Intersession Class at Pace: Advanced Health Law Research

Pace Law School is offering an intersession class titled Advanced Research Skills for Health, Disability, and Elder Law. Margaret Moreland, a Reference Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace, will be teaching this class during the January intersession.

Don't hesitate and take advantage of this incredible opportunity to learn advanced research skills in the area of health law, spend one on one time with the expert in this area, and earn 2 credits over just six days. You can take this class to lower your load in the Spring semester, or you can take this class as an overload.

To learn more about this class or how to sign up, please visit our Podcast site and listen to the podcast discussing what this class is all about, contact Ms. Moreland directly or click the picture to the right.

Legal Research Skills Tested On Bar Exam?

A thought provoking post at Legal Blog Watch by Carolyn Elefant Should Bar Exams Test Legal Research Skills?, is a reaction post to Joe Hodnicki post on Law Librarian Blog Should (When Will) Legal Research Skills Be Tested on bar Exam? It is obviously an involved topic, but I will try to briefly sum it up. Both sides seem to agree that strong legal research skills are important. But they disagree on the testability of legal research skills. The first question seems to be: Are legal research skills 'testable'?

One argument states that legal research skills would be hard to test because lawyers often have access to different kind of resources (electronic vs. print). Other argument says legal research skills could be easily tested because it is about the theoretical approach and knowledge of available resources rather than about having access to them. Well, what do you all think? Are legal research skills testable? And if so, should they be tested on bar exam?