Legal Research Techniques . Advanced research concepts and methods as they apply to federal and state legislative history, administrative research, litigation tools, loose-leaf services, and other secondary source materials. Seminars Law of Electronic Commerce . Prof. Froomkin . A survey of the legal issues related to the growth of interlinked computer networks and bulletin boards, with a focus on electronic commerce over Internet.
Some legal documents are now, for many purposes, unreadable.
Only a few persons claim to have read and remembered the entirety of the Internal Revenue Code, congressional Statutes at Large for 1981, or the Code of Federal Regulations as such. Instead, for the most part, we divide large legal texts into parts, and read what we can, and assume we have missed nothing important. We can program computers to do this reading. This seminar is a series of experiments. It begins by looking closely at the computerized reading law students already program - Westlaw and Lexis searches.