{"title":"The Aesthetics of Legal Research","authors":"Sam Williams","doi":"10.1080/0270319X.2022.2068280","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract American law has long expressed preferences regarding its own presentation. This article explores those aesthetic preferences in the context of legal research tools. This article applies four aesthetics that appear across American law—The Grid, Energy, Perspectivist, and Dissociative Aesthetics—to traditional tools of legal research, which predominately reflect the Grid Aesthetic. Then this article engages in a conceptual evaluation of a new legal research tool within Lexis+, Ravel View, which is an exemplar of the Energy Aesthetic. This analysis explores the assumptions built into the presentation of the law and how to bridge the visual language divide in legal research.","PeriodicalId":39856,"journal":{"name":"Legal Reference Services Quarterly","volume":"41 1","pages":"3 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Legal Reference Services Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0270319X.2022.2068280","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract American law has long expressed preferences regarding its own presentation. This article explores those aesthetic preferences in the context of legal research tools. This article applies four aesthetics that appear across American law—The Grid, Energy, Perspectivist, and Dissociative Aesthetics—to traditional tools of legal research, which predominately reflect the Grid Aesthetic. Then this article engages in a conceptual evaluation of a new legal research tool within Lexis+, Ravel View, which is an exemplar of the Energy Aesthetic. This analysis explores the assumptions built into the presentation of the law and how to bridge the visual language divide in legal research.
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An important forum for daily problems and issues, Legal Reference Services Quarterly will assist you in your day-to-day work as it has been helping other law librarians and members of the legal profession for over a decade. You will find articles that are serious, humorous, critical, or simply helpful to the working librarian. Annotated subject bibliographies, overviews of legal literature, reviews of commonly used tools, and the inclusion of reference problems unique to corporate law libraries, judicial libraries, and academic collections will keep you up-to-date on the continuously expanding volume of legal materials and their use in legal research.
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