CFP & Conference: Fifteenth Annual Boulder Conference on Legal Information: Scholarship & Teaching – in Boston, MA, Hybrid or Virtual

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Fifteenth Annual Boulder Conference on Legal Information: Scholarship & Teaching – in Boston, MA, Hybrid or Virtual

Call for Papers on All Aspects of Legal Information

The fifteenth Annual Boulder Conference on Legal InformationScholarship & Teaching will be held in Boston, MA, on July 14, 2023, immediately prior to the AALL Annual Meeting, in person, hybrid, or virtually, as circumstances dictate.

The purpose of the conference is to provide attendees with a forum to present works-in-progress on any topic related to legal information, including pedagogy, information retrieval, law and policy, information access issues, or practice issues. If in person, the conference will begin with a 6:00 p.m. reception and organizational meeting on Thursday evening, July 13, 2023, in Boston, TBD. On Friday, July 14th, the conference will meet at New England Law | Boston. Under the leadership of the wonderful Kristin McCarthy, NELB is proud to be hosting the 2023 Boulder Conference on Legal Research and Education.  Located in the heart of downtown Boston, New England Law was founded in 1908 for the legal education of women.  With over a century of preparing students for the practice of law, New England strongly supports the mission of the Boulder Conference to promote scholarship on legal research education.

The conference will conclude Friday evening, July 14th, to avoid conflict with AALL activities. There is no registration fee for the conference. Attendees are expected to cover their own transportation and lodging expenses. Because the Conference will be held immediately prior to the AALL Annual Meeting in Boston, we anticipate that Conference attendees will register at an AALL conference hotel. The conference rate should be available. For those unable to attend we will provide Zoom links.

The Conference will be limited to 10-12 attendees. Each person attending will be expected to submit a draft work-in-progress in advance of the conference; attendees will be chosen from among those submitting their work. The work should focus on some aspect of:

  • the use or teaching of legal information, such as a framework for teaching legal research within the theoretical  guidelines of the Boulder Statements (for example, information literacy theory, adult learning theory, network theory, or other educational, social science, or psychology theories);
  • an aspect of information retrieval (both manual and automated systems, including topics like artificial intelligence and law);
  • law and policy (issues such as privacy, copyright,  security, and surveillance);
  • information access issues (such as making legal and government information more accessible to the public, both physically and intellectually); or
  • practice issues (applications which help lawyers in their day-to-day operations).

To apply for the Conference, please submit a draft project for consideration no later than May 10, 2023. The draft must be more than an outline but need not be in publishable form (between 6-10 pages). Please submit your draft via e-mail to Dana Neacsu (neacsue@duq.edu). Conference invitations will be issued later in May. Those chosen as conference participants may submit a longer working draft of at least 6,000 and no more than 25,000 words for review by June 19, 2023. All drafts will be circulated to everyone attending to allow ample time for reading and thought.

 

 

 

 

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