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Everday Research, Mary Whisner
Everday Research, Mary Whisner
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Law students and lawyers, like the rest of us, need to find information for their everyday lives. Ms. Whisner outlines ways that law students can use research to help them find jobs or decide what type of legal career they want to pursue.
Relevance, Choices, And The Goldilocks Problem, Mary Whisner
Relevance, Choices, And The Goldilocks Problem, Mary Whisner
Librarians' Articles
Ms. Whisner ponders a core question in answering reference queries: How can we know whether what we find is relevant to what the questioner wants? Her article provides criteria to consider and some guidelines for choosing sources in response to a query.
Looking For Waldo, Mary Whisner
Student-Edited Law Reviews And Their Role In U.S. Legal Education, Daniel H. Foote
Student-Edited Law Reviews And Their Role In U.S. Legal Education, Daniel H. Foote
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>p>For well over a centur y student-edited law reviews have been a major vehicle for publication of scholarship on law in the United States. At those law reviews, students bear responsibility for nearly all aspects of the publication process, including the vitally important task of selecting what works will be published. Criticisms have been raised over various aspects of this system, but they have not stemmed the rise of student-edited law reviews. Today, such law reviews are firmly entrenched as a central feature of the U.S. legal system; and, facilitat ed by advances in technology, the number of student-edited …