Legal Research

Check Out The Cool ?Why DePaul Law ?? Video On YouTube

Posted on February 25, 2010
The video produced by the DePaul Law School has been up for about a week. There is currently a link to it on the law school web page. But you may not have noticed it. It is meant as a...

Religion An Issue With "Body Scans" As Well As Security ?

Posted on February 24, 2010
Tonight at 7:00 pm., DePaul law professor Bruce Ottley will on the on WTTW, Channel 11 program "Chicago Tonight". He will be discussing issues relating to privacy concerns of airport full body scans. According to recent media reports, the concerns...

Highlights of Rules Regarding Credit Card Accounts

Posted on February 22, 2010
The provisions of the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 are being implemented through regulations from the Federal Reserve Board. The rules taking effect today, February 22, amend Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) to protect consumers who...

New Book Proposes A "National Security Court System"

Posted on February 18, 2010
At the beginning of the year, at least three bills have been introduced in Congress to either force the administration to consult with "with appropriate officials" before attempting to try terrorism suspects ( S.2943), or not try a specific suspect...

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Professor Roberta Kwall Discusses Her New Book

Posted on February 15, 2010
Professor Roberta Kwall will discuss her newly published book: The Soul of Creativity: Forging a Moral Rights Law for the United States (Stanford University Press). This book addresses what motivates human creativity and how the law governing authors' rights should...

American Association of University Professors Launches New Journal on Academic Freedom

Posted on February 10, 2010
"The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has launched a new Journal of Academic Freedom, which will be published annually or twice a year. The debut issue features articles that look back in time (on academic freedom during the Cold....

Free Legal Information Project, PreCYdent, Closes Up Shop

Posted on February 10, 2010
One of the more ambitious initiatives for free public access to US legal information, PreCYdent, which started in 2006, has had ?to call it quits? due to lack of funds to continue. This blog had a posting from 2008 in...

Fastcase iPhone App Competes With Westlaw, LexisNexis AND Google

Posted on February 04, 2010
While most participants in the legal research market have been closely watching for the new initiatives from Westlaw and LexisNexis at Legal Tech New York, the small nimble company, Fastcase, has launched a free research service available through the Apple...

Book Discussion and Reception for Professor Andrea Lyon

Posted on February 03, 2010
The College of Law will host a book discussion and reception with Professor Andrea D. Lyon, to celebrate the release of her new book, ?Angel on Death Row: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer." The book explores Professor...

New ALR International - Acknowledging the Obvious ?

Posted on February 01, 2010
The American law Reports Series began in 1919 and has been published in two series, currently ALR 6th for general and state law issues and ALR Federal for issues of federal law. It's multi-series publication comprised of articles that focus...

New Platforms for Westlaw & Lexis Nexis - The Google-ization of Legal Research ?

Posted on January 26, 2010
Rumors have been circulating for some time about the expected new platforms for Westlaw and Lexis Nexis.The big Westlaw roll out is scheduled for February 1 and the Lexis debut will be sometime later this year. At first glance one...

Live Video Conference On Using "eCO",The Copyright Office Online Filing System

Posted on January 25, 2010
The U.S. Copyright Office, as part of an re-engineering initiative,introduced the eCO electronic filing system for submitting copyright registration applications on-line, in the summer of 2008. Improvements sought were faster processing time,lower filing fee,earlier effective date of registration,secure payment of...

JuriGlobe World Legal Systems Web Site

Posted on January 21, 2010
If your are a lawyer, an academic or just a layperson with an interest in what different legal systems are to be found in different parts of the world, then the "JuriGlobe World Legal Systems" web site, will give you...

"Law.gov" Domain - Who Gets To Use It?

Posted on January 21, 2010
Two would-be allies in the movement to provide free online access to legal materials, the very official Law Library of Congress (part of the Library of Congress) and Public.Resource.Org, a small non-profit alternative organization, may have a tussle coming up...

Will DePaul Students Save By Renting Their Textbooks ?

Posted on January 15, 2010
Will DePaul students soon be able to rent their textbooks at a significant savings over buying them? Maybe, if the pilot program that Barnes & Noble has undertaken at several Barnes & Noble college bookstores becomes a standard product. A...

Professor Andrea Lyon Book Discussion & Signing At Barnes & Noble

Posted on January 13, 2010
DePaul law Professor Andrea Lyon will discuss and sign her new book,"ANGEL OF DEATH ROW: My Life as a Death Penalty Lawyer" at the Barnes & Noble bookstore, 1ST floor of the DePaul Center, 1 East Jackson Blvd.on Wednesday January...

DePaul Law Professor, Andrea Lyon Interviewed on Today Show

Posted on January 12, 2010
Depaul law Professor, Andrea Lyon, was interviewed on the Today show on Thursday January 7. The interview mainly concerned her representation of Casey Anthony accused of murdering her own daughter and about the publication of her new book,"Angel of Death...

IT Worker Security Concerns Not Just For Government

Posted on January 08, 2010
An end-of-the-year article by Tim Greene from NetworkWorld.com , on the selection of Mr. Howard Schmidt as President Obama's new "cyber czar", summarizes his positions on several key cyber security issues. Many of these deal with external threats to US...

International Human Rights Law Institute Gets Record Grant For Work In Iraq

Posted on January 05, 2010
The International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) at DePaul University has received $4.7 million dollar grant from the United States Department of State to continue the post-conflict work that it began in 2003 in Iraq. The award, which is the...

How Arkansas Chritmas Lights Made it to Disney World

Posted on December 17, 2009
The "Osborne Spectacle of Lights" will be lighting up the "Streets of America" area of Disney's Hollywood Studios from November 30, 2009 through January 3, 2010. Folks who have not visited DisneyWorld in Florida, may not be aware of this...

Lawyers, Law Schools and Beyond

Posted on December 16, 2009
An article in the December 14 National Law Journal, "Going to law school? Proceed with caution" by Karen Sloan, takes a very hard look at the prospects for law students to actually find the kind of employment that they expected...

OCLC, Source of Most Library Catalog Records, Gets Some Competition

Posted on December 11, 2009
The company known as OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)is what is called in the library field, a bilbiographic utility.Such a utility is a computer-based network offering support functions to libraries, particularly in cataloging and technical services...

Last Minute Tips From Law Profs For Exams

Posted on December 09, 2009
What law student is looking at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog during exams time ? Probably not many. But a posting from a couple days ago by Ashby Jones might still be useful next time, for a bit of...

Law School Rankings - Strength In Numbers ?

Posted on December 03, 2009
With the current debut of the Super Lawyer magazine law school ratings, a report from the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), may provide the context for understanding the significance of such a new rating. This month, law schools received a...

What? Another Ranking?

Posted on November 24, 2009
Law school rankings continue to receive a lot of attention from all the stakeholders and a new entrant is getting its share. In a 2004 book review article,"What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics", (82...

Valuable Academic Supreme Court Database, Now more Accessible

Posted on November 20, 2009
The statistical database created by Professor Harold J. Spaith, J.D., professor of political science at Michigan State University, in the 1980s has been used for most systematic academic analyses of the Supreme Court and it's members. In it's original form...

Google's Entry Into Legal Research Changes The Game

Posted on November 19, 2009
Bob 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, 2009
Each 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, 2009
In 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, 2009
Mr. 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...

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