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New ABA Magazine to Cover Intellectual Property Law

Posted on October 13, 2008
The 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, 2008
On 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
A 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...

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LLMC Digital (Law Library Micorform Consortium) Debuts New Interface

Posted on October 03, 2008
Most 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, 2008
C 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, 2008
Yesterday 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, 2008
On 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, 2008
Attorney 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
Maria 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, 2008
Scalia 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, 2008
A 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, 2008
Acquiring 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, 2008
An 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, 2008
What 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
Most 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, 2008
Recently, 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, 2008
Center 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, 2008
We 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, 2008
Massachusetts 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, 2008
One 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, 2008

Elizabeth Shivers, of Our Staff, Featured in New Movie, "The Express - The Ernie Davis Story"

Posted on August 27, 2008
One 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, 2008
From 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
As 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,...

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