Resumen de From Key Numbers to Key Words: How Automation Has Transformed the Law

F. Allan Hanson

• The automation of information has far-reaching consequences for the law.

  Print-based research sources foster a view of the law as a separate domain, hierarchically organized under basic principles. In contrast, computerassisted legal research erodes the boundaries that separate law from other domains and conveys an image of the law as a relatively unorganized assortment of facts and doctrines.