she plays Ernie Davis' grandmother (!) She...
Overdue fines: two views
Posted on August 22, 2008From the Manchester Guardian: Library fines could become a thing of the past if a group of librarians get their way. A fiery debate has been raging for the past week between librarians, with anti-fine campaigners describing the charges as...
Father Holtschneider Speaks at Church/State Breakfast Forum On Pope?s Address to the U.N.
Posted on August 21, 2008The Pope took full advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to speak out before the United Nations on behalf of human rights, giving it primacy over national sovereignty. The historic implications of this decision were analyzed by Father Dennis H...
Magical "Lawyer Boy" Appears at Barnes & Noble
Posted on August 19, 2008As a kid and young adult, Rich Lax loved learning and doing magic tricks. But this interest did not seem to provide a "viable career path" as far as his parents were concerned. So given a family history of lawyers,...
Interview with Author of " Zimmerman?s Research Guide"
Posted on August 12, 2008In a column in the August,2008 LexisNexis InfoPro newsletter, Rachel Baarz, LexisNexis Librarian Relations Consultant and member of AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) and SLA (Special Library Association), has a short interview with librarian Andrew Zimmerman, author of the...
Justia Creates A Federal Reports Site
Posted on August 08, 2008Has anyone looked at Justia lately? The site now features public domain copies of the Federal Reporter going back to 1950, or 178 F2d. What's more remarkable is that the opinions are in citation order, making it a relatively free...
DePaul Law School Receives $100,000 Grant to Research Bio-Terrorism
Posted on August 08, 2008DePaul University, College of Law has received a grant of $100,000 to support legal analysis and policy research to reduce biological weapons dangers. ( Recent Grants ( International Peace and Security) MacArthur Foundation ) "With MacArthur Foundation support, three projects...
Professor Lyon Helps Get Commutation of Sentence for Michigan Woman
Posted on August 07, 2008Law Professor Andrea Lyon played an important role in getting a commutation of sentence from Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, for a woman, Kylleen Hargrave-Thomas, who was convicted of murder in 1991. In 2001 Professor Lyon, had re-investigated her case with...
Legal Skills - Putting Best Practices Together
Posted on August 05, 2008An excellent follow-up to the July 2008, AALL Spectrum article, "The Missing Lawyering Skill" , by Richard Lieter, can be found in a Town Hall program presented by Thompson West Publishing, at the recently concluded AALL (American Association of Law....
"Law Firm Blogs: What Works? What Doesn?t"
Posted on August 01, 2008From a tip in the July 2008, Law Technology News, a very instructive power point and screencast directed at practicing lawyers to promote the value of legal blogging as a marketing vehicle that can enhance the visibility and reputation of...
DOJ Inspector General Testifies Re: Political & Ideological Discrimination in Hiring
Posted on July 31, 2008From the statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing concerning ?Politicized Hiring at the Department of Justice,? July 30, 2008 : The first report, issued on June 24,...
EPA Union Negotiates Agreement Over Re-opening EPA Libraries
Posted on July 29, 2008As reported in a previous blog posting, "What Part Of ?Restore? Doesn?t EPA Understand ?, Congress has mandated and provided funds for the restoration of the EPA libraries that had been closed by the EPA administrators. But from the response...
Background on the International Criminal Court, If You Missed the ICC Conference
Posted on July 28, 2008On Friday, April 25, 2008, IHRLI ( International Human Rights Law Institute) hosted the "Midwest Regional Conference on International Justice: The International Criminal Court 10 Years After The Rome Conference". The event looked at the achievements in creating and building...
New Online Government Resource Available To DePaul Users
Posted on July 24, 2008The Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) has been providing free automatic access to the Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL), for all federal, state, and local government agencies, research institutions, and U.S. military instillations...
Fugitive From War Crimes Tribunal Arrested in Belgrade After 13-year Manhunt
Posted on July 22, 2008A previous blog posting described the contribution of law Professor Cherif Bassiouni and the DePaul International Human Rights Law Institute to the initial work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at the Hague (ICTFY). Yesterday, a key...
