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Content Posted in 2021

Accessing Materials: Review of the MacCrate Report’s Fundamental Lawyering Skill: Search, Michael McArthur

Addressing the “Emerging Majority”: Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Law Librarianship in the Twenty-First Century, Alyssa Thurston

Adventures, Achievement and Altruism: Ellen Schaffer, a Model for Law Librarians, Mary Thurston

A Guide for the Creation, Use, and Administration of Electronic User Surveys in Law Libraries, Jason Giesler

A History of America’s First Jim Crow Law School Library and Staff, Ernesto Longa

Ain’t No (Sky)River Wide Enough to Keep Me From Getting to You: SkyRiver, Innovative, OCLC, and the Fight for Control Over the Bibliographic Data, Cataloging Services, ILL, and ILS Markets, Ellen Richardson

American Judicial Rejectionism and the Domestic Court’s Undermining of International Human Rights Law and Policy After Human Right Violations Have Occurred in the State, Jessika L. Gonzalez

An Evaluation of State Legislative History Websites, Kyle Brown

Applying the Health Justice Framework to Address Health and Health Care Inequities Experienced by People with Disabilities During and After COVID-19, Robyn M. Powell

Are Congressional Resources Created Equal: An Evaluation, Matthew P. Neely

Assessing the Changing Nature of Authority in the Web Age: The Citation Practices of Minnesota Supreme Court, Rebecca Sherman

Authentication of Online State Primary Legal Resources as a Social Justice Issue: The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act and How It Can Benefit Pro Se Litigants, Anna Endter

Autonomous Corporate Personhood, Carla L. Reyes

Benevolent Exclusion, Anna Offit

Beyond “Children Are Different”: The Revolution in Juvenile Intake and Sentencing, Josh Gupta-Kagan

Brain Plasticity and the Impact of the Electronic Environment in Law and Learning, Sherry Leysen

Browsing Versus User-Centric Spaces in Academic Law Libraries, Paul Riermaier

Building a Chinese Law Collection in the Academic Law Library: Challenges, Alternatives, and Trends, Thomas Kimbrough

Building Back Better: Investing in a Resilient Recovery for Washington State, Kevin Tempest, Jonah Kurman-Faber, and Ruby Wincele

Bully No More: Why Trademark Owners Engage in Trademark Overreach and How to Prevent It, Quynh La

Checking Up on Court Citation Standards: How Neutral Citation Improves Public Access to Case Law, Michael Umberger

Citators: Past, Present, and Future, Laura C. Dabney

Climate Change Has Beef with Federal Cattle Grazing, John David Janicek

Cloudy with a Chance of Open Source: Open Source Integrated Library Systems and Cloud Computing in Academic Law Libraries, Carla Wale

Community Empowerment in Decarbonization: NEPA’s Role, Wyatt G. Sassman

Congressional Research Service Products: History, Purpose, and Availability, Charlie Amiot

Contract as Emergency Law, Xuan-Thao Nguyen

Contracting in the Age of Smart Contracts, Farshad Ghodoosi

Copyright and Digitization Initiatives, Alicia Brillon

Copyrighting TikTok Dances: Choreography in the Internet Age, Ali Johnson

Copyright’s Deprivations, Anne-Marie Carstens

Corporate Complicity in International Criminal Law: Potential Responsibility of European Arms Dealers for Crimes Committed in Yemen, Marina Aksenova

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Criminalization is Not the Only Way: Guatemala’s Law Against Femicide and Other Forms of Violence Against Women and the Rates of Femicide in Guatemala, Sydney Bay

DENSITY, Jerry Bartolacci and Francesca Serri

Designing Feeds to Meet Users’ Needs: RSS and the Academic Law Library, Melissa Fung

Digital Contract Tracing in the Workplace, Alexandra Kiosse

Digital Preservation and Authentic Legal Information, G. Patrick Flanagan

¿Donde Esta La Biblioteca? It’s a Damn Same: Outdated, Inadequate, and Nonexistent Law Libraries in Immigrant Detention Facilities, Sarah Dunaway

