Download This PaperWhy Do We Tell the Same Stories?: Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma
19 Pages Posted: 5 Jul 2012 Last revised: 27 Feb 2014
Date Written: November 1, 1989
Abstract
Commercial indexing tools used in legal and bibliographic research ease the job of the scholar or lawyer, but confine thought and discovery to predetermined channels, making it difficult to hit upon truly novel legal ideas or theories. The structure of legal research tools, then, exercises a powerful homeostatic force toward the current order, rendering reform difficult even to imagine.
Keywords: legal profession, legal research, indexing, categorical thinking
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Delgado, Richard and Stefancic, Jean, Why Do We Tell the Same Stories?: Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma (November 1, 1989). Stanford Law Review, Vol. 42, 1989, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2101423
Jean Stefancic
Seattle University School of Law ( email )
901 12th Avenue, Sullivan Hall
P.O. Box 222000
Seattle, WA n/a 98122-1090
United States
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