Jun
9
Supreme Court Justices: Addicted to Google - Brainiac
“Everyone knows that Google is changing the way college kids write their term papers. What’s less obvious is that it’s also changing the way that judges write their opinions — even America’s most august judges, those on the Supreme Court. In an absolutely fascinating article in the Virginia Law Review, ‘Confronting Supreme Court Fact Finding,’ Allison Orr Larsen, a law professor at William & Mary, shows just how prevalent online research is at the Supreme Court. ‘In-house research,’ she argues, much of it done online, is changing the way America’s highest court works. At first blush, it seems like a good thing for judges to search out the facts on their own. But the change, Larsen argues, is not for the better.”
(via Library Stuff)
