Starr Workshop Papers (2007) Copyright (c) 2013 Cornell Law Library All rights reserved. http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/sws_papers Recent documents in Starr Workshop Papers (2007) en-us Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:57:59 PST 3600 Legal Research and Legal Education in Africa: the Challenge for Information Literacy http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/sws_papers/5 http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/sws_papers/5 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:19:13 PST This paper analyses legal research within the context of legal education in Africa, it examines some of the challenges of electronic legal research in view of the influences of online legal electronic resources and Computer Assisted legal Research (CALR) and the importance of information literacy in addressing some of the issues raised especially with regards to undergraduate legal education.

]]> Vicki Lawal Legal Education Legal Research and Bibliography How to Present Web-Based Legal Information: Towards Library Web 2.0 http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/sws_papers/4 http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/sws_papers/4 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:04:43 PDT The World Wide Web has rapidly evolved from a technological into a social medium. Web 2.0 has become a metaphor for the distributed and decentralized collaboration networks on a global scale. With the recent trends of new media development, the sources available have reached a critical mass resulting in an unprecedented information overload. The urgent challenge to all information professionals, in this case law librarians, is no longer availability and direct provision of resources, but rather the filtering and highlighting. As an example of the utilization of Web 2.0 values, the Cornell Law Library (CLL) recently re-launched its website. The site highlights the wealth of resources and services available at this premier research library while, at all times, taking into consideration the information needs and information-seeking behaviors of our users and the worldwide legal research community. Library jargon was removed wherever possible to make the navigational language natural to non-librarians, which led to the creation of a new standard in interface design and information architecture for the site.

]]> Sasha Skenderija Legal Research and Bibliography U.S. Law and Legal Research http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/sws_papers/3 http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/sws_papers/3 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:27:30 PDT This presentation on the basics of U.S. law offers a general outline of the fundamental sources of U.S. law. With a foundation in the three branches of government and the laws, court decisions, and regulations that flow from them, the speaker demonstrated free and fee-based electronic resources frequently used for legal research. The focus is on Westlaw, LexisNexis, PACER the Public Access to Court Electronic Records), GPOAccess, and the official U.S. Supreme Court web site. While the web has made it possible for universities, governments, courts, and others to put user-friendly law on the web for free, the most extensive databases and the most sophisticated searching are still from companies that charge for their services.

]]> Pat Court Legal Education Legal Research and Bibliography Keynote Address: Remarks at the Workshop on Tapping into the World of Electronic Legal Knowledge http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/sws_papers/2 http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/sws_papers/2 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:08:14 PDT Professor Muna Ndulo of Cornell Law School presented the keynote address at the 2007 Starr Workshop, “Tapping into the World of Electronic Legal Knowledge.” The workshop took place at Cornell Law School October 7-10, 2007 and was co-sponsored by the Starr Foundation, New York University Law Library, and Cornell Law Library.

Professor Ndulo addresses the topic of new information technologies and their importance to legal research and teaching.

]]> Muna Ndulo Legal Education Legal Research and Bibliography Demand for Electronic Legal Information at the University of Botswana http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/sws_papers/1 http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/sws_papers/1 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:05:49 PDT The advent of technology has changed the way legal research is conducted. The study looks at the availability of electronic legal information at the University of Botswana, perceptions of the university legal community about such information, challenges affecting access to electronic legal information and recommended solutions to those challenges. The paper also looks at the contribution that the library can make in alleviating the challenges and addressing the different perceptions by the legal community.

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