Interesting development on the Google beta scene announced today on the Official Google Blog: "Starting today, we're enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar". Andrew Plumb-Larrick, writing on the Case Western Reserve University Law School blog Just in […]
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UK Supreme Court - Now in Session!
The new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom came into existence on October 1 and is now highest court in the land. Replacing the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, the Court’s creation is a landmark moment in constitutional and legal development for the UK. It is the final court of appeal in the […]
Important Update to Paciocco, The Law of Evidence, 5th ed.
Recognizing the profound impact of several recent and important decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada on section 24(2) jurisprudence and the law of evidence, Irwin Law has rewritten chapter 9 of David Paciocco's The Law of Evidence, 5th ed. (2008). Irwin's message is as follows. The full text of the revised chapter is available […]
Law Yearbook of China
The Law Yearbook of China (English version) is now included among the materials available on the LawInfoChina service. Currently, the volumes for the years 2002, 2003-2004 and 2006 are available. The Law Yearbook of China is a large, comprehensive and requisite text for students of Chinese law for basic information about the socialist legal system […]
Legal Information Archive Chesapeake Pilot Project Report
The Chesapeake Project, a two-year pilot project begun in early 2007, has been completed and the final evaluation report has been released. This was a collaborative project initiated by the Georgetown Law Library and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia. The goal of the Chesapeake Project was to explore the preservation of "born-digital […]
J. Willard Hurst Digital Collection
The University of Wisconsin Law Library announced today the release of the J. Willard Hurst Collection. Hurst is, "... the man commonly identified as the father of modern American legal history." "The collection primarily spans the years 1932 through Hurst’s death in 1997. ... The collection includes Hurst’s personal outlines and notes; course texts; publications; […]
Justice Laws Website Now Official
The Consolidated Federal Statutes and Regulations on the Justice Laws Website are now official and are admissible as evidence in court. This is the result of the coming into force on that date of amendments made to the Statute Revision Act, which has been renamed the Legislation Revision and Consolidation Act. To see the relevant […]
WolframAlpha Search Engine and Legal Research
You may have heard the buzz about this new search engine WolframAlpha which it's creator, Stephen Wolfram, has dubbed a 'computational knowledge engine.' How does this search engine do when tasked with legal research type questions? Rob Richards, over at the Legal Informatics Blog, has summarized a discussion he's been hosting there. So far it […]
New eResource: HeinOnline World Trials Library
The World Trials Library is now available as part of the law library's electronic resource collection. This HeinOnline collection contains trial transcripts and other critical court documents and includes trial-related resources that analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials. For example, John Lawson's "American State Trials," "Howell's State Trials," "Law Reports of Trials of […]
New eResource: vLex Global
We now have access to vLex Global, an online legal research service based in Barcelona, Spain. vLex offers case law, legislation, and other legal materials for nearly 98 countries, with a particular focus on jurisdictions in Latin America and Europe. The contents of vLex can be searched by keyword, or browsed by country. Information is […]