Publications, Michael Sweig, JD
“In Felony’s Mirror” is Michael Sweig’s memoir with essays on legal ethics and restorative justice. Available for purchase here.
Mr. Sweig’s Blog
CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUS
Legislative remedies and policy solutions for employment disenfranchisement of people with criminal convictions.
LEGAL PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
“From Practicing Law to Changing it,” by Dawn Turner Trice (Chicago Tribune, August 1, 2010)
ABA Journal Convicted of Theft, Ex Lawyer is Now an Advocate for Others With Background Issues | August 2, 2010
Blueprint for Progress: How Illinois Empowers Rehabilitated People with Criminal Records | Ch. 8, ISSUES WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS, 2010 Supplement, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education | Summer 2010
Beyond Legal Mechanisms – Employment, Housing and Other Related Critical Supports | Ch. 6, ISSUES WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS, 2010 Supplement, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education | Summer 2010 (with co-author, Jodina Hicks)
Moving-the-Box by Executive Order in Illinois | De Paul Journal for Social Justice, 4 DePaul J. for Soc. Just. 1:17 Fall 2010. (with co-author Melissa McClure).
Advancing Equal Justice Under Law for People with Criminal Records: Uniform Standards for Assessing Occupational Licensing Applications | Spring 2010;
Statement of Michael Sweig in Support of Senate Bill 1050 | June 15, 2009
Submitted to Governor Pat Quinn,
Protecting the Public by Protecting Lawyers from Themselves: The Only Solution to Disbarment for Theft of Client Funds | OBITER, pp. 31-32. November 2003.
COMMENT: Do Lawyers Play While Victims Pay When Corporations Discharge Toxic Tort Liability in Bankruptcy | Fall 1985 35:16 DE PAUL LAW REVIEW 1, p.161
Matsushita v. Zenith: Sovereign Compulsion and Conspiracy Go Out Before the Trial Goes On Fall 1986 5:1 DICKINSON JOURNAL of INTERNATIONAL LAW, p. 29
Guidelines For Consumer Debt Collection By Attorneys Under the 1986 Amendment to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act | February 1987 Commercial Law Bulletin reprinted in, 21: 4 NEW ENGLAND LAW REVIEW, p. 697 | Spring 1985-86 (released Spring 1987), cited in:
U.S. CODE ANNOTATED, TITLE 15. COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 41–CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION
SUBCHAPTER V–DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES, § 1692a. Definitions
Roger E. White v. K. David Myers, et al, Tennesse Court of Appeals, Knoxville | May 7, 2001 Session, Case No. E1999-02642-COA-R3_CV, fn 5, p. 10
Secrets of the Legal Industry, by Richard Luke Conforth (Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (August 2003, Version 1.04), p. 20,
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
From my online column, “In Judgment: Comments on Law and Culture,” published in
The Pendulum, Flash Commerce, Jungle Echoes, and my blog/newsletter,
“In the Law and On the Net”.
Can Steve Case be a Good Corn Farmer? | January 18, 2000
Commentary on the AOL-Time Warner merger.
Car Dealer Sues Student for Telling the Truth | January 25, 2000
Criticism of frivolous trademark disparagement litigation.
White Man’s Cyberspace Burden | February 17, 2000
Criticism of Clinton Administration’s support for the Cyberspace Electronic Security Bill, “CESA”, empowering the federal government to alter computer files without the knowledge of the computer owner.
Could Bush and Public Libraries Erode The First Amendment? | March 5, 2000
Commentary on censorship by Internet filtering in public libraries.
Leave Some Cash in the Other Guy’s Jeans | April 27, 2000
Commentary on the then imminent settlement of the Microsoft antitrust litigation.
Bezos’ Circus | May 19, 2000
Criticism of Amazon.com founder claiming to be a patent reformer.
