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Citation Sources For Legal Scholarship: Ranking The Top 28 Law Faculties, John R. Beatty

Law Librarian Contributions to Books

This study examines the effects of the data source on citation metrics and faculty rankings by comparing three sources of legal scholarship citation data: Google Scholar, Westlaw, and HeinOnline. It compares six years of citations to works by all of the tenured and tenure-track members of the top twenty-eight faculties as determined by two recent legal citation studies. Rankings generated using the Leiter-Sisk method on the data from the three sources showed moderate to high correlation (0. 77 to 0. 96) to each other. Total citations and total publications for each faculty were moderately to highly correlated to rankings, while …

Centralization Of The Academic Law Library: Is It Right For Your Institution?, Elizabeth G. Adelman

Contributions to Books

Published in Academic Law Libraries Within the Changing Landscape of Legal Education: A Primer for Deans and Provosts, Michelle M. Wu, Scott B. Pagel & Joan S. Howland, eds.

Academic Law Library Director Status Since The Great Recession: Strengthened, Maintained, Or Degraded?, Elizabeth G. Adelman, Karen L. Shephard, Richard J. Patti, Robert M. Adelman

Journal Articles

The status of the academic law library director is central to the educational mission of the law library. We collected data from 2006 to 2016 showing a 25 percent decrease in tenure-track directorships. We also found one in four changes in directorships since 2013 resulted in the new director having a degraded status compared to her predecessor.

The Open Access Advantage In Legal Education’S Age Of Assessment, Elizabeth G. Adelman

Book Reviews

Reviewing James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson & Caroline Osborne, The Open Access Advantage for American Law Reviews.

Legal Education In Crisis, And Why Law Libraries Are Doomed, James G. Milles

Journal Articles

The dual crises facing legal education - the economic crisis affecting both the job market and the pool of law school applicants, and the crisis of confidence in the ability of law schools and the ABA accreditation process to meet the needs of lawyers or society at large - have undermined the case for not only the autonomy, but the very existence, of law school libraries as we have known them. Legal education in the United States is about to undergo a long-term contraction, and law libraries will be among the first to go. A few law schools may abandon …

Time: An Empirical Analysis Of Law Student Time Management Deficiencies, Christine P. Bartholomew

Journal Articles

This Article begins the much needed research on law students’ time famine. Time management complaints begin early in students’ legal education and generally go unresolved. As a result, practicing attorneys identify time famine as a leading cause of job dissatisfaction. To better arm graduating students, law schools must treat time as an essential component of practice-readiness. Unfortunately, most law schools ignore their students’ time management concerns, despite growing calls for greater “skills” training in legal education.

To date, legal scholarship has overlooked psychological research on time management. Yet, this research is an essential starting point to effective instruction. Rather than …

Towards Engaged Scholarship, John R. Nolon, Michelle Bryan Mudd, Michael Burger, Kim Diana Connolly, Nestor Davidson, Matthew Festa, Jill I. Gross, Lisa Heinzerling, Keith H. Hirokawa, Tim Iglesias, Patrick C. Mcginley, Sean Nolon, Uma Outka, Jessica Owley, Kalyani Robbins, Jonathan Rosenbloom, Christopher Serkin

Journal Articles

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For The Love Of The Case File, Christine P. Bartholomew

Other Scholarship

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American Legal Theory And American Legal Education: A Snake Swallowing Its Tail?, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

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Normalizing Trepidation And Anxiety, Christine P. Bartholomew, Johanna Oreskovic

Journal Articles

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What To Count, What To Report: The Revised Aba Annual Questionnaire (Aall Program Report), Ellen T. Mcgrath

Law Librarian Other Scholarship

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Redefining Open Access For The Legal Information Market, James G. Milles

Journal Articles

The open access movement in legal scholarship, inasmuch as it is driven within the law library community over concerns about the rising cost of legal information, fails to address - and in fact diverts resources from - the real problem facing law libraries today: the soaring costs of nonscholarly, commercially published, practitioner-oriented legal publications. The current system of legal scholarly publishing - in student-edited journals and without meaningful peer review - does not face the pressures to increase prices common in the science and health disciplines. One solution to this problem is for law schools to redirect some of their …

Out Of The Jungle, James G. Milles

Other Scholarship

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Law Librarians As Educators And Role Models: The University At Buffalo's Jd/Mls Program In Law Librarianship, James G. Milles

Other Scholarship

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Leaky Boundaries And The Decline Of The Autonomous Law School Library, James G. Milles

Journal Articles

Academic law librarians have long insisted on the value of autonomy from the university library system, usually basing their arguments on strict adherence to ABA standards. However, law librarians have failed to construct an explicit and consistent definition of autonomy. Lacking such a definition, they have tended to rely on an outmoded Langdellian view of the law as a closed system. This view has long been discredited, as approaches such as law and economics and sociolegal research have become mainstream, and courts increasingly resort to nonlegal sources of information. Blind attachment to autonomy as a goal rather than a means …

Creating An Information Commons, James G. Milles

Other Scholarship

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New Career Paths: From Computing Services To Library Director, James G. Milles

Other Scholarship

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Langdell's Auto-Da-Fé, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

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Sameness And Difference In A Law School Classroom: Working At The Crossroads, Judy Scales-Trent

Journal Articles

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Law School Rights: The Establishment Of New York Law School, 1891-1897, James A. Wooten

Journal Articles

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Better Than No Teeth At All?, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

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Critical Legal Studies: An Afterword, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

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Not Socrates, But Protagoras: The Sophistic Basis Of Legal Education, William C. Heffernan

Buffalo Law Review

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American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science: The Singular Case Of Underhill Moore, John Henry Schlegel

Buffalo Law Review

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The Place Of Law In Social Work Education: A Commentary On Dean Schottland's Article, Edward V. Sparer

Buffalo Law Review

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Social Work And The Law—Some Curriculum Approaches, Charles I. Schottland

Buffalo Law Review

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Social Work And The Law—Some Curriculum Approaches: A Commentary On Dean Charles Schottland's Article, Louis Levitt

Buffalo Law Review

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