The Cornell Law Library has partnered with Google to provide the Legal Research Engine. Thanks to Rob Richards for tweeting about Betsy McKenzie’s post on Out of the Jungle. You can search for legal research guides, the ‘legal internet’, and academic blawgs (or all three combined). See Betsy’s post for more information.
Here are a couple of more reactions to case law on Google and the potential impact on legal research. Thoughts on Google & Legal Research Rob Richards on the Legal Informatics Blog “… Google probably won’t need very long to build a good quality automatic legal citator and subject indexing system, if it has a […]
Interesting development on the Google beta scene announced today on the Official Google Blog: “Starting today, we’re enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar“. Andrew Plumb-Larrick, writing on the Case Western Reserve University Law School blog Just in […]
The new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom came into existence on October 1 and is now highest court in the land. Replacing the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, the Court’s creation is a landmark moment in constitutional and legal development for the UK. It is the final court of appeal in the […]
Recognizing the profound impact of several recent and important decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada on section 24(2) jurisprudence and the law of evidence, Irwin Law has rewritten chapter 9 of David Paciocco’s The Law of Evidence, 5th ed. (2008). Irwin’s message is as follows. The full text of the revised chapter is available […]
The Law Yearbook of China (English version) is now included among the materials available on the LawInfoChina service. Currently, the volumes for the years 2002, 2003-2004 and 2006 are available. The Law Yearbook of China is a large, comprehensive and requisite text for students of Chinese law for basic information about the socialist legal system […]
The Chesapeake Project, a two-year pilot project begun in early 2007, has been completed and the final evaluation report has been released. This was a collaborative project initiated by the Georgetown Law Library and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia. The goal of the Chesapeake Project was to explore the preservation of “born-digital […]
The University of Wisconsin Law Library announced today the release of the J. Willard Hurst Collection. Hurst is, “… the man commonly identified as the father of modern American legal history.” “The collection primarily spans the years 1932 through Hurst’s death in 1997. … The collection includes Hurst’s personal outlines and notes; course texts; publications; […]
The Consolidated Federal Statutes and Regulations on the Justice Laws Website are now official and are admissible as evidence in court. This is the result of the coming into force on that date of amendments made to the Statute Revision Act, which has been renamed the Legislation Revision and Consolidation Act. To see the relevant […]
You may have heard the buzz about this new search engine WolframAlpha which it’s creator, Stephen Wolfram, has dubbed a ‘computational knowledge engine.’ How does this search engine do when tasked with legal research type questions? Rob Richards, over at the Legal Informatics Blog, has summarized a discussion he’s been hosting there. So far it […]