Legal Research and the World of Thinkable Thoughts

It is difficult to properly describe technology’s impact on legal information. The impact created a generational gap between those who learned their research skills before the change and current students. The habits of the new generation of legal researchers point toward a change in the way that we can think about the law

Collapse of the Structure of the Legal Research Universe: The Imperative of Digital Information

Legal research, in particular the way in which law schools provide legal research training to first-year law students, is the mom and apple pie issue of legal education. Everyone is willing to criticize the lack of it, praise the importance of it, or discuss the reasons it has not been done so well. After all, the whole corpus of legal education is constructed around Dean Langdell\u27s theory that the law library, the place where the law student conducts research, is the laboratory of the law, and the process of legal research has been intertwined with the process of legal reasoning that is still the core of legal pedagogy. This is to say nothing of the popular perception that lawyers know how to find the law. While most people realize that no lawyer can hold all necessary legal doctrine inside of her brain, people assume, and expect, that lawyers know how to find the relevant law

Legal Research and the World of Thinkable Thoughts

It is difficult to properly describe technology’s impact on legal information. The impact created a generational gap between those who learned their research skills before the change and current students. The habits of the new generation of legal researchers point toward a change in the way that we can think about the law

A Review of Contract Law in the United States: Reading Margaret Radin’s - Boilerplate

The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law, Princeton University Press, 2012; Pp.360; ISBN: 9780691155333 (Hardcover) ISBN: 9781400844838 (eBook

Chinese Law, Trade and the New Century

China crammed a great deal of political activity into the 20th Century. In the year 1900 the Q\u27ing Dynasty still ruled the remnants of an ancient empire. The Q\u27ing conspired with rebels in the Boxer Rebellion in the hopes of expelling all foreigners from Chinese soil and returning to splendid isolation. In the year 2000 China is a superpower balancing communist theory and a capitalist market that is about to join the World Trade Organization. The intervening years saw warlords, democrats, fascists, Marxists and all stripes of communists leading the world\u27s largest nation. As China enters the new millennium of the Western calendar, it behooves us to reflect on how we perceive China as participant in the world trading community. In part this will call for an assessment of China as a legal entity. What can we expect from this nation that has proven so volatile in recent decades? Are the fireworks over, or are we just at a pausing point? This essay will approach these questions by looking at the roots of Chinese legality