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Why Can't I Just Use Lexis Or Westlaw? Promoting Lesser Known Legal Research Platforms To Law Students, Theresa K. Tarves
Why Can't I Just Use Lexis Or Westlaw? Promoting Lesser Known Legal Research Platforms To Law Students, Theresa K. Tarves
Law Library Faculty Works
It can be difficult to convince law students to try new resources outside of Westlaw and Lexis, especially when these two resources seemingly have it all from a law student’s perspective. How do we expose law students to lesser known legal research resources so that they can be well-informed researchers who do not become dependent on only a few resources to carry them through their entire legal careers?
Teaching Cost-Effective Research Skills: Tips For Effective And Efficient Legal Research, Rebecca Mattson, Theresa K. Tarves
Teaching Cost-Effective Research Skills: Tips For Effective And Efficient Legal Research, Rebecca Mattson, Theresa K. Tarves
Law Library Faculty Works
Being a cost-effective researcher is not necessarily just about the legal research resources available where an attorney practices. Budgetary concerns are prevalent across all legal markets, from solos and public interest to large law firms. As the legal field struggles with clients who want greater efficiencies from their attorneys and alternative fee arrangements, many of which state that attorneys will not bill clients for legal research database fees, it is becoming more important than ever to teach law students and attorneys how to use alternative resources effectively and efficiently.
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.
Teaching The Art Of Defending A White Collar Criminal Case, Katrice Bridges Copeland
Teaching The Art Of Defending A White Collar Criminal Case, Katrice Bridges Copeland
Journal Articles
This Article discusses the author's experience with effectively teaching a white collar crime course.
Female Law Students, Gendered Self-Evaluation, And The Promise Of Positive Psychology, Dara Purvis
Female Law Students, Gendered Self-Evaluation, And The Promise Of Positive Psychology, Dara Purvis
Journal Articles
For the last several decades, studies and surveys have shown that female law students perform worse and feel worse about their experiences in law school than do male students. Hidden in average figures, however, is a subgroup of female students who thrive. Positive psychology, focusing on what traits make people happy rather than how to alleviate depression, provides novel ideas of how to improve legal education for women without making accommodations specifically targeting gender.
A Law Library Development Project In Iraq, Kimberli Morris Kelmor
A Law Library Development Project In Iraq, Kimberli Morris Kelmor
Law Library Faculty Works
The author talks about her changing perspectives on her experiences while working in Iraq with the International Human Rights Law Institute from February 2004 to Jan 1, 2006. The contract was initially proposed as a three-year plan to help Iraqi law schools overcome the effects of more than twenty years of economic, physical, and intellectual isolation. The complete project included a program for clinical legal education, curriculum reform, rule of law, and library and educational technology. Accomplishing this in three geographically dispersed schools was a logical plan, but a very ambitious one. As the security situation and travel restrictions worsened, …
Introduction: The Internationalization Of Law And Legal Practice, Thomas E. Carbonneau
Introduction: The Internationalization Of Law And Legal Practice, Thomas E. Carbonneau
Journal Articles
The Eason-Weinmann Colloquium entitled "The Internationalization of Law and Legal Practice," held in March 1988, addressed the challenges posed to conventional legal practice and rules of law by the evolution of the international marketplace. In light of the increasingly international character of commercial transactions, could or should disputes in transnational business ventures be adjudicated exclusively within national processes and according to domestic strictures? Does the character of these transactions portend the creation of a new genre of lawyering? Are current academic curricula adapted to the molding of this new breed of lawyers? Is a functional international bar possible? Do we …
Virtues And Vices In Practical Legal Education: Address Given On The Occasion Of The 1985 Commencement Of The Dickinson School Of Law, Charles A. Morrison Q.C.
Virtues And Vices In Practical Legal Education: Address Given On The Occasion Of The 1985 Commencement Of The Dickinson School Of Law, Charles A. Morrison Q.C.
Penn State International Law Review
This Article is the Commencement Address given to the Class of 1985 at Dickinson Law School.
Thinking Like A Statistician: The Report Of The American Statistical Association Committee On Training In Statistics In Selected Professions, David H. Kaye
Journal Articles
In 1983, a subcommittee of the American Statistical Association composed of legal educators and one judge issued a report describing existing programs for educating law students in statistics and offering recommendations for improving these programs. This article summarizes that report.
The French Legal Studies Curriculum: Its History And Relevance As A Model For Reform, Thomas E. Carbonneau
The French Legal Studies Curriculum: Its History And Relevance As A Model For Reform, Thomas E. Carbonneau
Journal Articles
This article attempts to describe and analyze those events which fostered the historical metamorphosis of the French legal studies curriculum. The predominance of a broad academic approach to law and the concomitant absence of a narrow "trade school" mentality in the French law schools might be attributed to the general organization of higher education in France. One of the primary contentions of this article is that the fundamental character of French legal education, which emphasizes the educating of jurists as opposed to the training of lawyers, is the product of a set of factors which are deeply rooted in French …