Category «Features»

Features – Evaluating Foreign and International Legal Databases on the Internet

Evaluating Foreign and International Legal Databases on the Internet By Mirela Roznovschi

Mirela Roznovschi is the Reference Librarian for International and Foreign Law at New York University School of Law Library. She holds a M.A. from the University of Bucharest (Romania), a M.L.S. from Pratt Institute, and a Certificate in Internet Technologies from New York University. Her activities include monitoring and evaluating foreign and international legal databases on the Internet, training law faculty and students to use the Internet for legal research, advising developing democracies on the building of electronic law libraries, and training librarians from developing democracies. She is in charge of the library’s home page, Guide to International and Foreign Law Databases. She also serves as a member of the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Advisory Committee.

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Subjects: Features, International Legal Research

Features – A Defense of Publishing Legal Material on the Internet

A Defense of Publishing Legal Material on the Internet By John P. Joergensen, Rutgers University Law Library – Camden, NJ

John P. Joergensen is a reference librarian at Rutgers University School of Law Camden. He works on the Rutgers N.J. Courts Publishing Project, which publishes the decisions of the N.J. appellate courts, tax court, administrative law decisions, and the U.S. District Court for N.J. Prior to coming to Rutgers, he practiced law in Philadelphia, PA.

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Subjects: Court Resources, Features, Internet Resources

Features – Internet Usage Policies in the Workplace

Internet Usage Policies in the Workplace, Part I By Todd Wulffson

Todd Wulffson has practiced labor and employment law exclusively since 1990. He is a member of the law firm of Scott, Reilly & Whitehead , which represents employers in all manner of labor and employment law. The firm is located near the John Wayne Airport in Newport Beach. Prior to joining Scott, Reilly & Whitehead, Mr. Wulffson practiced in the Labor and Employment Law Department at O’Melveny & Myers’ Newport Beach office. Mr. Wulffson attended UCLA for his undergraduate studies, and then Loyola Law School where he was an editor on the law review.

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Subjects: Features, Internet Use Policies

Features – Legal Technology Predictions for 1999: What To Expect On The Internet

Legal Technology Predictions for 1999 What To Expect On The Internet By Jerry Lawson

Jerry Lawson is the author of The Complete Internet Handbook for Lawyers , due from the American Bar Association in January 1999. He is also the designer of the Internet Tools for Attorneys Web site. He compiled the Annotated Bibliography of Internet Legal Research Books for LLRX and writes “LLRX is one of the classiest Internet sites around, and I am always pleased to have something I wrote published there.”

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Subjects: Features, Legal Technology

Features – Guide to International Trade Resources on the Internet

Guide to International Trade Law Sources on the Internet By Marci Hoffman Editor’s Note: Please refer to the updated version of this article at //www.llrx.com/features/trade3.htm. You will be automatically redirected to that page shortly.

Marci Hoffman , is the Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian at the University of Minnesota Law Library. In addition to her reference and research expertise, Marci also teaches a seminar on foreign and international legal research. She often lectures on international and foreign legal research and Anglo-American legal research; is one of the Faculty Advisors for the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade; and works closely with the students on International Moot Court. Marci is the author of an extensive Bibliography for Research on International Human Rights Law, 6 Minn. J. Global Trade 200 (1996), along with Prof. David Weissbrodt. Marci and Prof. Weissbrodt also designed and maintain the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library on the Web. She is also the editor and an author of the ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law.

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Subjects: Features, Trade Law

Features – Electronic Commerce and Law on the Internet

Electronic Commerce and Law on the Internet By Bradley J. Hillis, M.A., J.D.

Bradley J. Hillis is a member of the Bar of State of Washington and the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, author of several articles, including: “Considerations When Placing Court Opinions on the Internet,” “Internet Multimedia and Domestic Violence Prevention,” and “Internet Experiments in Electronic Court Filing.” Mr. Hillis graduated from Colorado College and holds Juris Doctor and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Washington.

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Subjects: Cyberlaw, E-Commerce, Features

Features – A Selected Review of Web Utilities for Browsing, Monitoring, Collecting and Printing Web Sites

A Selected Review of Web Utilities for Browsing, Monitoring, Collecting and Printing Web Sites By Roger Vicarius Skalbeck

Roger Vicarius Skalbeck is the Library Systems Specialist at the Washington, D.C. firm of Williams and Connolly, and is the Assistant Chair for the Web Committee of the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C. Current work activities include efforts to develop creative solutions to technology based legal research problems, from a librarian’s point of view.

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Subjects: Features, Product Reviews, Web Utilities
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