The Missing Lawyering Skill - Legal Research
Posted on July 22, 2008Law professor and law library director, Richard Leiter, has an article in the current AALL Spectrum magazine, entitled "The Missing Lawyering Skill - New book on legal education demonstrates the lack of attention paid to legal research training". Mr. Leiter,...
HeinOnline User Support Now Includes YouTube Channel
Posted on July 08, 2008HeinOnline has developed multiple types of user support for subscribers to their products. The HeinOnline Weblog at www.heinonline.blogspot.com has relevant news, information about enhancements, content releases, tips, tricks and much more. Check out the HeinOnline Main Page on their wiki...
Selected May 2008 Law Library Acquisitions
Posted on July 08, 2008Catalog Record Catalog Record Catalog Record Catalog Record More Info More Info More Info More Info Catalog Record Catalog Record Catalog Record Catalog Record More Info More Info More Info More Info Catalog Record Catalog Record Catalog Record Catalog Record...
Harvard Law Makes Scholarly Articles "Open Access"
Posted on July 03, 2008"The Harvard University Law School (HLS) faculty last month followed the lead of their colleagues in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) ( See previous blog post " Harvard Faculty To Make Articles Open Access") by voting unanimously to...
Harry Potter and the Law ??
Posted on July 02, 2008The AALL ( American Association of Law Libraries) conference to be held next week in Portland,Oregon has many sessions on such issues as information technology, library management, research services and government documents. But along with these more serious issues there...
Former DePaul Law Professor Chemerinsky to Head New "Dream Law School"
Posted on June 30, 2008Nationally known professor of Constitutional law and federal civil procedure, Erwin Chemerinsky, who taught at the DePaul Law school from 1980 to 1983, is assuming the post of dean at the newly created the Donald Bren School of Law at...
What Should We Mean by "Judicial Accountability"
Posted on June 24, 2008The issue of "judicial accountability" seems to have generated much media coverage and public interest. A recent article from a state court publication in California, "What Does It Mean to Be Accountable?", takes a broad conceptual view of how judicial...
George Carlin Dies - His "7 Bad Words" Led to Supreme Court Case
Posted on June 23, 2008George Carlin who went from a career as a clean-cut comedian to the irreverent voice of the 1970's counterculture and who was still doing shows, died of heart failure on Sunday at age 71. "Known for his edgy, provocative material...
Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book
Posted on June 18, 2008From the INTRODUCTION : "On behalf of the Director of National Intelligence, I am pleased to make available the Fall 2007 Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book. The Intelligence Community draws much of its authority and guidance from the body of...
The Kucinich Impeachment Articles & The Presidential Election
Posted on June 18, 2008On June 10, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio) introduced articles of impeachment against President Bush in the House of Representatives. Mr. Kucinich had previously tried to bring Vice President Cheney to trial for lying about why the U.S. was...
Law Professor Cavise Quoted on Changes in Closing Arguments
Posted on June 17, 2008Law Professor Len Cavise is quoted in a June 16 article from The Daily Herald Newspaper (Suburban Chicago) that examines the possible impact that courtroom dramas and thrillers may be having on juror expectations and in turn how these may...
Consumer Tip: How to Block Cellphone Spam
Posted on June 16, 2008If you haven?t gotten any spam text messages on your cell phone, you?re lucky. But it?s only a matter of time before you do. The spammers thinks that we are at their mercy. But a very useful article by David...
What Part Of ?Restore? Doesn?t EPA Understand ??
Posted on June 13, 2008A previous posting on this blog, EPA Report To Congress On Re-opening EPA Libraries, warned that the EPA administration might not atually be committed to carrying out the restoration of EPA library services that Congress ordered after a multi-year public...
