Marketing And Outreach In Law Libraries: A White Paper,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Marketing And Outreach In Law Libraries: A White Paper, Amanda Runyon, All-Sis Task Force On Library Marketing And Outreach
Law Librarian Scholarship
In recent years, libraries have turned to marketing and outreach to better educate library users about services and resources while gaining an understanding of their needs. Marketing and outreach are relatively new concepts in academic law libraries, and librarians tasked with these functions have found resources and examples of this type of work to be lacking. Though focused on academic law libraries, the article identifies the challenges facing all law libraries, explains why libraries need marketing and outreach plans, and provides examples of marketing and outreach successes.
Like A Glass Slipper On A Stepsister: How The One Ring Rules Them All At Trial,
2013
Barry University
Like A Glass Slipper On A Stepsister: How The One Ring Rules Them All At Trial, Cathren Koehlert-Page
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Look Inside The Butler's Cupboard: How The External World Reveals Internal State Of Mind In Legal Narratives,
2013
Barry University
A Look Inside The Butler's Cupboard: How The External World Reveals Internal State Of Mind In Legal Narratives, Cathren Koehlert-Page
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Issues And Trends In Collection Development For East Asia Legal Materials,
2013
Northeastern University Law School Library
Issues And Trends In Collection Development For East Asia Legal Materials, Joostaek Lee, Xiaomeng Zhang, Keiko Okuhara, Evelyn Ma
Law Librarian Scholarship
The authors delineate the general policy and guidelines for developing foreign and transnational law collections in U.S. law libraries, and they analyze factors that shape East Asian collections, such as law libraries’ preservation and digitization efforts and their related cost-efficiency, and the availability and quality of English translations. The authors then discuss the main sources for Korean, Japanese, and Chinese law.
A Look Inside The Butler’S Cupboard: Fiction Writers’ Insights On How The External World Reveals Internal State Of Mind In Appellate Briefs,
2013
Mercer University School of Law
A Look Inside The Butler’S Cupboard: Fiction Writers’ Insights On How The External World Reveals Internal State Of Mind In Appellate Briefs, Cathren Page
Articles
By studying the scene through the eyes of the client and the witnesses, the attorney can not only evoke this psychological subtext, but can also weave relevant and probative details into the statement of facts and the argument and elicit such detail at trial. For instance, in a case involving a car accident, the weather, the temperature, the time of day, the traffic on the road, and the color of the cars, signs, and traffic lights can be relevant as to the degree that a driver was negligent. Similarly, in a case involving child neglect, the smell of a home, …
Oh, The Treatise!,
2013
Duke Law School
Oh, The Treatise!, Richard A. Danner
Faculty Scholarship
This foreword to the Michigan Law Review’s 2013 Survey of Books Related to the Law considers the history of the American legal treatise in light of the well-known criticisms of legal scholarship published by Judge Harry Edwards in 1992. As part of his critique, Edwards characterized the legal treatise as “[t]he paradigm of ‘practical’ legal scholarship.” In his words, treatises “create an interpretive framework; categorize the mass of legal authorities in terms of this framework; interpret closely the various authoritative texts within each category; and thereby demonstrate for judges or practitioners what ‘the law’ requires.” Part I examines the origins …
Drones: The Power To Kill,
2013
Belmont University - College of Law
Drones: The Power To Kill, Alberto R. Gonzales
Law Faculty Scholarship
After the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, the Bush Administration began the use of unmanned armed aerial drones to pursue targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Obama Administration has continued this policy, expanding it to pursue substantially more targets in Yemen and new ones in Pakistan. This Article analyzes the Obama Administration’s procedures for placing American citizens on the list of targets for drone strikes and proposes additional measures that Congress and the President can take to ensure that the procedures comply with constitutional guarantees of due process. This Article uses Supreme Court precedents on enemy combatant designations and …
Constitutional Constraints On Retroactive Civil Legislation: The Hollow Promises Of The Federal Constitution And Unrealized Potential Of State Constitutions,
2013
Belmont University - College of Law
Constitutional Constraints On Retroactive Civil Legislation: The Hollow Promises Of The Federal Constitution And Unrealized Potential Of State Constitutions, Jeffrey Omar Usman
Law Faculty Scholarship
Within American society, there is a general sense that changing the rules after the game has been played is unfair. While state legislatures more often enact prospective legislation, they nevertheless still regularly engage in retroactive civil lawmaking. In essence, state legislatures are changing the rules after the game has been played. Most Americans inaccurately assume such measures are unconstitutional under the federal constitution. Although several provisions of the United States Constitution offer potential sources of constitutional constraint upon retroactive civil lawmaking, ultimately, as they have been interpreted by the United States Supreme Court, these protections are extremely narrow, largely hollow, …
Minding The Court: Enhancing The Decision-Making Process,
2013
University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law
Minding The Court: Enhancing The Decision-Making Process, Pamela Casey, Kevin Burke, Steve Leben
Faculty Works
A compelling and growing body of research from the fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience provides important insights about how we process information and make decisions. This research has great potential significance for judges, who spend much of their time making decisions of great importance to others. For most judges, this research literature is not part of their judicial education. This article reviews cutting edge research about decision making and discusses its implications for helping judges and those who work with them produce fair processes and just outcomes. It builds on a 2007 American Judges Association paper that encouraged judges …
Joining The Conversation: Law Library Research Assistant Programs And Current Criticisms Of Legal Education,
2013
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Joining The Conversation: Law Library Research Assistant Programs And Current Criticisms Of Legal Education, David Mcclure
Scholarly Works
Law libraries should play a greater role in addressing the current crisis in legal education. Proponents for educational reform often view libraries as a vehicle for cost savings, while overlooking the ability of libraries to train students in the skills and competencies that are essential for the practice of law. Libraries’ research assistant programs can be particularly effective in imparting workplace values and lawyering skills beyond the traditional law school curriculum. This article encourages libraries to build on the strengths of their research assistant programs as a substantive way to equip law students with essential skills for today’s legal marketplace.
