Legal Research

Library Catalog System Upgrade

Posted on June 13, 2009
DePaul's library catalog and the statewide I-Share catalog will be undergoing a system upgrade beginning 3AM on Sunday, 6/14, scheduled to be completed on or before Wednesday, 6/17. During the upgrade: Renewals/My Account: It will not be possible to access...

"Gender and Judging" - Articles from International Journal of the Legal Profession

Posted on June 10, 2009
The International Journal of the Legal Profession is published in Britain and takes a very broad view of its subject matter which includes "the organization, structure, management and infrastructure of the legal professions of the common law and civil law...

State Dept. IG Critical of Process To Publish Foreign Relations of the United States

Posted on June 09, 2009
The "Foreign Relations of the United States" (FRUS) series is a government publication that most of us have probably seen on library shelves or possibly used for a school paper. But since its inception in 1861 in the Lincoln administration,...

ICC "Legal Tools" For Public Being Updated

Posted on June 05, 2009
"The Legal Tools were initially created to assist the International Criminal Court - Office of the Prosecutor (ICC-OTP) with legal research and drafting regarding the elements of crimes, modes of criminal liability and key procedural and evidentiary questions...

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Staff Member Mark Giangrande on Panel at Wayne State Law School

Posted on June 04, 2009
Mark Giangrande, one of our reference librarians and legal research instructors, has been invited to the Wayne State University Law School, to be part of a panel on "Practical Advice for Attorneys in Transition", on June 20, 2009. The presenters...

Sound Recordings of the Judge Sotomayor Firefighter Case

Posted on June 03, 2009
From a posting to the Law Librarian Blog by our reference librarian Mark Giangrande: The Wall Street Journal posted the audio of the Second Circuit hearing in Ricci v. DeStefano, the New Haven firefighter case in which Judge Sotomayor presided....

Law Professor Bandes Speaks to Value of "Empathy" for All Judges

Posted on May 27, 2009
With the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor by President Obama for the Supreme Court, the flurry of debate around questions of his singling out empathy as an essential quality for a Supreme Court Justice, has gone into high gear. In...

Learning the Facts About GITMO

Posted on May 26, 2009
For those who may be attending the screening of the Guantanamo docu-drama, "The Response", mentioned in the previous posting or anyone interested in the important legal and moral issues raised by the Guantanamo prison's existence, here are some background materials...

Film: "The Response" - Guantanamo Courtroom Drama

Posted on May 22, 2009
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION PUBLIC PROGRAM "The Response," Guantanamo Courtroom Drama Screening and Q&A with filmmaker,Sig Libowitz The ABA Public Program Series will continue with a screening of "The Response," a courtroom drama based on actual transcripts of the Guantanamo military...

Get Your Free Case Law on the Web !

Posted on May 19, 2009
A March 19, 2008 posting on this blog, FastCase Inc. Enters Rich Public Legal Portal Arena, provided a listing of a dozen free major online legal research portals that were available on the web. These are still around today. Some...

Law Day Release of New Books on U.S. Constitution By American Constitution Society

Posted on May 18, 2009
On Law Day, May 1,The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) has released two important new books on the Constitution. The ACS is one of the nation?s leading progressive legal organizations, comprised of lawyers, judges, students and policy...

Disbarment Complaints Mounted To Address Conduct of Bush-era Legal Advisers

Posted on May 18, 2009
A previous posting on this blog, "The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld", Book From The Center for Constitutional Rights, highlighted the legal case that could be brought against high level Bush Administration officials for alleged violations of domestic and international law...

DePaul Law Professor Franklin Quoted In Story About Obama Supreme Court Nomination

Posted on May 13, 2009
A May 13 Washington Post article that is looking at the qualifications that President Obama may be considering in his appointment of a new Supreme Court justice, quotes Professor David L. Franklin on the issue. Franklin, now a faculty member...

Modern-day Cassandar, Brooksley Born, Might Have Prevented "Credit Tsunami"

Posted on May 11, 2009
The May 2009 ABA Journal reprints an interesting biographical article from the Stanford magazine about attorney, Brooksley Born, who in the 1990s took on the Wall Street and the US government as head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (...

