Boulder Conferences on Legal Information: Scholarship and Teaching

The Boulder Conference is a gathering of law librarians who meet to critique scholarly works-in-progress and to develop a pedagogy of legal research instruction. The conference has met annually since 2009. The first conference was held at the University of Colorado Law School's William A. Wise Law Library in Boulder, Colorado.

Boulder Statements

Boulder Statement on Legal Research [pdf] - Eighth Conference in Chicago, Illinois 2016
Legal research is the analysis, search process, information evaluation, and reasoning necessary to ethically solve problems and provide legal advice. Legal research is integral to lawyers’ professional competence.

2009 Boulder Statement on Legal Research Education [pdf] - First Conference in Boulder, Colorado, June 2009

2010 Boulder Statement on Legal Research Education : Signature Pedagogy Statement [pdf] - Second Conference in Boulder, Colorado, June 2010

Boulder Statement on Best Practices for Teaching: Coach Template and Illustrations: I , II , III , IV [pdf] - Third Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 2011 & Fourth Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, July 2012

Boulder Conference Bibliography

Conference Year	Conference Location	Author(s)	Title
2018	Baltimore	Downing, Nicole	The Five-minute Exercise: A Method for Using Modified Lectures in the Legal Research Classroom
2018	Baltimore	Sneed, Thomas	The Academic Law Library's Role in Cultivating the Rural Lawyer
2017	Austin	Jones, Yolanda	Bringing the Law to the Law Library: The Importance of Librarian Mediation in Access to Justice Services
2017	Austin	deMaine, Susan David	Access to the Justices' Papers: A Better Balance
2017	Austin	Zhang, Alex; Hart, James	Sustainable and Open Access to Valuable Legal Research Information: A New Framework
2017	Austin	Talley, Nancy B.	The Impact of Revised ABA Standard 606(a) on Collection Development and Teaching
2017	Austin	Dewey, Scott H.	Of Loaded Weapons and Legal Alchemy, Great Cases and Bad(?) Law: Korematsu and Strict Scrutiny, 1944-2017
2017	Austin	Westwood, Karen E.; Wilson, Charles D.	How Do You Feel About "Good Enough"?: Another Look at Citators
2017	Austin	Moser, Annalee H.; Murphy, Felicity	The Reference Assistant
2016	Chicago	Lamdan, Sarah	Environmental Information: Research, Access & Environmental Decision-making
2016	Chicago	Nevelow Mart, Susan	The Algorithm as a Human Artifact: Implications for Legal [Re]Search
2016	Chicago	Jones, Yolanda	Expansive Legal Research
2015	Philadelphia	Sinder, Janet	The Effects of Demand-Driven Acquisitions on Law Library Collection Development
2015	Philadelphia	Arredono, Pablo D.	Harvesting and Utilizing Explanatory Parentheticals
2015	Philadelphia	Collova, Jodi L.	Beyond Bikram: Stretching the Definition of Choreographic Works
2015	Philadelphia	Wu, Michelle M.	Food for Thought: Should Libraries Partner with Non-Library Search Engine Providers for Their OPACs and Discovery Layers?
2015	Philadelphia	deMaine, Susan David	Preparing Law Students for Information Governance
2015	Philadelphia	Lemmer, Catherine	Using Competitive Intelligence Instruction to Develop Practice-Ready Legal Professionals
2014	All	Nevelow Mart, Susan, ed.	The Boulder Statements on Legal Research Education : The Intersection of Intellectual and Practical Skills
2014	San Antonio	Azyndar, Susan	Work with Me Here: Collaborative Learning in the Legal Research Classroom
2014	San Antonio	Callister, Paul D.	What Is Meant by Freedom?
2014	San Antonio	deMaine, Susan David	From Disability to Usability in Online Instruction
2014	San Antonio	Kim-Prieto, Dennis; Kahvecioğlu, Mustafa Kerem	Three Faces of Information Literacy in Legal Studies: Research Instruction and Law Student Information Literacy Standards in the American Common Law, British Common Law, and Turkish Civilian Legal Traditions
2014	San Antonio	Linz, Robert	Research Analysis and Planning: The Undervalued Skill in Legal Research Instruction
2014	San Antonio	Rucinksi, Taryn L.	The Elephant in the Room: Toward a Definition of Grey Legal Literature
