Our featured book for May, 2024, is Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit. Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back…
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Restorative Justice Reading List
Restorative justice proposes that the way to address harm and crime must consider the needs of the victim, perpetrator, and broader community. It stands in opposition to our current system of retributive justice, which focuses on punishment alone. Principles of…
Rights of Nature – Reading List for Earth Month 2024
Rights of nature is a theory that ecosystems, species, and natural processes have inherent rights and humans must take these rights into account. Currently, rights of nature laws take different forms over the many countries, states, and cities that have…
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Judicial Elections Guide
Election day is coming up on March 19. Besides those national and state races, there are 45 judicial vacancies in Cook County. Fortunately, Injustice Watch publishes a Judicial Election Guide. You can create a personal voting guide to take into…
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Resource Spotlight: ProQuest Legislative Insight and Supreme Court Insight
The Pritzker Legal Research Center recently subscribed to two additional resources from ProQuest: Legislative Insight and Supreme Court Insight. Both are accessible directly via the embedded links, as well as through the law library’s A-Z list of databases. Legislative Insight…
Resource Spotlight: Research Methods Primary Sources
Ordinarily, we take to this space to tell you about sources for your research. This month, we are highlighting a resource to help you perform that research. Research Methods: Primary Sources is designed to help those who are researching in…
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Crime, Justice, and a Change in Plans: Developing an Online Exhibit during the Pandemic Era
The Pritzker Legal Research Center at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law holds a significant rare book collection specializing in Roman, canon, and customary law. Its more than 8,000 volumes include several incunabula as well as first editions of legal classics.…
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A Brief History of NULS Student Newsletters, Part 3: Trash or Treasure? Perception of The Pleader and HOOPS by the Campus at Large
Unfortunately, little documentation survives to offer a full understanding of how The Pleader and HOOPS were perceived by their communities during the time of their publication. The newsletters themselves printed letters that praised and disparaged the newsletters’ content, but the newsletters were rarely mentioned…
A Brief History of NULS Student Newsletters, Part 2: The Pleader, HOOPS, and The Role of Critique
Throughout their publication histories, student-run newsletters The Pleader and HOOPS positioned themselves as politically motivated forces: they offered law students a platform that reversed traditional hierarchies of power in the law school, allowing students to respond to the daily function of the school and…
A Brief History of NULS Student Newsletters, Part 1: Law School Life in Xerox
“The Pleader was conceived last year, so the story goes, simultaneously by two second-year students who felt the need for a school newspaper. […] There is a theory that a stroke of genius, an apple on Newton’s head so to speak,…
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