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31 May 2013, 8:35 pm
Daniel Lewis, JD, and Nik Reed, JD, MS, both of Ravel Law, have posted Six Goals for Public Access to Case Law, at VoxPopuLII.
The post describes the online publication of U.S. federal court decisions on the U.S. Government Printing Office’s FDsys platform, and recommends ways to improve FDsys‘s publishing practices.
HT @ravellaw
Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: "Digital law publishing", Bulk access to court decisions, Bulk access to judicial decisions, Bulk access to legal data, Bulk… [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 11:25 am
A call for papers — with abstract submission deadline of 25 February 2011, and full paper submission deadline of 4 March 2011 — has been issued for RuleML 2011: The 5th International Symposium on Rules, to be held 19-21 July 2011, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
The symposium is being held in conjunction with IJCAI-11: The 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, being held 16-22 July 2011 in Barcelona.
Papers are invited on the following topics:
Rules and Automated… [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 11:37 pm
Blawg Review #269 is on Andrew Raff's IPTAblog for World Music Day and, like everywhere else, all you can hear is vuvuzela, world cup, vuvuzela, vuvuzela, world cup. Even Hitler has had enough, already! [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 1:56 pm
Sandra Meredith, M.A., of the Oxford University Faculty of Law, has published OSCOLA: A UK Standard for Legal Citation, Legal Information Management, 11, 111-114 (2011). Here is the abstract:
OSCOLA, the Oxford Standard for the Citation Of Legal Authorities, was first devised in 2000. The fourth edition, published in November 2010, includes for the first time guidelines for citing Scottish, Irish and Welsh cases and legislation, historical legal sources and new media such as blogs. It also provides… [read post]
2 Jun 2012, 3:20 pm
Antonio Lazari of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Dr. María Ángeles Zarco-Tejada of Universidad de Cádiz have published JurWordNet and FrameNet Approaches to Meaning Representation: A Legal Case Study, in LREC 2012 Conference Proceedings: Semantic Processing of Legal Texts (SPLeT-2012) Workshop, pp. 21-26.
Here is the abstract:
This paper describes JurWordNet, FrameNet and LOIS approaches towards meaning representation regarding the concept ‘State Liability’ from a cross-linguistic and… [read post]
24 Mar 2013, 10:03 am
Proposals are now invited for talks at the ReInventLaw London 2013 Conference, to be held 14 June 2013, in London, England.
The proposal submission deadline is 5 April 2013.
The conference is organized by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake of the ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law.
Talks will be chosen by a crowdsourced voting process.
Here are the proposal guidelines:
Talks must relate to some aspect of law + technology + innovation +… [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 8:23 pm
Jordan Furlong has created a monster! Blawg Review #252 is alive at Stem's Law Firm Web Strategy Blog. You won't believe your eyes. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 11:21 am
The sun hasn't set on Blawg Review, but we've been traveling these past few months, and not just to law conferences. I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ~ Socrates Blawg Review will be back soon; the peripatetic editor, maybe not. [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 9:26 pm
Dr. Adam Wyner of the University College London Department of Computer Science has posted slides from his tutorial of last week entitled Natural Language Processing Techniques for Managing Legal Resources on Semantic Web.
The tutorial was offered in conjunction with last week’s JURIX 2009 conference in Rotterdam.
Posted in Applications, Articles and papers, Conference papers, Conference proceedings Tagged: Adam Wyner, Legal informatics conferences, Legal knowledge representation, Legal natural… [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 8:58 pm
Associate Dean Ward Farnsworth of Boston University School of Law, and colleages, have published Ambiguity About Ambiguity: An Empirical Inquiry into Legal Interpretation, forthcoming in Journal of Legal Analysis. Here is the abstract:
Most scholarship on statutory interpretation discusses what courts should do with ambiguous statutes. This paper investigates the crucial and analytically prior question of what ambiguity in law is. Does a claim that a text is ambiguous mean the judge is uncertain… [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 9:17 am
The Leibniz Center for Law at the University of Amsterdam announced yesterday that it has published all Dutch national statutes and regulations, free on the Web, in CEN MetaLex XML and RDF Linked Data, at The MetaLex Document Server.
