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Building the Future of Law Libraries: Artificial Intelligence, Opportunities, and AdvancementThe Future of Law Libraries initiative convened six regional roundtables on Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Law Libraries with experts from academic, court, firm, and government law libraries, as well as allied professions, using scenario-building methodology to examine how AI is reshaping legal education, work, and systems and what law libraries must do to lead that change. The common message: legal information professionals must take an active, coordinated role in AI policy, training, and infrastructure or risk being sidelined as legal information vendors and non-library actors set the agenda. This white paper distills convergent themes and proposes collaborative directions. It explores three recommendations that sprang from the roundtables: 1) create a centralized AI organization, 2) develop tiered training for legal information professionals, and 3) establish a shared knowledge hub. If we are successful in this next stage, we will have coordinated advocacy and standards, a workforce with more advanced skills, and an open, authoritative, dynamic, centralized repository. We will be convening teams to push these recommendations forward and we provide a link in the Call to Action section for our colleagues to join this effort.
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No Department, No Enforcement: Title IX After the Collapse of the Department of EducationThe structural foundations of Title IX enforcement are undergoing a profound transformation. President Trump’s 2025 executive order initiating the closure of the Department of Education, combined with the vacatur of the 2024 Title IX regulations and the Supreme Court’s elimination of Chevron deference in Loper Bright, has fundamentally dismantled the administrative framework that long anchored Title IX protections. Unlike prior regulatory shifts, these developments raise the question of whether meaningful federal enforcement will continue to exist at all. As administrative structures recede, courts will assume a much greater role in defining Title IX’s scope and enforceability, despite their institutional limitations. This Article argues that the resulting shift will narrow substantive protections, restrict access to justice, and produce fragmented interpretations of Title IX across jurisdictions. It examines the statute’s original design as an evolving administrative framework, explores the barriers marginalized students will face under a litigation-driven model, and explains why courts are ill-equipped to provide consistent, forward-looking guidance. This Article concludes by considering potential legislative reforms to restore national coordination in Title IX enforcement, drawing lessons from Congress’s intervention following Grove City College v. Bell.
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Enhancing Design Guidelines for Metal Powder Bed Fusion: Analyzing Geometric Features to Improve Part QualityAdditive manufacturing (AM) part quality relies on many factors, including part geometry that impacts both the manufacturability and resulting dimensional accuracy of the part. To improve the dimensional accuracy of AM parts, data-driven approaches can be utilized to explore the effect of different process parameters on both simple and complex geometries. However, to provide general design guidelines, it is necessary to develop models and tools that accurately predict geometry-driven distortion across a broad range of geometries, while also being user-interpretable. Identifying and analyzing common part features that contribute to geometrical deviations and using them to design better parts could improve AM part quality. In this paper, a Gaussian process regression surrogate model was trained using 21 geometric features (selected from a set of 92 shape descriptors) from 324 different axisymmetric parts to predict maximum part distortion and identify the features that impact part distortion the most. Validated high-fidelity finite element analysis simulations were used to determine the maximum distortion corresponding to each part. Our results show the surrogate model approach can accurately predict part distortion, with a predictive error of approximately 0.07 mm for the testing set. The findings of this study can have implications for the exploration of new part designs by adjusting these identified features or incorporating them as design rules in AM product designs.
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An Innovative Approach to Medical-Legal Partnership: Unauthorized Practice of Law Reform as a Civil Justice Pathway in Patient CareThis Article discusses the design of an innovative approach to the traditional medical-legal partnership. This potentially transformative service model proposes the use of unauthorized practice of law (UPL) reform to embed civil legal problem solving within a patient care setting. Unlike in the traditional medical-legal partnership — a service model which embeds lawyers within patient care settings to address patients’ justice needs — we explore the promise of patient advocacy through community-based justice workers (CBJWs): members of the community who are not lawyers but who have specialized legal training and authorization to provide civil legal help to those who need it most. This work is the result of a partnership between Innovation for Justice, a social justice legal innovation lab housed at both the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, and University of Utah Health. The present framework for UPL-reform-based medical-legal partnerships was developed through robust community-engaged research and design work across the 2022–23 academic year. This article discusses the research findings and proposes a framework for replication in other jurisdictions.
