Handouts and Presentations 2005 Joint Fall Seminar September 21-24, 2005 Chicago, Illinois Wyndham Chicago Legal Services Staff Section Research and Development Staff Section Legislative Research Librarians

Missed the Meeting? We have collected many of the handouts and presentations for your viewing pleasure!

Speaker Biographies - Faculty from all sessions and plenaries.

Legislative Immunity/Privilege
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005

• Legislative Immunity/Privilege - Michael Reig's handout
• Legislative Immunity/Privileges - Larry Shapiro's handout
• Legislative Immunity in Minnesota - Peter S. Wattson's handout

Evaluating Research Resources
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005

• Legal Research on the Internet: Selected Sites - Kerry Fitz-Gerald's handout
• Legal Research on the Internet - Kerry Fitz-Gerald's presentation

50-state Compilations
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005

• State Law Surveys on the Internet - Cheryl Nyberg's presentation

Statutory Construction and Statutory Drafting
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005

• Statutory Construction and Statutory Drafting - Jack Stark's handout

Legislative Documents 
Friday, Sept. 23, 2005

• Towns hit on access to information - Terry Pastika's handout
• Fear of freedom of information- Terry Pastika's handout 
• Handout about the Citizen Advocacy Center -Terry Pastika's handout 

USA PATRIOT Act
Friday, Sept. 23, 2005

• Library Records Confidentiality and the PATRIOT Act - Deborah Caldwell-Stone's presentation

• More Resources from the American Library Association:

  • USA PATRIOT Act: What to Do If Served with a Search Warrant

Why Most of What We Have Been Taught about How to Write Paragraphs Just Won’t Do
Friday, Sept. 23, 2005

• Why Most of What We Have Been Taught about How to Write Paragraphs Just Won’t Do - George Gopen's handouts

Breakfast Plenary:  LSSS Distinguished Scholar Series
Whither the Constitution and the Supreme Court?  An examination of the current debate over judicial ideology 
Saturday Sept. 24, 2005 

• John Roberts, Judicial Ideology And Where the Court is Headed - Stephen Presser's presentation