Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

7-5-2012

SSRN Discipline

Economics Research Network; Legal Scholarship Network; InfoSciRN Subject Matter eJournals; Information & Library Science Research Network; Law & Society eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Political Science Network

Abstract

Commercial indexing tools used in legal and bibliographic research ease the job of the scholar or lawyer but confine thought and discovery to predetermined channels making it difficult to hit upon truly novel legal ideas or theories The structure of legal research tools then exercises a powerful homeostatic force toward the current order rendering reform difficult even to imagine

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