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From Key Numbers to Keywords: How Automation has Transformed the Law

Hanson, F A

Law Library Journal, 2002-10, Vol.94 (4), p.563-800 [Periódico revisado por pares]

American Association of Law Libraries Law Library Journal

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  • Título:
    From Key Numbers to Keywords: How Automation has Transformed the Law
  • Autor: Hanson, F A
  • Assuntos: commonplace ; computer & internet law ; Computerized information retrieval ; consultation ; contributed ; conveniently ; criminal law & procedure ; education law ; fundamental ; information ; Interdisciplinary aspects ; Law ; pronouncement ; stimulating ; transformations ; transformed
  • É parte de: Law Library Journal, 2002-10, Vol.94 (4), p.563-800
  • Notas: Christopher Columbus Langdell, dean of the Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, famously said that the law is a science, and the library is its laboratory. 1 The physical library no longer holds the privileged position that it did in Langdell's ...
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  • Descrição: Christopher Columbus Langdell, dean of the Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, famously said that the law is a science, and the library is its laboratory. 1 The physical library no longer holds the privileged position that it did in Langdell's day, but the grain of truth in his pronouncement is that the law is grounded in a body of information. During the last two decades of the twentieth century, American law underwent a revolution in the management of information. Prior to that time legal research required consultation of a variety of books in a law library, but today automated systems bring full texts of virtually everything one needs for legal research to the desktop computer. The impact of this change has been massive. The landscape of legal research has been utterly transformed as skills that were second nature to lawyers a generation ago are obsolete today and hitherto unknown procedures have become commonplace. Nor is this simply a matter of lawyers being able to do what they used to do, only faster and more conveniently. Instead, the upheaval in the management of legal information has produced a number of fundamental transformations in the process and products of legal research and, indeed, in the structure and practice of the law itself. 2 Carol Bast and Ransford Pyle have recently contributed a stimulating article on "Legal Research in the Computer Age" to the Law Library Journal . 3 They suggest that legal research is undergoing a shift from a ...
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