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10 Feb 2012, 4:00 pm
Professor Dr. Daniel Poulin of Université de Montréal Faculté de Droit and Lexum has published results of a recent survey of users of Lexum’s Supreme Court of Canada decisions Website: Surprising Survey Results, at Slaw.ca.
(Click here to visit the Supreme Court of Canada decisions Website.)
The results include the following:
users “are less eager to access legal content on mobile platforms than Lexum had initially assumed”;
users’ “appetite for social web-related services appears much… [read post]
24 May 2012, 11:34 am
Waldo Jaquith of The State Decoded has posted Legal Questions with Google, at The State Decoded.
In this post, Mr. Jaquith describes the search engine traffic of Virginia Decoded, the first implementation of The State Decoded open legislative data platform.
Key findings include:
the distribution of search queries is “very flat,” with more than 95% of queries having been “used just 1 time”
“Many of these search terms are extremely specific”
Problem solving appears… [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 3:02 pm
John P. Mayer, Executive Director of CALI: The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction gave a presentation entitled The Future of the Legal Casebook & CALI’s eLangdell Project at the Chicago Law.gov Workshop, held 21 May 2010 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
In his presentation, Mr. Mayer describes how CALI and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University are applying the open educational resources approach to law school instructional materials, through the eLangdell Project… [read post]
21 May 2010, 9:14 pm
A call for papers — with submissions deadline of 30 August 2010 — has been issued for iConference 2011: The Annual Conference of Information Science Schools (iSchools), to be held 8-11 February 2011 at the Renaissance Hotel, Seattle, Washington, USA. The conference is hosted by the University of Washington Information School.
Papers are invited on the following themes in information science:
Social inclusion
Context
Materiality
Personalization
Memory
This conference may be of interest to legal… [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 9:36 pm
Dr. Nicole A. Vincent of the Delft University of Technology Philosophy Department, has published On the Relevance of Neuroscience to Criminal Responsibility, forthcoming in Criminal Law and Philosophy. Here is the abstract:
“Various authors debate the question of whether neuroscience is relevant to criminal responsibility. However, a plethora of different techniques and technologies, each with their own abilities and drawbacks, lurks beneath the label ‘neuroscience’; and in criminal law… [read post]
14 Jun 2013, 3:45 am
Bodleian Law Librarians do get out and about … even though this expedition entailed going into a (decommissioned) reading room to see the current exhibition at the British Museum, Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Among the wonders (and horrors) on display is a rather nondescript piece of marble. It bears an inscription on […] [read post]
6 Feb 2010, 5:11 pm
Professor Ronald W. Staudt of the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, has published All the Wild Possibilities: Technology that Attacks Barriers to Access to Justice, forthcoming in Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. Here is the abstract:
Predicting how technology will affect the future of the legal profession is difficult and unreliable work. I have made my share of such predictions in the past thirty years, including foretelling the death of the paper casebook in law… [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 5:59 pm
Dr. Rinke Hoekstra of the University of Amsterdam’s Leibniz Center for Law has posted slides of a presentation entitled The MetaLex Document Server: Legal Documents as Versioned Linked Data.
The slides describe an approach in which regulations from the Wetten.nl site were processed to enable improved public access, re-use, and inclusion of data in the Semantic Web. Regulations were marked up in CEN MetaLex XML format; persistent, “Cool” URIs — generated from Juriconnect URNs — were added… [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 12:05 am
Chicago IP Litigation law blogger and unapologetic Chicago Blackhawks fan R. David Donoghue hosts this week's Blawg Review #277. Having attended a playoffs game in Chicago as Dave Donoghue's guest, I really hope he sees his Stanley Cup on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame this year. [read post]
10 Jul 2010, 11:27 am
Yasmin Morais of the University of the District of Columbia School of Law Library and Sara Sampson of the Georgetown University Law Library have published A Content Analysis of Chat Transcripts in the Georgetown Law Library, 29 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 165-178 (2010) (Issue No. 3). Here is the abstract:
This content analysis study seeks to assess the use of the chat reference service by students, faculty, and alumni at the Georgetown University Law Library—a large, urban academic library… [read post]
22 Nov 2012, 1:08 pm
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 26 November 2012 — has been issued for the Jurix 2012 workshop entitled Legal Resources from Text to Rules, to be held 20 December 2012 in Amsterdam.
