Yale Hosts Virtual Symposium Today On Citation And The Law

Yale hosts a virtual symposium today and tomorrow on Citation and the Law (program):

This FREE symposium will highlight the scholarship of law librarians and faculty interested in issues ranging from the US News and World Reports rankings for scholarly productivity, to link rot, to empirical research in the use of citations, and more.  Keynote speaker Fred Shapiro will set the stage with his paper “The Most-Cited Legal Scholars Revisited” to be published in the University of Chicago Law Review.  All the papers will be published in a book by the Hein Company.

To quote Legal Reference Services Quarterly editor Mike Chiorazzi, “If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a profession to support a symposium like this.  The Yale Law Library, the ALL-SIS Committee on Research and Scholarship, the Boulder Conference workshopping team, and LRSQ all pulled together to make this  symposium happen.  What has emerged is an impressive collection of first-rate scholarship that advances our understanding of law librarianship and legal information management.”

Panel #1

• Caroline E. Osborne (West Virginia) & Stephanie Miller (West Virginia), The Scholarly Matrix Impact: An Empirical Study of How Multiple Metrics Create an Informed Story of A Scholar’s Work
• Margaret Kiel-Morse (Indiana; Google Scholar), Exploring Citation Count Methods of Measuring Faculty Scholarly Impact
• John R. Beatty (Buffalo; Google Scholar), Citation Databases for Legal Scholarship: Ranking the Top 28 Law Faculties

Panel #2: 

• Bonnie J. Shucha (Wisconsin; Google Scholar), Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: Strategies for Improving Citation Metrics and Promoting Scholarly Visibility
• Christine Anne George (Cardozo; Google Scholar), A Modest Proposal Regarding Scholarly Impact: Burn It Down
• Ashley Ames Ahlbrand (Indiana; Google Scholar), Capturing Impact: Telling the Story of Your Scholarship Beyond the Citation Count

Panel #3: 

• Matthew Timko (N. Illinois) & Heather J. E. Simmons (Georgia; Google Scholar), The Tangled Web: Teaching the Meaning of Legal Citations in the Online Age
• John Cannan (Villanova; Google Scholar), Prologue’s Past: What the Treatise’s History Can Tell Us of Legal Information’s Future
• Valeri Craigle (Utah; Google Scholar), Adopting DOI in Legal Citation: A Roadmap for the Legal Academy
• Andrew Martineau (Minnesota; Google Scholar), Garbage In, Garbage Out: Improving Citators through Improved Citations

Panel #4: 

• Michelle Penn (Denver), Citation and Hierarchies in Legal Scholarship: The Illusion of Meritocracy 
• Jennifer E. Chapman (Maryland; Google Scholar), Citation Ethics: Constructing an Ethical Framework of Legal Citation
• Paul D. Callister (UMKC; Google Scholar), Perma.cc and Web Archival Dissonance with Copyright Law

Panel #5: 

• Brian Detweiler (Buffalo), May It Please the Court: A Longitudinal Study of Judicial Citation to Academic Legal Periodicals
• Susan David deMaine (Indiana) & Benjamin J. Keele (Indiana; Google Scholar), Are Supreme Court Justices’ Disclosure Concerns Justified? An Empirical Study of the Use of Three Archival Collections
• Mary Godfrey-Rickards (CUNY), “Whoops, the Page is Gone!”: Investigating Internet Citation Practices of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Panel #6: 

• Jennifer Allison (Harvard), Source Citation in Legal Bibliography and its Impact on Research: A Comparative Examination of the United States and Germany
• Dr. Cynthia Boyer (Université Toulouse Capitole), Citations to Foreign Law and the Roberts Court
• Aaron S. Kirschenfeld (North Carolina; Google Scholar) & Alexa Z. Chew (North Carolina; Google Scholar), Citation Stickiness and Computer-Assisted Legal Research

Panel #7: 

• Jane O’Connell (Florida; Google Scholar) & Elizabeth Hilkin (Florida), A Century of Citation in the Florida Supreme Court
• Thomas Keefe (Loyola-Chicago; Google Scholar), The Evolution of Citation Analysis as a Tool for Caselaw Research
• Amanda Watson (Houston), The Evolution of Citation Analysis as a Tool for Caselaw Research