Jamie J. Baker
Dean's Distinguished Service Professor of Law
Email: jamie.baker@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-5792
Jamie J. Baker is the Associate Dean/Law Library Director and Dean’s Distinguished Service Professor of Law. She provides strategic, operational, and visionary leadership for all aspects of Law Library administration, including budgeting, staffing, policy development, resource selection, and long-term planning. Her stewardship ensures the Law Library’s alignment with legal information science principles, emerging technologies, and the Law School’s research and curricular goals.
Professor Baker teaches Civil Trial: Practice & Litigation Materials and Academic Legal Writing. She also contributes to first-year Legal Practice research workshops and the Law Library’s Excellence in Legal Research Program. In each of these settings, she focuses on helping students master advanced research strategies, critically evaluate sources, and navigate complex tools and databases.
Her scholarship sits at the intersection of cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, and legal research. Her publications, 2018 A Legal Research Odyssey and Beyond the Information Age: The Duty of Technology Competence in the Algorithmic Society were at the forefront of the AI boom. She also writes on legal research pedagogy and the professional role of law librarianship. Her publication, The Intersectionality of Law Librarianship & Gender, is a widely cited article examining how gender dynamics influence the profession.
She has delivered invited talks on artificial intelligence, legal research, and the duty of technology competence at the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, and multiple law review symposia.
She holds a B.S. in Political Science and Public Administration from Central Michigan University, an M.L.I.S. from Wayne State University, and a J.D. from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. Before joining Texas Tech, she worked with the Michigan Supreme Court’s Friend of the Court Bureau on family law matters and served as a Law Librarian and Adjunct Professor at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School.
Professor Baker is admitted to practice in Michigan.
Education
- B.S., Central Michigan University
- J.D., WMU – Cooley Law School
- M.L.I.S., Wayne State University
Courses
- Civil Trial: Practice & Litigation Materials
- Academic Legal Writing
Selected Publications and Presentations
Jamie Baker, The Intersectionality of Law Librarianship & Gender, 65 Villanova L. Rev. 1011 (2020).
Jamie Baker, The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Research in LAW LIBRARIES IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ALA Ed/Neal-Schuman forthcoming 2019).
Jamie Baker, 2018 A Legal Research Odyssey: Artificial Intelligence as Disruptor, 110(1) LAW LIB. J. 5 (2018).
Jamie Baker, Beyond the Information Age: The Duty of Technology Competence in the Algorithmic Society, 69 S.C. L. REV. 557 (2018).
Jamie Baker, Managing Career Success: The Philosophy of a Millennial Leader's Role in MILLENNIAL LEADERSHIP IN LIBRARIES (Hein 2018).
Jamie Baker, et. al., Eight Tips for Effectively and Easily Incorporating Experiential Learning into the Law School Curriculum in EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION IN THE LAW SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Carolina Academic Press 2017).
Presenter, Rethinking Legal Research: Analysis as the New “Why” for AI and the NextGen Bar Exam, at the NELLCO Symposium, April 2025.
Presenter, Institutional Strategies for Effectively Responding to ABA Standard 604, at the SWALL Annual Meeting, March 2025.
Presenter, Are Academic Law Libraries Doomed? A Review of ABA Standards Chapter 6, at the SWALL Annual Meeting, April 2023.
Presenter, Testing Legal Research on the NextGen Bar Exam, at the SWALL Annual Meeting, April 2022.
Invited Speaker, Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession, Legal Writing Institute Sponsored by Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, September 2021.
Invited Panelist, Gender Equity in Law Schools, at the Annual Villanova Law Review Norman J. Shachoy Symposium, Villanova, PA, October 2019.
Invited Panelist, Fostering the NextGen Library Professional: How the Changing Legal Market Shapes our Roles, at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, July 2019
Invited Panelist, Just Write It: Embracing Your Inner Author, at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, July 2019.
Invited Panelist, Define Yourself, at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, July 2019.
Speaker, Legal Research and The Duty of Technology Competence: Regulating Algorithms in Law, at the Duquesne University School of Law Artificial Intelligence Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2019.
Invited Speaker, The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Legal Research, at the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 2019.
Presenter, 2018 A Legal Research Odyssey, at the Conference on the Governance of Emerging Technologies and Science, Arizona State University College of Law, Phoenix, AZ, May 2018.
Invited Panelist, Surviving the A.I. Surge, at the South Carolina Law Review's Annual Symposium, Columbia, SC, February 2018.
Paper Presentation, 2017 A Legal Research Odyssey: Artificial Intelligence as Disruptor, New Scholar Program, at the South Eastern Association of Law Schools Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, August 2017.School of Law
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