Daniel Le Métayer of INRIA Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes, and colleagues, have published Liability Issues in Software Engineering: The Use of Formal Methods to Reduce Legal Uncertainties, Communications of the ACM, 54(4), 99-106 (April 2010). Here is the abstract: This paper reports on the results of a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with theRead… Read more »
A call for papers — with submission deadlines of 1 April 2011 for research papers, and 22 April 2011 for position papers — has been issued for DESI IV: Workshop on Setting Standards for Searching Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Proceedings, to be held 6 June 2011, at The University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,Read… Read more »
The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated. The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, or that are known to welcome papers on legal information systems. Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar. If you know of events or other information that should beRead… Read more »
Dr. Sushant Sinha of Yahoo! India has posted Indian Kanoon: The Genesis and the Legal Thirst, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Dr. Sinha describes the origins and development of Indian Kanoon, the free legal search engine for India, for which Dr. SinhaRead… Read more »
Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall of the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy discusses eVoting technology, with Jerry Brito on this week’s Surprisingly Free podcast. Dr. Hall also has published a new post about eVoting in union elections, at Princeton CITP’s Freedom to Tinker blog.
Dr. Sushant Sinha, creator of the free access to law service IndianKanoon, has been honored as one of India’s 18 top innovators, by MIT’s Technology Review, according to a post at rediff.com. Click here, then click to slide number 18, to see the article. The article states: [Indian Kanoon] has been designed to provide theRead… Read more »
Professor Travis D. Breaux of the Carnegie Mellon University Institute for Software Research and David G. Gordon of the Carnegie Mellon University Department of Engineering and Public Policy have posted Regulatory Requirements as Open Systems: Structures, Patterns and Metrics for the Design of Formal Requirements Specifications (2010), CMU-ISR-11-100. Here is the abstract: Increasingly, information systemsRead… Read more »
On 9 March 2011, The Legal Information Institute of India (LIIofIndia) officially launches in Delhi, India. According to the LII of India Website, subsequent launches are scheduled to occur “in Hyderabad on 11 March, Bangalore on 23 March, and Kolkota on 8 April.” Professor Dr. V.C. Vivekanandan of Nalsar Law University is Director of LIIRead… Read more »
The drafting of a new Massachusetts bill concerning net neutrality will be crowdsourced on the LexPop.org Website, according to a March 6, 2011 post on the LexPop blog, entitled “Co-Creation of Laws: It Starts Now”. According to the post, Massachusetts State Representative Tom Sannicandro has agreed to introduce the bill once it has been drafted.Read… Read more »
Professor Dr. Vytautas Čyras of the Vilnius University Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics has posted On a Legal Framework in a Virtual World: Lessons from the VirtualLife Project, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Professor Čyras describes the regulatory infrastructure of VirtualLife, theRead… Read more »