Law via the Internet Conference

A summary of the most recent "Law via the Internet" Conference, the annual meeting of legal information institutes and the "free access to law" movement, is now available on the VoxPopuLII blog.

Conference panel topics included:

• The Right to Access Legal Information

• Free Access to Law: Information Systems and Institutions in Europe

• A Legal Framework for Open Access to Legal Information

• The Global Scope of Free Access to Law

• Information and Communication Technologies and the Quality of Legal Information

• Strategic Solutions and Sustainability Models for the Diffusion and Sharing of Legal Knowledge

The summary is by Dr. Enrico Francesconi and Dr. Ginevra Peruginelli, both well-known legal informatics scholars at the Institute of Legal Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council (ITTIG-CNR). Slides and abstracts of the conference presentations are available here and the proceedings will be published this month by European Press Academic Publishing. [Robert Richards]