JUTLISREG – Legal Information Systems and Regulatory Management
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
Note: This course will be given a new code from spring semester 2006, and you will find all relevant information JUR5610 – Legal Information Systems and Regulatory Management (discontinued)
Legal information systems facilitate the access to legal sources like regulations and case law. They include traditional systems like indexes, but the course concentrates on computerised systems, especially text retrieval systems. The basic principles for the construction of such systems are discussed, as well as search strategies, including ranking with respect to probable “relevance”. Also, the history and current state of computerised systems are discussed. The course will also present a theory for the analysis of the end user environment and the factors determining the availability of information. The course will also give an introduction to legal sources on the Web, including the initiative of Legal Information Institutes.
Knowledge based methods for text retrieval (conceptual retrieval) will briefly be examined. This will be a basis for approaching regulatory management, which is concerned with maintaining a large volume of regulations, such as principles for amendment, consolidation etc, and reviews methods in which computerised methods may be used to improve regulatory management.
Learning outcome
You will learn how text retrieval systems are designed, and how to generally assess the performance of information systems. In this, you will also learn of the nature of natural language, and approaches to retrieve documents in natural language. The aim of the course is to give a general understanding of information systems, and the methods for making legal sources accessible. Information systems are related both to the legal decisions process and the ideals of the legal system, like the rule of law.
Admission
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Prerequisites
Recommended previous knowledge
3 years of law studies.
Teaching
Lectures
Examination
6-hours written exam
Resit an examination
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Resitting an examination.
- There are special rules for resitting a passed examination in the master's programme in Law.
Withdrawal from an examination
It is possible to take this exam up to 3 times. If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.
There are special rules for resitting a passed examination in the master's programme in Law.