Celebrate "Loving Day"
Posted on June 12, 2008This day is not yet a "Hallmark Card" holiday and the "Loving" refers to the last name of a couple who were plaintiffs in a very significant U.S. Supremen Court case,Loving vs the State of Virginia (1967). Although the connotation...
Professor Shaman's New Book on State Constitutional Law
Posted on June 11, 2008In the May issue of the DePaul ?Public Interest Advocate? newsletter , Susan DeCostanza reviews law Professor Jeffrey Shaman?s new book, ?Equality and Liberty in the Golden Age of State Constitutional Law". She relates that after many years of teaching...
Access To Legal Documents - A Tale of Two States
Posted on June 11, 2008A previous posting on this blog, State statutes: copyright vs. public access,reported how the Oregon's Legislative Counsel Committee was demanding that Justia, a provider of publicly accessible legal resources,take down its copies of the Oregon Revised Statutes, claiming copyright in...
Notice: Construction in Law Library during June and July
Posted on June 06, 2008For most of June and July, construction will take place within the library to install a fire sprinkler system. This work is necessary in order to bring the building into compliance with local and state ordinances. Since there may be...
Mary Dempsey to chair DePaul's Board of Trustees
Posted on June 06, 2008A few days ago university president, Father Holtschneider, informed the university community about the election of Chicago Library Commissioner, Mary A. Dempsey, a College of Law graduate (JD 1982) and member of DePaul's Board of Trustees for the past decade,...
New Museum Acquisition Guidelines Released - But Not Uncontested
Posted on June 06, 2008Law Professor Patty Gerstenblith has been quoted in a New York Times article examining the new guidelines for how art museums should collect antiquities. ?The Association of Art Museum Directors, whose 190 members also include leaders of Canadian and Mexican...
Acrobat 9 to Host Flash Files: Imagine the Possibilities
Posted on June 05, 2008Adobe has announced that the upcoming release of Acrobat 9 will include the capability to embed Flash animation and videos. An article in PC World wonders whether this "weakens" the PDF format. Most of the article comments agree that this...
City Appeals Ruling From Civil Suit That Became Confidential Records Issue
Posted on June 04, 2008Yesterday, in a court hearing before a panel of the the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the City of Chicago appealed a ruling this past Summer by Judge Lefkow that the Chicago Police Dept. was required to release records of...
Government Web Site For Fuel Economy
Posted on June 03, 2008While the melting of the artic ice may provide future access to huge oil reserves for the US and the other countries bordering the region, (The Race To Own The Arctic, Parade Magazine, June 1, 2008 ) most consumers who...
Librarian - one of 2008 Best Careers - US News & World Report
Posted on May 30, 2008Librarian is recognized this year (as well as last year) as being one of the best careers in 2008 according to the U.S. News & World Report. According to Marty Nemko, "Librarians these days must be high-tech information sleuths, helping...
New Website for US House Library
Posted on May 30, 2008The library serving the U.S. House of Representatives has a new website at http://clerk.house.gov/library/. The House Library provides services to the public as well as to members of Congress, congressional committees, and congressional staff. The library is a division of...
Center for Latino Research Lecture - Federal Courts and Immigration Appeals
Posted on May 29, 2008Anna O. Law Faculty Home Page
Four BAR/BRI Law Suits - Two To Pay Out, Two Dismissed
Posted on May 27, 2008Anthony S. Park, et al., v. The Thomson Corporation and Thomson Legal and Regulatory, Inc., Case No. 05 Civ. 2931 (WHP) PARK BAR/BRI Settlement Website (estimated $30 - $40 per class member) Settlement Agreement >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Rodriguez, Ret...
Latest OCLC/Google Agreement Should Improve Visibility of Libraries? Holdings On Web
Posted on May 23, 2008As Google has moved from web search into more diverse information services & applications (More Google Products) the library community has been working to become a part of some of these developments rather than standing on the sidelines. As what...
Sharing Legal Docs - Do You Know Where Your Metadata Are ?
