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:The American Library Association defines Informatics as “the study of the Structure and Properties of Information , as well as the application of Technology to the Organization , Storage , Retrieval , and dissemination of information.” Legal informatics therefore, pertains to the application of informatics within the context of the legal environment and as such involves Law -related Organization s (e.g., law offices, Court s, and Law School s) and User s of information and Information Technologies within these organizations.

Legal informatics could be said then, to encompass several conceptual areas:

# Information Retrieval (both manual and automated systems such as Artificial Intelligence )
# Law and Policy (issues such as Privacy , Copyright , and Security )
# Information Access issues (such as making legal and government information more accessible to the public, both physically and intellectually) and
#practice issues (applications which help Lawyer s in their day-to-day operations).


SOURCE


  • Erdelez, S., & O’Hare, S. (1997). Legal informatics: application of information technology in law. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 32, 367-402.