Using ICT in the Law Faculty

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Using ICT in the Law Faculty
USDM TEILICT Awareness Workshop 28-29
October 2000

• Jos Dumortier
• K.U.Leuven Belgium
• jos.dumortier_at_law.kuleuven.ac.be
• http//www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri

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Overview

• Access to Legal Information
• Where can we find the law?
• Computer-Assisted Legal Learning
• Can I use the computer for legal teaching?
• Legal Expert Networking
• How can I ask advice from expert colleagues?

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1. Access to Legal Information

• A Short History
• Legal Portals
• Legal Workstations
• Law Search Engines

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1A. History

• From the traditional law library
• over online legal databases
• private initiative
• public initiative
• to open access via the Internet
• example 1 AUSTLII BAILII
• www.austlii.edu.au/ www.bailii.org
• example 2 LII (Cornell) ZAMLII
• www.law.cornell.edu / http//lii.zamnet.zm

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1B. Legal Portals

• K.U.Leuven Law Library
• http//www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/lib/
• Governments of the World
• www.gksoft.com
• Institute for Advanced Legal Studies
• http//ials.sas.ac.uk
• Hieros Gamos
• www.hg.org
• Internet Legal Resource Guide
• www.ilrg.com
• World Law Guide
• www.lexadin.nl

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Portals access to

• Law Library Catalogues
• example Harvard Law Library
• Electronic Law Journals and Books
• example Computers and Law (Juta)
• National and International Organisations
• Law Firms
• Law Schools
• And Other Legal Links!

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1C. Legal Workstations

• What is it?
• Example Media Law Workstation (Aus)
• www.austlii.edu.au

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1D. Legal Search Engines

• What is a Search Engine?
• General
• Specialized
• Legal
• example 1 FindLaw
• http//lawcrawler.lp.findlaw.com
• example 2 Virtual Library (Indiana)

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2. Computer Assisted Legal Learning

• CALI (US)
• example course on contracts - defenses
• IOLIS (UK)
• Other Annual CALL Conferences

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3. Expert Networking

• Law Lists
• Overview Univ. of Chicago
• How to search and subscribe a Law List
• example African Law

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Questions?