Draw Me a Picture: Instructional Visual Displays in the Academic Law Library, Grace Lee

Due Process in Prison Disciplinary Hearings: How the “Some Evidence” Standard of Proof Violates the Constitution, Emily Parker

Earl C. Borgeson and the Image of the Law Librarian, Susan Azyndar

Emergency Preparedness in the Legal Librarian Community in the United States – Current Culture and the Need to Expand Collaboration, Danielle Lewis

Empirical Legal Scholarship and Law Libraries, Mariah Ford

Ever Onward: Expanding the Use of Perma.cc, Matthew Flyntz

Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies in Washington State

Faculty Research Services for a New Era of Law Librarianship, Mariana Newman

Faculty Status for Academic Librarians: A Case Study at the University of Washington, Ashley Arrington

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Federal Architecture and First Amendment Limits, Jessica Rizzo

Fighting Words: Targeting Speech in Armed Conflict, A. Louis Evans

Finding Better Words: Markets, Property, Rights, and Resources, Andrew P. Morriss, Roger E. Meiners, and Bruce Yandle

Finding Better Words: Markets, Property, Rights, and Resources, Andrew P. Morriss, Roger Meiners, and Bruce Yandle

Following the Herd: Bringing Electronic Casebooks into the Law School, Jeremy McCabe

Foreword, William Covington

Framing the Issue: The Case for Artwork in Academic Law Libraries, Maya Swanes

Frederick C. Hicks: The Dean of Law Librarians, Stacy Etheredge

From a Trickle to a Flood: A Case Study of the “Current Index to Legal Periodicals” to Examine the Swell of American Law Journals Published in the Last Fifty Years, Alena Wolotira

From Loon Lake to Chuckanut Creek: The Rise and Fall of Environmental Values in Washington's Water Resources Act, Rachael Paschal Osborn

Hacks, Leaks, and Data Dumps: The Right to Publish Illegally Acquired Information Twenty Years After Bartnicki V. Vopper, Erik Ugland and Christina Mazzeo

Health Care Fraud Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry, Jacob T. Elberg

Hostile Restructurings, Diane L. Dick

How Far Will FARA Go? The Foreign Agents Registration Act and the Criminalization of Global Human Rights Advocacy, Monica Romero

How the Gun Control Act Disarms Black Firearm Owners, Maya Itah

If You Don’t Like What’s Being Said, Change the Conversation: Effectively Marketing and Communicating the Value of an Academic Law Library, Grace Eumee Feldman

I’m Just a Bill: Citations to Legislative History by the Arizona Supreme Court and Utah Supreme Court, Wendy Lamar

Improving Usability of Legal Research Databases for Users with Print-Disabilities, AJ Blechner

In an Effort to Respond to Robert Berring’s Lament on the Death of the Bibliography: A Study of Online Legal Research Guides, Ingrid Mattson

Inclusion of Team Role Theory into the Orientation of Law Librarianship at the University of Washington, Tamara Carson

Inheritance Crimes, David Horton and Reid Kress Weisbord

In-House Digital Libraries for Law Firms, Tanya Livshits

John West and the Future of Subscription Databases, Taryn Marks

Judicial Discretion Is Advised: The Lack of Discretionary Appointments of Counsel for Children in Washington State Dependency Proceedings, Marisa Forthun

Justice No Justice; I Can't Breathe, by Hala Hassan

Kū Kia‘I Mauna: Protecting Indigenous Religious Rights, Joshua Rosenberg

Law Library Architecture and Space Planning, Ashley Sundin

Law School Firms and Incubators and the Role of the Academic Law Library, Sonal Desai

Law School Libraries and the U.S. News & World Report Rankings: An Empirical Defense of Library Investments in the Era of the Rankings Regime, Ryan Metheny