Posted on May 21, 2008A May 19 posting from the Legal Profession Blog ( part of the Law Professors Blog Netrwork) entitled, ?Cautionary Tale of Leaving the "Track Changes" Unaccepted. Or, I Never Metadata I Didn't Like", by Alan Childress, reminds legal practioners of...
Alumni Focus:Latasha Thomas, 17th Ward Alderman & Former DePaul Law Grad Speaks About Her Community
Posted on May 20, 2008After law school at DePaul (1990) , Latasha Thomas, worked in the city?s corporation counsel?s office, became a staff attorney at a legal aid organization, engaged in some private practice and then joined the Dept. of Human Services where she...
MAC & PC Co-exist With ?Boot Camp?
Posted on May 16, 2008We?ve seen those rather amusing ( if you?re a Mac fan) television commercials with the casual, hip Mac dude and the uptight, suit-wearing PC geek, trading competitive banter. They seem to always be at adds. But Apple has made it...
DePaul Researcher Co-authors Study On Chicago Sex Trafficking
Posted on May 13, 2008On May 7 The Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center at the DePaul University College of Law held a press conference at the downtown campus to announce the release of an important research study on Domestic sex trafficking of...
Law Professor Roy M. Mersky, Dead at 82
Posted on May 12, 2008Many folks who attended law school may recall the name Mersky from the classic book ?Fundamentals of Legal Research? first published in 1975 (with J. Myron Jacobstein) that may have been used as part of their legal writing and research...
Attention: Faculty Research Assistants
Posted on May 09, 2008The Rinn Law Library will be conducting orientation sessions for faculty research assistants on May 21 at 1 p.m., and May 27 at noon. These sessions will introduce faculty research assistants to the special library services and wealth of resources...
State statutes: copyright vs. public access
Posted on May 09, 2008Once upon a time, the only way to access cases, statutes, and regulations was in hardcopy at a library, or via subscription databases like Westlaw and Lexis. Over the past decade or so, sites like Justia, the LII, and others...
Selected April 2008 Law Library Acquisitions
Posted on May 09, 2008Catalog Record Catalog Record Catalog Record Catalog Record More Info More Info More Info More Info Catalog Record Catalog Record Catalog Record Catalog Record More Info More Info More Info More Info Catalog Record Catalog Record Catalog Record More Info...
?Long May It Live:? New CEO Sounds Off on (What Used to Be Known As) West Publishing
Posted on May 07, 2008?Long May It Live:? New CEO Sounds Off on (What Used to Be Known As) West Publishing By Dan Ursini On April 17th, Thomson completed its acquisition of Reuters. The new name of the resulting corporate entity is Thomson Reuters....
Summit on Wrongful Convictions to be held May 8 at Texas State Capitol
Posted on May 05, 2008In the last few days there have several news stories about the growing number of exonerations of prioners in Texas who were convicted for serious crimes. Due to the work of the Innocense Project of New York City and the...
Attention: Faculty Research Assistants
Posted on May 02, 2008The Rinn Law Library will be conducting orientation sessions for faculty research assistants on May 21 at 1 p.m., and May 27 at noon. These sessions will introduce faculty research assistants to the special library services and wealth of resources...
Reconciling Law Day and May Day ?
Posted on May 01, 2008Today on May 1ST in Chicago, thousands of people are expected to march dowtown for immigrant rights. Over the last couple years these marches in major U.S. cities have almost become a tradition. This harkens back to the historical links...
Hidden Treasures at the DePaul Richardson Library ?
Posted on April 30, 2008A current posting on the DePaul University Libraries blog entitled ?I ? the Special Collections and Archives? entices DePaul users to check out the special collections that we may have heard about but have never explored. Here is an excerpt...
Copyright Law Exhibit at Ryerson Library of The Art Institute
Posted on April 29, 2008Why Are These Pictures in the Public Domain? The short answer is that it?s complicated. Several layers of copyright law, some going back to the 1909 Act, may need to be addressed to determine the copyright status of many works....
