PURPOSE: The Committee serves to promote the scholarship of the American Association of Law Libraries' membership by administering the Call for Papers competition. CHARGE: The Committee shall promote the writing of scholarly papers and coordinate a program at the Association's annual meeting offering an opportunity for the winners of the prize to present their work highlighting various aspects of their writing process. To this end, the Committee shall establish categories or divisions of eligibility of the appropriate criteria for selection of winning works; review and set the number of creative works which will be selected as winners; administer any financial award which may be available for distribution to winners; and review papers or creative works and select winners. The Committee shall recommend to the editor of the Law Library Journal those papers which are suitable for publication.
Winning Papers, Open Division
The Need for More Uniform and Consistently Rigorous Standards for Assessing Law Librarian Performance in Tenure and Continuous Appointment Policies (2010)
This article identifies various tenure tracks and performance standards currently used in awarding law librarians...
A Defense of the Public Domain: A Scholarly Essay, AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers (2009)
Much has been written for librarians about copyright law. Despite the importance of the public...
A Working Lawyer's Life: The Letter Book of John Henry Senter 1879-1884 (2009)
Revised version of winning paper in 2005 Open Division competition.
Senter [1848-1916] was a...
The Truthiness of Thinkable Thoughts versus the Facts of Empirical Research, AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers (2009)
Daniel Dabney coined the phrase, “the universe of thinkable thoughts.” Bob Berring wrote that, “no...
Discovering William Cook: Ten Resources for Reconstructing the Life of a Lawyer, Law Library Journal (2008)
Revised version of winning paper in 2007 Open Division competition.
Ms. Leary uses a case...
Winning Papers, New Members Division
Citations to Wikipedia in Law Reviews (2010)
This paper adds to, and fills a gap in, the recent literature on the citation...
Indexing and Full-Text Coverage of Law Review Articles in Non-Legal Databases: An Initial Study, AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers (2009)
This study addresses a gap in the literature of library and information science by examining...
Not Just Key Numbers and Keywords Anymore: How User Interface Design Affects Legal Research, AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers (2008)
Legal research is one of the foundational skills for the practice of law. However, law...
Schoolhouse Rock Is No Longer Enough: The Presidential Signing Statements Controversy And Its Implications for Library Professionals, AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers (2008)
Presidential signing statements, a potent but previously little-discussed lawmaking device, have recently become the focus...
Candy, Points and Highlighers: Why Librarians, Not Vendors, Should Teach CALR to First Year Law Students, Law Library Journal (2007)
Revised version of winning paper in 2007 New Members Division competition.
Mr. Nevers reconsiders the...
Winning Papers, Student Division
Moving Past Web 2.0h! An Exploratory Study of Academic Law Libraries (2010)
Web 2.0 continues to be a popular topic within the library community. This article reports...
What if Law Journal Citations Included Digital Object Identifiers?: A Snapshot of Major Law Journals (2010)
Prevailing citation practice in law journals is to use uniform resource locators (URLs) when citing...
A Law Librarian's Guide to the Economic Crisis, AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers (2009)
The purpose of the selective bibliography essay is threefold. First, the essay identifies resources that...
The Law Librarian of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: A Figuration in Flux, AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers (2009)
Through introspection of scholarly writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the author articulates the...
Should Academic Law Libraries Continue to Participate in the Federal Depository Library Program?, AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers (2006)
With so much information available online, some academic law libraries are reconsidering their Federal Depository...