The FALM Meeting will be held at the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building (Gehry Building), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Room CB08.03.002, Level 3, Building 8, 14-28 Ultimo Road, Ultimo NSW 2007.
Law via Internet (LvI) Conference 2015 - Programme
9-11 November 2015, Sydney, Australia
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9 NovWelcome drinks
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10 NovDay 1
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11 NovDay 2
- UTS
3:00 - 5:00 (By invitation only)
FALM Meeting
5:30 - 7:30 (Open to all Conference attendees)
Welcome drinks
Welcome drinks for the Conference will be held at the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building (Gehry Building), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), CB08.03.008 Open Space, Level 3 Building 8, 14-28 Ultimo Road, Ultimo NSW 2007.
- Conference Opening
- Parallel Session 1
- Parallel Session 2
- Conference Dinner
8:00 - 9:00 UNSW Law Building, Kensington
Registration
Registration available from 8:00 am at UNSW Law Building, Building F8, Kensington Campus, Main Entrance, Anzac Parade, Kensington.
9:00 - 9:45 G04 - Large Lecture Theatre
Conference Opening
(Chair: Professor David Dixon, Dean of Law, UNSW Australia)
Professor David Dixon, Dean of Law, UNSW Australia
Welcome and introduction
Welcome to Country
The Hon. Gabrielle Upton, Attorney-General of New South Wales
Opening Address
The Hon. Gabrielle Upton, Attorney General of New South Wales
Professor Lesley Hitchens, Dean of Law, University of Technology Sydney
Thanks
Professor Ian Jacobs, Vice Chancellor and President, UNSW Australia
Welcome to the Conference
Vice Chancellor and President, UNSW Australia
9:45 10:45 G04 - Large Lecture Theatre
Plenary Session - The media and free access to legal information
(Chair: Martin Felsky, Chair, CanLII)
Providers of free access to legal information around the world face similar issues. Following the conference opening which places their work in the contexts of the rule of law and open justice, this session focuses on their relationships with the broader media that interact with their work.
Paul Chadwick, Director, Guardian Australia
Reporting the law: Opportunities and risks of free access
Paul Chadwick, Lesley Hitchens, Dean of Law, University of Technology Sydney, and Stilgherrian, Technology/Media Commentator
Panel Discussion
10:45 - 11:15 Law Staff Common Room, Level 2
Morning Tea
Please proceed to the Staff Common Room on Level 2 for morning tea.
11:15 - 12:30 G02 - The Gonski Levy Theatre
International law and international relations online
(Chair: Patrick Earle, Executive Director, Diplomacy Training Program, UNSW Australia)
International law is of increasing importance in all legal systems, and effective free access to the sources of international law is of corresponding importance. Availability of online access to a country’s legal system can also becomes a significant part of the development of its international image and relations.
David Mason, Executive Director, Legal, Treaties Secretariat, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia
International treaty making at a Crossroads: The significance of online access to the treaty process
Sarah Williams, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW Australia
The legacy of international criminal courts: memory, archives and accountability
Tarik Nesh-Nash, GovRight
Assessing Legislation Lab, a platform of citizen participation in the legislative process
Presentation (PDF)
12:30 - 2:00 Roundhouse
Lunch
Lunch will be provided at the Roundhouse.
2:00 - 3:15 G02 - The Gonski Levy Theatre
Innovation in free access to scholarship (I)
(Chair: Philip Chung, Executive Director, AustLII)
From blogs to online law journals to scholarship repositories and encyclopaedias, free access legal scholarship comes in many forms, individual and collaborative.
Marc van Opijnen, Product Manager, Information Services, Publications Office of the Netherlands
The Law Pocket and Linked Legal Data in the Netherlands
Presentation (PDF)
Sonia Loubier, Director of Digital Content and Information Technology, CAIJ (Centre d'acces a l'Information Juridique) and Frederic Pelletier, Director of Legal Information, LexUM Inc, Montreal, Canada
Collaboration among legal information providers in Quebec: CAIJ and Lexum’s shared vision
Presentation (Part 1) (PDF) · Presentation (Part 2) (PDF)
Gregg Gordon, President, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), USA
SSRN’s Legal Scholarship Network: A freemium open access scholarship repository
3:15 - 3:45 Law Staff Common Room, Level 2
Afternoon Tea
Please proceed to the Staff Common Room on Level 2 for afternoon tea.
