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Professional Activities
JASON EISEMAN CAP Tips: Building & Using Case Datasets with Harvard’s Caselaw Access Project, AALL Spectrum (May/June 2020), with Tina Ching and Shawn Nevers.
CATE KELLETT AALL liaison to the ALA’s Subject Analysis Committee and GODORT Cataloging Committee liaison to CC:DA. Secretary/Treasurer of CT GODORT, Chair of the TS-SIS Heads of Cataloging Roundtable.
JULIE GRAVES KRISHNASWAMI The Bluebook Confronts Slavery, AALL Annual Meeting, July 2021. Insight into the Mental Health of Our Students: Leading the Way to Open Communication, Access to Information, and Institutional Support, AALL Annual Meeting, July 2021. Critical Legal Research: The Next Wave (A Panel Honoring Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic) Open Source Program, AALS Annual Meeting, January 2021; Dismantling Library Collection Bias, “Dismantling Bias,” LLNE & SNELLA Virtual Conference, October 2020; A Peek Behind the Curtain of the U.S. Code, AALL Annual Meeting, Washington DC, July 2019; and Research Instruction at Yale Law School, “Dismantling the Separate But Equal Paradigm: Integrating Legal Research and Writing into the Law School Curriculum,” Penn State Dickinson Law, in conjunction with the Legal Writing Institute, December 2, 2019. Using Principles of Critical Information Theory to Teach Progressive Approaches to Regulatory Research, 101 B.U. L. Rev. Online 38 (2021); Tackling Administrative Law Research: Ten Tips to Help You Prepare Your Course or Workshop (with Mari Cheney & Jason Sowards), 23 AALL Spectrum22–26 (2019). Recipient of the Law Library Journal Article of the Year Award, 2021 for The Shadow Code: Statutory Notes in the United States Code (with Shawn G. Nevers), 112 Law Library Journal 213 (2020)
CAITLYN LAM Yale University Library E-Variant Records Task Force, Web Archiving Working Group, and Metadata for Digital Assets Advisory Group. Lillian Goldman Law Library Anti-Racism Committee, Chair Events and Programs Planning Subcommittee
EVELYN MA Book Review, Introduction to Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and the Law edited by Jorge L. Contreras, et al. (Edward Elgar, 2022), Int’l. J. Legal Inf. (forthcoming). Book Review, Research Handbook on Asian Financial Law edited by Douglas W. Arner, et al. (Edward Elgar, 2019), 48 Intl. J. Legal Inf. 137 (2020). GlobaLex: UPDATE: Researching the Trading Systems in the Asian-Pacific Region - APEC, ASEAN, TPP, CPTPP, RCEP and their Members (2020)
SCOTT MATHESON PEGI project on preservation of electronic government information, AALL Representative on the Government Publishing Office’s Task Force on an All-digital Depository Library Program. Presenter, Innovative Users Group virtual meeting. Member, ALA Government Documents Roundtable.
NICHOLAS MIGNANELLI Article “A Matter for Interpretation: An Inquiry into Confederate Symbolism and the Florida State Flag,” 10 U. Miami Race & Soc. Just. L. Rev. 115 (2020), was awarded the Gherardi Davis Prize by the Flag Research Center in 2022. The Gherardi Davis Prize is presented for a significant contribution to vexillological research. This same article is now cited in Sutherland on Statutes and Statutory Construction. In 2021, Nicholas was named to the Fastcase 50, an annual awards program that honors the top innovators in the legal field. Earlier that year, he organized “Critical Legal Research: The Next Wave,” a panel honoring Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic held at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting and published as a symposium issue of the Boston University Law Review Online. In 2020 and 2019, Nicholas won the American Association of Law Libraries/LexisNexis Call for Papers (New Members Division) for his articles “Legal Research and Its Discontents: A Bibliographic Essay on Critical Approaches to Legal Research” and “Critical Legal Research: Who Needs It?,” respectively.
JOHN NANN Speaker, “The Bluebook Version 21– an Update with the Editors,” AALL Annual Meeting July 19, 2021. Awarded, Post-Graduate Certificate in Laws, University of London, July 2020.
LUCIE OLEJNIKOVA Recipient 2021 FCIL-SIS Daniel L. Wade Outstanding Service Award for outstanding contributions to the FCIL Special Interest Section. She was also recognized as the Editor of GlobaLex for her editorial work by the International Legal Research Interest Group section of the American Society of International Law that awarded the 2020 Jus Gentium Award to GlobaLex. Her publications included, Using a Quasi-Experimental Design to Compare the Effectiveness of Live and Recorded Lectures in Becoming a
Practitioner-Researcher: A Practical Guide for Information Professionals, ACRL, (Lee Ann Fullington, Brandon K. West, & Frans Albarillo eds. 2020) with Jane Bahnson.
YUKSEL SERINDAG Member, Global Online Access to Legal Information Committee, Research4Life Content Strategy and Policy Committee, and Antiracism Committee at the Lillian Goldman Law Library.
FRED SHAPIRO The New Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press, 2021). “The Most-Cited Legal Scholars Revisited,” 88 University of Chicago Law Review 1595 (2021) and presented that paper in the Citation and the Law Symposium at Yale in April 2021. The New Yale Book of Quotations was the subject of reviews in the New York Times and many other publications. His annual list of the most notable quotations of the year was covered by hundreds of media outlets. Fred’s discovery of the origins of the Pledge of Allegiance was the subject of major articles in the New York Times and the Times (London).
DAWN SMITH YUL Advisory Committee for Library Staff Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, AALL Immediate Past Chair of the Black Law Librarians Special Interest Section (BLL-SIS). Presenter, Library Infrastructure 101: Technical Services’ Role in Building Your Public Service Foundation and Bridges to Patron Success, and the Future of Library Collections, AALL Virtual Conference July 2021. Keynote speaker CSCU Library Consortium Virtual Winter Retreat, What Does It Mean to Be an Anti-Racist Library.