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Harvard Faculty To Make Articles Open Access

Posted on April 10, 2008
A 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, 2008
Former 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, 2008
Michael 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...

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Computer Security Information From "US-CERT"

Posted on April 02, 2008
The 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
Fred 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, 2008
Congratulations 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, 2008
Some 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, 2008
On 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
A 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, 2008
FastCase, 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, 2008
Robert 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, 2008
Two 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, 2008
Kathryn 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
A 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

Posted on March 03, 2008
Mr.Haider Ala Hamoudi, now an Associate Professor of Law at The University of Pittsburgh School of Law, after working as a corporate attorney in a law firm in New York City, moved to Iraq on July 14, 2003 and left...

Foreclosure Resources for Consumers

Posted on March 03, 2008
Foreclosure Resources for Consumers If you are having difficulty making your mortgage payment, one of the most important things you can do is seek assistance. The following resources provide information and links to agencies and organizations that may be able...

Law Professor Bassiouni Speaks on Panel to Open "Abu Ghraib" Exhibit

Posted on February 27, 2008
On 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...

Panel on Harold Washington, Black Politics and the Media

Posted on February 25, 2008

18th Annual Law Review Symposium: Media, Race, & the Death Penalty

Posted on February 22, 2008
This 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
Interesting 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
Celebrating 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, 2008
An 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...

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