Vincent G. Rinn Law Library

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

2009-12-11T16:22:27-06:00

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. OCLC has been around...

Last Minute Tips From Law Profs For Exams

2009-12-09T09:55:25-06:00

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 ?

2009-12-03T16:22:14-06:00

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?

2009-11-24T12:06:28-06:00

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

2009-11-20T15:28:32-06:00

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

2009-11-19T13:41:05-06:00

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. But if all...

Jewish Judges Association Presents Awards To Justice Anne M. Burke and Justice Warren D. Wolfson

2009-11-16T12:03:59-06:00

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

2009-11-11T16:05:31-06:00

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

2009-11-10T11:53:36-06:00

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...

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

2009-11-06T13:16:31-06:00

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...