Critical Legal Research: The Next Wave (A Panel in Honor of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic)

The Boston University Law Review Online is pleased to present this symposium: Critical Legal Research: The Next Wave (A Panel in Honor of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic). In the symposium, professional academic law librarians and critical information scholars build on the pathbreaking insights of legal research’s “triple helix dilemma” formulated by Professors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic in “Why Do We Tell the Same Stories?: Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma” and “Why Do We Ask the Same Questions? The Triple Helix Dilemma Revisited.” In addition, Delgado and Stefancic once again revisit the “triple helix,” and legal categorization more broadly, in dialogue with their fictional character, Rodrigo Crenshaw. We thank all of the contributors for their ongoing efforts to push the legal profession to, in the words of Delgado and Stefancic, “break loose form hidebound patterns” so that we can look beyond “what is” and discover “what might be.”

Ronald E. Wheeler, An Introduction to “Critical Legal Research: The Next Wave,” 101 B.U. L. Rev. Online 1 (2021).

Nicholas F. Stump, “Non-Reformist Reforms” in Radical Social Change: A Critical Legal Research Exploration, 101 B.U. L. Rev. Online 6 (2021).

Yasmin Sokkar Harker, Invisible Hands and the Triple (Quadruple?) Helix Dilemma: Helping Students Free Their Minds, 101 B.U. L. Rev. Online 17 (2021).

Grace Lo, Biases in Law Library Subject Headings, 101 B.U. L. Rev. Online 26 (2021).

Julie Graves Krishnaswami, Using Principles of Critical Information Theory to Teach Progressive Approaches to Regulatory Research, 101 B.U. L. Rev. Online 38 (2021).

Nicholas Mignanelli, Prophets for an Algorithmic Age, 101 B.U. L. Rev. Online 41 (2021).

Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Rodrigo’s Reappraisal, 101 B.U. L. Rev. Online 48 (2021).