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I'm a law librarian and I study legal information systems/legal informatics. I maintain a Website called Legal Information Systems & Legal Informatics Resources, http://home.comcast.net/~richards1000/LegalInformationSystemsBiblio... .
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Legal Research Instruction: Recent Developments

Colleagues,

Greetings.

I've gathered information about recent developments in legal research instruction, in a new post at Legal Informatics Blog. Comments are welcome.

Happy holiday weekend, and best wishes for the new semester/quarter,

Rob

Posted on September 6, 2009 at 2:22pm — 1 Comment

Rob Richards

Law School Admission Project & Legal Research

Colleagues,

Professor Marjorie Shultz of Boalt Hall just gave me permission to distribute a report explaining the methodology used in developing the "effectiveness factors" utilized in the The Law School Admission Project: Looking Beyond the LSAT. Those factors include "Researching the Law." The report also includes a useful literature review of empirical studies that ide… Continue

Posted on August 17, 2009 at 12:00am —

Rob Richards

Law Student Learning Styles: Boyle et al., Law Students Are Different from the General Population

Colleagues:

Jim Milles recently pointed us to the following new article on SSRN, which may be of interest:

Robin Boyle et al., Law Students Are Different from the General Population: Empirical Findings Regarding Learning Styles, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1416866. Abstract:

"The authors conducted an empirical study comparing the learning styles of law students with young adults at other educational institutions. The law school sampl… Continue

Posted on July 1, 2009 at 5:12pm —

Rob Richards

Future of Private Legal Services Market: Discussion

Jim Milles has a fine post at Out of the Jungle about the debate over the permanence of the contraction in the private legal services market. This is an important contextual issue respecting legal informatics, legal education, and law libraries. A lively debate is taken place in the comments to Jim's postContinue

Posted on May 22, 2009 at 2:03pm —

 
 

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