Law, Decision-Making, and Microcomputers Cross-National Perspectives

Name: Law, Decision-Making, and Microcomputers Cross-National Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780899305035

ISBN-10: 0899305032

ISBN-13: 9780899305035

Edition: 1991

Authors: Stuart S. Nagel

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The rise of microcomputers and the power that they've brought have revolutionized nearly every professional discipline, not the least of which is the field of law. This work presents a survey of microcomputers and decision-aiding software in law practices and the legal process, offering a variety of perspectives from contributors around the world. The book defines decision-making software as having the ability to aid in the processing of a set of law-related alternatives, relative criteria, or rules for determining which alternative should or will be chosen and the relationship between each alternative and criterion. These basic ideas are applied to the work of various members of the legal…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 2/28/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English



Introduction


Decision-Aiding Software and the Law


The Practicing Lawyer Information Retrieval Research


How It Might Affect the Practicing Lawyer



Expert Systems--Lawyers Beware!



Repercussions of Computer Technology on United States Law and Lawyers



Practical Applications of Document Assembly Systems



Microcomputers, Decision-making and Case Evaluation



The Legal Policymaker and Public Sector Uses


The Growing Role of Computers in American Federal Tax Compliance and Administration



Computerization in the Prosecution Service in Scotland



A Computer System to Assist in Sentencing Convicted Offenders



The Courthouse of the Future



The Legal Scholar and Law Training Courses on Computers and Law in American Law Schools



Using Microcomputers in Case-Method Law Teaching



The LEXICAL System for Computer-Aided Legal Instruction



A Hypertext System for Teaching Legal Research



The Computer in American Legal Education



Cross-Cutting Analyses of the Law Implementation of Expert Systems as an Aid to Legal Decision-Making



Automatic Generation of a Legal Expert System



Thes-Maker: A Tool for Legal Thesaurus Building



The Problem of Finding a Precedent



Computers in Legal Decision-Making



Bibliography


Index