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Critical Concerns In Indian Country: Arizona V. Navajo Nation, Monte Mills

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Combating Climate Change And Increasing Tribal Co-Management, Monte Mills

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This concurrent session provided an overview of how Tribes are working to combat the ever present threat of climate change and the move toward increasing Tribal-co management of lands and waters throughout the country. The session included a discussion of the Department of the Interior’s work to implement Secretarial Order 3403 on Fulfilling the Trust Responsibility to Indian Tribes in the Stewardship of Federal Lands and Waters.

How Laws Are Made: The Courts, Sharon Bradley

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Law, as defined in Black’s Law Dictionary, is “a body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority and having binding legal force.” Our laws come from our three branches of Government: legislative, executive, and judicial. These webinars will focus on the law-making activities of each branch, the documents that are created during the process, and how they are used by lawyers and legal researchers.

Courts interpret statutes, determine constitutionality, and create law as part of our common law system.

How Laws Are Made: The Administrative Agencies, Sharon Bradley

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Law, as defined in Black’s Law Dictionary, is “a body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority and having binding legal force.” Our laws come from our three branches of Government: legislative, executive, and judicial. These webinars will focus on the law-making activities of each branch, the documents that are created during the process, and how they are used by lawyers and legal researchers.

Administrative agencies are part of the executive branch of Government headed by the President. They make laws through the rule-making process, but they also enforce the rules and have quasi-judicial power.

How Laws Are Made: The Legislature, Sharon Bradley

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Law, as defined in Black’s Law Dictionary, is “a body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority and having binding legal force.” Our laws come from our three branches of Government: legislative, executive, and judicial. These webinars will focus on the law-making activities of each branch, the documents that are created during the process, and how they are used by lawyers and legal researchers

The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, Carol Watson, James M. Donovan, Caroline Osborne

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Open access within legal academia provides a case study for the effective use of digital formats to promote scholarship. The presenters review the background historical developments in this field, and consider the benefits and rationales for providing open access to legal scholarship, including the special faculty concerns arising from SSRN and its relationship to the institutional repository. Results from the presenters’ recent empirical study of the citation advantage for open access scholarship in American law reviews will be discussed and placed in broader context of the benefits of open access scholarship.

Digital Commons And Ssrn: Turning Perceived Conflict Into Real Synergy, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson

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Covers the history of SSRN and the development of institutional repositories, how to positively address faculty concerns about losing SSRN download statistics, statistical analysis of downloads on each platform and research behavior, and an overview of the strengths and advantages of each platform.

Using The Bluebook, Clare Gaynor Willis

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Presentation for Chicago Association of Law Libraries, 2013

What To Do When You Find A Case, Clare Gaynor Willis

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Class presentation for 1L students.

Fully Developed Suburbs Presentation, Myron Orfield

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PowerPoint Presentation

Video Making And Editing, Clare Gaynor Willis, Debbie Ginsberg

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Presentation from Chicago Association of Law Libraries Half-Day Institute on Technology, 2012

Online Privacy - What You Need To Know, Debbie Ginsberg, Richard Warner

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Special guest Professor Richard Warner discussed online privacy and the issues surrounding it.

Formulating A Research Plan, Maureen Cahill, Tj Striepe

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Presentation, delivered to clinic and externship students on January 30 and February 1, 2012, on formulating a research plan.

Twin Cities Charter Schools, Institute On Metropolitan Opportunity

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PowerPoint Presentation

Law & Reference: Answering Legal Reference Questions, Wendy Moore, Maureen Cahill

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Answering legal reference questions can be challenging, especially when you are not doing it on a daily basis. More and more legal information is available freely on the internet, but sometimes it is hard to know what the best sources are and how to make certain you are not accidentally practicing law at the reference desk. This presentation provides exposure to helpful internet resources and discussion of effective strategies to help you answer legal related reference questions in a non-law library setting with skill and confidence.

E-Casebook Update, Debbie Ginsberg

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This Brown Bag presentation explores the results of the student e-casebook survey.

2020 Foresight: Technology In Legal Education After The Reboot, Debbie Ginsberg, Emily Barney, Sejal Vaishnev

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Presentation from the American Association of Law Libraries 103rd Annual Meeting and Conference.

In 1990, not many people understood the impact that the Internet, email, and PowerPoint would have on our law schools by 2000. In 2000, who knew that in 2010 law schools would need to create Facebook pages, LinkedIn groups, and Twitter feeds? In this panel, Debbie Ginsberg, Emily Barney, and Sejal Vaishnev discuss three visions of law school technology in 2020: in the classroom, on the web, and in our technology administration centers. What technologies are likely to become vital tools and which will disappear? More importantly, …

Law Students Of The Future, Ignite Session, Debbie Ginsberg

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Presentation from the American Association of Law Libraries 103rd Annual Meeting and Conference.

Persuasive Arguments For Establishing An Institutional Repository, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson

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Presents the business case for creating an institutional repository (IR), including a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages with Social Science Research Network (SSRN); offers advice on obtaining faculty buy-in to the project in order to obtain content; reviews copyright right issues involved in depositing published materials into the repository; and suggests ways in which creating a repository can build relationships beyond the institution.