Vol. 20, 2015

Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute

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

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

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

Legal research is a complex jigsaw puzzle.

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

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.

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

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.