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Nothing Dismal About It: Researching Environmental Law Without Getting Swamped, Jennifer Sekula
Nothing Dismal About It: Researching Environmental Law Without Getting Swamped, Jennifer Sekula
Library Staff Publications
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Book Review Of The Process Of Legal Research, 6th Ed., Paul Hellyer
Book Review Of The Process Of Legal Research, 6th Ed., Paul Hellyer
Library Staff Publications
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Assessing The Influence Of Computer-Assisted Legal Research: A Study Of California Supreme Court Opinions, Paul Hellyer
Assessing The Influence Of Computer-Assisted Legal Research: A Study Of California Supreme Court Opinions, Paul Hellyer
Library Staff Publications
Mr. Hellyer reviews the literature regarding CALR and identifies several hypotheses regarding quantitative differences in the results of print-based research and CALR. He then analyzes California Supreme Court opinions to determine CALR's effect on the quantity, recency, and types of legal authority cited by the court. The data fail to support the commentator's hypotheses.
Advancing Public Interest Practitioner Research Skills In Legal Education, Randy Diamond
Advancing Public Interest Practitioner Research Skills In Legal Education, Randy Diamond
Randy Diamond
The information revolution has dramatically altered the legal research landscape, expanding the bounds of legal authority. Practitioner research requires more than traditional legal research. It also encompasses factual investigation, non-legal information, interdisciplinary and audience research. Many new lawyers are ill-prepared to research novel and unusual situations, to cope with unwritten laws and local customs, and to meet shifting authority expectations. Symptoms of underdeveloped research skills include: unfamiliarity with specialized practitioner resources, lack of vision in connecting research to problem solving, and superficial analysis. This article suggests law librarian and clinical faculty collaborations to help prepare law students to conduct sophisticated …