Local Law Student Fortuitously Contributes to Work of International Tribunal
Posted on April 29, 2008This past Friday, DePaul?s International Human Rights Law Institute ( IHRLI ) co- sponsored a conference on the role of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ), ten years after its creation. (See blog posting: Midwest Regional Conference on International...
EPA Report To Congress On Re-opening EPA Libraries
Posted on April 24, 2008In a previous blog posting earlier this year, it was reported that after considerable lobbying by EPA library employees, library associations, practicing scientists and public users, Congress provided for the re-opening of EPA libraies that were closed by EPA management...
"Your Witness" Book Gives Expert Insight Into Art of Cross-examination
Posted on April 22, 2008"In YOUR WITNESS, fifty of the nation?s top trial lawyers share the secrets of the most engaging, difficult, and dramatic aspect of their work ? cross-examination. These secrets are revealed through richly told courtroom ?war stories? with a point. While...
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases Now Available
Posted on April 21, 2008?The culmination of eight years of editorial work, the four volumes of The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases present a representative assortment of Lincoln's most important and most interesting cases in a form that both scholars and...
Lawyers,Law Firms & the Legal Profession Symposium
Posted on April 18, 2008Topics : Lawyers in a Fee Quandary: Must the Billable Hour Die? Luncheon: The Roberts Court, the 2008 Election & the Future of the Judiciary Lawyers in Transition: Ghosts from the Old Firm Haunting the New Firm Lawyers in the...
CIPLIT Program With Visiting Artist Zach Helm
Posted on April 18, 2008( Source: DePaul College of Law Student Newsletter, April 18,2008 )
"CLEAR Initiative" Symposium On Revision of Illinois Criminal Code
Posted on April 18, 2008Today the the ?CLEAR Initiative? is sponsoring a day-long symposium on the comprehensive revisions for codification in Illinois' Criminal Code at the John Marshall Law School, 315 S. Plymouth Court Chicago, IL . ?Illinois' Criminal Code was last rewritten 45...
Harvard Faculty To Make Articles Open Access
Posted on April 10, 2008A long article by Peter Suberin in the March 2, 2008 issue of the ?SPARC Open Access Newsletter? discusses the recent Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences vote (Tuesday Feb. 12) to give the University a worldwide license to make...
40TH Aniiversary of the Assissination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted on April 04, 2008?King went to Memphis in early April 1968 to lead a peaceful march in support of garbage workers. At age 39, he was already a Nobel Laureate and had won major victories in ending segregation, making civil rights a part...
Former Appellate Justice R. Eugene Pincham Dies
Posted on April 04, 2008Former judge, mayoral candidate R. Eugene Pincham dies Crains Chicago Business, April 03, 2008 "R. Eugene Pincham, a former judge who spent much of his career as a civil rights attorney defending people he believed had been wronged by the...
Dyson's Book Explores Dr. King's Legacy & Fate of Black America
Posted on April 04, 2008Michael Eric Dyson reflects on the impact the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had on American society in "April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.?s Death and How It Changed America." " Every January, the nation celebrates the life...
Computer Security Information From "US-CERT"
Posted on April 02, 2008The Winter 2008 Rinn Law Library Newsletter included a section listing web sites (p.5-6) that were useful in protecting computer users in the digital world. Mark Giangrande, one of our reference librarians, has found an excellent US government web site...
New 2008 U.S.News Law School Rankings Released
Posted on March 31, 2008The new U.S.News & World Report rankings of graduate school programs were released last week. A posting from the Tax Prof Blog provides a quick overview of the Top 25 law schools and the biggest moves among the Top 100...
Two Exemplary Local Lawyers Pass Away This Week
Posted on March 28, 2008Fred Herzog, Dean Emeritus of The John Marshall Law School,age 100, died on March 21. "Fred F. Herzog had been appointed a judge for life in Austria in 1935, but as a Jew he was removed three years later in...
