Savanna Nolan

Effectiveness of Research Plans: A Case Study This article presents a case study examining whether the creation and use of research plans enhances the effectiveness of legal research by law students. Despite their emphasized role in legal rese...

I'm happy to announce my latest article, co-written with TJ Striepe, is now officially published in LRSQ! doi.org/10.1080/0270...

AALL Salary Survey 2025 The AALL Biennial Salary Survey & Organizational Characteristics (AALL Salary Survey) is the only source of comprehensive, comparative salary information for legal … "AALL Salary Survey 2025"

It's finally here! The AALL Salary Survey is live! I'm so honored to have helped bring this iteration of the project to life. www.aallnet.org/salary_surve...
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I got my author copy yesterday! Read about Hughie Jennings and other baseball playing attorneys.

Just... the flames... flames.... on the side of my face....

As someone who interned in the Office of the Librarian under her predecessor (and therefore feel I understand what it takes and means to be in that role), I am shocked and appalled by the firing of Dr. Carla Hayden.

It's been quite a week! I'm honored to announce that I'm one of the recipients of the Emerging Leader Award from the American Association of Law Libraries for 2025.
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Just posted! My new paper with my Director, TJ Striepe, on the effectiveness of making research plans in legal research (and why we should teach them).
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#empirical #lawlibraries #lawlibrarians #legaleducation

And there it is. One of the reasons @booker.senate.gov is doing this is because of the misinformation that is being spread (he specifically mentioned about social security).

Our government owes the People the best quality of information possible.

Cory Booker holding his hand to his heart as he gets a standing ovation

Thank you @corybooker.com

My undergrad class is studying deplatforming next week, and it is not lost on me that some people wouldn't want me to be able to watch Senator Booker break this record and represent me on YouTube and TikTok this week.

This is going to set the study of misinformation back 30 years in the eyes of the majority of the public. At least.

(The fact that it's Spring Break and this is the first time I've opened Bluesky in weeks is not a coincidence; good lord it's been a hell of a semester....)

I always love more background on Flood v. Kuhn! Go Liz!

I also picked, like, possible the worst semester to start teaching misinformation again. But it's important.

Not to bang a tired drum BUT the fact that the divestiture law has made TikTok so desperate to suck up to Trump in order to stay in business is WHY THESE KINDS OF LAWS SHOULD TRIGGER VERY SIGNIFICANT FIRST AMENDMENT SCRUTINY even if they directly target only property relations, not speech per se

If you're interested in my other "baseball scholarship," Inside Baseball, and what the Flood v. Kuhn antitrust opinion has to do with Roe v. Wade and abortion, here's that article: digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/law_lib_artc...

Introducing the authors of "Attorneys in the Baseball Hall of Fame," published by @McFarland.bsky.social available for pre-order!

SAVANNA L. NOLAN, @savsnolan.bsky.social, UGA School of Law, has written chapter 2, "Hugh Ambrose “Hughie” Jennings"

Learn about Ms. Nolan below:

#BaseballandtheLaw

Tomorrow I teach them about metadata! They're going to learn what metadata is and how to leverage it to engage with information complexly and efficiently (hopefully).

YouTube video by vlogbrothers VELOCIRAPTORS

Yesterday was day 1 of my undergrad course: Spies, Lies & Lawyers: Social Media, Misinformation & Law! We did a bunch of intro stuff and also discussed the stickiness of misinformation and two essays by John Green-- including the one this video eventually became: youtu.be/1Z82EEes5OM?...

Oh man... the OPINIONS I have about the "service profession" aspect right now...

Great to see you too!

Screenshot of the table of contents from the order for Fayetteville Public Library et al. v. Crawford

Good news that I'm just now hearing: Judge Timothy Brooks has found Arkansas's Act 372 (a book banning act criminalizing librarians and booksellers "providing" or "promoting" - vaguely defined- "obscene" materials to minors) unconstitutional.

Trump has filed an amicus brief in the TikTok case. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

If law profs are (unlike me) done grading and looking for the next thing to work on... there are a bunch of new posts up at Calling All Papers! callingallpapers.law.uga.edu

Legal Writing. At the time I was a theater and English major, but I had heard the legal writing class was a pretty difficult option for our writing requirement. I was one of James Brecher's many students at USC, and I think of him often as I write "but WHY? HOW?" on my students' papers.

Yeah, if SCOTUS could stop dropping bombs on me, that would be great.

#BREAKING: Supreme Court agrees to resolve TikTok case; will hold (very) expedited argument on January 10.

The Court did *not* grant emergency relief, but deferred the requests for an injunction pending oral argument. So as of now, the law will still start producing effects on January 19:

This is fast! Makes me wonder how many people are going to be filing amicus briefs... The speed is obviously a response to the January 19 deadline but it's going to make it harder for those who thought the DC Circuit got the law dead wrong to make their case persuasively to SCOTUS

Suggests, I think (with dismay), that at least for now they are inclined to uphold the law, because you sure do look silly upholding a law because of an imminent national security threat if you've taken months to get around to it. Exactly like Congress looks silly.

You only shape your children so much. There are other factors as well. Their partners, their education, their free will. That's healthy.

Replying to @Rachel JM Corona absolutely no hate to people who comment this but just wanted to put this out there😊 #couplestiktok #couple #relationship #marriage #marriagegoals #couplegoals #relations... TikTok video by Maya + Hunter

Parents can absolutely decide what their individual children read in a recreational context. But I think this TikTok is also relevant to that discussion. www.tiktok.com/@maya.and.hu...