Author of the Week: Anne Rajotte
Anne Rajotte is a reference librarian at the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford, CT. She received her J.D. from Boston College Law School and an M.L.S. from Southern Connecticut State University.
Anne Rajotte is a reference librarian at the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford, CT. She received her J.D. from Boston College Law School and an M.L.S. from Southern Connecticut State University.
Joe Custer is Director of the law school's Judge Ben C. Green Law Library, and he teaches Advanced Legal Research and Electronic Discovery. His scholarship has primarily been in the areas of legal research, administration and issues pertaining to historical social justice.
Custer joined Case Western Reserve in 2015 after serving five years as Director of the Vince C. Immel Law Library and as a faculty member at the University of Saint Louis School of Law. He began his career in higher education as a tenured member of the faculty at the University of Kansas School of Law, where he worked for 15 years.
Before academia, Custer was The Director of Information Services/Attorney at Gage & Tucker in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a member of the Supreme Court of the United States and state of Missouri bars. In addition to his JD, Custer holds a Master’s in Library and Informational Science and a Master’s in Business Administration.
Steven D. Schwinn is an associate professor of law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, where he teaches, writes, and practices in the areas of constitutional law and human rights. He serves on the Board of Advisors of the Chicago Lawyers Chapter of the American Constitution Society, and he is co-founder and co-editor of the Constitutional Law Prof Blog. He previously taught at the University of Maryland School of Law and the George Washington University Law School. Before going into teaching, he served as assistant general counsel at the Peace Corps.
Alicia Brillon is the head of acquisitions at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Library. Previously she was a librarian at the University of Colorado Law Library from 2006 to 2014. Prior to becoming a law librarian, she worked as in-house counsel for a number of technology companies in Seattle, including for 3 years as Associate Counsel at Amazon.com working on intellectual property issues and software and content licensing. She then obtained her MLIS degree from the University of Washington. She is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, the American Association of Law Libraries and the Colorado Association of Law Libraries. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington in 1989 and her Juris Doctor from Seattle University in 1995.
Ron Carlson has authored fourteen books on evidence, trial practice and criminal procedure, in addition to professional articles in journals like the Duke, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Iowa, Northwestern, Georgia and Minnesota law reviews. His texts range from Ladd and Carlson on Evidence to Evidence: Teaching Materials for an Age of Science and Statutes (5th ed. 2002). Professor Carlson has taught in numerous continuing legal education programs throughout the country. He has appeared as trial and appellate counsel in several cases, including arguments in two major appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was trial counsel in a widely cited case establishing the right of mental patients to humane treatment: Eckerhart v. Hensley, 475 F. Supp. 908, later decision 103 S.Ct. 1933 (1983). In 1987, Professor Carlson was named by the Roscoe Pound Foundation as winner of its prestigious Richard Jacobsen Award, in recognition of "his demonstrated excellence over the years in teaching trial advocacy principles." In 1989, he received The University of Georgia's highest award for instruction, the Joseph Meigs Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1992, the Federal Bar Association conferred its highest award upon him, the Earl W. Kintner Award for Distinguished Service. Finally, in 2000 ALI-ABA presented the Harrison Tweed Award to Professor Carlson in recognition of the citations to his work by "the Federal Advisory Committee drafting new amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence relating to expert witnesses."
Liz McCurry Johnson serves as a Reference Librarian, and an Instructor of Legal Research (for the L.L.M. Program) at Wake Forest University School of Law. Additionally, she teaches two seminar courses, Health and Medical Research for Lawyers, and Scholarly Writing for International Lawyers. She is licensed to practice law in North Carolina. She is also an active member in the North Carolina Bar Association, Southeastern Chapter of American Association of Law Libraries, and American Association of Law Libraries.
Barbara Bintliff is the Joseph C. Hutcheson Professor in Law and Director of the Tarlton Law Library and Jamail Center for Legal Research at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Bintliff teaches a jointly listed class with the UT Schools of Law and Information on law libraries. Her publications focus on legal information and legal research topics. She has been active in a variety of national organizations including the American Association of Law Libraries, the Association of American Law Schools, the American Bar Association, the American Law Institute, and the American Bar Foundation. She served as AALL president in 2001-2002. In 2009-2011, she served as Reporter to the Uniform Law Commission drafting committee for the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA).
Raneta Lawson Mack is Professor of Law at Creighton University School of Law, where she teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, White Collar Crime, and Comparative Criminal Procedure. Professor Mack has published articles on several criminal law related issues including reform of the Chinese criminal justice system, concealed weapons laws, money laundering, bias in the criminal justice system, and problems with the Federal Witness Protection Program.
Professor Mack is also the author of four books, "A LAYPERSON'S GUIDE TO CRIMINAL LAW" (Greenwood Press, 1999), "THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: STANDING AT THE INTERSECTION OF RACE AND TECHNOLOGY," Carolina Academic Press, 2001), "EQUAL JUSTICE IN THE BALANCE: AMERICA'S LEGAL RESPONSES TO THE EMERGING TERRORIST THREAT," (with co-author Michael J. Kelly)(University of Michigan Press, 2004), and COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: HISTORY, PROCESSES AND CASE STUDIES (W.S. Hein, 2008).