Non-Print Guides to Legal Research
I believe that the oldest use of media other than print to teach legal research was a videotape with voice-over by Stephen Borins back in the academic year, 1970-1971 in which he ran through a legal research problem which touched on Priestman v. Colangelo and the liability of police officers. It stressed the reliability [...]
Simon Chester Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in Canada, Legal Education, Legal Research, Libraries, Publishing, Visualization of Information | 3 Comments »
Free Access Is Here to Stay
Free access to legal information in Canada is here to stay. Of that fact, there can be no doubt.
Bob Berring, the man who has triggered the recent Slaw debate on the future viability of free services, sounds like a man from the past, nurtured on West and Lexis and very happy with the services [...]
Gary P. Rodrigues Monday, November 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Free Law Kerfuffle
I am amazed that the three minutes extracted from an interview that I gave in the summer of 2009 with the thought that parts of it would be used in a tribute video to be shown at the 2009 AALL Convention has caused such a kerfuffle. [Ed. note: see Berring’s Scepticism on the Future [...]
Bob Berring Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Posted in Access to Legal Information, Judicial Decisions, Legal Databases, Legal Research, Open Access | 3 Comments »
Berring, free legal information, and making good choices">Berring, free legal information, and making good choices
The Legal Current, a blog published by Thomson Reuters, recently posted comments by Bob Berring on free legal information. Professor Berring expressed scepticism about the future of free tools for legal research, and described why in his view the structured and edited information in commercial tools makes them preferable for legal research.
Are commercial services necessarily [...]
Catherine Best Monday, November 2nd, 2009 Posted in Access to Legal Information, CanLII, Legal Research, LexUM | 2 Comments »
Berring, CanLII and Kobe Beef">Berring, CanLII and Kobe Beef
I saw the last installment from the West series showcasing Bob Berring. Bob Berring is no stranger in this field. He significantly contributed to the law librarianship over a quite long career. His decade long professional connections with West Publishing are also well known. All this said, this short video constitutes nice blog stuff. Simon’s [...]
Daniel Poulin Sunday, November 1st, 2009 Posted in Access to Legal Information, CanLII, Government Documents, Legal Research, LexUM, Online Research Sources, Open Access, Publishing | 2 Comments »
Berring’s Scepticism on the Future of Free Legal Information">Berring’s Scepticism on the Future of Free Legal Information
Here it is on Youtube: some wonderful metaphors.
Will the Slaw community do a rebuttal?
Simon Chester Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Access to Legal Information, Librarians, Online Research Sources, Open Access, Publishing, Usability | 2 Comments »
Electronically Manufactured Law – What’s Changed and Why Does it Matter?
Here is a link to a thoughtful article in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology by Hofstra Professor Katrina Fischer Kuh entitled Electronically Manufactured Law – Why the shift to electronic research merits attention.
It seeks to understand how present and future changes in the communication of law, including electronic legal research, influence the legal [...]
Simon Chester Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Access to Legal Information, Impact of IT, Information Technology, Law and technology, Legal Databases, Legal Education, Legal Research, Online Research Sources, Searching, United States | 2 Comments »
