Barco Law Library: Legal Research Classes and course websites
Each semester the Barco law librarians teach several for-credit courses in the law school. These classes teach a variety of beginning and advanced skills in legal research.
Spring 2011
5491 Advanced Legal Research
3 Credits
This course will build on the material presented in the Foundations of Legal Research course, and will provide students with a broader array of strategies and skills to approach legal research projects.
5863 Information Privacy Law Seminar
3 Credits
Economic interests, the Internet and national security concerns have resulted in personal information becoming a commodity to be gathered, packaged, marketed, or used for investigative purposes often without regard for, or even the participation of the information subject. New mechanisms for both gathering and disseminating personal information, and new technologies that can both reduce and increase informational privacy have been developed ahead of the ability of the law to effectively regulate these activities. This three credit seminar will explore a number of the law and policy issues in the gathering and use of personal information and the protection of privacy. We will explore these issues in a number of contexts, including privacy and public records, privacy of health and genetic information, database development, privacy and law enforcement, anonymity, workplace privacy, and international privacy law. We will look at privacy-related legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act, HIPPA, and the CAN-SPAM Act, and the technology of privacy including RFID and other chip technologies, data mining, and the Human Genome project..
5958 Legal Research Fellows Practicum
1 Credit
Participants in this one credit, graded course will sharpen and refine basic research skills learned during previous legal research courses. With supervision from the Faculty Services Librarian and other Barco Law Librarian librarians, students will learn to develop legal research strategies, conduct efficient and comprehensive legal research and to effectively communicate the results of their research to faculty members. Fellows may draft memos, generate spreadsheets or develop bibliographies as finished work products for assignments.
The Research Fellow will encounter a diversity of research requests just as an associate would receive a variety of assignments in a law firm setting. Fellows will have an opportunity to directly interact with faculty members.
