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Research + Analysis

Teaching + Training

Hunting and Gathering on the Legal Information Savannah

Monday, July 17, 2023
10:45am – 11:45am EDT
Location: Hynes-304
NOTE: This educational program will not be recorded.

Research in massive online legal research platforms requires entering a multifaceted construct, where user-interface design and an array of algorithms guide the experience. What is it like for novice researchers to research real-world legal problems and attempt to come to a legal conclusion in these four platforms: Bloomberg Law, Fastcase, Lexis Advance, and Westlaw? We will discuss the study in Hunting and Gathering on the Legal information Savannah which investigated this question with representatives from each platform, and will investigate the interplay between user interface design and algorithms. Audience questions will dominate the discussion, and may be submitted in advance to susan.mart@colorado.edu.

Target Audience:

Anyone who teaches or trains law students or young lawyers, from the academic, firm, and government sectors of law librarianship, as well as law librarians in any sector who focus on research.

Takeaways:

  • Participants will be able to describe and better understand the interplay between user interfaces and both search algorithms and machine-learning algorithms in legal research platforms.
  • Participants will be able to apply the results of a new study of the research process in legal research platforms to teaching legal research skills to students and lawyers.
  • Participants will be able to apply critical legal research theories in researching and teaching.