The workshop is being held in conjunction with JURIX 2012: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, being held 17-20 December 2012 at Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam.
Here are details of the workshop:
The time is ripe for investigating the… [read post]
24 Feb 2013, 3:32 pm
Kelly Lynn Anders, JD has published Ethical Exits: When Lawyers and Judges Must Sever Ties on Social Media, Charleston Law Review, Vol. 7, 187-205 (2012-2013).
Here is the abstract:
This article addresses the very recent trend of requiring lawyers and judges to sever ties on social media, the professional implications of doing so, relevant rules governing judicial and attorney conduct, and a discussion of “best practices” for lawyers and judges to follow when social media connections… [read post]
22 Nov 2012, 1:08 pm
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 26 November 2012 — has been issued for the Jurix 2012 workshop entitled Legal Resources from Text to Rules, to be held 20 December 2012 in Amsterdam.
The workshop is being held in conjunction with JURIX 2012: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, being held 17-20 December 2012 at Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam.
Here are details of the workshop:
The time is ripe for investigating the… [read post]
8 Jan 2013, 8:54 pm
Professor Dr. Lee Epstein, Professor Dr. William M. Landes, and Senior Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner, have published The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Here is the publisher’s description:
Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision-makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The system permits judges to be quite secretive (and most of them are), so… [read post]
31 Mar 2013, 3:03 pm
Professor Dr. Massimiliano Ferrara of Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria – Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, and Angelo, Roberto Gaglioti of MEDAlics, have published Law as a System of Proportions and Symmetries, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Business and Economics (MCBE ’12), World Scientific Engineering Academy and Society, 13th-15th June, 2012 Enescu Academy, Iasi, Romania (pp. 136-140).
Here is the abstract:
This paper… [read post]
23 May 2010, 1:25 pm
Professor Enrico Francesconi of Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica and ITTIG/CNR will present a paper entitled Legal Rules Learning Based on a Semantic Model for Legislation (for the full text of the paper, click here for the conference proceedings in PDF and scroll down to the page numbered 46) at SPLeT 2010: The 3rd Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts, to be held 23 May 2010 in Malta.
The workshop is part of LREC 2010: The 7th International… [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 5:34 pm
Akoma Ntoso’s Website has posted Akoma Ntoso adopted by the Italian Senate.
Here is an excerpt:
Starting from 23 February 2013, all the bills published on the Italian Senate website are available, other than in the usual HTML, PDF, and ePub formats, also in XML, using an Akoma Ntoso compliant scheme.
The Italian Senate, in the wake of the European Parliament, has also joined the growing number of parliaments supporting Akoma Ntoso as common to support more effective management of information… [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 12:23 pm
Casey Kuhlman, Esq., of Watershed Legal Services has posted legal-markdown to GitHub.
Here are excerpts from the readme:
This gem was built specifically to empower the creation of structured legal documents using markdown, and a markdown renderer. This gem acts as a middle layer by providing the user with structured headers and mixins that will greatly empower the use of md to create and maintain structured legal documents. [...]
This gem will parse YAML Front Matter of Markdown Documents.… [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 11:46 am
Charter Communications, provider of cable to most of Metro Atlanta, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Under the deal debtors have their debt converted to preferred stock and warrants for stock. It is unlikely that you will receive anything for the hours between 8-1 that you spent waiting on them.
Kudos to Ken Shigley at Atlanta [...] [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 11:32 am
In today’s legal jobs report we discuss the continuing decline in the legal sector, the apparent increase in demand for litigation associates and set out some of our featured listings.
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