According to Dr. Rinke Hoekstra, the database also includes “the body of regulations that govern the entire kingdom of The Netherlands (i.e. the former Dutch Antilles and Aruba).”
The technology underlying the service is explained in Dr. Hoekstra’s recent… [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 10:27 am
For most of us, the end of a year means things start to wind down. We can finally catch our breath and survey the old year while planning for a new one. Year end is an excellent time to review your legal situation and make sure that your essential legal documents are up to date and in good order.It only takes a few minutes to complete your Easy Legal Check Up [read post]
23 Mar 2013, 9:01 am
Professor Colin Starger of the University of Baltimore School of Law tells us of The Supreme Court Mapping Project.
Here are excerpts of the description:
The SCOTUS Mapping Project has two distinct components:
Enhanced development of the Mapper software. This software enables users to create sophisticated interactive maps of Supreme Court doctrine by plotting relationships between majority, concurring and dissenting opinions. With the software, users can both visualize how different… [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 11:08 am
I don't know if Eric Turkewitz remembers me suggesting he use this one of Hugh MacLeod's Gaping Void cartoons on the back of a business card for his "blog card". This week, Eric tries to find happiness hosting his third Blawg Review, this time with a Halloween theme. I rest my case. [read post]
2 Sep 2010, 10:56 pm
A conference entitled Implementing the Durham Statement: Best Practices for Open Access Law Journals will be held 22 October 2010 at the Duke University Law School, in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
The conference is being organized by Senior Associate Dean Richard A. Danner of Duke University Law School.
Here is a description of the conference, from Dean Danner’s announcement:
Sponsored by the Duke Law School J. Michael Goodson Law Library and the Harvard Law Library: A workshop aimed at student… [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 12:53 pm
Professor J. Christopher Rideout of the Seattle University School of Law, has published Voice, Self, and Persona in Legal Writing, 15 Legal Writing: Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 67-107 (2009) (Issue No. 1). Here is a summary:
In my view, sorting out the complexity of voice—and discussing voice in legal prose—requires a rethinking of who the writer is in legal discourse and, importantly, how that writer is represented in legal prose. It becomes a question not of self expression, but of… [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 11:14 am
Colin Samuels was going to thank everyone for honoring him with another Blawg Review of the Year Award when someone grabbed the microphone... Hopefully, the ensuing controversy in the blogosphere and the twitterverse will be behind us by the time Colin and Mike take the stage for Blawg Review #230, a duet. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 9:46 am
Courtney Minick, Esq., of Justia has posted Universal Citation for State Codes, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
In this post, Ms. Minick criticizes traditional U.S. legal citation standards for reinforcing major commercial publishers’ dominant positions in the U.S. legal publishing market, and inhibiting public access to the law.
Ms. Minick describes the American Association of Law Libraries’ (AALL’s) Universal Citation… [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 11:52 am
A call for papers — with abstract submission deadline of 22 May 2011, and full paper submission deadline of 5 June 2011 — has been issued for RuleML 2011 @ BRF: The 5th International Symposium on Linked Rules: Research Based, Industry Focused, to be held 3-5 November 2011, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
The symposium is being held in conjunction with BRF 2011: The 2011 Business Rules Forum.
Papers are invited on the following topics:
“Rules, Semantic Technology, and Cross-Industry… [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 5:42 pm
A preview is now available of the open access digital legal casebooks being developed as part of the eLangdell Project sponsored by CALI: The Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction.
The preview — which consists of portions of Roger C. Park and Douglas D. McFarland’s Evidence for Civil Procedure Students — is available in several formats: ePub, mobi, PDF, and HTML, and is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
Click here for more information about the eLangell… [read post]