Legal Research

Pioneering DePaul Law School Graduate, Anne M. Sullivan, Dies at 99

Posted on November 06, 2009
When 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, 2009
Difficult 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, 2009
At 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...

New Law Librarian of Congress Speaks on the Status of the Law Library

Posted on September 28, 2009
News 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...

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Professor Tuerkheimer's Article Argues "Shaken Baby Syndrome" Based on Shaky Science

Posted on September 23, 2009
A 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, 2009
In 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
As 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
DePaul 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, 2009
Associate 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
On 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
Most 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, 2009
An 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, 2009
On 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, 2009
While 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, 2009
Illinois 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
While 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
ABA 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
In 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, 2009
Dean 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....

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