Michael Hannon ’98

  • Associate Director for Access Services & Digital Initiatives
255A Mondale Hall

Degrees

  • University of Missouri-St. Louis, B.A.
  • University of Minnesota Law School, J.D.
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.L.S.

Expertise

  • Educational Technology

Professor Michael J. Hannon ’98 is the Law Library’s Associate Director for Access Services & Digital Initiatives. He provides administrative oversight for Access Services and the Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center.

Professor Hannon earned his B.A. degree from the University of Missouri-St. Louis; his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School; and his M.L.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He worked at the Duke University School of Law Library as a reference librarian and lecturing fellow from 1999 to 2005 prior to joining the University of Minnesota Law School Library faculty. Professor Hannon is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), the Minnesota Association of Law Libraries (MALL) and the Missouri Bar.

Professor Hannon's interests include digital evidence, computer forensics, e-discovery, computers and network technologies. He has the following network and computer certifications:

Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) (Microsoft Windows 2003)
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) (Microsoft Windows 2000)
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) (Microsoft Windows 2000)
CompTIA A+ Certification and Net+ Certification
Duke University Certificate in Advanced Networking Technology

Books

“Never Whisper Justice”: A Tribute in Photographs to the University of Minnesota Law School (University of Minnesota Law Library 2015) (co-author)
(with
Katherine Hedin
)
Digital Evidence: Computer Forensics and Legal Issues Arising from Computer Investigations (William S. Hein & Co., 2012)
A Legal Research Guide to American Thoroughbred Racing Law for Scholars, Practitioners and Participants (W.S. Hein, 1998)
(with

Journal Articles

Digital Evidence in Court – Part VIII, 38 (issue 8) Computer & Internet Lawyer 3 (Sept. 2021)
Digital Evidence in Court, 38 (issue 4) Computer & Internet Lawyer 7 (Apr. 2021)
Can Failing to Preserve Volatile Memory Evidence Ever Be in Bad Faith?, 38 (issue 1) Computer & Internet Lawyer 8 (Jan. 2021)
Should Defense Counsel Start Focusing on Volatile Memory?, 37 (issue 10) Computer & Internet Lawyer 10 (Nov./Dec. 2020)
The Importance of Volatile Computer Memory Evidence, the Tradeoffs Between Acquiring Potential Evidence from Volatile Memory on a Running Computer, and the Defense Perspective, 37 (issue 9) The Computer & Internet Lawyer 5 (Oct. 2020)
RAM Dumps, Hash Algorithms, Smearing, Encryption, and Order of Volatility, 37 (issue 6) The Computer & Internet Lawyer 8 (June 2020)
A Brief History of Memory Forensics, How Volatile Computer Memory Works, and Malware and Volatile Memory, 37 (issue 4) The Computer & Internet Lawyer 8 (Apr. 2020)
Volatile Computer Memory Evidence: Forensics Issues, 37 (issue 3) The Computer & Internet Lawyer 6  (Mar. 2020)
Metadata in Civil and Criminal Discovery—Part II, 35 (issue 1) The Computer & Internet Lawyer 1 (Jan. 2018)
Metadata in Civil and Criminal Discovery—Part I, 34 (issue 12) The Computer & Internet Lawyer 6 (Dec. 2017)
Types of Metadata and Its Potential Relevance in Litigation, 34 (issue 11) The Computer & Internet Lawyer 9 (Nov. 2017)
The Importance of Metadata in Digital Evidence for Legal Practitioners, 34 (issue 10) The Computer & Internet Lawyer 1 (Oct. 2017)
Evidence Authentication in a Digital World--Parts I, II, III, 32 (issues 10, 11, 12) Computer & Internet Lawyer (Oct., Nov., Dec. 2015)
A Closer Look at Unpublished Opinions in the United States Courts of Appeals, 3 Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 199 (2001)

Other Publications

An Increasingly Important Requirement: Authentication of Digital Evidence, 70 Journal of the Missouri Bar 314 (2014)
E-Mail in the Workplace: Balancing Efficiency and Liability Concerns, 9 Trends in Library Management and Technology 1 (1998)

Multimedia

The Clarence Darrow Digital Collection (University of Minnesota Law Library)
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