Teaching
Courses I teach, the textbook and websites I built for them, and the guides I keep for students and colleagues. Most of it is open; take what is useful.
Textbook and websites
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Open textbook
The Question Method of Legal Research
2026
Legal research as a chain of questions. Free, open, and yours to adopt for a 1L research course.
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Interactive
Question Method companion modules
2026
Hands-on labs for all seventeen chapters: rank the authorities, run the citator, catch the fabricated citation.
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Tool
The Workbench
2026
The companion site for Law Practice in the Age of AI & Big Data: modules for every role a lawyer plays with AI, as user, evaluator, builder, and steward.
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Open textbook
Introduction to Law Librarianship
2021, second edition 2025
The field’s introductory text, co-edited with Zanada Joyner. Used in law librarianship courses and for onboarding in libraries nationwide.
Courses
Law Practice in the Age of AI & Big Data
An experiential course on the ethical and practical questions where law, policy, and artificial intelligence meet. Proposed and first taught at Duke; brought to Arizona in 2021. The Workbench is its companion site.
Law Practice Technology
The tools lawyers actually use, and how to evaluate the next one. Taught at FIU and Arizona.
Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
The 1L research sequence, co-taught with the writing faculty and built on the Question Method.
Also taught
Teaching Legal Research; independent studies on AI in law; Innovation for Justice (the course that built the Medical Debt Policy Scorecard); Designing Creative Legal Solutions (Duke).
Guides and resources
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Guide
AI Teaching Tools & Resources
Trainings, demonstration sites, and tools for teaching how machine learning and generative AI work, organized by topic.
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Guide
Legal Research Examples
Real quirks of legal research with citations: partially overruled cases, statutory notes, Congressional Record date mismatches.
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Guide
Language Matters
An inclusive-language guide: common phrases with biased origins and the plain alternatives I use instead.
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Handbooks
Law Library Fellows Program handbooks
Three open volumes for administrators, fellows, and mentors, so any law library can train the next generation.