Legal Informatics Blog

"Devoted to scholarly and professional discussion of legal information systems and the study of them, a field of information science that is also called 'legal informatics.' "

Author: Robert Richards is a law librarian in Philadelphia and contributing editor to Law Librarian Blog.

Blawg Related Categories: Law Libraries • Law Practice Management • Legal Technology • Librarian • Legal Research and Writing

Recent Posts from Legal Informatics Blog

Blaha on the Appraisal of FBI Records
Craig Blaha of the University of Texas at Austin will present a poster entitled The Appraisal of FBI Records: Random Destruction of Evidence or Statistically Valid Sampling Method? at The 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, on…
Grenersen on Documentation of Land & Water Rights in Sámi Culture and Language Centers
Dr. Polit Geir Grenersen of the University of Tromso Faculty of Humanities Program in Documentation Studies will present a paper entitled Sámi Culture and Language Centers: Documentation of a Threatened Heritage at The 2009 ASIS&T…
Srivastava, Electronic Signatures & Security Issues: An Empirical Study
Dr. Aashish Srivastava, of the Monash University Department of Business Law and Taxation, has published Electronic Signatures & Security Issues: An Empirical Study, 25 Computer Law & Security Review 432 (2009). Here is the abstract:…
Gilbert on Governance of Virtual Worlds
Brendan James Gilbert, a student at the University of Buffalo Law School, has published Getting to Conscionable: Negotiating Virtual Worlds’ End User License Agreements without Getting Externally Regulated, 4 Journal of International Commercial Law and…
Empirical Study of Civil Case Processing in U.S. Federal District Courts
A recent empirical study of civil case management in U.S. federal district courts offers interesting insights into the use of information in civil litigation, and the relationship of certain kinds of information processing to litigation…
Call for Proposals: Institute for Law Teaching and Learning 2010
A call for proposals, with submission deadline of February 12, 2010, has been issued for The Institute for Law Teaching and Learning 2010, “Teaching Law Practice Across the Curriculum,” to be held June 16-18, 2009…
Civil Justice, Case Management, & Discovery Reform Tools from ACTL & IAALS
Two new resources to assist U.S. courts and lawyers in implementing civil justice reform have been issued by the Joint Project of The American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) Task Force on Discovery and Civil…
Goossenaerts et al. on A Multi-Level Model-Driven Regime for Value-Added Tax Compliance in ERP Systems
Jan B.M. Goossenaerts, Alexander T.M. Zegers of KPMG IT Advisory, & Jan M. Smits of the University of Technology Eindhoven, Department of Law & Technology, have published A Multi-Level Model-Driven Regime for Value-Added Tax Compliance…
Curcio on Legal Education Assessment
Professor Andrea Anne Curcio of Georgia State University College of Law has published Assessing Differently and Using Empirical Studies to See If it Makes a Difference: Can Law Schools Do it Better?, forthcoming in Quinnipiac…
ICKM 2009: Law-Related Papers
At least two papers on legal information will be presented at ICKM 2009: The 6th International Conference on Knowledge Management, to be held December 3-4, 2009 in Hong Kong. Here are descriptive information and abstracts:…