The latest issue of Spectrum, the magazine of the American Association of Law Librarians, includes a paper by a colleague and I outlining the new joint degree program in Info and Law here at UT. We tried to write something more than ‘this is what the degree program looks like’ by explaining what we feel are the needs for a new kind of education at the intersection of information and law. In general, the competency based model of education for professionals seems to us to have real limitations that are overlooked too often. Not sure where this places us in terms of others but I suspect we are in a minority.
V.M Daniel Regents Professor of Information