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Although law students and lawyers may joke that they chose law school because they're no good at math, legal professionals often hunger for data. Numbers can help us understand the world and can inform policy arguments. In this brief essay, I share some favorite sources and reflect on some of the challenges of finding and evaluating statistics.
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This brief essay explores the concept of "specialized legal research." What is it — the research done by a firm's practice group, the research defined
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Les cabinets d'avocats sont désormais nombreux à avoir leur site internet dédié, et si c'était votre tour ?
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Judging a Book By its Cover, Brian Kenji Iwana, Seiichi Uchida. [v1] Fri, 28 Oct 2016. arXiv:1610.09204 “Book covers communicate information to potential readers, but can the same information…
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Hackathons have been a feature of innovation since the 90s and have been an exciting catalyst for change in many industries. From subtle inventions that form part of everyday communication such as the Facebook “like’ button, to pioneering gamification products produced by Cancer Research UK that allow members of the public to analyze health data,... Read More...
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by Paul Gatz In 1976, a Québécois librarian named André Cossette published a thin volume on the philosophy of librarianship, which, many years later, was translated to English by Rory Litwin and published under the title of Humanism and Libraries: An Essay on the Philosophy of Librarianship. Clear and concise, analytic and maybe even optimistic, Cossette’s…
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The most popular legal-specific smartphone app among lawyers is Westlaw (maybe) and the most popular smartphone among lawyers is the iPhone, according to t
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This article functions both as a brief history lesson in experiential education and as a case study of an experiential course entitled “Human Rights Practicum”
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In line with the principle of separation of powers, policy makers and courts have very different jobs. Yet, their respective inputs to the fabrics of government
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Most informed observers of the Canadian and American legal systems accept the existence of a significant crisis in access to justice. One possible solution is t
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Curious about robot police, selective procreation, the end of cybersecurity, total life recording devices, or virtual-reality crimes?
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“Welcome to the official Giphy channel for the National Archives [currently there are 179 gifs].
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European New Legal Realism (ENLR) is an empirical legal research programme which combines insights from Weber, Ross and Bourdieu with contemporary empirical app
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When legal researchers search in online databases for the information they need to solve a legal problem, they need to remember that the algorithms that are ret
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Ils sont 538, ils choisissent le président, et il arrive même qu’ils ne soient pas représentés proportionnellement au vote populaire.
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Another source of election coverage here at Politico.com and Politico’s 2016 Presidential Election Results
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Tuesday's hearing in the Trump Campaign's absurd lawsuit in Clark County, NV, was livestreamed. So everyone got to see (or go back to watch), in real time and with their own eyes, an unprepared and ill-informed lawyer and a knowledgeable judge who was, quite properly, having none of it (and likely more than a little aware that the purpose of the suit was not any sort of legal relief, but to set-up the "rigged" narrative for this evening).
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I wrote here yesterday about the finding of the ABA's 2016 Legal Technology Survey Report that only 38 percent of lawyers say they use the cloud for law-re
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Beyond providing free access to a publication, Open access also gives the opportunity to researchers to allow the reexploitation of their work by others ; that means for examples that you can modify or use it for any commercial purpose. In general, researchers allow the re-use of their work through a contract, usually by a…
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How can we ensure that today’s law graduates are “practice ready” when law practice - particularly legal research and writing - are changing so rapidly?
Today’
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Most informed observers of the Canadian and American legal systems accept the existence of a significant crisis in access to justice. One possible solution is t
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RT @CGET_gouv: #SemaineIP: du 17 au 19 nov. Trois jours pour bousculer les idées reçues sur le service public ! https://t.co/YuEhO0NGia htt…
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Rowe, Margie and Tang, Stephen and Foley, Tony and Holmes, Vivien and James, Colin G. and Hickie, Ian, Being Well in the Law: A Guide for Lawyers (November 3, 2016).
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