Two Legal Citation Guides

LEXA: Towards Automatic Legal Citation Classification

In this paper we present our approach towards legal citation classification using incremental knowledge acquisition. This forms a part of our more ambitious goal of automatic legal text summarization. We created a large training and test corpus from court decision reports in Australia. We showed that, within less than a week, it is possible to develop a good quality knowledge base which conside...

Subject Guides: Two Different Libraries, Two Different Approaches

The libraries at both Wichita State University and Butler Community College recently implemented new content management systems to create and manage library subject guides. These systems allow library staff to create online resources for instruction and library information quickly, and with no coding knowledge required. Both libraries chose a different option from many content management system...

Two Interesting Medico-Legal Cases

From a number of medico-legal cases, which have come under my notice during the sixteen months I have been acting as Civil Surgeon of Murshidabad, I have selected two as of interest and worthy of permanent record. (a) False charge of clacoity with self-inflicted injuries.?On the morning of August 22nd, 1898, one Jifcan Ali Mir sent his nephew to report to the Police that a dacoity had been comm...

One Country, Two Legal Systems?

From May 31 to June 13, 1999, the Joseph R. Crowley Program in International Human Rights (or “delegation”) conducted a mission in Hong Kong in conjunction with the Committee on International Human Rights of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (‘Association‘ or ‘ABCNY ‘). The purpose of the mission was to examine the status of the rule of law in Hong Kong two years after the tran...

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