3:45 - 5:00 G02 - The Gonski Levy Theatre
African Developments in free access to law
(Chair: Professor Theunis Roux, Faculty of Law, UNSW Australia)
In recent years, Africa has been the fastest-developing region of free access to legal information. This session will focus on both the successes achieved and challenges remaining.
Long'et Terer, Ag. CEO/Editor, Kenya Law, Kenya
The unique role of Kenya Law: A State-supported LII in Africa
Presentation (PDF)
Roger Gachago, Director, SAFLII, South Africa and Chris Oxtoby, Democratic Governance and Rights Unit, UCT
Enhancing research infrastructure on SAFLII: Judicial appointments research
Presentation (PDF)
Roger Gachago; Jane Mugala; Long'et Terer; Andrew Mowbray; other participants TBA
Panel discussion - Challenges to Free Access to Law in Africa
11:15 - 12:30 G23 - The Allens Theatre
Engaging communities with law
(Chair: Ivan Mokanov, Executive Director, Lexum, Canada)
Formal legal resources attract many different communities of people willing to contribute their knowledge, interpretations, or views of the law - in other contexts, known as User-Generated Content (UGC). How can providers of formal legal information (cases, legislation etc) engage with these communities of users and content builders?
Philip Chung, UNSW Australia and Executive Director, AustLII
AustLII communities: A multi-purpose approach to developing community-generated content
Yoshiharu Matsuura, Nagoya University Graduate School of Law, Japan, Amy Huey-Ling Shee, Director, TaiwanLII, Taiwan, and Xiangshun Ding, Renmin University Law School, China
Enhancing Comparative Law Scholarship in East Asia
Presentation (PDF)
Sophie Bussmann-Kemdjo, Director, African Law Library and Linda Salay, African Innovation Foundation
Free access to law as a catalyzer for change
Presentation (PDF)
12:30 - 2:00 Roundhouse
Lunch
Lunch will be provided at the Round House.
2:00 - 3:15 G23 - The Allens Theatre
Making LII content as authoritative as possible
(Chair: Lenore Hamilton, Director, PacLII)
Are governments the only possible source of reliable legal information? What factors make the content provided by LIIs accepted as authoritative, or at least highly reliable? This question can be asked of legislation, case law, treaties or journal articles. What can the official sources of legal information do to assist republishers (like LIIs) to have the highest quality content? Do aspects of legal systems and official practice detract from the authoritativeness of LII content?
Grant Riethmuller, Judge, Federal Circuit Court, Australia
Improving the use of court decisions in the Federal Circuit Court
Presentation (PDF)
Megan O'Brien, Communication Analyst, Federal Court of Australia
The National Court Framework reforms: Providing better access to Court information
Presentation (PDF)
Andrew Mowbray, Professor of Law & Information Technology, UTS, Australia and Co-Director, AustLII
‘Signed by AustLII’ and other caselaw improvements
3:15 - 3:45 Law Staff Common Room, Level 2
Afternoon Tea
Please proceed to the Staff Common Room on Level 2 for afternoon tea.
3:45 - 5:00 G23 - The Allens Theatre
Starting a LII: Experiences, assistance and pitfalls
(Chair: Sue du Feu, Jersey Law)
Round-table discussion on issues commonly arising in starting and sustaining a LII, particularly a small one: funding models; obtaining data and other issues.
Judi Eathorne-Gould (NZLII); Lenore Hamilton (PacLII); Laris Vramis (CyLaw); Barry Walsh (Law and justice administration specialist); Daniel Rescue Jr and Derrick Iehsi (FSM)
Panel discussion
7:00 - 10:30 Australia Square
Conference Dinner
The Conference Dinner will be held at O Bar and Dining, Level 47, Australia Square, 264 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000.
8:00 - 8:20 JOHN DOE
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8:00 - 8:20 JOHN DOE
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9:00 - 9:15
Coffee Break
- Plenary Session
- Parallel Session 1
- Parallel Session 2
- Conference Closing
9:00 - 9:50 G02 - The Gonski Levy Theatre
Plenary Session - The Future Online
(Chair: Graham Greenleaf, Co-Director, AustLII)
As online legal publishers, free access to law providers are subject to the tectonic shifts in all industries experienced in the online world. How can we predict and prepare for them?