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Mycorrhized Lygeum spartum is effective for the eco-restoration and phytoremediation of metal-contaminated soils in arid landscapesPlant species inhabiting industrial areas have evolved resilience in stressed environments and represent potential valuable resources for remediating polluted sites. However, data describing the potential of xeric plant species in sustainable green applications remain scarce. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of mycorrhiza-amended xeric plant species Lygeum spartum, in coping with arid conditions for phytoremediation and ecological restoration of degraded and contaminated lands. A six-month controlled pot experiment was conducted to assess leaf length, enzymatic activities, and secondary metabolites. Toxic metals and metalloids (TMMs) fate was evaluated using translocation factor (TF), bioaccumulation factor (BF) and removal efficiency (RE). Fungal inoculation positively impacted growth, increasing leaf size by 64.6 % and enhancing chlorophyll content - Chl a (0.73 mg g- 1 DW) and Chl b (0.64 mg g- 1 DW). Root uptake of Cd, Ni, Zn, Cu, Co, Cr and Pb was significantly enhanced in mycorrhizal plants (p < 0.05), and inoculation improved translocation of Zn, Cr and Co, with TFZn = 1.67, TFCr = 1.11 and TFCo = 1.05 respectively. Secondary metabolites included flavonoids, total phenols, glutathion-S-transferase, carotenoids, and antioxidants such as peroxidase (POD, 4.25 μmol min- 1 mg- 1 proteins), ascorbate peroxidase (APX, 2.14 μmol min- 1 mg- 1 proteins) and superoxide dismutase (SOD, 17.04 66 U mg- 1 protein). However, no improvement was observed in catalase activity or free radical scavenging potential. Therefore, xeric plant species amended with mycorrhiza are effective in TMM phytoremediation in arid environments and can be used for the restoration of degraded lands. Further, mycorrhiza could be used as sink cultures for the Phyto management and sustainable eco-restoration.
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More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: The Continuing Study of Legal Writing Should Be Deemed a Required Part of Our Professional ResponsibilityThis, at times, irreverent, tongue-in-cheek article is about how the Arizona State Bar should award professional responsibility continuing legal education credit for a seminar on legal writing. First, the article addresses the rules of professional conduct in Arizona. Second, the article discusses why effective legal writing should be included as an explicit part of a lawyer’s duty of professional responsibility. Third, the article discusses examples where courts have chastised lawyers for incomprehensible writing and tied that into a lawyer’s professional responsibility. Finally, the article contains recommendations to better encourage lawyers to continue learning about effective legal writing.
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More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: Don't Be a Turkey—Avoid GobbledygookThis, at times, irreverent, tongue-in-cheek article is about how law students and lawyers tend to use complex words instead of sticking to plain language. First, the article discusses the history behind the plain language movement in general and in legal writing circles specifically. Second, the article discusses how some of the federal rules of civil procedure promote plain language and how courts have enforced the mandate to use plain language. Third, the article addresses tips and tricks for legal writers to ensure that plain language is used.
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More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: Response Times Are So Slow These Days, Email is Now Sloth MailThis, at times, irreverent, tongue-in-cheek article is about how email response times have declined and proposes some best practices on responding to email. First, it gives examples of away messages that leave the recipient with the impression that a response will not follow any time soon. Second, it explains that when professionals ignore emails, that conduct is rude and unprofessional. It then, however, turns to some studies indicating that the high volume of email traffic has impacted our mental health and provides information regarding actual average email response times and the best time to send an email if you want a fast response. Finally, it covers why responding promptly to emails may rise to an ethical obligation because the Rules of Professional Conduct require lawyers to promptly inform clients of certain matters.
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More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: Chat GPT Makes a Better Therapist Than a LawyerThis, at times, irreverent, tongue-in-cheek article is about how Chat GPT (and generative AI in general) makes a better therapist than a lawyer. First, it references examples where generative AI has hallucinated cases, refers to the real-life example where an attorney was sanctioned for submitting fake cases, and refers to the court orders that followed where courts have limited the use of generative AI. Second, it discusses an example of how Google Bard missed a key issue when writing a case brief for first-semester law students and made improvements to an excellent office memo that a student prepared in a way that did not conform to best practices in legal writing. However, examples are also provided where AI is helpful in terms of organizing thoughts or providing general information on a legal subject. Finally, it references areas where generative AI does excel—creating dating profiles and giving advice on maintaining friendships.
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More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: Unlike Belly Buttons, Commas and Periods with Quotation Marks Cannot Be Innies or OutiesThis, at times, irreverent, tongue-in-cheek article is about how law students are increasingly placing periods and commas outside quotation marks, which is incorrect. First, the article addresses the rules for placement of periods and commas with quotation marks and the rationale underlying these rules. Second, the article then covers the British rule for these same punctuation issues. Third, the article addresses the rules for placement of other punctuation, such as semicolons, colons, question marks, and exclamation marks with quotation marks.
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More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: Down the Rabbit Hole with DoeThis, at times, irreverent, article is about the practice of using Doe parties in litigation. First, the history of the practice is covered. Second, expansion of the practice is covered along with the reasons why it is disfavored and what the legal test is for allowing fictitious names in litigation, Finally, the article addresses the wide range of names used for pseudonyms beyond just Jane and John Doe.
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More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: Exclamation Proliferation and Why it Has to Stop!This article analyzes the exclamation point (and the overuse of it) from a legal writing professor’s perspective. First, it traces the history of the exclamation point. Second, it addresses how both grammarians and legal writing experts have suggested using the exclamation point on a limited basis. Third, it discusses studies showing that women use the point more than men to live up to society’s expectation of friendliness and that, according to one study, use of an exclamation point can lead to impaired judgments. Finally, the article addresses advocates of the use of the point who believe it can help lighten the tone when it comes to digital communication.
