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The main services are the Legal Tools Database ('LTD'), [2] the Legal Tools Website, [3] and the Case Matrix. [4] The anthology Active Complementarity: Legal Information Transfer provides comprehensive information about the ICC Legal Tools Project and its open access value-base. [5] The Legal Tools Database is an online database on ...
Computer-assisted legal research (CALR) [1] or computer-based legal research is a mode of legal research that uses databases of court opinions, statutes, court documents, and secondary material. Electronic databases make large bodies of case law easily available.
Legal research is "the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the application and communication of the results of the investigation."
Accurate legal information retrieval is important to provide access to the law to laymen and legal professionals. Its importance has increased because of the vast and quickly increasing amount of legal documents available through electronic means. [2] Legal information retrieval is a part of the growing field of legal informatics.
Wikipedia's coverage of legal topics is relatively underdeveloped, especially compared to coverage of other prominent academic fields. Wikipedia can and should be a valuable knowledge resource for lawyers, law students, and the general public--providing an alternative to legal content that is otherwise locked behind expensive subscriptions.
From the 1970s through to the 1990s there were several academic attempts to formalize legal reasoning, a knowledge representation task. [5]: 1327 The International Conference of Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) has been held since 1987 [5]: 1327 The first commercially available legal AI system was an expert system released in 1988 by the University of Oxford to tell users if a new piece ...
Westlaw is an online legal research service and proprietary database for lawyers and legal professionals available in over 60 countries. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources.
This is a sortable table of documents used in legal proceedings that have cited Wikipedia as a source. This may also include important regulatory or administrative government decisions, as well as landmark decisions in other languages than English.