NEW BOOK: The Role of Citation in the Law: A Yale Law School Symposium

AALL Publications Series, New Book Breanne Callahan

  • Chiorazzi champions librarian scholarship in this first publication of its kind
  • Includes first-rate scholarship from 20+ authors including law school librarians and faculty nationwide
  • Perfect for academic law librarians, law school faculty members, and members of the AALL and AALS

About This Title


This one-of-a-kind publication contains papers presented at Yale Law School’s Virtual Symposium on Citation and the Law, held April 22-23, 2021, which highlighted the scholarship of law librarians and faculty interested in issues ranging from the U.S. News and World Reports rankings for scholarly productivity, to link rot, to empirical research in the use of citations, and more.

Keynote speaker Fred Shapiro’s paper The Most-Cited Legal Scholars Revisited sets the stage. The remaining chapters continue the impressive collection of first-rate scholarship from more than 20 authors from law schools across the country. This material advances the understanding of law librarianship and legal information management and encourages law librarians to continue to create and publish a body of scholarship. It also shows the intense interest of law school administrations and their alums and donors in rankings of scholarship.

Address issues on:

  • Citation count
  • Citation ethics
  • Citation sources
  • DOI in legal citation
  • Link rot
  • And much more!

About the Editor


Michael Chiorazzi was Associate Dean, Professor of Information Resources and Library Science at the School of Information, and James & Beverly Rogers Professor of Law at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. He began his career as a reference librarian and senior instructor in legal research at Duke University School of Law. Subsequently, he served as the deputy director of the Law Library and legal research instructor at the Boston College School of Law. Dean Chiorazzi’s research interests include legal history, issues in law librarianship, and the use of technology in the teaching of legal research. Since 1999 he has served as the editor of Legal Reference Services Quarterly.

Most significantly, in 2022, Chiorazzi was awarded the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award from AALL, the organization’s highest honors. In 2007 he was awarded the AALL Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographic Award (with Marguerite Most), which recognizes important contributions to legal bibliographical literature, for their editing of the book Pre-Statehood Legal Research: A Guide to the Fifty States, Including the District of Columbia and New York City, which has since been converted into an interactive HeinOnline database.




The Role of Citation in the Law:
A Yale Law School Symposium

AALL Publications Series No. 86
Edited by: Michael Chiorazzi
Item #
: 1007158
Pages: xii, 701p. (714 pages total)
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4263-2
1 Volume, perfect bound…….$110.00
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2022

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