JUR5610 – Legal Information Systems and Regulatory Management
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
New course codes starting from the fallsemester 2011 - please see the websites for JUS5610 – Legal Information Systems and Regulatory Management (discontinued) (the course now gives 10 credits).
Legal information systems facilitate the access to legal sources like regulations and case law. They include traditional systems like indexes, but the course concentrates on computerised systems, especially text retrieval systems. The basic principles for the construction of such systems are discussed, as well as search strategies, including ranking with respect to probable “relevance”. Also, the history and current state of computerised systems are discussed. The course will also present a theory for the analysis of the end user environment and the factors determining the availability of information. The course will also give an introduction to legal sources on the Web, including the initiative of Legal Information Institutes.
Knowledge based methods for text retrieval (conceptual retrieval) will briefly be examined. This will be a basis for approaching regulatory management, which is concerned with maintaining a large volume of regulations, such as principles for amendment, consolidation etc, and reviews methods in which computerised methods may be used to improve regulatory management.
Learning outcome
You will learn how text retrieval systems are designed, and how to generally assess the performance of information systems. In this, you will also learn of the nature of natural language, and approaches to retrieve documents in natural language. The aim of the course is to give a general understanding of information systems, and the methods for making legal sources accessible. Information systems are related both to the legal decisions process and the ideals of the legal system, like the rule of law.
See also ‘Detailed course information’ regarding requirements and syllabus.
Admission
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams
they wish to sign up for by registering a study plan in StudentWeb.
You may register for this course if you have admission to a Master of Law-programme at UiO, the faculty's exchange-programme or have admission to Law-electives at masters-level. All applicants must fill the formal prerequisites.
International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants
Prerequisites
Formal prerequisite knowledge
- Admission to the faculty’s exchange-programme or
- Active study-right for a study programme, masters-level at the University of Oslo or
- Norwegian Masters of Laws degree or equivalent or
- Passed forth year, 96 – Cand. Jur programme (or exams that are equivalent) or
- Passed JUR3000, Masters of Laws programme at the University of Oslo (or exams that are equivalent).
Recommended previous knowledge
Three years of law studies.
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with JUR1610 – Legal Information Systems and Regulatory Management (BA) (discontinued)
- 15 credits overlap with VALLISREG – Legal information systems and regulatory management (discontinued)
- 15 credits overlap with JUXLISREG – Legal Information Systems and Regulatory Management (discontinued)
- 15 credits overlap with JUTLISREG – Legal Information Systems and Regulatory Management (discontinued)
Teaching
There are no lectures or seminars held for the subject.
Examination
4 hour written examination.
Examination support material
Auxiliary materials allowed during examinations for courses taught in English.
Language of examination
Students may answer the examination question in English, Norwegian, Swedish or Danish pursuant
to Regulations governing studies and examinations at the University of Oslo. (§ 5.4 Forskrift om studier og eksamener ved Universitetet i Oslo)
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Explanations and appeals
Resit an examination
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Resitting an examination.
- There are special rules for resitting a passed examination in the master's programme in Law.
Withdrawal from an examination
It is possible to take this exam up to 3 times. If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.
There are special rules for resitting a passed examination in the master's programme in Law.
Special examination arrangements
Application form, deadline and requirements for special examination arrangements.
Please se Detailed regulations for the Faculty of Law, Chapter 3 regarding application, responsibilities and special measures.
Evaluation
The course is subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students to participate in a more comprehensive evaluation.
Other
This subject is taught at Master 's level. The subject is also taught at Bachelor's level (15 ECTS credits), see JUR1610 – Legal Information Systems and Regulatory Management (BA) (discontinued). Please see the chapter above, regarding overlap. For instances of overlap, credits will be deducted on the subject at Bachelors's level.