Paul X McCarthy, Technology Strategist, Online Gravity Consulting
Online Gravity’s Effects on Publishing and other Industries
9:50 - 10:40 G02 - The Gonski Levy Theatre
The State and other free access providers
(Chair: Donna Buckingham, Director, NZLII)
There are complex relationships between State organisations that are usually the original publishers of free access legal information, and the civil society organisations that either assist them to do so, or republish the information that comes from them. These relationships take many forms.
David Noble, Chief Parliamentary Counsel/Chief Executive of the Parliamentary Counsel Office, New Zealand
Improving access to New Zealand legislation by collaboration between the state and the LII community
Presentation (PDF)
Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law & Information Systems, UNSW Australia and Co-Director, AustLII
Different meanings of "free access to law": Civil law and common law comparisons
Presentation (PDF)
10:40 - 10:50
Conference Photo
Conference Photo
10:50 - 11:15 Law Staff Common Room, Level 2
Morning Tea
Please proceed to the Staff Common Room on Level 2 for morning tea.
11:15 - 12:30 G02 - The Gonski Levy Theatre
Reclaiming legal history
(Chair: Graham Greenleaf, Co-Director, AustLII)
LIIs started with a focus on the future, but are ofen now recapturing legal history and linking it to current law. What are the varieties of ways this can be done, and what are the priorities?
Bruce Kercher, Professor Emeritus, Macquarie University, Australia (with contributions from Peter Bullock, Independent Scholar, China)
Reclaiming legal history: Australian antecedents and colonial extra-territoriality
Presentation (PDF)
Resina Senikuraciri, Regional Content Manager, PacLII, Vanuatu
Reclaiming Historical Legal Materials from the Pacific
Presentation (PDF)
Bruce Kercher, Resina Senikuraciri, Lenore Hamilton, PacLII, Lisa Ford, Associate Professor, Department of History, UNSW Australia, and Donna Buckingham, Director, NZLII
Panel discussion: ‘Online interconnections in the legal histories of Australasia, the Pacific and the common law’
12:30 - 1:45 Law Staff Common Room, Level 2
Lunch
Lunch will be provided at the Staff Common Room on Level 2.
1:45 - 3:00 G02 - The Gonski Levy Theatre
Semantics, standards and free access publishers
(Chair: Andrew Mowbray, Co-Director, AustLII)
What are the issues holding back the greater adoption of 'legal XML', Akoma Ntoso, ‘the semantic web’ and the like? Is discussion of standards premature until there is more discussion of what problems need to be solved and what the toolsets may look like?
Marc van Opijnen, Product Manager, Information Services, Publications Office of the Netherlands
Accessibility of Judicial Decisions on the Internet – Development of a Legal Framework in Europe
Presentation (PDF)
Gen Kawachi, Makoto Nakamura, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Tomohiro Ohno and Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Applying the Akoma Ntoso XML Schema to Japanese Legislation
Presentation (PDF)
Jean-Michel Thivel, French representative to the Working Party “Legislation en ligne –eLaw” of the Council of the European Union and Manuel Siaud, Expert
Semantic interoperability between the legal systems of national and European institutions – ELI, European Legislation Identifier
Presentation (PDF)
3:00 - 3:30 Law Staff Common Room, Level 2
Afternoon Tea
Please proceed to the Staff Common Room on Level 2 for afternoon tea.
3:30 - 4:45 G02 - The Gonski Levy Theatre
Innovation in free access to scholarship (II)
(Chair: Professor Philip Leith, Queens University, and Trustee, BAILII)
From blogs to online law journals to scholarship repositories and encyclopeadias, free access legal scholarship comes in many forms, individual and collaborative.
Whon-il Park, Professor of Law, Kyung-Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
Innovation in free access scholarship: KoreanLII
Presentation (PDF)
Stephanie Booker, Community Legal Education Officer, Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission
Innovation in free access to scholarship and its benefits to communities: The Law Handbook Online and the Plain Language Law Portal for Northern Territorians
Presentation (PDF)
Francis Johns, Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney
The Resilience of Authority in Law
Presentation (PDF)
9:50 - 10:40 G23 - The Allens Theatre
Technologies for enhancing free access
(Chair: Chris Kenward, Australian Databases Manager, AustLII)
This session focuses on new technologies, both in production and in the experimental stage, which aim to improve free access to law.
