Includes bibliographic references.Pedagogy requires both a theory and a consistent method of implementation. While
the literature of law librarianship abounds in suggestions and descriptions about
how legal research is being taught, it lacks sufficient consideration of pedagogical
theory from the field of education. In light of the Carnegie Report, and efforts at
comprehensive curriculum reform, the time is ripe for law librarianship to develop a
comprehensive and properly grounded pedagogy for legal research instruction. This
paper proposes and illustrates adapting Bloom's Taxonomy as a means to identify
legal research skills, prioritize objectives, and organize course curricula