DePaul Law Students Win Patent Law Moot Court Competition
Posted on March 27, 2008Congratulations to Josh Larsen and Tom Rammer who won the Midwest Regional Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition. Now in its 35th year, the AIPLA Moot Court Competition is named for a member of the United States Court of...
New Website and Second Life Presence to Support Work of International Criminal Court
Posted on March 26, 2008Some of us may think that online web sites and ?alternative reality? sites created by young people will be filled with fantasy and not deal with serious life & death issues. But that is hardly the case with the International...
Midwest Regional Conference on International Justice
Posted on March 26, 2008On Friday, April 25, 2008, IHRLI will host a conference recognizing the ten-year anniversary of the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The conference is organized by IHRLI and funded by a grant from The John D. and Catherine...
GAO Legislative History Collection On WestLaw
Posted on March 26, 2008The staff of the law library at the Government Accountability Office (GAO,formerly the Government Accounting Office) have been compiling complete federal legislative histories from 1915 onward to aid in providing reference service to their users. This is a massive collection...
Response by Thomas Mann to LC Working Group Report
Posted on March 20, 2008A previous posting on this blog in January 2008, entitled ?Final LC Working Group Report Released?, told about the final report of a special Library of Congress task force that was charged with addressing the ?future of bibliographic control in...
FastCase Inc. Enters Rich Public Legal Portal Arena
Posted on March 19, 2008FastCase, the commercial company from whom the Public.Resource.Org and PreCYdent developers acquired the huge volume of court cases mentioned in the previous post, has also created its own public access collection called, "The Public Library of Law". It is a...
Video: How to Use PreCYdent the new Public Legal Search Engine
Posted on March 14, 2008Robert Ambrogi's LawSites has provided a link to a video of the project's CTO, Antonio Tomarchio, showing how to use PreCYdent and comparing it against a commercial legal research tool. The 25 year old, Mr. Tomarchio is Italian and his...
Landmark Online Public Release of Federal Cases
Posted on March 13, 2008Two previous postings on this blog in Oct. 2007, alerted readers about two important projects directed to making federal case law publicly accessible & searchable. ?Activist Carl Malamud Challenges Westlaw With Online Project? and ?AltLaw.org To Provide U...
Chicago Women's History Event at Chicago History Museum
Posted on March 11, 2008Kathryn DeGraff, department head of special collections and archives at DePaul University, was quoted in the front page story of the 3/5-11/2008 issue of the Streetwise newspaper entitled ?Seeking feminist history ? before it?s too late?, which announces the March...
"60 Minutes" Segment on the Local Case of Alton Logan
Posted on March 11, 2008This past Sunday, the television news program, "60 Minutes", featured a story about a Chicago resident , Alton Logan, who has been in jail for 26 years for a killing, that lawyers, Dale Coventry and Jamie Kunz, have known he...
Law Professor Gerstenblith to Chair Panel on Cultural Property & Armed Conflict
Posted on March 06, 2008The Lawyers? Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation whose current president is our own law professor Patty Gerstenblith, will be presenting a program entitled ?Protecting the Past: the Fate of Cultural Property in Times of Armed Conflict?, at George Washington University...
Tips For Using Library Audiobooks
Posted on March 04, 2008A very helpful digital consumer article appeared today in the Chicago Tribune Tempo page.?How To Enjoy Library Audiobooks On The Go? by Eric Gwinn. The guide is broken down into three main sections: Before you download, Getting the download, Fixing...
"Howling In Mesopotamia" - An Iraqi-American Memoir
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Foreclosure Resources for Consumers
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Law Professor Bassiouni Speaks on Panel to Open "Abu Ghraib" Exhibit
Posted on February 27, 2008On February 15, law professor Cherif Bassiouni, attorney Susan Burke and artist, Daniel Heyman, participated in a panel at the opening of the DePaul University Museum?s exhibit, , "Abu Ghraib Detainee Interview Project." The works on display were created by...
