Please join us in Chicago on May 18 & 19, 2007, for our second "Future
of Legal Research" conference. We are now accepting proposals for
presentations. For more information about the conference and how to
submit proposals, please see the announcement below.
Debbie Ginsberg
Electronic Resources Librarian
IIT Downtown Campus Library
565 W. Adams
Chicago, IL 60661
312-906-5673
Back to the Future of Legal Research
Chicago-Kent College of Law is pleased to again welcome legal skills
faculty and law librarians to a conference on May 18 & 19, 2007, to
continue the discussion that we began at "The Future of Legal Research"
conference in May, 2005. Among the topics that we will consider are:
* Results of the follow-up surveys on practitioners' research
habits;
* Research teaching techniques in our electronic age;
* Law students' research abilities and how they differ from those
of their employers in practice and their law school professors;
* Internet access to abundant free material and how it will change
the legal research landscape;
* Teaching students to think critically about the material that
they gather from free sites;
* Citing sensibly to electronic sources that will change over
time;
* Exploring the burgeoning availability of international law
sources and understanding why these sources will take on increasing
importance to lawyers and students;
* Teaching students to evaluate the content of their research
rather than the medium in which it is found.
Proposals are now being accepted for presenters and panelists for the
above topics and other topics that address both how legal research will
be accomplished in the future, and how we should prepare our students
for these changes. Proposals are due by January 15, 2006, and should be
addressed to either:
Mary Rose Strubbe Keith Ann Stiverson
Director of Legal Writing & Director of the Library
Research Chicago-Kent College of
Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law 565 West Adams Street
565 West Adams Street Chicago, Illinois 60661
Chicago, Illinois 60661 312-906-5610
312-906-5288 kstivers@kentlaw.edu
mstrubbe@kentlaw.edu
Material may be submitted electronically or in hard copy. The material
from the conference will be posted on a website after the conference
ends.
The conference will be held in the beautiful City of Chicago, which
comes to life in the spring. For those who haven't been to the Windy
City in a few years, the newly opened Millennium Park, designed by the
world renowned architect, Frank Gehry, is alone worth the trip. There
is no fee to attend the conference, but attendees are responsible for
their own housing and transportation. Information about hotels and a
detailed schedule should be available by late January. Come join the
discussion about how legal research is changing, and what our response
to those changes should be!
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