Critical Studies and Information Literacy

Scholarship and Publications on Critical Studies and Information Literacy in Law Schools

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Jerry L. Anderson,
Law School Enters the Matrix: Teaching Critical Legal Studies,
54 J. LEGAL EDUC. 201 (2004).

Lorraine Bannai & Anne Enquist,
(Un)Examined Assumptions and (Un)Intended Messages: Teaching Students to Recognize Bias in Legal Analysis and Language,
27 Seattle U. L. REV. 1 (2003).

Kathleen Fletcher,
Casebooks, Bias, and Information Literacy—Do Law Librarians Have a Duty?,
40 Legal Reference Services Q. 184 (2021).

Leonard J. Long,
Resisting Anti-Intellectualism and Promoting Legal Literacy,
34 S. ILL. U. L.J. 1 (2009).

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

Nicholas Mignanelli,
Legal Research and Its Discontents: A Bibliographic Essay on Critical Approaches to Legal Research,
113 LAW LIBR. J. 101 (2021).

Yasmin Sokkar Harker,
Legal Information for Social Justice: The New ACRL Framework
and Critical Information Literacy,
2 LEGAL INFO. REV. 19 (2016-2017).

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

Francisco Valdes,
Outsider Jurisprudence, Critical Pedogogy and Social Justice Activism: Marking the Stirrings of Critical Legal Education, 
10 Asian L.J. 65 (2003).

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