18th Annual Law Review Symposium: Media, Race, & the Death Penalty
Posted on February 22, 2008This Symposium, organized by the DePaul Law Review Volume 57 and the DePaulCollege of Law Center for Justice in Capital Cases will explore the interplay of media, race, and the death penalty. An extraordinary slate of speakers and panelists with...
Disk Encryption, Not As Secure As We Thought
Posted on February 22, 2008This 32 page booklet available through PGP Corporation ( major encryption software company) may need to be re-written as the result of a recent research study from the Center For Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. The paper is titled...
Law Library Journal Turns 100
Posted on February 21, 2008The Winter 2008 issue of Law Library Journal, the "official" publication of the American Association of Law Libraries, published since 1908, marks a major milestone, with volume 100, number 1. Scholarly articles on law, legal materials, and librarianship have been...
Lawyers Playing Catch-up in Use of Technology ?
Posted on February 21, 2008Interesting article about the rate of adoption of technology by the legal profession from LexisONE site and Boston Globe site. The legal profession seems to have resisted the use of technology much longer than many other fields. But some key...
New "School For Public Service" Has Two Joint Degrees With The Law School
Posted on February 20, 2008This past Feb 15 was the official kickoff for DePaul?s new School for Public Service ( SPS) at a dinner held at the Chicago Cultural Center with Senator Richard Durbin as the keynote speaker . The school is the outgrowth...
ABA Techshow in Chicago, Free to Law Students!
Posted on February 20, 2008Celebrating its 22nd year in 2008, ABA TECHSHOW continues to be the world?s premier legal technology conference & expo. The three-day conference gets attendees from throughout the country.Get up-to-speed on the latest and greatest in legal technology! ABA TECHSHOW? is...
?The Public? - A New Film by Emilio Estevez Tackles Issues of Libraries & Homelessness
Posted on February 18, 2008An April 2007 posting on this blog, ?Public Libraries As Social Service Agencies? looked at the views of Chip Ward who retired as the assistant director of the Salt Lake City Public Library System. He had written written a disturbing...
CONGRESS DIRECTS EPA TO RE-OPEN ITS LIBRARIES
Posted on February 15, 2008Buried within the omnibus appropriations bill Congress sent at the end of last year to President Bush , there is significant relief for the beleaguered library network of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Congress ordered EPA to restore library services...
Amazing Database Of Federal Data - For Lawyers Too
Posted on February 14, 2008Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse and the TRACFED Data Warehouse by LINDA ROBERGE,SUSAN LONG,DAVID BURNHAM & PATRICIA HASSETT, Trends in Law Library Management and Technology, v.17, p.61-73 "Lawyers are ?word? people. They read and author complaints motions, opinions, etc...
Tips From HeinOnline for using Their Service
Posted on February 14, 2008Recent HeinOnline Blog Postings of interest : Congressional Record Daily to Bound Volumes - Browse by month now available! Several of you have found the Congressional Record Daily to Bound Locator tool extremely helpful when looking for a page from...
Significance Of Recent NIH Research Deposit Law
Posted on February 13, 2008In late December, a small part of the huge ?Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008?, required authors of NIH-funded (National Institutes of Health) research, to deposit a digital copy of their results within 12 months for inclusion in PubMed Central, a...
Life & Death of DePaul Law Grad Remebered in Award
Posted on February 07, 2008The family of 1965 DePaul law graduate, Allen J. Hoover, and his former law firm, Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer, have created an annual $5000 award for a DePaul law student, in his memory. As many of us can...
Professor Bassiouni On Panel to Address Ethics of IRAQ War
Posted on February 05, 2008Please join us for a discussion of the ethical and religious dimensions of the ongoing war in Iraq. Together with a distinguished panel of scholars, we will consider how three major religious traditions respond to the complex moral questions raised...