Legal Research Deficiencies in the Law School Curriculum, Proposed ABA Rule 302, and Solutions, Kristen Rowlett

Legal Research Instruction in County Law Libraries: Meeting the Needs of the Public, Melissa Miller

Let Indians Decide: How Restricting Border Passage by Blood Quantum Infringes on Tribal Sovereignty, Rebekah Ross

Let’s Chat: Academic Law Libraries Providing Real-Time Reference Using Synchronous Chat Services, Heather Joy

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief, Dayton Campbell-Harris

Meeting the Information Needs of Constitutionalist Patrons: A Guide for Reference Librarians, Vicenç Feliú

MINA KESHWAR KAMAL, Tom Block

Moving Beyond the Library Catalog, Jonathan Germann

My Cash Is My Bond: Recognizing Rights to Cash Bail Forfeiture Exoneration in Washington, Olivia Hagel

My Lawyer Has a First Name, It’s G-O-O-G-L-E: Improving Online Access to Case Law Through Court-Provided Metadata, Andrew Martineau

Never Mistake Law for Justice: Releasing Indigent Defendants from Legal Purgatory, R.K. Brinkmann

No Nachos or Corn Nuts! Reviewing and Deconstructing Law Library Policies, Brandy Ellis

Open World Regulation: The Urgent Need for Federal Legislation on Video Game Loot Boxes, Alex Reyes

Perspectives: Changes in Reference and Collections in the Digital Age, Stewart Caton

Police or Pirates? Reforming Washington's Civil Asset Forfeiture System, Jasmin Chigbrow

Predictive Facts, Brent Ferguson

Principle of CBDR-RC: Its Interpretation and Implementation Through NDCS in the Context of Sustainable Development, Stellina Jolly and Abhishek Trivedi

Principle of CBDR-RC: Its Interpretation and Implementation Through NDCS in the Context of Sustainable Development, Stellina Jolly and Abhishek Trivedi

Privacy Perils of Open Data and Data Sharing: A Case Study of Taiwan's Open Data Policy and Practices, Ching-Yi Liu, Wei-Ping Li, and Yun-Pu Tu

Promoting Psychological Health in Law Students, Lara Dresser

Pro Se Patrons in the Law Library: The Case for Privacy in the Digital Age, Christine Ford

Protecting Protected Activity, Daiquiri J. Steele

Race and Representation: The Legislative Council in Hong Kong During the Reign of Queen Victoria, Dongsheng Zang

Reckoning: A Dialogue about Racism, AntiRacists, and Business & Human Rights, Erika George, Jena Martin, and Tara Van Ho

Rediscovering Dr. Arthur S. Beardsley: A Brief Introduction to His Life and Work, Carissa Vogel

Reframing Church Property Disputes in Washington State, Theodore G. Lee

Reimagining Exceptional Events: Regulating Wildfires Through the Clean Air Act, Emily Williams

Restoring Reasonableness to Workplace Religious Accommodations, Dallan F. Flake

Revising Reasonableness in the Cloud, Ian Walsh

Revocation and Retribution, Jacob Schuman

Ring, Amazon Calling: The State Action Doctrine & The Fourth Amendment, Grace Egger

ROMA WOMAN, Estefania Ruiz Molina

"Send Freedom House!": A Study in Police Abolition, Tiffany Yang

Serving Pro Se Patrons: An Obligation and an Opportunity, Kerry Fitz-Gerald

Sonograms and Speech: Informed Consent, Professional Speech, and Physicians' First Amendment Rights, Oliana Luke

Specialized Legal Research Courses: The Next Generation of Advanced Legal Research, Cassie DuBay

Stronger Together: Embracing Google and Linked Data in Law Libraries, Elizabeth Manriquez

Structural Barriers to Inclusion in Arbitrator Pools, Nicole G. Iannarone

Stuck Behind the Curve: How the Academic Law Library Can Support Students who Struggle in Law School, Jennifer A. Haire Gonzalez

