Functions
1. A SINGLE SEARCH BAR
You do not need to be a computer whizz-kid to carry out effective searches. Our IT specialists have made legal research considerably easier by providing you with a single search bar.
Enter your keywords and the ultra-powerful search engine will search through almost three million documents, and after a few short seconds, will present you with the most relevant results.
Would you like to limit your search to an article of law, an author or even a particular date? You can carry out all these specific searches and many others too.
For the real legal research aficionados amongst you, Strada lex also allows:
- use of Boolean operators (OR, AND NOT etc.)
- searches for exact expressions
- research truncation
- combinations of groups of words
- the use of proximity operators
Singular/plural and male/female forms, synonyms -as well as conjugated-and inflected-forms - are all automatically searched for you !
2. INTEGRATED "CROSS-LANGUAGE"
Do you need to obtain comprehensive results, particularly in languages other than your own, without having to immerse yourself in dictionaries?
Strada lex is the only tool that enables this. With a simple click, you can ask the search engine to expand a query in French to include Dutch and/or English.
A real technological feat, Strada lex is equipped with a built-in translator that does all the hard work for you. This means that you can be sure that you are browsing and searching in all source documents, regardless of the language they were written in!
3. RELATED CONCEPTS
Are you not sure where to start your research? Is it sometimes the case that you cannot find the appropriate legal terms to enable you to carry out your legal research efficiently?
With Strada lex, lack of inspiration no longer hinders effective legal research.
Your queries are analysed in-depth via the associated concepts technique. When you carry out a search, Strada lex will suggest a few concepts related to the desired search words. You will therefore have the option to make your queries more precise by adding concepts to your original search.
By offering you the option to refine your search fields in a relevant manner, Strada lex saves you a huge amount of time!
4. SORTED AND FILTERED RESULTS
Are you looking for a way to save time by not having to wade through hundreds of results? Perhaps you are only interested in the most relevant results? Do you only want to obtain results from legislation case law or from legal doctrine? Or perhaps you are only interested in results from your favourite journal? Perhaps you only need the most recent results?
The filters available in Strada lex help you meet all these requirements - and many others too. The filters will help you get hold of all the essentials with a minimum of clicks.
With a mere click, lists of results can be sorted on the basis of a document‘s language, its source (legislation, legal doctrine, case law), the nature of the text (journals, Codes, etc.), by a specific period of time, etc.
To save you even more time, the results will be automatically sorted by relevance. So the documents of most interest to you will be listed first. Perhaps you only want to consult the most recent results? A single click allows you to sort all of the results in chronological order.
5. INTUITIVE AND CUSTOMISABLE INTERFACE
Do you need to take in all the essential points at a glance? Does having to click dozens of links and buttons all over your screen put you off? Would you like to save all your searches and documents? Do you enjoy being able to compose your own lists of results? Do you want to keep informed of new developments in the search areas of your choice by e-mail?
Then look no further, because Strada lex does all of this for you.
Your searches and the analysis of the results you retrieve have been made considerably easier. Icons allow you to see the nature of each document instantly. You can easily differentiate between case law, legislation and legal doctrine. A quick view underneath each document allows you to locate search words in their context. Documents that you have already looked at are shown in a different colour, etc.
You can also create your own personal library (MyStrada), where you can store all your searches and documents.
Do you want to be kept up to date with all the news on the specific topics that you have defined? Do you want to receive all of this in an e-mail, without having to be connected to Strada lex? A customisable system of daily legal monitoring allows you to do this with a single click.