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Clinical Classroom: Critical Legal Research Toolkit: Classroom Resources

Classroom Exercises

Priya Baskaran, Searching for Justice: Incorporating Critical Legal Research Into Clinical Pedagogy (forthcoming Clinical Law Review, draft available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4471065)

  • In-class module description begins on p. 29

Teaching Critical Information Literacy & Critical Legal Research: A Not-So-Comprehensive List of Ideas & Examples for Classroom Use (Google doc)

  • Document made available by panel participants in “(Re)Searching for Justice: Teaching Critical and Alternative Legal Research to Aspiring Social Justice Lawyers," AALL Conference (2022)

“Appendix A Class Assignment: How Algorithms Differ—Searching for Case Law” in The Algorithm as a Human Artifact: Implications for Legal [Re]Search

“Sample Application” in A Next-Generation Framework: Using Critical Legal Research Pedagogy to Prepare Law Students for the NextGen Bar Exam

Video Resources

Critical Legal Research: Teaching Social Justice-Oriented Research in Clinic

  • Taught by Prof. Priya Baskaran and Nicholas Mignanelli  Nov. 10, 2022 as part of the Clinical Legal Education Association’s Teaching Justice Webinar Series

 Teaching Critical Approaches to Legal Research (presented by NIU Law Review)

Selected Pedagogy Articles

Courtney Selby, Integration & Transformation: Incorporating Critical Information Literacy and Critical Legal Research into Advanced Legal Research Instruction (forthcoming 2023)

Latia Ward, A Librarian’s Experience Teaching Critical Information Literacy, 41 Legal Reference Services Q. 1 (2022)

Nicholas Mignanelli, Critical Legal Research: Who Needs It?, 112 Law Libr. J. 327 (2020)

Susan Nevelow Mart, The Algorithm as a Human Artifact: Implications for Legal [Re]Search, 109 Law Libr. J. 387, 2017 Law Libr. J. 20

Julie Graves Krishnaswami, Critical Information Theory: A New Foundation for Teaching Regulatory Research, in Boulder Statements on Legal Research Education (Susan Nevelow Mart ed., 2013)

Yasmin Sokkar Harker, Critical Legal Information Literacy: Legal Information as a Social Construct, in Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (Lua Gregory & Shana Higgins eds., 2013)