Legal scholars using Google Scholar for inter/multi/cross disciplinary research
I often read works in #LegalScholarship that exhibit ignorance of the considerable scholarship on the same topics in other fields. It’s as if legal scholars are trapped in the #LawReview searches on #Westlaw #Lexis and #HeinOnline. For example, in #LegalWriting #LRW scholarship, I note that scholars fail to check the research on related topics done in fields such as #rhetoric, #composition, #WritingStudies, and #TechnicalCommunication. Even if legal scholarship refers out to such scholarship, it often fails to consider the conversational context in which that scholarship falls: For example, citing or relying a book in another field without reviewing and considering Read More …