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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Law : Law

730-438 Advanced Computer Assisted Legal Research

Note:

This subject has a quota of 48 students.

Credit Points:

10

Coordinator:

Mr R Huttner

Prerequisite/s:

History and Philosophy of Law; Torts and the Process of Law; Contract.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

Two hour seminar

Subject Description:

An introduction to full-text retrieval; the principles and techniques of Boolean searching; examination of the strength and an inherent weaknesses of Boolean searching; freestyle searching; the 'freestyle v. Boolean' debate; the 'precision v. recall' debate; how Computer Assisted Legal Research (CALR) Systems 'think'; the DiskRom CD-ROMs; the Lawpac CD-ROMs; The Wilson Disc Index To Legal Periodicals; Legal Trac; CaseBase; FolioViews; the LBC Complete Legal Research System On CD-ROM; the Butterworths CD-ROMs; a brief examination of Lexis-Nexis; an in-depth examination of the Australasian Legal Information Institute's resources and SINO search engine; a detailed examination of the Internet's vast array of legal resources, including a study of the principal search engines; search strategies; search syntax; anticipating and avoiding syntactical problems; synonyms; truncators; wild cards; annotating, saving and printing search results.

Assessment:

A series of examination (timing: June), totalling 3 1/2 hours overall, to be held in the Computer Laboratory (100%).

Prescribed Texts:

Printed materials will be issued by the Law School.

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