The following legal informatics papers were presented at ECEG 2011: The 11th European Conference on eGovernment, held 16-17 June 2011, at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Administration, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (If you know of other legal informatics papers presented at the conference, please feel free to identify them in the comments; click here forRead… Read more »
Sean Martin McDonald, Esq., of Frontline SMS and Frontline SMS: Legal, has published The Case for mLegal, Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, 6(1), 41-62 (2011), doi: 10.1162/INOV_a_00057. (Click here for an open access version of the article.) Here is a summary: While there are a number of obstacles [facing citizens of developing countries] to accessing legalRead… Read more »
Full text of debates of the Lok Sabha — the lower house of the Parliament of India — from 1998 to present, are now available free of charge on Indian Kanoon, Dr. Sushant Sinha‘s free access to law service for India. Lok Sabha debates on Indian Kanoon can be retrieved along with the texts ofRead… Read more »
Teresa M. Miguel, Esq., of Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library has posted The Digital Legal Landscape in South America: Government Transparency and Access to Information, on SSRN, in Legal Information and Technology eJournal. Here is the abstract: The governments of ten South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay,Read… Read more »
UniversalCitation.org is a new, U.S.-based effort to urge governments to adopt non-proprietary legal citation standards, and to create new technologies that process and output non-proprietary legal citation information. According to the project’s Website, the organizers of this effort are Tom Bruce of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School — and a memberRead… 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. The calendar includes the major scholarly e-Government conferences. Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar. If you knowRead… Read more »
Timothy B. Lee of the Princeton University Department of Computer Science and Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) has posted What Gets Redacted in Pacer?, on the CITP’s blog, Freedom to Tinker. In this post, Mr. Lee reports on research respecting documents from the U.S. federal courts’ PACER database. Using customized software, Mr. Lee —Read… Read more »
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 5 September 2011 — has been issued for JURIX 2011: The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, to be held 14-16 December 2011 at the University of Vienna, in Vienna, Austria. Papers are invited on the following topics: Support for lawyers, in legalRead… Read more »
Tom Bruce, co-founder and director of the Legal Information Institute — and a member of our community — testified on 16 June 2011 before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on House Administration of the U.S. House of Representatives. In his testimony, Tom called for the House to adopt an XML-based, point-in-time approach toRead… Read more »
Legal Information Institute Director Tom Bruce‘s and my new paper, entitled Examples of Specialized Legal Metadata Adapted to the Digital Environment, from the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (click here for slides) was presented on June 14, 2011, at dg.o 2011: The 12th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, at the University of Maryland,Read… Read more »