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Symposium in Honor of Bob Berring

DianeMurley | August 17, 2006 21:35

[email from Dick Danner to ALL-SIS discussion forum on Wednesday, August 18, 2006]

ALL-SIS Members:

We are writing to invite you to a unique event to be held on the weekend of October 20-21 at the University of California, Berkeley.

On those dates, a distinguished group of scholars will gather at Boalt Hall for a symposium honoring Bob Berring for his contributions to the professional knowledge of law librarianship and legal information studies. Few will argue with the proposition that throughout his career Bob has been the foremost thinker about the influences of legal information on the development of the law and legal thought in the United States. His ideas have inspired the thinking of numerous other writers and provided a lens through which to view the dramatic changes that have taken place in the legal information environment over the past twenty-five years.

The symposium will provide an opportunity for participants to explore the continued vitality of Bob's writings on the historical role of legal information and the impacts of digital technologies in the legal information environment, and to think together about contemporary issues in legal information.

The invited speakers are all well-known for their own contributions to the scholarship of legal information. They include: Steve Barkan (University of Wisconsin), Barbara Bintliff (University of Colorado), Paul Callister (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Morris Cohen (Yale University), Dan Dabney (Thompson West), Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (University of Pittsburgh), Paul Duguid (University of California, Berkeley), Ethan Katsh (University of Massachusetts), Peter Martin (Cornell University), Roy Mersky (University of Texas), Sam Trosow (University of Western Ontario), and Virginia Wise (Harvard University). Papers from the symposium will be published in 2007 in Law Library Journal. Frank Houdek, the editor of LLJ, will participate in the symposium and contribute a bibliography of Berring's writings to the Journal issue.

The symposium will be held at Boalt Hall on the University of California, Berkeley campus on October 21, 2006. Generous support is being provided by Thomson West, the UC Berkeley School of Law, and the Robbins Collection. Seating will be available for about 50 attendees. A small fee will be charged to cover the costs of meals and refreshments.

Detailed information about the event and online registration are now available at: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/conferences/berring06/

Under "lodgings" we list a number of hotel options, but please note that these are just suggestions—we don't have rooms blocked out. However, we hope to be able to offer a few rooms in nearby hotels within the next week or so. Because there is the Cal v U of Washington football game on Saturday Oct 21, hotels might be a little more difficult to find at the last minute.

Note that the Symposium itself will be held on Saturday, October 21. There will an informal dinner on Friday evening, October 20, and a more formal reception and dinner on Saturday evening, to which you are all invited.

We will hope to see many of you in Berkeley in October.

Dick Danner
Duke Law School
zad@law.duke.edu

Kathleen Vanden Heuvel
UC Berkeley School of Law
kvandenh@law.berkeley.edu


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