Competency: Teaching

Target Audience: Law library directors, legal research instructors, private law librarians, reference librarians

Learning Outcomes:

1) Participants will learn the background and current status of the issue concerning inclusion of legal research questions on the bar examination.

2) Participants will gain an understanding of the relationship between student mastery of specialized legal research course material and student success on possible future bar examination legal research questions.

The President of the National Conference of Bar Examiners, Erica Moeser, will join a group of academic law librarians and two law library directors in discussing the issue of legal research questions on the bar exam. The group will also explore the best method of preparing law students for legal research bar exam questions.