Legal Research

Law Via The Internet - 9th International Conference

By Simon Fodden

The ninth International Conference on Law Via the Internet will be held this year in Florence, on October 30 and 31, and is to be hosted by the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council. The topics to be discussed are as follows:

* Free access to law: the situation in different geographic areas
* Legal aspects concerning management, creation and filing of digital information
* Legal blogs and wikis
* Open legal archives
* Quality of legal information available on the web
* Right to legal information as a fundamental right
* Semantic tools for the access to legal information
* Information technology used in the process of creating rules
* Open source in the field of law
* Computerization of justice
* Recent developments and trends in online legislation, case law and doctrine
* Development of open technical standards

You can obtain a list of speakers and all the necessary information about registration from the conference website.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on July 21, 2008 (boomark / email).