Introduction&Colin Campbell Professor of Jurisprudence, The Queen's University of Belfast 1
Part Ⅰ: Legal Information and Modern Technology 15
The impact of technology on legal information processing and some of the ramifications&Stephen J. Skelly Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa, Canada 17
Legal information services: some trends and characteristics&Jon Bing Norwegian Research Centre on Computers and Law, Norway 29
Beauty and the beast: the lawyer and legal information&Anne Foster Executive Canada Law Books and formerly Director, Computers and Law, Canadian Law Information Council 46
Part Ⅱ: Techniques for Lawyers 71
Speedier processing and escaping from Boolean logic&D. L. Pape Senior Lecturer in Law, Australian National University of Canberra 73
An experiment with citation vectors&Colin Tapper Reader in Law, Magdalen College, Oxford 90
The uses of models in legislative planning&W.R. Svoboda Independent Consultant, Austria 110
Intelligent legal information systems: problems and prospects&L. Thorne McCarty Professor of Law and Computer Science, Rutgeis University 125
Part Ⅲ: The Legal Control of Technology 153
Legislating for data privacy&Sir Norman Lindop Chairman of the Home Office Data Protection Committee, 1976-1978 155
Breach of confidence: proposals for reform&Peter M. North Law Commissioner for England and Wales; Fellow of Keble College, Oxford 171
Copyright protection of computer programs&Bryan Niblett Professor of Computer Science, University of Wales 194
Copyright and micro computers-some current legal problems&Peter Prescott Barrister 209
Towards a unified theory of proprietary protection for digital information systems&James Sprowl Director of Computers and Law, American Bar Foundation 221
Index 243