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Hannah Rosborough is the Instruction & Scholarly Communications Librarian at the Sir James Dunn Law Library, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. She directs the research component of the Legal Research and Writing program and supports all stages of the research cycle for faculty and students. She is the Administrator of the Schulich Law Scholars institutional repository and the Pure Research Portal.
Her general research interests include legal research pedagogy, the future of legal information, innovation in legal research, promoting free access to the law, and legal citation. Her current research focuses on emerging challenges at the intersection of technology, legal information, and legal education. With a people-centered approach, she examines how legal information is discovered, structured, and disseminated and the potential impacts of technology on these processes. Her work emphasizes the importance of delivering accurate, accessible, and timely legal information and aims to improve access to legal information and legal information literacy in the digital context.
Hannah is an active contributer to Slaw, Canada's online legal magazine, where she explores issues in legal information and scholarly communications.
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Education/Academic qualification
LLM, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
2022 → 2024
MLIS, Dalhouse University School of Information Management
2014 → 2016
BEd, Saint Thomas University
2011 → 2012
BA (Hons), University of New Brunswick
2007 → 2011
External positions
Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Association of Law Libraries
2023 → 2025
Member, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Ethics Board, Dalhousie University
2019 → 2022
Research Interests
- Legal Education
- Legal Technology
- Law and Technology
- Copyright Law
- Innovation in Legal Research
- Legal Information
- Scholarly Communications
- Legal Research
Disciplines
- Library and Information Science
- Legal Writing and Research
- Law Librarianship
- Legal Education
- Intellectual Property Law
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 4 Quality Education
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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
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Inescapable Skills: Testing Legal Research Skills in an Escape Room
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Music Borrowing and Copyright Law: A Genre-by-Genre Analysis
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Guthrie's Guide to Better Legal Writing, 2nd ed
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Slaw: Canada's Online Legal Magazine
Steeves, H., 2021, Slaw: Canada's Online Legal Magazine.Research output: Other contribution