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True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: Semicolons SuckThis article analyzes the semicolon from a legal writing professor’s perspective and suggests that we eliminate semicolons because educators today are less concerned with sentence-level mechanics and proper punctuation, and law students already face a steep learning curve on so many other, more fundamental levels. It also traces the history of the semicolon and suggests, as have other commentators, that it is a pretentious mark that can be replaced with periods, em-dashes, and other devices.
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More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: Dictionaries Should Not Be a DemocracyThis, at times, irreverent, tongue-in-cheek article is about how dictionaries include words legal writers should not use in their writing, such as, irregardless, anyways, and judgement. First, the article addresses the word “irregardless” because law students frequently include that word (incorrectly) in their writing. Second, the article discusses how lexicographers decide to include words in dictionaries based on popular usage. Third, the article covers additional (incorrect) words that students write, such as “anyways” and “judgement.” Finally, the article concludes that, while legal writers should consult dictionaries, they should not view the words within them as the final arbiter for proper usage in legal writing, which has its own conventions.
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More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: I Will Never Surrender to the Sinful Comma SpliceThis, at times, irreverent and tongue-in-cheek article analyzes the increase in the use of comma splices from a legal writing professor’s perspective and suggests ways to fix the problem. First, it traces the increase of comma splices to the Harry Potter series because, as English professors have suggested, that best-selling series is full of comma splices. Second, it explains exactly what a comma splice is and how historically, the use of comma splices was acceptable. Third, it provides examples of sentences with comma splices and suggests different methods of fixing the sentence to correct the problem. Finally, it addresses exceptions to the ban on comma splices.
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Biology and ecology of a deep cave nesting spider wasp, Ageniella evansi Townes, 1957 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), in ArizonaCavernicolous populations of the spider wasp Ageniella evansi Townes, 1957 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) nest deep within limestone caves at Colossal Cave Mountain Park near Tucson, Arizona, USA. These remarkable populations are the only truly cavernicolous pompilid wasps currently known. As many as 79 females were documented nesting simultaneously within Arkenstone Cave. The facts that the wasps do not nest near cave entrances but only deep within the interior of the caves, are philopatric to each occupied cave and have been present each year for decades, confirm their cavernicolous behavior as subtroglophiles. Studies conducted for over 30 years revealed many insights into the behavior of these wasps in addition to their nesting deep within limestone caves, including: intraspecific and interspecific competition, plasticity in host selection, precision solar navigation, evidence that some form of communal nesting may be present and behavior suggestive of rudimentary cognition in the species. This study demonstrates the importance of assessing all animals found in caves as potential ecological elements and not focusing solely on exotic troglobiotic species.
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Digital POWRR Peer Assessment Program Participant Case StudiesThis volume presents 25 case studies authored by participants in the Digital POWRR Peer Assessment Program (2021–2025), a professional development initiative focused on building digital preservation capacity in under-resourced libraries, archives, museums, and community organizations. Each case study offers a unique, grounded perspective on digital stewardship challenges, institutional context, and progress made during the program. The narratives reflect a range of organizational types and maturity levels, highlighting shared barriers such as limited staffing, technical infrastructure, and institutional buy-in. Participants document their self-assessment work, implementation efforts, and lessons learned, often emphasizing themes of relationship-building, incremental progress, and advocacy. Compiled as a companion to the white paper "Beyond the Checklist: Healing, Connection, and Capacity-Building Through Digital Preservation Peer Assessment," this collection offers a rich, practitioner-centered view of digital preservation work in the field today.
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Beyond the Checklist: Healing, Connection, and Capacity-Building Through Digital Preservation Peer Assessment: A white paper prepared for the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the Digital POWRR Peer Assessment ProgramThis white paper documents the development, implementation, and outcomes of the Digital POWRR Peer Assessment Program (2021–2025), a cohort-based professional development initiative focused on building digital preservation capacity at under-resourced cultural heritage organizations. Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the program combined self-assessment tools, peer mentorship, and community-informed learning to support 36 participants across two phases. The report highlights key design elements—including emotional safety, reflective goal-setting, and peer validation—and introduces Navigating Uncertainty: A Human-Centered Assessment Compass for Digital Preservation Practitioners, a new evaluative framework shaped by participant experiences. Drawing on participant feedback, mentor insights, and external evaluation, the paper offers recommendations for funders, administrators, and future implementers seeking to cultivate inclusive, emotionally sustainable models of digital stewardship. A companion volume of participant-authored case studies illustrates how digital preservation goals were translated into institutional action across a wide range of contexts.
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A survey on geocoding: algorithms and datasets for toponym resolutionGeocoding, the task of converting unstructured text to structured spatial data, has recently seen progress thanks to a variety of new datasets, evaluation metrics, and machine-learning algorithms. Geocoding plays a critical role in tasks such as tracking the evolution and emergence of infectious diseases, analyzing and searching documents by geography, geospatial analysis of historical events, and disaster response mechanisms. To assist those new to this area of research, we provide a survey that reviews, organizes and analyzes recent work on geocoding (also known as toponym resolution) where text is matched to geospatial coordinates and/or ontologies. We summarize the findings of this research, including the domains and databases covered by current geocoding corpora, point-based and polygon-based evaluation metrics, and features and architectures of geocoding systems.
