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A new article describes changes in
legal scholarly communication as a shift from long, rights - protected mediated forms to short, open - access, unmediated ones.
Not exact matches
The Bayh - Dole
legal framework and the practices of universities have not seriously undermined academic norms of uninhibited inquiry, open
communication, or faculty advancement based on
scholarly merit.
For my part, I would be both surprised and disappointed to see any significant diminution in the volume of
legal publishing that is undertaken but I would be surprised if the pace of change in formats and methods of
communication, perhaps with, to some extent, a reduction in the amount of
scholarly publishing, are not likely outcomes.
Posts cover
scholarly and professional discussion of
legal information systems and
legal communication.
Scholars of the discipline expanded from dissecting the practice of teaching
legal writing and began to focus on law as rhetoric.11 Progressively, the teaching of
legal argument had led to curiosity about rhetorical devices and narrative techniques.12 The importance of plain or accessible language became a key component of effective
communication.13 The intersection of
legal writing and storytelling emerged as an important area of the
scholarly discourse.14 The discipline's character developed and created new and emerging sub-characters within the story.
See, for instance, On Visual Law: Visual
Legal Communication Practices and Their
Scholarly Exploration in Zeichen und Zauber des Rechts: Festschrift für Friedrich Lachmayer, Erich Schweighofer et al. (Eds.)
We had to think about how writing on a keyboard using software with increasingly sophisticated word processing capabilities affected the writing process, and whether the ease of composing on - screen changed the writer's relationship to the text.7 We had to confront the ways digital technologies change the way we read and process information.8 As email became ubiquitous, we had to think about how the speed of that type of
communication affected the writing process, and what new forms
legal analysis could take when delivered via email.9 As technology simplified the process of embedding images into documents and made possible incorporation of video and other interactive elements, whole new areas of
scholarly inquiry have opened up.10 We have started to address these questions, but we still have so much to learn about how technology impacts how we go about writing
legal documents.
Legal Informatics Blog is devoted to scholarly and professional discussion of legal information systems and the study of them, a field of information science that is also called «legal informatics,» and to the study of legal communica
Legal Informatics Blog is devoted to
scholarly and professional discussion of
legal information systems and the study of them, a field of information science that is also called «legal informatics,» and to the study of legal communica
legal information systems and the study of them, a field of information science that is also called «
legal informatics,» and to the study of legal communica
legal informatics,» and to the study of
legal communica
legal communication.
Professors working on
scholarly projects, whether these are focused on
legal communication or on other
legal topics, will benefit from participating in workshops where feedback can be sought and long - term relationships can be forged.