Search results for: “law journals and law reviews”
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Formal Legal Reasoning
Formal Legal Reasoning Formalism about Legal Reasoning According to Philpapers, “Formalism about Legal Reasoning” refers to the use of (often logic-based) formalisms to shed light on legal reasoning. “Formal Models of Legal Reasoning,” in contrast refers to the use of such formalisms to model actual legal reasoning. Some works fit into both categories. The former…
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Basic Patent
Basic Patent in E.U. Patent SystemThe first member of a Derwent patent family. This may or may not be the first published patent (which is usually the first to be documented by services such as Derwent World Patents Index).
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Legal Citation
Legal citations are the references in the text or in footnotes to the primary source of the rule being used, the source of proof or authority. In the United States In the United States, if you are searching for a legal citation you must use the precise […]
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Scholarly Journal
ResourcesSee Also see Journal
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Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace Bibliographic Details Title: The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Copyright: 2010 Description: Four-volume set Author: Nigel Young (Editor) Publication Date: February 18, 2010 SBN-10: 019533468X ISBN-13: 978-0195334685 Pages: 2848 Language: English The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace Review Kenneth Boulding, one of the founders…
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Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz Life of Aaron Swartz Aaron Swartz “helped develop the RSS syndication format used for Web-based news feeds, the social news site Reddit and the Creative Commons codes now used to help promote the online sharing of Web content. Politically, he was well known for his role in founding the group Demand Progress, one…
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Treaties Resources
Treaties Resources Note: see also Treaties in this Legal Encyclopedia. Finding Treaties Since there exists no complete collection of treaties in print or online, you must often conduct your research with a certain amount of creativity and perseverance, specially if you do not have a treaty citation. It is important to note that treaties may…
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The Year Books
The Year Books, precursors of Law Reports The Year Books were the law reports of medieval England. They are the principal source materials for the development of legal doctrines in the English courts from the late 13th century (earliest examples date from about 1268) to 1535 (the last in the printed series). Many (more than…
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History of Citation Indexing
History of Citation Indexing Legal Citation indexing originated with a table of cases that Joseph Story began in 1743. For centuries, the history of Legal Citation indexes wes related to the history of print law reports. The founder of modern citation indexing and citation analysis is Dr. Eugene Gartfield. He was the founder of ISI®…
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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida was born to a Sephardic Jewish family near Algiers in 1930 (and died on October 9, 2004), in what was then French Algeria. After World War II, Dorrida moved to France, where in 1950 he failed the entrance examination at the Ecole normale supérieure. Only in 1956 did he finally qualify.…
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Cataloging for legal materials
Cataloging of law materials Most libraries use LC (Library of Congress) or DDC ( Dewey Decimal Classification ). Some law libraries use other classifications in conjunction with these. Like a library serving a medical school may not use LCC’s R (Medicine) but rather NLM’s (National Library of Medicine) W and late Qs, legal Canadian libraries…
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Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts Index Database details: San Diego, CA: Sociological Abstracts, Inc., 1957-. Six times per year. Sociological Abstracts Review According to “Introduction to Research in International Law, Research Guide” (see Further Reading), this database is international in scope, and it “indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences…
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Legal Resources Index
Legal Resources Index The Legal Resources Index is an online version of the print Current Law Index and the CD-ROM called LegalTrac. At the end of the 80’s, this law index was the second-generation index produced by Information Access Company, the publisher of Current Law Index. The Legal Resources Index is available on both Lexis…
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Indexes to Legal Periodicals
Indexes to Legal Periodicals There are several ways to find articles in legal periodicals. In several countries, there are periodicals or paper indexes, like the ones listed in this entry. There are (in some cases, there were) other indexes (like Abstracts of Book Reviews in Current Legal Periodicals, or Legal Contents). And there are legal…