Tom Bruce, Director, and Sara Frug, Associate Director, Legal Information Institute (Cornell)
Legal applications of unsupervised topic modeling
Presentation (PDF)
Ivan Mokanov, Executive Director, and Frederic Pelletier, Director of Legal Information, LexUM Inc, Montreal, Canada
Lexbox: An extension to leverage open access for legal professionals
Presentation (PDF)
10:40 - 10:50
Conference Photo
Conference Photo
10:50 - 11:15 Law Staff Common Room, Level 2
Morning Tea
Please proceed to the Staff Common Room on Level 2 for morning tea.
11:15 - 12:30 G23 - The Allens Theatre
Sports law transparency: Putting the boot in, and throwing the book
(Chair: Professor Lee Hollaar, University of Utah)
Does the law of sports need more free access? From the Court of Arbitration for Sport down to the local football tribunals, sport involves a lot of law‐making, but not all that much of it is visible in a systematic way.
David Thorpe, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney
Transparency in sporting tribunals
Malcolm Holmes, Arbitrator, Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), Australia
Olympic Jurisprudence and the Internet
Presentation (PDF)
David Lewis, Deputy Chair, General Purposes Tribunal, Football NSW
Sporting transparency from the bottom up
Presentation (PDF)
12:30 - 1:45 Law Staff Common Room, Level 2
Lunch
Lunch will be provided at the Staff Common Room on Level 2.
1:45 - 3:00 G23 - The Allens Theatre
Managing free access: Privacy and other challenges for courts and tribunals
(Chair: Sophie Bussmann-Kemdjo, ALL Director, African Innovation Foundation)
Free access republication of their decisions has created new challenges for courts and tribunals, including conditions for republication, issues caused by jury trials, and issues of identification of different categories of persons.
Donna Buckingham, Associate Professor, Otago Law School, New Zealand
Taking down New Zealand Judgments: Searching for Obscurity?
Presentation (PDF)
Lyn Newlands, Judgments Publication Coordinator, Family Court of Australia
Publishing Family Court of Australia Judgments – Challenges and solutions
Presentation (PDF) - Paper (PDF)
Michael Green SC, JADE
Privacy, Confidentiality and Online Legal Research – Towards Appropriate Practices and Principles
Presentation (PDF)
3:00 - 3:30 Law Staff Common Room, Level 2
Afternoon Tea
Please proceed to the Staff Common Room on Level 2 for afternoon tea.
3:30 - 4:45 G23 - The Allens Theatre
Language, translation and comparative law: East Asian experience
(Chair: Kevin Pun, Director, HKLII)
Difficulties in translating concepts expressed in one language into another language are a significant barrier to comparative law studies. This session focuses on significant work being done between the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages, and between the use of Chinese in significantly different legal cultures.
Yoshiharu Matsuura, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan, Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Information Technology Center, Japan Amy Huey-Ling Shee, Director, TaiwanLIIl, Taiwan, Xiangshun Ding, Professor of Law, Renmin University Law School, China, Heejeoung Lee, Law Information Service of Korea and Yasuhiro Ogawa, Nagoya University, Information Technology Center, Japan
Development of CJKT Multilingual Translation Dictionary of Law
Makoto Nakamura, Yasuhiro Ogawa, and Katsuhiko Toyama, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan
Development of the Diachronic Terminology from a Japanese Statutory Corpus
Presentation (PDF)
Amy Huey-Ling Shee, Director, TaiwanLII and Ren-Hung Hwang, Dean, College of Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Sharing of Socio-Legal Information and Comparative Legal Studies under Globalisation
Presentation (PDF)
4:45 - 5:00 G02 - The Gonski Levy Theatre
Conference Closing
Conference closing and words of thanks
7:00 - late Intercontinental Hotel
Post conference dinner (at your own expense)
You are welcome join us at the Cafe Opera, Intercontinental Hotel, Seafood Dinner Buffet (@$65pp), 117 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000. From 9:00 pm, the Supper Club will be open to the public for rooftop drinks with views of Sydney harbour.
VENUE
Welcome drinks (9 Nov) will be held at the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at UTS.
Conference Sessions on 10 and 11 Nov will be held at the UNSW Law Building, Kensington.
UNSW Law Building
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UNSW Law, Anzac Parade, Kensington, NSW