In my last post, I looked at SCOTUS Maps in the classroom. My basic suggestion was that maps could help 1L students "find their way into" otherwise befuddling topics like FRCP 8 pleadings doctrine.
Happy Constitution Day everyone! In celebration of the day, the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, the Library of Congress, and the Government Printing Office have teamed up to launch U.S.
L'e-justice européenne fait référence à l'utilisation des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication dans le domaine de la justice. (e-justice européenne : quels outils ?
CanLII launched their new site today. After several months of beta testing, plenty of opportunities for feedback, and some direct user surveys, CanLII has a new look and new functionality.
A report titled Guest Worker Programs was recently added to the list of reports posted on the Law Library of Congress website under “Current Legal Topics” where you can also find a range of other comparative law reports on various topics.
The global development of legal information needs and services has continued to stimulate much professional discussion in recent years. This detailed report by
Stéphane Cottin's insight:
42 pages de comparaisons mondiales autour de 124 bibliothèques juridiques en 2012.
In the first two posts of this series, I discussed the basics of the SCOTUS Mapping Project and its method of looking to dissents to uncover the competing traditions at play in the Court's contested doctrines.
There now appear to be at least five legal hacking, technology, or innovation groups meeting regularly and hosting hacking or similar events: New York Legal Hackers Boston Legal Innovation Meetup DC Legal Hackers Los Angeles Legal Innovation Meetup...
This research guide by the Law Library of Congress identifies the personal status laws of a number of Arab countries, including Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Syria, and Tunisia, as well as the personal status law...
This article considers how a country’s legal scholarship can become a major resource on a free access legal information institute (LII), and the relationship of
Thoughts on Legal Prediction and Legal Metrics – Association of Corporate Counsel / Huron Consulting Meeting for Law Department Operations – September 16, 2013 – Professor Daniel Martin Katz from Daniel Martin Katz...
This is the fourth post in a series about visualizing Supreme Court doctrine. In today's entry, I want to briefly demonstrate one way folks could use doctrinal maps in their classrooms.
The CanLII Law, Government and Open Data Conference and Hackathon is being held 13-14 September 2013 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Remote participants are welcome. Please see the details here. Click here for the event schedule.
Editions juridiques franco-allemandes / RGD Revue Générale du Droit
Stéphane Cottin's insight:
L’ouvrage de 537 pages répond aux canons des manuels de droit, et est destiné au public des étudiants de L2, ainsi qu’aux praticiens du droit. Il a cependant été rédigé dans la perspective d’une publication en ligne. Tous les arrêts cités sont accompagnés de leur numéro de requête, identifiant unique permettant de créer de nombreux liens vers la jurisprudence.
Après un embargo d’un an, la Revue générale du droit publie donc ce manuel en version intégrale.
Lawyers and researchers looking into legal issues in international business transactions face a changing research landscape. Traditional tools for cross-border research are falling by the wayside.
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