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Professor Arturo Torres

Arturo Torres Torres, Arturo
Associate Dean, Law Library and Computing
Professor of Law
(806) 742-3990 x284
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Dean Torres previously served as Associate Professor and Director of the Law Library and Computing Department at Gonzaga University School of Law. Other assignments have included Associate Director of the Law Library and Assistant Professor of Legal Bibliography at the University of Louisville School of Law, Head of Reference at the University of Arizona School of Law, former staff attorney for Oregon Legal Services, and Ford Foundation Fellow. Dean Torres co-authored Latin American Legal Abbreviations: A Comprehensive Spanish/Portuguese Dictionary with English Translations and has written and published numerous articles on law librarianship and related fields.

Degrees

B.A., University of Nevada (Las Vegas), 1971

M.Ed., 1973

J.D., Willamette University School of Law, 1979

Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1980

M.L.S., University of Washington, 1984

Courses

Advanced Legal Research, Law Practice Technology

Selected Publications

Moving Beyond Langdell II: an Annotated Bibliography of Current Methods for Law Teaching, 2000 Gonz. L. Rev. 1 (special issue).

Will Law Schools Go the Distance? An Annotated Bibliography on Distance Education in Law, 91 Law Libr. J. 655 (1999) (Co-author).

McCrate Goes to Law School: An Annotated Bibliography of Methods for Teaching Lawyering Skills in the Classroom, 77 Neb. L. Rev. 132 (1998).