Subsidizing Technology Competition: China’s Evolving Practices and International Trade Regulation, Weihuan Zhou and Mandy Meng Fang

Super-Statutory Contracting, Kristelia A. García

Suspects, Cars & Police Dogs: A Complicated Relationship, Brian R. Gallini

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Talking Back in Court, M. Eve Hanan

Teamwork or Collusion? Changing Antitrust Law to Permit Corporate Action on Climate Change, Dailey C. Koga

The African Buffalo and the Oxpecker: An Acknowledgement of the Mutualism Between Academic Law Libraries and Their Institutions, with a Prescription for Future Coevolution, Michelle M. Botek

The Bar Exam’s Contribution to Systemic Inequalities in Access to Justice Around the World, Nicci Arete

The Discovery Process: Next-Generation Catalogs in Law School Libraries, Andrew Christensen

The Effect of Economics and Electronic Resources on the Traditional Law Library Print Collection, Amanda Runyon

The Euclid Proviso, Ezra Rosser

The Federal Option: Delaware as a De Facto Agency, Omari Scott Simmons

The Garden of Forking Paths: Law Libraries and the Future of the Catalog, Bret Masterson

The Implausibility Standard for Environmental Plaintiffs: The Twiqbal Plausibility Pleading Standard and Affirmative Defenses, Celeste Anquonette Ajayi

The Loss of Thought in the Legal Research Analysis Process, Tiffany Camp

The Meaning, History, and Importance of the Elections Clause, Eliza Sweren-Becker and Michael Waldman

The Next Big Thing?: Google Scholar and Legal Scholarship, Shannon Malcolm

The Thickness of Blood: Article I, Section 7, Law Enforcement, and Commercial DNA Databases, Hannah Parman

The Typography of Law Reviews:A Typographic Survey of Legal Periodicals, Ambrogino Giusti

The Unbundling of Legal Services and its Implications for Law Librarianship, Kara Noel

Third-Party Sexual Harassment: The Challenge of Title IX Obligations for Law School Clinics, Ty Alper

Treading Water: How Citizens, States, and the Environmental Protection Agency Can Restore Proper Criminal Enforcement of the Clean Water Act's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, Marley Kimelman

Trust v. Antitrust: Consolidation in the Legal Publishing Industry, John Dethman

“Unconstitutional Beyond A Reasonable Doubt” – A Misleading Mantra that Should Be Gone for Good, Hugh Spitzer

Uniform Laws: A New Path Forward, Sarah Weldon

Unregistered Patents, Miriam Marcowitz-Bitton and Emily Michiko Morris

U.S. Supreme Court Current Awareness and Legal Blogs in the Law Library, Justin Abbasi

Virtual Reference Service: A Case Study of QuestionPoint Utilization at the Gallagher Law Library, Christina Luini

Washington's One-Size-Fits-All Unemployment Compensation Eligibility in Cases of Voluntary Separation, Julia Fleming

Washington State Minority and Justice Commission’s Bibliography Project, Adrienne Cobb

Water Banks in Washington State: A Tool for Climate Resilience, Jennifer J. Seely

We All Do It: How Bias Informs Legal Research and Teaching, Elizabeth Cook

Web-Based Legal Research Guides in Academic Law Libraries, Jennifer Locke Davitt

Web Cites: When Courts Cite to URLs: A Study of Washington and New York Cases, Kelly Aldrich

“We’re Going to Make You Popular:” Popular Collections in the Modern Academic Law Library, Jordan Gilbertson

What Is Your Library Worth? Changes in Evaluation Methods for Academic Law Libraries, Tammy Hinderman

Written Reference Services Policies for Public patrons in Public Law School Libraries, Stephen Richards

You Are Not a Commodity: A More Efficient Approach to Commercial Privacy Rights, Benjamin T. Pardue