From the website:

"Since the first Law via the Internet conference held in Sydney Australia, tremendous progress has been made with respect to access to legislation and caselaw. In Canada, Australia, France, Britain and Ireland, and more recently in various developing countries such as the Pacific Islands, Burkina Faso and Senegal, a few million documents have been published and are now widely used."

Themes:
* Free access to law: impact on emerging countries
* The identity of legal doctrine in the Internet age
* Legal blogs and wikis
* Electronic libraries of law articles
* The future of traditional legal doctrine in the Internet age.
* Problems linked with proliferation of decisions
* The roles of the state in free publication of law
* Large-scale digitalization of archived legal documents
* Legal issues involved in managing, producing and archiving electronic documents.
* Electronic documents and the mechanics of justice
* The issues involved in free publication of law

Location

The event will take place at the Marriott Château Champlain in Montreal (Canada).

When to go

25/10/2007 a 26/10/2007

Link

http://conf.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/index_en.php

tags: Montreal Canada policy-law legal conference legal-documents access archiving

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