John Doe Subpoenas: Toward a Consistent Legal Standard

Searching For John Doe: Finding Spammers and Phishers

Microsoft has prosecuted a vigorous civil enforcement campaign against spammers and phishers. When initial investigation into a spam or phishing case fails to reveal the identity of the person(s) responsible, filing a “John Doe” lawsuit and following up with thorough third-party discovery has been an effective strategy to unmask the perpetrator.

The legal response to Babies Doe: an analytical prognosis.

Proposal for a Dutch Legal XML Standard

This paper presents a proposal for an XML Standard for legal sources in the Netherlands. The standard intends to provide a generic and easily extensible framework for the XML encoding of the structure and contents of legal and paralegal documents. It differs from other existing metadata schemes for legal documents in two respects; It is languageindependent and it aims to accommodate uses of XML...

Toward a new language of legal drafting

Lawyers should write in document markup language just like web developers, digital publishers, scientists, and almost everyone else.

Toward a Cross-Framework Parser Annotation Standard

Efficient and precise comparison of parser results across frameworks will require a negotiated agreement on a target representation which embodies a good balance of three competing dimensions: consistency, clarity, and flexibility. The various annotations provided in the COLING-08 shared task for the ten ’required’ Wall Street Journal sentences can serve as a useful basis for these negotations....