Evolution and the Specialists Dilemma: Legal Information and the Increasing Demand for Foreign, Comparative, and International Legal Research Skills

Authors

Kristina J. Alayan, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of LawFollow

Document Type

Video

Publication Date

12-16-2024

Abstract

The Biddle Speaker Series returns with Dean Kristina J. Alayan, speaking on her forthcoming paper “Evolution and the Specialists Dilemma: Legal Information and the Increasing Demand for Foreign, Comparative, and International Legal Research Skills.” This piece explores libraries’ struggle to staff positions that rely on the foreign, comparative, and international legal research skills demanded by an increasingly globalized legal profession. Kristina J. Alayan is associate dean for library & technology and associate law school professor at the University of Maryland. She oversees all aspects of library and technology operations and services through strategic and collaborative leadership to support the advancement of the scholarly, pedagogical, and clinical goals of the law school. Before joining the law faculty in 2021, she was the law library director and assistant professor of law at the Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Law Library at the Howard University School of Law, and previously held positions at the Georgetown University Law Center and Duke Law School.

She has served in numerous leadership positions at the local, regional, national, and international levels, including with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL), and the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, DC (LLSDC).

Repository Citation

Alayan, Kristina J., "Evolution and the Specialists Dilemma: Legal Information and the Increasing Demand for Foreign, Comparative, and International Legal Research Skills" (2024). Biddle Speaker Series. 6.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/bll_speakerseries/6