2013	Seattle	Nevelow Mart, Susan; Ginsburg, Tom	[Dis-]Informing the People’s Discretion: Judicial Deference Under the National Security Exemption of the Freedom of Information Act
2012	Harvard	Armond, David	The Relationship of Legal Tools and the Legal Structure
2012	Harvard	Callister, Paul D.	The Metacognitive Imperative
2012	Harvard	Davidson, Stephanie; Jayasuriya, Kumar	Social Networking and Research Practices: Legal, Ethical and Practical Considerations for Legal Research Educators
2012	Harvard	Krishnaswami, Julie	Critical Information Theory: A New Foundation for Teaching Regulatory Research
2012	Harvard	Mart, Susan Nevelow	Teaching the Benefits and Limits of Human Classification and Machine Algorithms: Theory and Practic
2012	Harvard	Mirkin, Sima	Extending and Customizing Content Discovery for the Legal Academic Community with III’s Pathfinder Pro: The Pence Law Library Approach
2012	Harvard	Nevers, Shawn G.	Assessment in Legal Research Education
2012	Harvard	Osborne, Caroline L.	A Methodical Approach to Legal Research: The Legal Research Plan, an Essential Tool for Today’s Law Student and New Attorney
2012	Harvard	Parker, Carol A.; Kim-Prieto, Dennis	Implementing Effective Legal Research Pedagogy in Contemporary U.S. Law Schools: Challenges and Opportunities
2012	Harvard	Valentine, Sarah	Integrating Legal Research into the Law School Curriculum: Putting the Boulder Statements into Practice
2011	Drexel	Harker, Yasmin Sokkar	“Information Is Cheap, but Meaning Is Expensive”: Building Analytical Skill into Legal Research Instruction
2011	Drexel	Nevelow Mart, Susan	The Case for Curation: The Relevance of Digest and Citator Results in Westlaw and Lexis
2011	Drexel	Custer, Joseph A.	Ideological Voting Applied to the School Desegregation Cases in the Federal Courts of Appeals from the 1960s and 1970s
2011	Drexel	Feliú, Vicenç; Frazer, Helen	Outcomes Assessment and Legal Research Pedagogy
2011	Drexel	Childs, Scott	Administrative Law Research
2011	Drexel	Lee, Jootaek	Legal Informatics: Metamorphosing Law Students into Legal Professionals Based on Empirical Evidence of Attorneys’ Information Seeking Behaviors
2010	Boulder	Cordon, Matthew	Task Mastery in Legal Research Instruction
2010	Boulder	Johnson, Nancy	Should You Use a Textbook to Teach Legal Research?
2010	Boulder	Kim-Prieto, Dennis	The Road Not Yet Taken: How Law Student Information Literacy Standards Address Identified Issues in Legal Research Education and Training
2010	Boulder	Street, Leslie; Runyon, Amanda	Finding Middle Ground in Collection Development: How Academic Law Libraries Can Shape Their Collections in Response to the Call for More Practice-Oriented Legal Education
2010	Boulder	Armond, David; Nevers, Shawn	The Practitioners’ Council: Aligning Legal Research Instruction
2010	Boulder	Lee, Jootaek	Gatekeepers of Legal Information: Evaluating and Integrating Free Internet Legal Resources into the Classroom
2010	Boulder	Butler, Margaret	Resource-Based Learning and Course Design: A Brief Theoretical Overview and Practical Suggestions
2009	Boulder	Alford, Duncan	The Development of the Skills Curriculum in Law Schools: Lessons for Directors of Academic Law Libraries
2009	Boulder	Callister, Paul D.	Time to Blossom: An Inquiry into Bloom’s Taxonomy as a Hierarchy and Means for Teaching Legal Research Skills
2009	Boulder	Davidson, Stephanie	Way Beyond Legal Research: Understanding the Research Habits of Legal Scholars
2009	Boulder	Klinefelter, Anne	First Amendment Limits on Library Collection Management
2009	Boulder	Lihosit, Judith	Research in the Wild: CALR and the Role of Informal Apprenticeship in Attorney Training
2009	Boulder	Sondhi, Sabrina	Should We Care If the Case Digest Disappears?: A Retrospective Analysis and the Future of Legal Research Instruction
2009	Boulder	Valentine, Sarah	Legal Research as a Fundamental Skill: A Lifeboat for Students and Law Schools
2009	Boulder	Nevelow Mart, Susan	The Relevance of Results Generated by Human Indexing and Computer Algorithms: A Study of West’s Headnotes and Key Numbers and LexisNexis’s Headnotes and Topics