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Law Librarian Contributions to Books

 

The DC@UB Law Librarian Contributions to Books collection includes information on books, book chapters, encyclopedia entries and other contributions published in books by all current and emeritus faculty members of the Charles B. Sears Law Library. Links to purchase books are included where the books are still in print. Full text chapters are included where publisher policies permit their inclusion.

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  • A Brief History of Law Libraries and Their Structures by Rebecca Chapman

    A Brief History of Law Libraries and Their Structures

    Rebecca Chapman

    Published in Organizational Structures of Academic Law Libraries: Past, Present, and Future, Elizabeth Adelman & Jessica de Perio Wittman, eds.

  • Citation Sources for Legal Scholarship: Ranking the Top 28 Law Faculties by John R. Beatty

    Citation Sources for Legal Scholarship: Ranking the Top 28 Law Faculties

    John R. Beatty

    This study examines the effects of the data source on citation metrics and faculty rankings by comparing three sources of legal scholarship citation data: Google Scholar, Westlaw, and HeinOnline. It compares six years of citations to works by all of the tenured and tenure-track members of the top twenty-eight faculties as determined by two recent legal citation studies. Rankings generated using the Leiter-Sisk method on the data from the three sources showed moderate to high correlation (0. 77 to 0. 96) to each other. Total citations and total publications for each faculty were moderately to highly correlated to rankings, while faculty size showed low to moderate correlation. Citations-per-faculty member showed very high correlation (0.98 to 0.99) to all three sources. Because citations-per-faculty member is such a strong driver of the Leiter-Sisk method, a school could game the rankings by buying out or otherwise moving less-cited or unproductive faculty, thereby reducing the number of faculty and increasing citations-per-faculty member. Use of metrics like the h-index, which only takes highly cited papers into account, or other composite metrics would reduce the opportunity for gaming in this manner.

  • May It Please the Court: A Longitudinal Study of Judicial Citation to Academic Legal Periodicals by Brian T. Detweiler

    May It Please the Court: A Longitudinal Study of Judicial Citation to Academic Legal Periodicals

    Brian T. Detweiler

    Part I of this article examines the proportion of reported opinions from U.S. federal and state courts between 1945 and 2018 that cite at least one academic legal periodical, while Part II applies that data beginning in 1970 to compare the proportion of opinions that cite to the flagship journals of 17 law schools selected and hierarchically categorized based on their U.S. News & World Reports rankings. Representing the most elite schools are Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal, the two longest running student-edited journals at arguably the two most prestigious law schools in the United States, followed by journals from three exemplar schools from the “Top 14,” and three law schools from each of the rankings' four tiers. This article explores these trends in the context of changes in technology, the judiciary, legal scholarship, and academic legal publishing.

  • In line for confession. At adoration. by Tiffany Walsh

    In line for confession. At adoration.

    Tiffany Walsh

    Published in The Catholic Hipster Handbook: Rediscovering Cool Saints, Forgotten Prayers, and Other Weird but Sacred Stuff, Tommie Tighe, ed.

  • The Three Percent: Common Issues in Nonautonomous Law School Libraries by Elizabeth G. Adelman

    The Three Percent: Common Issues in Nonautonomous Law School Libraries

    Elizabeth G. Adelman

    Published in Part I of Academic law library director perspectives: case studies and insights, Michelle M. Wu, ed.

  • Who'll Let the Dogs In? Animals, Authorship, and the Library Catalog by Nancy Babb

    Who'll Let the Dogs In? Animals, Authorship, and the Library Catalog

    Nancy Babb

    Published as Chapter 6 in Speaking for Animals: Animal Autobiographical Writing, Margo DeMello, ed.

  • Major Legal Databases and How to Search Them by Theodora Belniak

    Major Legal Databases and How to Search Them

    Theodora Belniak

    Published as Chapter 17 in Law Librarianship in the Digital Age, Ellyssa Kroski, ed.

  • Assessing Student Learning in a Credit IL Course by Tiffany Walsh

    Assessing Student Learning in a Credit IL Course

    Tiffany Walsh

    Published in Best Practices for Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Courses, Christoper V. Hollister, ed.

  • Looseleaf Services Exercises by Elizabeth G. Adelman

    Looseleaf Services Exercises

    Elizabeth G. Adelman

    Published in Legal Research Exercises Following the Bluebook, Nancy P. Johnson & Susan T. Phillips, eds.

  • Indians by Karen L. Spencer

    Indians

    Karen L. Spencer

    Published as Chapter 30 in Gibson's New York Legal Research Guide, Third Edition, William H. Manz, ed.

  • Indian Law by Karen L. Spencer

    Indian Law

    Karen L. Spencer

    Published as Chapter 30 in New York Legal Research Guide, Second Edition, Ellen M. Gibson & William H. Manz, eds.

 
 
 

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