The winners in the Open, New Member, and Student Divisions will receive $650, and the Short Form Division winner will receive $300, all generously donated by LexisNexis. Co-authors of winning papers share awards.
Recipients are recognized during award ceremonies at the AALL Annual Meeting and will be given the opportunity to present their
In early March, the University of California, one of the largest research institutions in the world, blew up negotiations with Elsevier, one of the largest publishers of research articles in the world. The university would no longer pay Elsevier millions of dollars a year to subscribe to its journals. It simply walked away.
Despite
In spring 2017, I briefly discussed the issues with scholarship impact factor in law as a response to a recommendation by a law professor to create a rankings methodology based on Google Scholar citation.
Now US News is trying to get in the game of creating a ranking of law faculty by scholarship impact factor
As we are increasingly aware, the ethical Duty of Technology Competence requires lawyers to keep abreast of “changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology.” To date, 35 states have adopted the duty.
In a previous post, I highlighted the risks of blindly relying
If you’re into algorithms, you should absolutely subscribe to the MIT Technology Review newsletter called The Algorithm.
Earlier this week, the folks at The Algorithm asked “what is AI, exactly?” The answer is reproduced below.
The question may seem basic, but the answer is kind of complicated.
In the broadest sense, AI refers to
As a member of the AALL State of the Profession Survey Advisory Group, I am excited that the survey has been released!
The Advisory Group is comprised of librarians from all types of law libraries with the purpose of designing a survey to assess the current state of the profession.
The State of the
At the Ohio Regional Association of Law Libraries (ORALL) Annual Meeting, as I presented on the duty of technology competence in the algorithmic society, an astute law librarian asked (paraphrasing), “how does fake news play into this?” That question gave rise to a flurry of brain activity, as I considered how Google, for example,
In a recent survey conducted by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), a wide array of legal employers ranked the legal skills and professional competencies and characteristics that they believe new lawyers most need to succeed. (There is a detailed accounting of the study’s results and an explanation of the
After recent events at the University of California – Davis, there’s been an uproar surrounding college librarians and academic freedom. The uproar was created after a librarian in the UC system used a title for her presentation that an administrator colleague thought might be offensive: “Copy cataloging gets some respect from administrators.”
Inspired in
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article discussing how artificial intelligence is changing teaching (sub. req’d). The discussion centered around many of the same themes that we see when discussing artificial intelligence in law.
The CHE article asks the common questions: When you’ve got artificial intelligence handling work that is normally done by