Metaphor And Analogy: The Sun And Moon Of Legal Persuasion,
2013
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Metaphor And Analogy: The Sun And Moon Of Legal Persuasion, Linda L. Berger
Scholarly Works
Drawing on recent studies of social cognition, decision making, and analogical processing, this article recommends that lawyers turn to novel characterizations and metaphors to solve a particular kind of persuasion problem that is created by the way judges and juries think and decide. According to social cognition researchers, we perceive and interpret new information by following a process of schematic cognition, analogizing the new data we encounter to the knowledge structures embedded in our memories. Decision-making researchers differentiate between intuitive and reflective processes (System 1 and System 2), and they agree that in System 1 decision making, only the most …
Witness Recantation Study: Preliminary Findings,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Witness Recantation Study: Preliminary Findings, Alexandra E. Gross, Samuel R. Gross
Other Publications
In September 2012, the National Registry of Exonerations began a research study of all the cases in our database that involve post-conviction recantations by witnesses or victims. This is the first systematic study of recantations ever conducted. Its purpose is to identify patterns and trends among these cases, with a particular focus on the circumstances that first elicit the false testimony, and on the official reactions to the recantations by judges and other authorities. Our data set includes all the cases in the Registry as of February 28, 2013 – a total of 1,068 cases, 250 of which involve recantations. …
Teaching Business Law In The New Economy; Strategies For Success,
2013
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Teaching Business Law In The New Economy; Strategies For Success, Kamille Wolff Dean
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.
Hydraulic Fracturing: Sources Of Law And Information,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Hydraulic Fracturing: Sources Of Law And Information, Barbara H. Garavaglia
Articles
Hydraulic fracturing—also known as fracking—has become increasingly controversial in the United States over the past several years, especially in states such as Michigan with large shale gas deposits that were previously unextractable. In 2012, a Michigan fracking ban initiative failed to make it onto the November statewide ballot, but citizens groups are presently collecting signatures in an attempt to get the initiative onto the November 2014 ballot as an “initiated state statute.” And, more recently, state auctions of drilling permits have been the scenes of citizen protests driven by concerns about the potential environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing.
The Costs Of Consistency: Precedent In Investment Treaty Arbitration,
2013
Brooklyn Law School
The Costs Of Consistency: Precedent In Investment Treaty Arbitration, Irene M. Ten Cate
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
“What We’Ve Got Here Is Failure To Communicate”: The Plain Writing Act Of 2010,
2013
University of Miami School of Law
“What We’Ve Got Here Is Failure To Communicate”: The Plain Writing Act Of 2010, Rachel Stabler
Articles
No abstract provided.
Front Matter,
2013
St. Thomas University College of Law
Front Matter
St. Thomas Law Review
Front Matter includes Masthead, advisors, and Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 26, Issue 1, Fall 2013.
Teaching Amidst Transformation: Integrating Global Perspectives On The Financial Crisis Into The Classroom,
2013
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Teaching Amidst Transformation: Integrating Global Perspectives On The Financial Crisis Into The Classroom, Shruti Rana
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.
Jacques De Werra (Ed.), Research Handbook On Intellectual Property Licensing,
2013
Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law
Jacques De Werra (Ed.), Research Handbook On Intellectual Property Licensing, Lucie Guibault
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
In the laws of most jurisdictions in the world, IP licenses are an unnamed form of contract, most often of a hybride nature, for which no specific legal framework exists, save for rare exceptions. As a result, the formation, content and interpretation of IP licences call for the application of relevant norms from numerous other fields of the law, such as contract law, property law, commercial law, consumer law etc. Despite efforts of harmonisation at the international and regional levels, these related areas of the law remain to a large extent nationally determined, influenced by the legal tradition of each …
Pointing Out The Power Of Prezi, Part Ii: Learning To Use Prezi,
2013
University of Richmond
Pointing Out The Power Of Prezi, Part Ii: Learning To Use Prezi, Paul M. Birch
Law Faculty Publications
This article introduces Prezi, the online presentation software which has emerged as a most promising alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint. Part II provides a tutorial designed to acquaint the user with the basic steps in creating a presentation, and offers additional advice for effective use of Prezi.
