GitHub: Where Law Meets Technology?

It’s likely that many of you are not familiar with GitHub the collaborative management platform used by many open source software developers.   This is a place where the open source coding community share, review and develop their work.  So if you’re looking for code this is where you go. However, as Thomas R. Bruce points […]

WolframAlpha Search Engine and Legal Research

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 […]