Beatrice Tice

Beatrice Tice serves as a Professor of the Practice of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, specializing in legal research and writing with expertise in foreign, comparative and international legal information systems.

Her research focuses on:

• Comparative study of legal information publication and usage
• Global access to legal information
• Legal research methodology across jurisdictions

Professor Tice's scholarly work bridges legal education technology and historical legal research practices. Her 2021 publication explores innovative video-based approaches to legal skills instruction, while her 2009 collaborative work documents the development of legal research practices in Canada through the lens of Justice Bertha Wilson's career. Her contributions to legal education have been recognized in publications including Slaw and The Daily Journal, which described the UCI Law Library as her 'labor of love.'

Her educational background includes:

• M.L.I.S. with law librarianship certificate from University of Washington
• J.D., with distinction from Stanford University School of Law
• M.A. from Yale University
• B.A., magna cum laude from Pomona College