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Mobile Apps For Legal Research On The Go, Wiener-Rogers Law Library, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law
Mobile Apps For Legal Research On The Go, Wiener-Rogers Law Library, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law
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Automated Metadata Creation: Possibilities And Pitfalls, Wilhelmina Randtke
Automated Metadata Creation: Possibilities And Pitfalls, Wilhelmina Randtke
Wilhelmina Randtke
Automated indexing – using a computer to look at individual documents and assign metadata without a person looking at every document– was used to build an interactive online database to store and retrieve pages from a looseleaf resource (i.e., a resource which changes state over time). A database was designed and more than 30,000 pages in the database were indexed. Digitization, optical character recognition, and computer scripting to extract metadata were the methods used to assign most metadata. In places where the computer program could not assign metadata, a person looking at the document assigned metadata. The index was audited …
Jurisprudence, Interpretation, And Relevance: How Relevant Is Jurisprudence In Modern Practice?, David C. Bell
Jurisprudence, Interpretation, And Relevance: How Relevant Is Jurisprudence In Modern Practice?, David C. Bell
David C Bell
Jurisprudence and statutory interpretation are distained by law school students and in legal circles outside the academic realm, but both are an integral part of the legal process and as such should be included in all law school education in an effort to turn out practice ready lawyers. This paper will look at the different theories of statutory interpretation, breaking down how the individual theories go about interpretation. The different theories to be analyzed include hermeneutics, textualism, purposive interpretation, dynamic interpretation, liberal interpretation, legal process theory, moral theory, and active liberty. Then the paper will analyze parallels between the interpretation …