Public Interest Law Research and Career Resources

This page provides a select bibliography of articles that cover specialized legal research methods that can help inform public interest work. 

• Laura B. Wilcoxon, A Next-Generation Framework: Using Critical Legal Research Pedagogy to Prepare Law Students for the NextGen Bar Exam, 42 Legal Reference Services Q. 1 (2023)
• Latia Ward, A Librarian’s Experience Teaching Critical Information Literacy, 41 Legal Reference Services Q. 1 (2022)
• Nicholas F. Stump, COVID, Climate Change, and Transformative Social Justice: A Critical Legal Research Exploration, 47 Wm. & Mary Env't L. & Pol'y Rev. 147 (2022)
• Nicholas Mignanelli, Legal Research and Its Discontents: A Bibliographic Essay on Critical Approaches to Legal Research, 113 Law Libr. J. 101 (2021)
• Grace Lo, Biases in Law Library Subject Headings, 101 B.U. L. Rev. Online 26 (2021)
• Priya Baskaran, Service, Scholarship, and Radical Citation Practice, 73 Rutgers U.L. Rev. 891 (2021)
• Kim P. Nayyer, Marcelo Rodriguez, & Sarah Sutherland, Artificial Intelligence & Implicit Bias: With Greater Power Comes Greater Responsibility, AALL Spectrum (May-June 2020)
• Nicholas Mignanelli, Critical Legal Research: Who Needs It?, 112 Law Libr. J. 327 (2020)
• Shamika Dalton, Incorporating Race into Your Legal Research Class, 109 Law Libr. J. 703 (2017)
• Susan Nevelow Mart, The Algorithm as a Human Artifact: Implications for Legal [Re]Search, 109 Law Libr. J. 387 (2017)
• Yasmin Sokkar Harker, Legal Information for Social Justice: The New ACRL Framework and Critical Information Literacy, 2 Legal Info. Rev. 19 (2016-2017)
• Nicholas F. Stump, Following New Lights: Critical Legal Research Strategies as a Spark for Law Reform in Appalachia, 23 Am. U.J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 573 (2015) 
• Julie Graves Krishnaswami, Critical Information Theory: A New Foundation for Teaching Regulatory Research, in Boulder Statements on Legal Research Education (Susan Nevelow Mart ed., 2013)
• Ronald E. Wheeler, Does Westlaw Really Change Everything? The Implications of WestlawNext on Legal Research, 103 Law Libr. J. 359 (2011)
• Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Why Do We Ask the Same Questions? The Triple Helix Dilemma Revisited, 99 Law Libr. J. (2007)
• Jill Anne Farmer, A Poststructuralist Analysis of the Legal Research Process, 85 Law Libr. J. 391 (1993)
• Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Why Do We Tell the Same Stories?: Law Reform, Critical Librarianship and the Triple Helix Dilemma, 42 Stan. L. Rev. 207 (1989)