Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall of the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy has posted Electronic Voting and Direct Democracy, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In his post, Dr. Hall describes the shortcomings of current electronic voting and InternetRead… Read more »
A call for proposals — with submission deadline of 1 September 2010 — has been issued for Civil Justice Action Grants, with the designation JLS/2010/JCIV/AG, by the EU Directorate General for Justice, Freedom, and Security. Applications are invited respecting the areas of e-Justice or the training of legal practitioners. For more information, please see theRead… Read more »
A call for papers has been issued for ICAIL 2011: The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, to be held 6-10 June 2011 at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The conference is organized by IAAIL: The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law. A mentoring program isRead… Read more »
Professor Sheryl Jackson of the Queensland University of Technology School of Law has published Court-Provided Trial Technology: Efficiency and Fairness for Criminal Trials, 39 Common Law World Review 219-249 (2010) (Issue No. 3). Here is the abstract: In Australia, trials conducted as ‘electronic trials’ have ordinarily run with the assistance of commercial service providers, withRead… Read more »
Free online access to U.S. federal legal information has been recommended in the National Broadband Plan released by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on March 16, 2010. The Plan’s recommendation 15.1 seems consistent with the principles of the Law.gov legal open government data movement: Recommendation 15.1: The primary legal documents of the federal government shouldRead… Read more »
Harlan Yu of the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) has posted Assessing PACER’s Access Barriers, on the CITP blog Freedom to Tinker. Mr. Yu’s post assesses the preliminary report of a study of PACER by the U.S. federal courts, and described in the new issue of Third Branch. While that report indicatesRead… Read more »
Mike Wash, CIO of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), has been honored as “Federal Player of the Week” by The Washington Post and The Partnership for Public Service, with a profile story in The Washington Post. The article focuses on Mr. Wash’s innovative development of GPO’s FDsys content management system, and his commitment toRead… Read more »
Daniel Schuman of The Sunlight Foundation — and a member of our community — has posted Money in State Judicial Elections, on The Sunlight Foundation Blog. Mr. Schuman’s post discusses two new information resources that make interesting use of law-related data: The New Politics of Judicial Elections, 2000-2009: Decade of Change, a new report byRead… Read more »
John Sheridan, Head of e-Services and Strategy at The [UK] National Archives — and a member of our community — has posted Legislation.gov.uk, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In his post, Mr. Sheridan describes the origins and functionality of Legislation.gov.uk, the innovative new official legislativeRead… Read more »
My new post on Slaw is entitled What Do Citizen Lawmakers Need to Know? The post explores the information needs of nonlawyer citizens who are engaged in online lawmaking, in contexts such as eRulemaking, eConsultation respecting proposed legislation or regulations, or legislative or constitutional referenda. The post is an initial attempt at addressing the question:Read… Read more »