http://repub.eur.nl/res/aut/3838/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png http://repub.eur.nl http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/8032/ 2006-04-05T00:00:00Z In this paper, a number of EU directives in the field of intellectual property will be discussed. It will be argued that, for example, the harmonisation of the intellectual property rights with respect to ‘chips’, software and databases, as well as the attempt to create a more general harmonisation of copyright, the ‘internet directive’, have led to more problems than were solved by them. Attempts to produce harmonisation in these fields have led to ‘disharmonisation’, while the new social problems arising from globalisation have hardly been dealt with. Although new technology may have caused social problems, international harmonisation of legislation should aim at the differences in national, social and legal approaches to these problems rather than at the technological changes that underlie them. If this would take place, such extensive attempts for harmonisation would most probably not be necessary. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/7335/ 2005-04-06T00:00:00Z This paper focuses on a traditional educational skill, namely the assessment of student work. Whereas ICT has left a considerable mark on, for instance, the administrative support of educational activities and on the use of legal sources, other parts of legal training have seen almost no alterations in the past few decades. One such area is the grading of essay or open question student assignments. The CODAS Text Grader tool, described here, can be used to alleviate the task of marking this type of student work. Teachers still have an essential role with this. What changes is the ‘level’ at which the assessment of the student work takes place: from individual to survey, from marking to ranking. The CODAS software can also be used for a related task: it can assess the assessors. It contains functions to assess – and if necessary correct – the marks for comparable essays awarded by one specific teacher or even by a team of several teachers. Bringing transparency to the process of grading can only be of benefit to the education system. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1516/ 2004-08-24T00:00:00Z Juristen verrichten hun werk in een samenleving die sterk aan veranderingen onderhevig is. Technologie, met name op het gebied van informatieverwerking, speelt bij die veranderingen een belangrijke rol. Er bestaat de laatste jaren veel aandacht voor het omgaan met informatie en kennis. De begrippen informatiemanagement en vooral kennismanagement spelen daarbij een telkens terugkerende rol. Kennis is in veel organisaties van strategisch belang voor de bedrijfsvoering geworden. Daarom kan kennismanagement evenmin als algemeen management decentraal worden uitgevoerd. Een en ander heeft ook voor juristen gevolgen. Zij dienen zich te verdiepen in de grondbeginselen en toepassingen van kennismanagement, maar ook in die van algemeen management. Deze bewering wordt in dit rapport nader onderbouwd aan de hand van een analyse van een aantal maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen. Telkens wordt daarbij het belang voor juristen die werkzaam zijn in verschillende functies aangegeven. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1433/ 1995-11-17T00:00:00Z The research project describes in this thesis is concerned with the quantitative aspects of legal language. Among other things, the accurate description of these aspects is a necessary precondition for the future development of a new generation of legal information systems, such as systems which will make it possible to retrieve data from legal databanks using legal 'concepts'. In order to gain insight into the specific properties of the word use in certain legal texts, these texts have been compared to general text material in the Dutch language. The legal texts concerned are statute law and case law texts. Using these texts, two separate legal corpora have been built for this research project. Alongside these, a corpus with general Dutch texts has been developed to carry out comparison.