Case law as a source of information in an international scale

Zarębska, Honorata Case law as a source of information in an international scale., 2013 . In 4th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, Limerick, Ireland, 22-25 May 2012. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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English abstract

Case law research is a part of legal research, the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision -making. Nowadays it refers to work in an electronic environment and in use of specialized databases. They can be used by anyone with a need for legal information - lawyers, law librarians and common citizens. Case law research depends on country and its legal culture. There are apparent differences in retrieving information in civil law system and common law system. These differences relate to used information retrieval solutions and kind of collected information resources.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: case law, legal research, legal information, information science, information system, information retrieval, judiciary, common law, civil law
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AC. Relationship of LIS with other fields .
Depositing user: Honorata Zarębska
Date deposited: 31 Dec 2013 15:44
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:29
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/21045

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