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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Bluebook, Citations, And All That Jazz, Frederick W. Dingledy
Bluebook, Citations, And All That Jazz, Frederick W. Dingledy
Library Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Going Beyond Google: Researching News Online, Emily M. Janoski-Haehlen
Going Beyond Google: Researching News Online, Emily M. Janoski-Haehlen
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
What's In A Name? A Gen Xer And Gen Yer Explore What It Means To Be Members Of Their Generations In The Workplace, Lauren M. Collins, Elizabeth A. Yates
What's In A Name? A Gen Xer And Gen Yer Explore What It Means To Be Members Of Their Generations In The Workplace, Lauren M. Collins, Elizabeth A. Yates
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
In the NextGen Librarian's Survival Guide by Rachel Singer Gordon, the author cites several reasons this time is different than times before in librarianship. Those that are most relevant to law librarianship include:
• Flattening workplace hierarchies and participative management increase the input of newer librarians in workplace decision making
• New technologies require changing skills that affect attitudes toward the integration of those technologies into our daily work
• Outside pressures, such as the prevalence of the Internet, impose a need for librarians to continually prove our relevance and improve relations with younger patrons
• The much talked about …
Why Re-Invent The Wheel? Utilize Appellate Court Briefs Databases, Emily Janoski-Haehlen
Why Re-Invent The Wheel? Utilize Appellate Court Briefs Databases, Emily Janoski-Haehlen
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Ownership Delusion: When Law Libraries "Buy" Electronic Documents, Are They Getting More, Or Simply Paying More?, Simon Canick
The Ownership Delusion: When Law Libraries "Buy" Electronic Documents, Are They Getting More, Or Simply Paying More?, Simon Canick
Faculty Scholarship
This article explores the issues surrounding electronic document ownership in academic libraries. It discusses the guidelines of AALL with regard to licensing electronic materials, and how it measures up to what vendors are willing to offer. The author takes a critical stance on who benefits from the electronic document ownership agreements.
About Facebook - Change At The Social-Networking Juggernaut Creates New Opportunities For Law Library Outreach, Jennifer L. Behrens
About Facebook - Change At The Social-Networking Juggernaut Creates New Opportunities For Law Library Outreach, Jennifer L. Behrens
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Writing To Learn Law And Writing In Law: An Intellectual Property Illustration, Michael J. Madison
Writing To Learn Law And Writing In Law: An Intellectual Property Illustration, Michael J. Madison
Articles
This essay, prepared as part of a Symposium on teaching intellectual property law, describes a method of combining substantive law teaching with a species of what is commonly called "skills" training. The method involves assessing students not via traditional final exams but instead via research memos patterned after assignments that junior lawyers might encounter in actual legal practice. The essay grounds the method in the theoretical disposition known generally as "writing to learn." It argues that students are likely to learn intellectual property law effectively if they learn to practice as intellectual property lawyers, and specifically to write as intellectual …
Empirical Research For Public Policy: With Examples From Family Law, Richard O. Lempert
Empirical Research For Public Policy: With Examples From Family Law, Richard O. Lempert
Articles
Perhaps more than in any other field, legal scholarship has aimed directly at influencing public policy. Hence, it is not surprising that empirical scholarship on law related issues often seems to have an agenda that extends beyond the common social science goals of adding to our knowledge base and understanding of human behavior to suggesting to policy makers and practitioners legal and administrative changes that will ameliorate problems they confront and, by the researcher’s lights, make this a better world in which to live.