The First National Law and Electronics Conference

Abstract

The relations among legal practice and research, linguistics, logic, and electronic data retrieval were explored at last Fall's first National Conference on Law and Electronics, whose proceedings are summarized below. Included as general topics were “Electronics and the Administration of Justice,” “The Language of the Machine and the Language of the Law,” “Logic and Law,” and “The Element of Predictability in Judicial Decision Making.” Mr. Chasalow, a student at the UCLA School of Law, published a prior version of this article in the California State Bar Journal , Nov.-Dec. 1960.