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Gail A. Partin

Associate Director, Law Library and Legal Research Professor



 

Education:
J.D., The Dickinson School of Law
M.S.L.S., Clarion University
B.S., Rider University

Legal Reseach Professor Gail Partin is associate director of the Law Library. She coordinates reference services for the Law Library and is responsible for the international law collection, the microforms collection, and Penn State Dickinson's Legal Research Resources web site. She also teaches the Legal Research course and lectures on specialized legal research topics.

Professor Partin has authored several publications on legal research and is currently co-chair of the National Legal Research Teach-in, an annual event sponsored by the American Association of Law Libraries. She is an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries' Foreign, Comparative and International Law Section and the Research Instruction and Patron Services Section. She is a member of the Bar of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Contact Information:
Email: gap6@psu.edu
Phone: (717) 240-5294

Publications:
“Bibliographic Resources, Recent Publications on Arbitration and ADR,” World Arbitration & Mediation Review , 2005-2008.

“International Criminal Law” in ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law, American Society of International Law at http://www.asil.org/resource/home.htm.

13th National Legal Research Teach-In Training Resource Kit, ed. Thomson/West, 2005.

“International Criminal Law,” Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL), American Society of International Law, ed. 2003-2005 at http://www.eisil.org/index.

Training Resource Kit: 12th National Legal Research Teach-In, ed. Thomson/West, 2004.

“Help is on the Way: ALL-SIS and RIPS-SIS Partner to Improve Access to Legal Research Instruction Materials” with Jennifer Murray and Mary Ann Neary, AALL Spectrum, 2004.

“Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research,” LLRX.com, 2003 at http://www.llrx.com/features/supremectwebguide.htm.

Training Resource Kit: 11th National Legal Research Teach-In, ed. Thomson/West, 2003.

“International Criminal Law” in ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law, ASIL Bulletin, American Society of International Law, 2002 and 2003.

“The Scoop on Scholarships,” Law Librarians in the New Millennium, 2003.

“A View from the Inside: What a Scholarship Selection Committee Looks For,” infoEdge, 2003.

“National Legal Research Teach-In Celebrates 10 Years of Success,” AALL Spectrum, 2003.

“Research Bytes: Online Tutorials for Use in Legal Research Instruction” with Cecily A.H. Giardina and Judy L. Swarthout, in Training Resource Kit: Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the National Legal Research Teach-In, West Group, 2002.

“A Decade of Teachable Moments,” Law Librarians in the New Millennium, 2002.

“International Criminal Law: A Selective Resource Guide” with Marilyn J. Raisch, LLRX.com, 2000 and “Update” 2002, at http://www.llrx.com/features/int_crim.htm and http://www.llrx.com/features/int_crim3.htm.

“What's Online in International Law: The Nuts and Bolts of Search Engines,” ASIL Newsletter, 2001.

“Internet Research for Legal Professionals” with Nicole Shenk and Judy L. Swarthout in Resource Kit: Training Resources Provided in Celebration of the Ninth National Legal Research Teach-In, West Group, 2001.

"Top Ten Comments on Using the Internet for International Legal Research," with Anne Burnett, FCIL Newsletter, 1998

 

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