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Dissents from the Bench – More from the New York Times
In today’s New York Times, Adam Liptak writes about dissents from the bench. “In a Polarized Court, Getting the Last Word,” Liptak describes a new study that is soon to appear in the Justice System...
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Judge says: Keep this opinion out of Westlaw and LEXIS
Judges make decisions and write opinions. Some opinions get published and some do not. Unpublished opinions get unofficially published in West’s Federal Appendix and very often show up online. And...
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Why Ask Why West
I just received a brochure from Lexis for its set of California Reports, and I intend to share it with our advanced legal research class. From the blurb: As the official publisher of the California...
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Keeping up with the federal courts with CourtListener
The CourtListener.com From the website: The goal of the site is to create a free and competitive real time alert tool for the U.S. judicial system. At present, the site has daily information regarding...
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“Abandoning Law Reports for Official Digital Case Law”
“Abandoning Law Reports for Official Digital Case Law” Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-01 PETER W. MARTIN, Cornell Law School In 2009, Arkansas ended publication of the Arkansas Reports....
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Legal Research Methods in a Modern World: A Coursebook
Together with my Stanford Law School colleague George D. Wilson and our friend and Danish legal scholar Henrik Spang-Hanssen, we have just published the third edition of our legal research book, a...
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The Existential Exercise of Finding State Court Materials Online
Recently, we’ve had the opportunity to explore the online availability of state superior court filings, both through commercial retrieval services (such as Lexis’ CourtLink or Westlaw’s CourtExpress),...
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The superhero approach to legal research
We haven’t asked our students to buy a textbook in advanced legal research for a long time. The existing books are just too darn expensive. But a new book crossed my desk today that looks...
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Publishing cases the New York Law Journal way
I start my day reading newspapers, and I especially enjoy the obituaries. Today’s New York Times includes an obituary for Jerry Finkelstein, publisher of the New York Law Journal, and the obit...
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Free Law Project from CourtListener
We here at Stanford are big fans of CourtListener. We use it to, among other things, identify recent cases that cite our faculty; those alerts come to us faster than those from some other services....
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WeCite Project’s win-win opportunities
Analyzing how a given opinion has been impacted by subsequent decisions is an essential part of legal research. Consequently, the work of the Free Law movement cannot stop with making opinions freely...
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