I am the Director of the Leon E. Bloch Law Library and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri Kansas City. My research interests focuses on the relationship of the information environment to jurisprudence, the rule of law, social, economic and political stability, and the evolution of government and legal institutions. My web bio is posted at http://www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/callister/bio/callister.htm.
Law and Society
Books above the Throne: Geopolitical and Technological Factors Exalting Textual Authority in Seventeenth-Century England, Under Submission (2008)
Actualization of the rule of law necessitates more than the enumeration of individual rights and...
Law and Heidegger’s Question Concerning Technology: A Prolegomenon to Future Law Librarianship, Law Library Journal (2007)
Following World War II, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger offered one of the most potent...
Identity and Market for Loyalties Theories: The Case for Free Information Flow in Insurgent Iraq, Saint Louis University Public Law Review (2006)
When monopoly control over the flow of information is lost, the unavoidable consequence is destabilization....
Law's Box: Law, Jurisprudence and the Information Ecosphere, UMKC Law Review (2005)
For so long as it has been important to know “what the law is,” the...
The Internet, Regulation and the Market for Loyalties: An Economic Analysis of Transborder Information Flow, University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy (2002)
As the Internet has gained prevalence, attention has turned to its regulation. Indeed, regulation...
Legal Research and Bibliography
Thinking like a Research Expert: Schemata for Teaching Complex Problem-Solving Skills, Legal Reference Services Quarterly (2009)
Law and Heidegger’s Question Concerning Technology: A Prolegomenon to Future Law Librarianship, Law Library Journal (2007)
Following World War II, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger offered one of the most potent...
Beyond Training: Law Librarianship’s Quest for the Pedagogy of Legal Research Instruction, Law Library Journal (2003)
The paper (I) outlines the nature and extent of the dissatisfaction with legal research instruction...
Rule of Law
Books above the Throne: Geopolitical and Technological Factors Exalting Textual Authority in Seventeenth-Century England, Under Submission (2008)
Actualization of the rule of law necessitates more than the enumeration of individual rights and...
Law's Box: Law, Jurisprudence and the Information Ecosphere, UMKC Law Review (2005)
For so long as it has been important to know “what the law is,” the...