Black Law Students Association Mock Trial Team Places In Competition
Posted on February 01, 2008The College of Law is proud to announce that BLSA (Black Law Students Association) team members : Anisa Jones, Theodore Thomas, Takeia Johnson and Sharone Mitchell under the spectacular coaching of Professor Cynthia Roseberry competed recently in the Regional BLSA...
CIPLIT® Arts Law Colloquium
Posted on January 30, 2008If the previous posting is of interest to you, so may this law school program : CIPLIT® Arts Law Colloquium - Law Enforcement and the Arts Speakers: Dr. Bonnie Magness-Gardiner, Program Manager, Art Theft Program, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
Law Professor Gerstenblith Quoted in Stolen Antiquties Story
Posted on January 30, 2008Federal government agents have conducted raids on four museums & an art gallery in southern California. The information from the search warrants indicates that these were the result of a five year undecover operation by the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement...
Afgan Student Sentenced to Death For Sharing Printouts Questioning Islam
Posted on January 23, 2008A story about a trial in Afghanistan posted today on cnet News.com, indicates what a long way to go projects like our own IHRLI/ISISC Provincial Justice Initiative ( International Human Right Law Institute/International Institute of higher Studies in Criminal Sciences),...
Former Rinn Law Library Librarian Gets Presidential Service Award
Posted on January 21, 2008Jim Goodridge was one of the Rinn Law Library's reference librarians for eleven years from 1989 to 2000.He was an excellent reference librarian who seemed to know most of the students by first name.Jim always had a strong service orientation....
DePaul Law Grad, Frank Clark, Very Involved With Local Charter School
Posted on January 18, 2008The Rowe-Clark Math and Science Academy in West Humbolt Park is one of Chicago's Renaissance 2010 schools. The schools are given autonomy to create innovative learning environments using one of the following governance structures: charter, contract, or performance...
President's Book Club Discussion
Posted on January 15, 2008Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas President?s Book Club Discussion The book "Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas", has been chosen as the winter selection for the President's Book Club. We will gather to discuss the...
Final LC Working Group Report Released
Posted on January 10, 2008In November 2006, Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress, convened a Working Group to examine the future of bibliographic control in the 21st century. After holding three regional public hearings in the past year,to...
Martin Luther King Jr. Law School Program
Posted on January 09, 2008[ Click on leaflet for bigger image ] Link for schedule of the days activities
Open-Source Search Engine, Wikia Search, Debuts
Posted on January 08, 2008Yesterday, a new search engine was launched by Jim Wales the founder of Wikipedia. He wanted to develop a new model for search engines since as he says, ? I think we should be concerned about secret?proprietary software, a small...
Alumni Focus ? Thomas J. Filarski,(1986)
Posted on January 08, 2008DePaul Law School alumnus, Thomas J. Filarski, has been named to the Board of Directors for 2008 of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the United States. Mr. Filarski, chair of the...
Librarian Captures Coveted Couch Potato Title
Posted on January 04, 2008A late-breaking story from the Atlanta Journal Constitution about the indurance of the long distance viewer : "NEW YORK (AP) ? A Manhattan librarian emerged as a champion couch potato after three rivals gave in to sleep deprivation or nature's...
Law Library of Congress Faces Funding Crunch
Posted on January 04, 2008An article in the Nov. 15 issue of Library Journal reported on the testimony by AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) representative, Ann T. Fessenden, to the Committee on House Administration, regarding the precarious financial status of the Law Library...
The Bluebook Online From Cornell
Posted on December 14, 2007From Scout Report: Basic Legal Citation http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/ For law students, learning about the world of legal citations is key. For many years, the standard reference work on legal citation was a manual known as "The Bluebook". This work has been...
Law Professor Kellman Among Six Experts Outlining Plan For Global Biosecurity
Posted on December 14, 2007DePaul law Professor, Barry Kellman, was one of six internationally recognized experts who authored the document entitled, "Consensus Statement of Priority Actions for the Promotion of Global Biosecurity", which was the result of an international workshop in October, with the...
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