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The Legal Information & Technology eJournal is sponsored by the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section (ALL-SIS). The purpose of the Section is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information on academic law libraries and to represent its members' interests and concerns within the American Association of Law Libraries. The eJournal is also sponsored by the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries (MAALL), an official chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries. MAALL includes members from academic, court, and law firm libraries in Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.


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Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2012

Roger V. Skalbeck, Georgetown University Law Center
Matthew L. Zimmerman, Georgetown University Law Center

The Education and Training of Law Librarians

Penny A. Hazelton, University of Washington - School of Law, University of Washington School of Law - Gallagher Law Library

The Impact of International Law on New Zealand Law

Kenneth J. Keith, Victoria University of Wellington - Faculty of Law, International Court of Justice

LEGAL INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY eJOURNAL
Sponsored by the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section of the American Association
of Law Libraries and the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries

"Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2012" Free Download
Journal of Law, Vol. 3, (Journal of Legal Metrics, Vol. 2), pp. 51-76, 2013
Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 13-039

ROGER V. SKALBECK, Georgetown University Law Center
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MATTHEW L. ZIMMERMAN, Georgetown University Law Center
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For a fourth consecutive year, every website home page of every ABA-accredited law school is evaluated and ranked based on objective criteria. The goal is to identify well-executed sites adopting best practices. For the 2012 report, twenty-six elements are evaluated across these three categories: Design Patterns and Metadata, Accessibility and Validation, & Marketing and Communications. For 2012, there are four new elements, two prior elements have been combined, and one element was dropped.

For 2012, forty-six schools now use the HTML5 doctype, which is up from thirteen in 2011 and just one in 2010. Eighteen schools achieve perfect scores in an adjusted web accessibility evaluation, which is a slight increase over previous years. One of the new elements awards points for use of Responsive Web Design practices, which is a page layout method that shifts the order and number of elements on a page, based on the screen size displaying the content. Our survey discovered fourteen home pages using responsive web design.

As has been the case since this annual study launched in 2009, there is still no objective way to account for good taste. For interpreting these results, please decide for yourself whether any home page is greater or less than the sum of its evaluated elements.

"The Education and Training of Law Librarians" Free Download
The IALL Handbook of Legal Information Management (Richard A. Danner & Jules Winterton eds.), pp. 43-64

PENNY A. HAZELTON, University of Washington - School of Law, University of Washington School of Law - Gallagher Law Library
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This chapter describes the history, present, and future state of education and training of law librarians around the world. While it does not explicitly address the status of the profession of law librarianship, the study of law librarians' education will have a lot to say about the health and vigour of the profession.

To provide context, the first section considered the competencies of law librarianship. Because the tradition of law librarianship education is more strongly developed and has a longer history in the United States than in other countries, the second section describes law librarianship education and training in the United States. The third section covers the education and training of law librarians who specialise in foreign, comparative and international law, a specilisation that provides wonderful opportunities for improving the status and role of law libraries throughout the world. The final section covers training and education for law librarianship in other countries. In each, the history, current state, and future of education and training of law librarians is described.

"The Impact of International Law on New Zealand Law" Free Download
Waikato Law Review, Vol. 6, pp. 1-36, 1998 (Harkness Henry Lecture)

KENNETH J. KEITH, Victoria University of Wellington - Faculty of Law, International Court of Justice
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This article begins with two statements of thought concerning parliamentary supremacy and the place of international law, statements which have had major and, Sir Kenneth Keith argues, seriously misleading effects on the way we understand our law in its international setting. In parts II and III of the paper, the author refers to some of the facts and the related law, of a century ago and of the present day, to test the statements of thought. The main part of this paper, part IV, is concerned with the institutional consequences, especially for national processes and national law, of much law being made elsewhere. The author considers how the sources of international law, particularly treaties, are developed, accepted and implemented by Parliament, the courts and internationally. The final part suggests consequences for the profession and for legal education.

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RICHARD A. DANNER
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MARK ENGSBERG
Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Library Services, Emory University School of Law - Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library

PENNY A. HAZELTON
University of Washington - School of Law, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Library and Computing Services, University of Washington School of Law - Gallagher Law Library

MARCI HOFFMAN
International & Foreign Law Librarian, University of California School of Law Library - Boalt Hall Law Library

MARY A. HOTCHKISS
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