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Filling The Google Gaps: Harnessing The Power Of Google Through Instruction, Rebecca Mattson
Filling The Google Gaps: Harnessing The Power Of Google Through Instruction, Rebecca Mattson
Law Library Faculty Works
This article discusses teaching proper use of Google and Google Scholar in the legal research classroom.
Outcomes In The Balance: The Crisis In Legal Education As Catalyst For Change, Beau Steenken
Outcomes In The Balance: The Crisis In Legal Education As Catalyst For Change, Beau Steenken
Law Faculty Popular Media
In this article, the author discusses how changes in the legal education market can force legal research teachers to focus their energies on meaningful assessment.
Benefits And Risks Of Legal Research Technologies, Roger V. Skalbeck
Benefits And Risks Of Legal Research Technologies, Roger V. Skalbeck
Law Faculty Publications
Appreciating Advanced Algorithms Technologies to enable effective legal research are often extremely sophisticated. Many apply advanced algorithms for searching, sorting, and even predict- ing results. Legal professionals need to understand the benefits and risks associated with these technologies. This is not a matter of knowing how queries are processed. Instead, the need is to under- stand the scope of what is being searched and the nature and reliability of results returned.
In August 2012, the American Bar Association amended commentary to Model Rule 1.1 on general competence, stating that “[t]o maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should keep …
A Matter Of Trust: Why The Time Is Right To Adopt The Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act (Uelma) In Florida, Patricia Morgan
A Matter Of Trust: Why The Time Is Right To Adopt The Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act (Uelma) In Florida, Patricia Morgan
Working Papers
The Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act is an important piece of legislation created by the Uniform Law Commission. It has been adopted in many states and is pending in several more. The Florida Bar is part of a national movement for Access to Justice – seeking solutions for citizens who need to access the judicial system but are of limited resources. UELMA would ensure that online state legal publications (such as Florida’s Administrative Code) would be authenticated and preserved. This would ensure that citizens can access the documents they need in order to pursue legal solutions.
Cu Law Library Launches New Resource For Historical Colorado Statutory Research, Robert M. Linz
Cu Law Library Launches New Resource For Historical Colorado Statutory Research, Robert M. Linz
Publications
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You Make Me Feel Like Dancing: Students, Scholars, And Sources In The Law Library, Jeanne Price
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing: Students, Scholars, And Sources In The Law Library, Jeanne Price
Scholarly Works
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Indiana's Government Information Day Focuses On Change, Access & Continuity, Jennifer Morgan, Sally Holterhoff
Indiana's Government Information Day Focuses On Change, Access & Continuity, Jennifer Morgan, Sally Holterhoff
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Research Analysis And Planning: The Undervalued Skill In Legal Research Instruction, Robert M. Linz
Research Analysis And Planning: The Undervalued Skill In Legal Research Instruction, Robert M. Linz
Publications
This article describes a method of research analysis and planning for legal problems. It introduces the framework of research plan, log, and product and provides a detailed research plan and log that students can use as a template for learning research. The article suggests how to teach the method in legal research classes, shares some of the author's experiences in teaching the method, and addresses some possible criticisms of this approach.
Research Strategies Using Headnotes: Citators And Relevance, Susan Nevelow Mart
Research Strategies Using Headnotes: Citators And Relevance, Susan Nevelow Mart
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Law Libraries And Laboratories: The Legacies Of Langdell And His Metaphor, Richard A. Danner
Law Libraries And Laboratories: The Legacies Of Langdell And His Metaphor, Richard A. Danner
Faculty Scholarship
Law Librarians and others have often referred to Harvard Law School Dean C.C. Langdell’s statements that the law library is the lawyer’s laboratory. Professor Danner examines the context of what Langdell through his other writings, the educational environment at Harvard in the late nineteenth century, and the changing perceptions of university libraries generally. He then considers how the “laboratory metaphor” has been applied by librarians and legal scholars during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The article closes with thoughts on Langdell’s legacy for law librarians and the usefulness of the laboratory metaphor.
More Than Decisions: Reviews Of American Law Reports In The Pre-West Era, Richard A. Danner
More Than Decisions: Reviews Of American Law Reports In The Pre-West Era, Richard A. Danner
Faculty Scholarship
In the early nineteenth century, both general literary periodicals and the first American legal journals often featured reviews of new volumes of U.S. Supreme Court and state court opinions, suggesting their importance not only to lawyers seeking the latest cases, but to members of the public. The reviews contributed to public discourse through comments on issues raised in the cases and the quality of the reporting, and were valued as forums for commentary on the law and its role in American society, particularly during debates on codification and the future of the common law in the 1820s. James Kent saw …
Is This The Law Library Or An Episode Of The Jetsons?, Ronald E. Wheeler
Is This The Law Library Or An Episode Of The Jetsons?, Ronald E. Wheeler
Faculty Scholarship
In this brief essay penned for the inaugural online edition of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, Professor Wheeler discusses his vision for the future of law libraries and the future of legal research, legal research instruction, law teaching, and law related technologies.
Using Data Analytics Tools To Supplement Traditional Research And Analysis In Forecasting Case Outcomes, Mark K. Osbeck
Using Data Analytics Tools To Supplement Traditional Research And Analysis In Forecasting Case Outcomes, Mark K. Osbeck
Articles
Companies are now developing legal research tools that employ the power of data analytics to aid case forecasting. These tools hold significant promise as a supplement to the traditional element-focused predictive analysis. Instead of having to rely solely on their own experience to balance the results of the traditional element-focused analysis, lawyers may soon be able to rely on software products that mine data about past cases, and then run the data through algorithms to detect patterns. Those patterns can then inform predictions about likely case outcomes, based upon similarities between the facts, the courts, the individual judges, etc.