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Research In Native American Communities In The Genetics Age: Can The Federal Data Sharing Statute Of General Applicability And Tribal Control Of Research Be Reconciled?, Ron J. Whitener
Ron J. Whitener
Since colonization, the populations indigenous to the United States of America have been an enticing subject for researchers of all types. Geographic continuity with traditional homelands and traceable blood quantum requirements for tribal membership provide a unique connection to the past for researchers studying a broad array of topics from epidemiology to religion. In recent years, the explosion of discoveries in the field of genomic research has led to even greater interest in the United States’ Native communities by both commercial and scientific interests. Firms have sprung up offering genetic tests claiming the ability to detect Native American Ancestry. National …
Embedded Librarians: Teaching Legal Research As A Lawyering Skill, Vicenç Feliú, Helen Frazer
Embedded Librarians: Teaching Legal Research As A Lawyering Skill, Vicenç Feliú, Helen Frazer
Vicenç Feliú
This article addresses a proposed pedagogy for teaching the lawyering skill of advanced legal research in practice environment, such as a clinic, consonant with the recommendations of the 2007 Carnegie Report, Educating Lawyers, and the 1992 ABA Taskforce on Law Schools and the Profession, Legal Education and Professional Development (the MacCrate Report). It examines how the relatively new trend of embedding librarians in practice settings, offering assistance at the point of need, could be effective in law schools. It proposes a model for teaching advanced legal research by embedding law librarians in law school clinics based on the experiment conducted …