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(In)Competence In Appellate And District Court Brief Writing On Rule 12 And 56 Motions, Scott A. Moss
(In)Competence In Appellate And District Court Brief Writing On Rule 12 And 56 Motions, Scott A. Moss
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The Case For Curation: The Relevance Of Digest And Citator Results In Westlaw And Lexis, Susan Nevelow Mart
The Case For Curation: The Relevance Of Digest And Citator Results In Westlaw And Lexis, Susan Nevelow Mart
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Humans and machines are both involved in the creation of legal research resources. For legal information retrieval systems, the human-curated finding aid is being overtaken by the computer algorithm. But human-curated finding aids still exist. One of them is the West Key Number system. The Key Number system’s headnote classification of case law, started back in the nineteenth century, was and is the creation of humans. The retrospective headnote classification of the cases in Lexis’s case databases, started in 1999, was created primarily - although not exclusively - with computer algorithms. So how do these two very different systems deal …
Self-Congratulation And Scholarship, Paul Campos
Self-Congratulation And Scholarship, Paul Campos
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Professor Jay Silver’s criticism of the reform proposals put forward in Brian Tamanaha’s book Failing Law Schools displays some characteristic weaknesses of American legal academic culture. These weaknesses include a tendency to make bold assertions about the value of legal scholarship and the effectiveness of law school pedagogy, while at the same time providing no support for these assertions beyond a willingness to repeat self-congratulatory platitudes about who professors are and what we do. The high costs for our students of the current scholarly expectations at American law schools are clear. What is not clear is whether those costs are …
The Missing Link: Making Research Easier With Linked Citations, Nick Harrell
The Missing Link: Making Research Easier With Linked Citations, Nick Harrell
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