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 […]
The World Trials Library is now available as part of the law library’s electronic resource collection. This HeinOnline collection contains trial transcripts and other critical court documents and includes trial-related resources that analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials. For example, John Lawson’s “American State Trials,” “Howell’s State Trials,” “Law Reports of Trials of […]
We now have access to vLex Global, an online legal research service based in Barcelona, Spain. vLex offers case law, legislation, and other legal materials for nearly 98 countries, with a particular focus on jurisdictions in Latin America and Europe. The contents of vLex can be searched by keyword, or browsed by country. Information is […]
The library has just acquired two new online resources from Oxford University Press: the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History and the collection of law books published by OUP available on Oxford Scholarship Online. The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, edited by Stanley N. Katz, is the first encyclopedia of law to provide both […]
The Quebec Government yesterday introduced a bill (Bill 18 — An Act respecting the Compilation of Québec Laws and Regulations) to give official status to the electronic version of Quebec’s statutes. Bill 18 in the National Assembly. The electronic compilatiion will have official status upon the coming-into-force of the act. The bill further specifies that […]
Neurolaw and Criminal Justice by Ken Strutin, an experienced law librarian and criminal defense attorney working in New York, was recently published on LLRX (Law and Legal Resources for Information Professionals). This is an emerging area of legal research which Strutin notes is, “being debated, particularly as a basis for prosecution.” His article leads the […]
‘Harvard’s open publishing policy and the outlook for law schools‘ is a short piece written by Gene Coo from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. He takes a look at law review publishing and the implications of Harvard’s recent commitment to open access. “The openness of law schools’ journals is […]