Abstract
The third principle of the American Association of Law Libraries’ Principles and Standards for Legal Research Competencies states, “A successful researcher critically evaluates information.” This evaluation includes evaluating legal information of material under criteria of “authority, credibility, currency, authenticity, relevance, and bias. ”Does this standard include information contained in legal casebooks? This article’s goal is to show examples of case treatment in casebooks in Constitutional Law, Property, and Civil Procedure which demonstrate authors’ biases in their selection and editing of cases. Under the AALL standards and the ACRL Standards and Framework for Information literacy, librarians should teach students how to think critically about all the legal information presented to them—including casebooks."
Publication Date
9-7-2021
Journal Title
Legal Reference Services Quarterly
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
DOI: 10.1080/0270319X.2021.1966240
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Kathleen D. Fletcher Casebooks, Bias, and Information Literacy—Do Law Librarians Have a Duty?, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, initially published online on 9/7/2021. DOI: 10.1080/0270319X.2021.1966240
Additional Information
Manuscript version provided.