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Democracy Requires Good Law Libraries – With Books, Franklin L. Runge
Democracy Requires Good Law Libraries – With Books, Franklin L. Runge
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In this brief commentary, the author argues for the continued presence of a print collection in law libraries because (1) law libraries serve as a fail-safe for democracy, (2) inexperienced researchers achieve a greater understanding of how primary law is produced when exposed to print materials, and (3) there is still a high demand for print materials in scholarly endeavors.
Keeping Up With New Legal Titles, Franklin L. Runge
Keeping Up With New Legal Titles, Franklin L. Runge
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This review examines Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System, a new book by Alec Karakatsanis.
Teaching Legal Research Outside The Classroom, Stephanie C. Miller, Valerie Carullo
Teaching Legal Research Outside The Classroom, Stephanie C. Miller, Valerie Carullo
Library Scholarship
This poster presentation displays creative and innovative ways to provide instruction outside of the traditional classroom setting. As "flipping the classroom" gains popularity, the use of these tools gains importance. We integrate tools like screencasting, social media, QR codes, and wikis in to legal research instruction . One essential component in the success of some of these efforts at Washington & Lee School of Law is collaboration with partners at Bloomberg Law. The product of this collaboration featured in our poster is a series of screencasts instructing viewers (students, faculty and the public alike) to use a selection of Bloomberg …