Top 10 E-Newsletters for Researchers
From Rita Vine, her Top 10 Newsletters for Serious Web Searchers.
Category «Legal Research»
GPO Launches Deep Linking Tool for CFR Citations
Code of Federal Regulations: Linking to Documents: “Documents that exist within the CFR on GPO Access cannot be bookmarked. In order to link to these documents, a unique URL string must be created. This string consists of six elements: the URL of the cgi script which retrieves the document the CFR Title the CFR part …
New on LLRX.com
Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Opportunity Arises Rethinking ROI: Managing Risk and Rewards in KM Initiatives The Return of the Wacky World of Gadgets Deep Web Research Burney’s Legal Tech Reviews: Laptop Docking Stations Metaforix@Health: e-Health Overview StatutesPlus: New Features for Statute Research on Westlaw FOIA Facts: What Ever Happened to Frequently Requested Material? Wisdom …
Launch of FindLaw For The Public
FindLaw For The Public is a consumer oriented site with links to legal information arranged by topics that include criminal law, employement law, money and finance, personal injury, and real estate.
Enhancements to Online Legal Periodicals Database
From site manager John Doyle: Washington & Lee’s Most-Cited Legal Periodicals: U.S. and selected non-U.S. “has been enhanced with the addition of an article submissions process. This allows authors to sort the journal list in citation-rank order, to select down to a (hopefully) limited list of journals to submit an article to, and then to …
Directory of Federal Law Libraries in the D.C. Metropolitan Area
Directory of Federal Law Libraries in the D.C. Metropolitan Area, January 2004.
New Data Mining Application Allows Users to Create Extensive, Targeted Online Libraries
Mercury News reported on IBM’s WebFountain Advanced Text Analytic Solutions, which according to this IBM overview, “enables access to multi-terabyte data stores of unstructured and semi-structured data. This includes internet data, weblogs, bulletin boards, enterprise data, legacy data, licensed content, newspapers, magazines and trade journals.” The article states that the application is currently gathering data …
Congressional Directory January 2004 Revision Available Via GPO
Congressional Directory, 108th Congress, January 2004 Online Revision. Key word search or browse the content.
Harvard Law School’s New Resource on Internet Law and Policy
From Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Law and Technology, the “Berkman Briefings is a reading series that provides background information about major questions related to Internet policy, technology, and law. Every month, the Briefing will cover a new topic.” The RSS for this blog is here.
The Design of International Agreements
The Design of International Agreements, by Andrew T. Guzman, University of California, Berkeley – School of Law (Boalt Hall) [Legal Theory Blog]: From the abstract – “This Article explains why rational states sometimes prefer to design their agreements in such a way as to make them less credible and, therefore, more easily violated. In contrast …
New UN Report on Freedom of Information Laws
Freedom of Information, A Comparative Legal Study (pdf, 162 pages), by Toby Mendel, published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): this report describes “the international standards which have been established in this area and some of the key features of effective freedom of information legislation…it illustrates the way in which ten …
FindLaw Acquires Glasser LegalWorks
FindLaw, owned by Thomson, announced today it has acquired Glasser LegalWorks.
