Sentences with phrase «internet legal research materials»
The U.S. Department of Justice has developed an extensive and extremely useful library of Internet legal research materials, including a research blog, according to Michael Ravnitzky, a lawyer and former colleague of mine at American Lawyer Media.
https://www.lawsitesblog.com/ Not exact matches
«The [internet archive] legislation has always been constructed for people who go into the Legal Deposit libraries — for the readers, with a capital R. It's an archive for preservation and for research,» further added Angela obviously referring to the 2003 Legal Deposit Libraries Act that makes it mandatory for digital archives to be treated on par with the archives of yors that comprised of printed material.
Unless they were just popping in to get materials for a research paper (this before easy Internet access), these people already had a greater handle on what they needed from legal information than I did.
The Internet is home to a growing body of high quality materials such as research guides, government reports, and legal commentary.
WashLaw, initiated in 1991 by the Washburn Law Library, is a legal research portal that provides users with links to significant sites of law - related materials on the Internet.
Number 4, «Auction off legal research access to West or Lexis,» is interesting and it would be a good start — Wexis should definitely have to pay more for its captive audience — but I'd definitely take this further: Put Wexis out of business, either by using eminent domain to buy them out (replacing their for - profit services with non-profit analogues), or by simply creating a publicly - funded competitor that offers the same material for free to anyone with an internet connection.
An additional impediment to legal research in the Internet Archive is that the materials have been digitized and can only be retrieved as «volumes» and not as discrete «documents»; i.e., you can find and retrieve v. 1 of the Revised Statutes of Ontario 1914, but it's time - consuming getting to p. 317 of that volume if you're looking specifically for the Succession Duty Act, RSO 1914, c 24 (though once there, you can easily bookmark the page).