Legal Research

Professor Tuerkheimer's OP-ED Piece Gets Many Responses

Posted on October 20, 2010
Law Professor Tuerkheimer's OP-ED piece in the New York Times on the validity of "Shaken Baby Syndrome" in court has engendered many positive and negative responses. ( see posting, "Professor Tuerkheimer's NYT OP-ED Article Questions Basis Of "Shaken Baby Syndrome"...

Accessing Government Information On Your Mobile Device

Posted on October 18, 2010
It's not only the ubiqitous commercials for the I-phone and the I-Pad with it's panoply of downloadable "Apps" that indicates that mobile devices are quickly becoming a primary means for accessing digital content. "...In the cover story of the September...

Southern Poverty law Center Film On Harrassment of Gay Student Landmark Case

Posted on October 14, 2010
In the wake of the news of the recent suicide by Rutgers student, Tyler Clementi, apparently as a consequence of invasion of privacy and harrassment for being gay, colleges have been examining their policies and codes of student conduct to...

Chicago Bar Association & The Chicago Bar Foundation?s 2010 Pro Bono Week

Posted on October 13, 2010
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The CBA and CBF will sponsor Chicago?s Sixth Annual Pro Bono Week from October 25-29, 2010. Click on this link for schedule of activities...

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Online Zimmerman Legal Resarch Guide Gets It's Own Blog

Posted on October 12, 2010
Zimmerman?s Research Guide is the creation of Andrew Zimmerman, a law librarian with 10+ years of research experience, who along with help and input from other law librarians, provides encyclopedic entries on almost any aspect of legal research. It has...

Illinois Legal Aid Online (ILAO) Receives National Award

Posted on October 08, 2010
"At its annual awards banquet in Atlanta on September 25, the Foundation for Improvement of Justice, Inc. named Illinois Legal Aid Online (ILAO) as a recipient of the 2010 Paul H. Chapman Award.This award, given out annually on a nation-wide...

New Illinois Code of Evidence In Effect In 2011

Posted on October 06, 2010
The Supreme Court created The Illinois Supreme Court Special Committee on Illinois Evidence, upon the recommendation of Chief Justice Thomas R. Fitzgerald on November 24, 2008. The Court charged the committee with codifying the law of evidence in the state...

"Just Books" Could Be "Just The Ticket" For Keeping Up

Posted on October 04, 2010
Looking for a site that can help you keep up with new legally-related books ? Or that can provide knowledgeable guidance for books on significant issues, such as : What is the one book all students should read before they...

New GPO Federal Information System, "FDsys" To Replace "GPO Access" This Year

Posted on September 30, 2010
Since the early 1990s, GPO ( Government Printing Office ) implemented GPO Access, a service that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. But development of new technologies and new demands...

The Sub-rosa Visit of Justice Scalia

Posted on September 29, 2010
DePaul welcomed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to the College of Law as the Enlund Scholar-in-Residence on September 22, 2010. As part of the program Justice Scalia would teach a number of classes, visit with faculty, and deliver a...

Iraq History Project Art Festival

Posted on September 27, 2010
DePaul University and International Human Right Law Institute's Iraq History Project is a series of gathered personal narratives from victims, witnesses, perpetrators, and others regarding human rights violations committed in Iraq from 1968 - 2008. The October 3rfl Festival will...

Gov. Doc. Comic Book Reprises Print

Posted on September 24, 2010
A time-traveling mouse, in a totally in-house-produced comic book, helps kick off the Government Printing Office's (GPO) upcoming 150th anniversary in 2011."The office -- which has published comics from Pip the Safety Elephant to a "Pogo" parental primer over the...

Professor Tuerkheimer's NYT OP-ED Article Questions Basis Of "Shaken Baby Syndrome"

Posted on September 22, 2010
DePaul Law Professor Deborah Tuerkheimer wrote an OP-ED piece in yesterday's New York Times entitled, "Anatomy of a Misdiagnosis". The article deals with the problems associated with the prevailing medical diagnosis of "shaken baby syndrome", which has been used in...

Allen Moye, Director of Rinn Law Library, Writes Article for "CLEO Edge Magazine"

Posted on September 21, 2010
Allen Moye, Director of the DePaul Rinn Law Library and member of the law faculty, has had an article published in the Council on Legal Education Opportunity's (CLEO) Edge Magazine - Broadening the Vision edition. The article is entitled, "Strategies...

