AALL Research Grants

Research Agenda (September 2000)
Research Grant Applications
Research Committee (Roster)
Research Grant Recipients

AALL Research Fund: An Endowment Established by LexisNexis®

On July 17, 2000 the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) announced the formation of the AALL Research Fund, an endowment established with a $100,000 pledge from LexisNexis®. The fund provides a secure financial base, enabling the AALL Research Committee to carry out the Association's Research Agenda. That agenda encompasses research in the major topic areas of provision of legal information services, law library collections, legal research, the profession of law librarianship, and law library administration.

The Research Fund provides grants to library professionals who seek to conduct research that is critical to the profession.

AALL/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Grant Program

This grant was first established in 1996 as the AALL/Aspen Law & Business Research Grant with a generous contribution of $50,000 from Aspen Law & Business to sponsor research that will have a practical impact on the law library profession and inspire products and changes in the marketplace. The grant was renamed the AALL/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Grant Program in 2007.

Research Grant Recipients

2009

AALL/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Research Grant Fund

• John Doyle
  Law Review Submissions


• Scott Frey
  A Search Engine for Law-Related Public Domain Electronic Books

Research Fund: An Endowment Established by LexisNexis®

• Georgia Briscoe
  Is Quality Control in Academic Law Library Online Catalogs Decreasing?

2008

AALL/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Research Grant Fund

• Dr. Joel Fishman
  Index to State Judges’ Inductions, Memorials, etc. from the Official State Court Reports


• Wendy Scott
  Merging Reference and Circulation Services: The Savior or Undoing of Reference in Academic Law Libraries

Research Fund: An Endowment Established by LexisNexis®

• Jill Duffy and Elizabeth Lambert
  Dissents from the Bench: A Compilation of Oral Dissents Issued by the U.S. Supreme Court Justices


• Karen E. Kalnins
  Oral Histories of Oklahoma Judges and Attorneys

2007

AALL/Aspen Law & Business Research Grant

• Molly Brownfield and Dennis C. Kim-Prieto
  Assessing Information Literacy of Law Students

2006

AALL/Aspen Law & Business Research Grant

• Timothy G. Kearley
  Justinian’s Code on the Web

Research Fund: An Endowment Established by LexisNexis®

• Charles R. Dyer
  Bibliography and Essay on Cognitive Science and Linguistics for Law Librarians


• Maria Protti
  Law Librarian to Thurgood Marshall: A Search for Primary Material on the Relationship Between Howard Jay Graham and Thurgood Marshall


• Kathleen Sasala
  Index to Ohio Legal Periodicals

2005

AALL/Aspen Law & Business Research Grant

• Charles Cronin
  Music Plagiarism Digital Archive at Columbia Law Library


• Karl Gruben
  AmLaw 100 KM Survey


• Betsy Mckenzie
  Effects on PCs and Databases on Legal Analysis Skills

Research Fund: An Endowment Established by LexisNexis®

• Nancy Carol Carter
  A Research Template for Building Indian Nation Archives

2004

AALL/Aspen Law & Business Research Grant

• Kelly Browne
  The Emotional Intelligence of Law Librarians


• Kelly Kunsch
  Research at the Washington State Archives

Research Fund: An Endowment Established by LexisNexis®

• Samuel E. Trosow
  Open Access to Scholarly Communications in the Field of Law: A Preliminary Assessment of Existing Copyright Policies

2003

AALL/Aspen Law & Business Research Grant

• Stephanie J. Burke, Kathryn Hensiak and Donna Nixon
  Assessing Information Literacy Among First Year Students – A Survey to Measure Research Experiences and Perceptions.


• David Selden
  Reconsidering Indians of North America – Creating a Federal Indian and Tribal Law Library Subject Headings Thesaurus.

Research Fund: An Endowment Established by LexisNexis®

• Laura Orr
  Brief Encounters of the Digital Kind: Digital Court Records in an Age of Diminishing Privacy


• Samuel E. Trosow
  The Impact of GATS on Public Law Library Service

2002

AALL/Aspen Law & Business Research Grant

• Catherine Sanders Reach and David Whelan
  Feasibility and Viability of a Digital Law Library in 2002


• AALL Government Relations Committee, Chaired by Anne E. Burnett
  Permanent Public Access of State Government Information: A State-by-State Compilation and Resource Guide

Research Fund: An Endowment Established by LexisNexis®

• Pamela Melton
  Research Habits of the South Carolina Bar

2001

Research Fund: An Endowment Established by LexisNexis®

• Xia Chen
  Web-based Distance Learning of Principles of American Legal Bibliography


• Kris Gilliland
  How Lawyers Do Legal Research