All Articles tagged technology and changes in legal research

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  Researching on Solid Ground in a Changing Technological Landscape
  Linda S. Maslow

  Whatever the future holds for technology in legal research, law students will benefit from learning certain timeless and fundamental skills.

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  Mind the Gap
  Ellie MargolisKristen Murray

  We are in the midst of a major paradigm shift in legal research—both how it is done and how it should be taught.

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  The Challenges of Using Electronic Resources to Solve Ill-Structured Legal Problems
  Stefan Krieger

  Any effective legal research process must take into account the ill-structured nature of many—if not most—legal problems.

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  Searching for the Borders
  Penny A. Hazelton

  Legal research is a complex jigsaw puzzle.

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  Not Seeing Our Brains: The Future of Legal Research
  Ian Gallacher

  For the reader, an unsupported and provocative assertion: most of our students don’t understand how to use an index.

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
  Robert C. Berring

  Has the search box affected the way that legal researchers think?

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  Some Musings on Teaching Legal Research
  Filippa Marullo Anzalone

  Students need to acquire legal skills to hit the ground running in their jobs and internships, but legal research is not an intuitive skill.

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  Technology and Future Directions for Law Libraries
  Michelle M. Wu

  In which directions must libraries go and what necessary advances must they make in the coming years to address changing technology?

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  Is This the Law Library or an Episode of The Jetsons?
  Ronald Wheeler

  The future of law libraries can be summed up in a single word: technology.

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  The 95 Theses: Legal Research in the Internet Age
  Amy E. Sloan

  The availability of legal information on the Internet has led to the law’s equivalent of the Protestant Reformation.

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  Out of the Glass Cockpit: Teaching Legal Analysis in Legal Research
  Suzanne Rowe

  Our teaching methods need to get students out of the glass cockpit to actually think while doing research. Of course, we have to get out of the glass cockpit ourselves.

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  You Make Me Feel Like Dancing: Students, Scholars, and Sources in the Law Library
  Jeanne Frazier Price

  Whatever good comes out of a library comes about because of the relationships among its users and its sources.

• Essays
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  Using Data Analytics Tools to Supplement Traditional Research and Analysis in Forecasting Case Outcomes
  Mark K. Osbeck

  The most significant technological advances in the next several years may take place not in the traditional domain of legal research, but in the complementary domain of case forecasting.