How Law Schools Benefit When Librarians Publish, Teach and Hold Faculty Status

Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 237-53, 2011

UNM School of Law Research Paper No. 2011-03

18 Pages Posted: 18 May 2010 Last revised: 28 Dec 2011

Date Written: May 18, 2010

Abstract

Many non-director academic law librarians publish and teach legal research classes. Some hold faculty status as well. Law librarians have expertise in the development and delivery of legal research instruction methodologies and are developing a body of literature documenting their efforts to create and share a pedagogy of legal research instruction. Principles of shared faculty governance entitle library faculty to contribute to the development and delivery of a curriculum of legal research instruction. Encouraging law librarian participation in the shared governance of law schools should lead to increasing opportunities for the successful reform of legal education curricula with respect to legal research instruction.

Suggested Citation

Parker, Carol A., How Law Schools Benefit When Librarians Publish, Teach and Hold Faculty Status (May 18, 2010). Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 237-53, 2011 , UNM School of Law Research Paper No. 2011-03 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1611235

Carol A. Parker (Contact Author)

University of Texas at El Paso

500 W University Ave
El Paso, TX 79902
United States

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