DePaul Litigation Lab Recognized For Innovation

Posted on May 08, 2009
preLaw magazine, a National Jurist publication, in their Winter 2009 issue, listed the DePaul Law School Litigation Lab in their cover article, "Most Innovative Law Schools", which included ten law schools nominated by law school deans.The innovations could be in...

New "Google Public Data" Service To Use Innovative "Gapminder Software"

Posted on May 05, 2009
A posting on the April 29 Google Blog announces an initiative by Google to use new software to make public statistics from the US government much more accessible and useful for users than the standard tables and cross tabulations usually...

Law Professor Bassiouni Working with "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative"

Posted on April 30, 2009
Professor Bassiouni's participation at a conference on the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, on on April 13-15, 2009 at Washington University , is evidence that he may be "retired" from DePaul but he is clearly still very active on issues of...

DePaul Law Professor Bassiouni in Retirement ....Not So Much.

Posted on April 28, 2009
Almost two years ago, the DePaul Law school held a major reception to honor Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni on his retirement from the law school. See the previous blog posting, Professor Bassiouni Praised at Dinner & in Congress. But Professor...

DePaul Law Recognized in U.S. News' 'America's Best Graduate Schools'

Posted on April 27, 2009
"The College of Law's overall ranking moved up to 87 from its 88th place showing last year. Six law schools tied with DePaul this year--Indiana University-Indianapolis; Loyola University Chicago; Marquette University; Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-Newark; St...

GPO Launches Federal Digital System ( FDsys)

Posted on April 24, 2009
A previous posting on this blog, New GPO "Future Digital System" Now In Beta, alerted users of online US government information about the testing of the new system intended to replace the previous online information service, GPO Access. Yesterday, GPO...

Illinois State Bar Association Provides Members with Subscription to Fastcase

Posted on April 20, 2009
In an article in the April,2009 issue of the Illinois Bar Journal, Helen W. Gunnarsson, a lawyer in Highland Park, and an Illinois Bar Journal contributing writer, does a pretty good job of selling ISBA members on their newest benefit...

DePaul Sex Trafficking Conference Presents Results of Study of Ex-pimps By Senior Research Fellow, Jody Raphael

Posted on April 17, 2009
According to a Chicago Sun Times article, details of a pilot project which interviewed five pimps and madams, were discussed at a video linkup conference on sex trafficking at DePaul University, this week. The project is part of the continuing...

National Technical Reports Library From NTIS Debuts

Posted on April 15, 2009
The National Technical Information Service is the nation?s largest source of government-funded scientific, technical, engineering and business-related information. It acquires, indexes, abstracts, and archives the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports...

The President & The Poet - The Abraham Lincoln & Robert Burns Connection

Posted on April 08, 2009
As the nation, the state of Illinois and the Illinois legal community commemorate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, there is another historical figure whose 250th anniversary also occurs this year. That figure is Robert Burns, Scotland's national bard...

MIT Faculty Vote To Make Pubs Open Access

Posted on April 02, 2009
Last July, a posting on this blog reported that the faculty of Harvard university had voted unanimously to make their scholarly articles available online for free. (See : Harvard Law Makes Scholarly Articles "Open Access"). Recently the faculty at the...

Genocide Prevention Month in April / Illinois Holocaust Museum To Open

Posted on April 01, 2009
"Genocide survivors from Darfur and five other civilian slaughters are uniting with each other and advocates to observe Genocide Prevention Month in April 2009. The survivors come together because the tragedies of Darfur, Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, the Holocaust, and Armenia...

2nd Annual Chicago Conference on Human Rights

Posted on March 31, 2009

Illinois Obama License Plate

Posted on March 31, 2009
From the Illinois State Library E-news : Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White and the Illinois Library Association (ILA) are pleased to announce the availability of an official Barack Obama special event Illinois license plate. The plates are...

More Online JSTOR Titles Available to DePaul Users

Posted on March 30, 2009
Alert from Bart Davis, Collection Development Assistant, DePaul University Libraries : The DePaul University Libraries now subscribes to even more collections from JSTOR. We now have access to all of the Arts & Sciences Collections (I-VI and the Complement), the...

iTunes University Gets Some New Competition

Posted on March 27, 2009
For several years many educational institutions , including Depaul, have contracted with Apple Inc. to use their online iTunes University to make educational audio and video content available online to their own users and sometimes also to the public...

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