Authority Without Borders: The World Wide Web and the Delegalization of Law

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dc.creatorMargolis, Ellie
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-29T19:32:30Z
dc.date.available2021-07-29T19:32:30Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractWe live in an information age, with massive amounts of information available at our fingertips, thanks to the internet. The last few generations of law students and lawyers, as well as the future generations – the digital natives – have shifted almost entirely to conducting legal research online. This shift to online research has led to a blurring of the once clear delineation between legal and nonlegal materials, and contributed to a broadening of the types of sources used as authority in support of legal analysis. This article will show that the traditional ways of defining legal authority are rooted in a print-based system that no longer exists, and that in the world of online research, it is all too easy to lose track of where a source comes from. The combination of accessibility of information and electronic means of retrieval is erasing the once clear line between the distinct domain of law and the broader world of information. This blurring of the line is reinforced by courts, which are increasingly citing to online, nonlegal sources in support of legal reasoning in judicial opinions. The article documents the ways in which traditional means of identifying authority no longer exist, and calls for a new vocabulary for defining authority that reflects the world that exists today.
dc.description.schoolcollegeTemple University. James E. Beasley School of Law
dc.format.extent37 pages
dc.identifier.citationEllie Margolis, Authority Without Borders: The World Wide Web and the Delegalization of Law, 41 SETON HALL L. REV. 909 (2011).
dc.identifier.citationAvailable at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/shlr/vol41/iss3/3/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/6778
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/6760
dc.relation.haspartSeton Hall Law Review, Vol. 41, Iss. 3
dc.relation.ispartofFaculty/ Researcher Works
dc.relation.isreferencedbySeton Hall Law
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dc.subjectJurisprudence
dc.subjectLegal research
dc.subjectTechnology
dc.subjectLegal writing
dc.temple.creatorMargolis, Ellie
dc.titleAuthority Without Borders: The World Wide Web and the Delegalization of Law
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dc.type.genreJournal article
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