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5 Aug 2010, 10:39 am
Professor David L. Schwartz of the Chicago-Kent College of Law and Professor Dr. Lee Petherbridge of Loyola Law School Los Angeles have posted a working paper entitled The Use of Legal Scholarship by the Federal Courts of Appeals: An Empirical Study (2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Chief Justice Roberts recently explained that he does not pay much attention to law review articles, reportedly stating that they are not “particularly helpful for practitioners and judges.” Chief Justice… [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 2:38 am
Nicole Black hosts Blawg Review #254 in celebration of International Women's Day, National Women's History Month and the 30th anniversary of the National Women's History Project. Hopefully, many of our followers will link to this Blawg Review #254 on their blogs and in their tweets on International Women's Day using the hastag #iwd on Twitter. [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 3:18 pm
The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act — formerly called The Authentication and Preservation of State Electronic Legal Materials Act — has been approved by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC; formerly called the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, NCCUSL) at their annual meeting in Vail, Colorado, according to a ULC Twitter post.
[Update 12 July 2011, 6:22 p.m. Pacific: Click here for the ULC's press release.]
According to ULC, the vote was “45 [states] in favor, 1… [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 7:27 am
This too shall pass for a Blawg Review, an eclectic collection of bits and pieces of the blawgosphere linked together as if by Rube Goldberg. [read post]
25 Oct 2012, 2:36 pm
Dr. Sushant Sinha of Indian Kanoon has posted Faster and More Relevant Kanoon!, at the Indian Kanoon forums.
He writes:
A new release of IndianKanoon brings in the following changes:
1. A new tiering function that slims down the top tier and significantly improves the time taken to execute a query.
2. A new ranking function to improve relevance.
3. Improved word matching and abbreviations. A search of “adm jabalpur” will match “additional district magistrate… [read post]
21 May 2010, 6:19 pm
Fabrizio Macagno of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Dipartimento di Linguistica and Professor Douglas Walton of the University of Windsor Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric have published Dichotomies and Oppositions in Legal Argumentation, 23 Ratio Juris No. 2, pages 229-257 (2010). Here is the abstract:
In this paper we use a series of examples to show how oppositions and dichotomies are fundamental in legal argumentation, and vitally important to be aware of,… [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 2:20 pm
Image via Wikipedia This afternoon we added an Alabama Court Directory to the resources on this website. This directory lists the county courthouses across the State of Alabama, including their physical address and phone numbers. At a later date we'll add in the websites of the county courthouses that have a presence on the Internet. [...] [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 2:33 pm
Teresa Gonçalves and Professor Paulo Quaresma, both of Universidade de Évora Departamento de Informática, have published Multilingual Text Classification Through Combination of Monolingual Classifiers, in LOAIT 2010: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques, European University Institute, Fiesole, Florence, Italy, July 7th, 2010, at 29-38 (Enrico Francesconi, Simonetta Montemagni, Piercarlo Rossi, and Daniela Tiscornia eds., 2010). Here is the… [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 6:41 am
RT @infobunny Why does no one call me pumpkin? Blawg Review #236, hosted by Eric Turkewitz, is a real treat. Note to @Geeklawyer and friends, who celebrated Halloween at the #brightonpissup4, "pissed" also means "angry" to a Yank. [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 2:01 pm
Dr. Francien Dechesne of the Delft University of Technology Centre for Ethics and Technology, and colleagues, have published No smoking here: values, norms and culture in multi-agent systems , forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law . Here is the abstract: We use the example of the introduction of the anti-smoking legislation to model the relationship between the cultural make-up, in terms of values, of societies and the acceptance of and compliance with norms. We present two agent-based… [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 12:28 pm
Thelma Julie of the Judiciary of the Seychelles has posted SeyLII: The freeway to Seychelles Legal Information, at the AfricanLII Blog.
In this post, Ms. Julie describes the development of SeyLII: The Seychelles Legal Information Institute, a free-access-to-law service for The Seychelles, which launched in March 2012.
The post describes the need of Seychelles’ citizens and legal community for online access to Seychelles legal materials, the role of Kerry Anderson of AfricanLII and Tom Bruce of the… [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]
20 Feb 2011, 7:57 pm
Sometimes real life just smacks you in the head. Don't listen to me; follow ALJAZEERA now. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 7:54 am
Professor Dr. Tom van Engers of the University of Amsterdam’s Leibniz Center for Law and Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Leeds Centre for Digital Citizenship have published What Do You Mean? Arguing for Meaning, in LOAIT 2010: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques, European University Institute, Fiesole, Florence, Italy, July 7th, 2010, at 87-94 (Enrico Francesconi, Simonetta Montemagni, Piercarlo Rossi, and Daniela Tiscornia eds., 2010).… [read post]
23 May 2010, 2:13 pm
Mario Bianchi of the Italian National Centre for ICT in the Public Administrations (CNIPA), and colleagues, have published ICT Tools for the Discovery of Semantic Relations in Legal Documents, in ICT4JUSTICE 2009: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on ICT Solutions for Justice, Skopje, FYR Macedonia, September 24, 2009 33-40 (George Eleftherakis and Tom van Engers eds., 2009).
Here is the abstract of the paper:
This paper reports the experience of the development and the evaluation of a… [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 2:15 pm
Professor Dr. Monica Palmirani of Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche «Antonio Cicu» and CIRSFID, and Professor Dr. Leonardo Lesmo , Dr. Alessandro Mazzei , and Dr. Daniele P. Radicioni , all of Universita’ di Torino Dipartimento di Informatica, have published TULSI: an NLP system for extracting legal modificatory provisions , forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law . Here is the abstract: In this work we present the TULSI system (so named after Turin… [read post]
8 Jan 2010, 8:00 pm
Full text of the program materials are now available from a October 18, 2009 joint continuing legal education program entitled Effectively Assisting Pro Se [Bankruptcy] Filers: A View from the Bench, cosponsored by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and the ABA Section of Business Law Business Bankruptcy Committee. The materials contain useful information about legal ethics, legal information, and legal communication issues concerning self-represented debtors in U.S. consumer bankruptcy… [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 8:31 am
Laura K. Abel, Esq., of The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, has posted Evidence-Based Access to Justice, forthcoming in The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change. Here is the abstract:
An evidence-based approach is notably absent from the many efforts to expand access to the justice system for civil litigants, and there is no generally accepted metric for evaluating which access to justice tool works when. This article proposes the use of… [read post]
10 May 2010, 2:13 pm
Abstracts are available — see under “Monday, 3 May,” the entries for “LIT Workshop” on right screen, and hold cursor over each paper title to see its abstract, or display the page source — for the papers presented at LIT 2010: The 3rd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology, held 3 May 2010, in Berlin, Germany, in conjunction with BIS 2010: The 13th International Conference on Business Information Systems.
Filed under: Articles and papers, Conference papers,… [read post]
28 Dec 2012, 12:54 pm
Tim Stanley of Justia has started a new Free Law discussion group on Google+.
Recent topics have included Courtney Minick’s post about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to begin self-publishing its opinions online.
Filed under: Applications, Discussion groups Tagged: Courtney Minick, Free access to law, Free law, Free Law community, Free Law discussion group, Free Law Google+ community, Google+ and legal informatics discussion groups, Google+ and legal information systems,… [read post]