New PACER/GPO Pilot Project Continues to Raise Questions

Posted on September 17, 2010
At the session entitled "The Changing Look of Government Information: Impact on Reference, Technical Services and Public Services" at the recently concluded American Association of Law libraries (AALL) conference, there was a short report about an a March 2010 decision...

Fastcase Debuts Free Legal Research App for the iPad

Posted on September 15, 2010
Early last year Fastcase had provided iPhone access to their online legal resources, see "Fastcase iPhone App Competes With Westlaw, LexisNexis AND Google". The iPhone app was well received by the legal community and even received the 2010 New Product...

New Online Map with State Legislative Links From Library of Congress

Posted on September 14, 2010
As part of an update to the Thomas service that makes federal legislative information freely available online, the Library of Congress realized that having a page linking to sources similar to THOMAS at the state level would be a good...

A Bubble In Law School Enrollment ?

Posted on September 10, 2010
An article in the September 1 issue of the ABA Journal on the job prospects for current law school grads,"The Job Seekers", featured four student profiles, including Christian Arizmendi who was a DePaul undergrad and is a 2009 DePaul Law...

2010 Census Provides Required Legal Count and Much More

Posted on September 08, 2010
As the July 2010 Census publication, ?Strength in Numbers - Your Guide to Census 2010 Redistricting Data From the U.S. Census Bureau?, relates : The decennial census has played a crucial role in the apportionment of the Congress for more...

Catholic Research Resources Alliance Helps Locate Canon Law Titles

Posted on September 02, 2010
The Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA),is a collaborative effort initiated by eight Catholic colleges and universities to share their resources electronically with librarians, archivists, researchers, scholars, and the general public, all who are interested in the Catholic experience...

Citizen-friendly Federal Register 2.0 Debuts

Posted on August 31, 2010
Last October the blog posting, Federal Register Made Available in ?XML? ?..So ?, asked what might this new format mean for ordinary users. Well, on July 26, 2010, the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Federal Register Act, a...

STAT-USA, Premier Federal Economic Statistics Site, Closing Down

Posted on August 30, 2010
For twenty five years STAT-USA,a part of the U.S. Dept. Commerce, has an provided an extensive collection of U.S. economic and finance data, international trade statistics, and market research reports. It was divided into two main areas: State of the...

Mixed ACLU Review of Obama Administration on Civil Liberties

Posted on August 11, 2010
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has prepared and released a 20 page report, entitled "ESTABLISHING A NEW NORMAL" on how it assesses the conduct of the Obama administration in regards to dealing with significant civil liberties issues after succeeding...

DePaul Law Professor Len Cavise Appointed to Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission

Posted on August 06, 2010
DePaul law professor and Director of the Center for Public Interest Law, Leonard Cavise, has been appointed by Illinois Governor Quinn, to the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission which will be empowered to review cases of prisoners who allege...

"Illinois Survival Guide" - New book From the ABA On Surviving As A New Attorney

Posted on August 05, 2010
A recent 2009 book published by the American Bar Association, ?The Illinois Survival Guide?, Best Practices for New lawyers?, provides an excellent resource for new attorneys pursuing a solo practice, with a focus on Illinois legal practice. The two authors...

LLMC's Haiti Legal Project To Be Online By Quake Anniversary

Posted on August 04, 2010
After the devastating earthquake in January 2010, Haiti needs to face immense human and physical challenges to begin moving toward recovery. Progress on this front has been slow. This may be due in part to the enormous difficulties that the...

Cuneiform Law Code Tablet Found In Israel - May Parallel Hammurabi Code

Posted on July 29, 2010
The tablet fragments were found in Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeological excavations this summer at Hazor in the north of Israel. The slab containing the Code of Hammurabi was found in 1901 in the an area that is now part...

Professor Brian Havel's Father's Legacy Continued By New "Waterford Crystal"

Posted on July 12, 2010
Irish-born DePaul law professor Brian Havel has written a very well-regarded biography of his late Czechoslovakian father who helped restore the glass industry to the town of Waterford, Ireland. ( See blog posting, Passing of Law Professor Brian Havel's Father,...

Discover the LexisNexis® Communities

Posted on July 08, 2010
The Rinn law library maintains a faculty publications page that provides a listing of publications for each full-time faculty member in these categories : books, book chapters, articles, book reviews, and miscellaneous. When possible, the library tries to provide links...

Solo Lawyers Can Get Affordable Courses From "Solo Practice University" Website

Posted on June 24, 2010
A recent posting on this blog, Would-be Solo Practioners Get Local Help, pointed out two local courses to help solo practioners establish and run their law practice. While one of these was at a local law school, in general, most...

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