Conference Video Gateway

• All conference sessions are available via our MediaSite player, which features video and audio alongside any slides that may have accompanied the presentation. Selecting a topic from the list below will bring you to the presentation page, where you will find a video link, description, and any materials the speakers have made available.

  Sessions were automatically recorded in their entirety, so there may be some periods of blank space before each presentation begins. If a session included more than one presentation, the start time of subsequent presentation is indicated in parenthesis. We apologize if there are brief segments missing from any presentation due to sessions starting earlier or ending later than originally scheduled.

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  Keynote 1

  Richard Susskind – Liberating the Law Yet Further (video not available)

  Session 1

  Track 1 – E-Participation and Legal Information Institutes
  –Bedfellows: What Open Access Has to Do With Public Engagement, and Why
  –Feedback Loops and the Law

  Track 2
  David Curle – The Business of (Un)Open Legal Publishing: Lessons From the Commercial Publishers

  Track 3
  Gherardo Casini – The Role of Legislatures and Others in Promoting Access to Law

  Track 4
  Joshua Tauberer – Observing the Unobservables in the United States Congress

  Track 5
  Anurag Acharya – Legal Search for Everyone: The Google Scholar Approach

  Session 2

  Track 1
  Steve Ressler -Beyond Cats & Kardashians: How to Build Meaningful Online Engagement

  Track 2
  When the Dog Catches the Car: CanLII’s Evolution from Free Law Concept to Cornerstone of Canadian Legal Research to Potential Commercial Competitor

  Track 3
  Reconsidering the Meaning of “Free Access to Legal Information” After the Hague “Guiding Principles”

  Track 4
  –Wrangling Court Data on a National Level
  –Developing a Real Free Law Reporter as the Source of Court Opinions

  Track 5
  Citation t1/2: Evolution of Supreme Court of Canada Decisions’ “Half-Life” 1900-2000

  Session 3

  Track 1 – The Promise and the Reality of E-Participation I
  –Participation 2.0: Online Engagement and Democracy
  –E-Government and Its Limitations: Assessing the True Demand Curve for Citizen Participation

  Track 2
  The Capacity to Endure: Leveraging the Question of Sustainable Free Access in the New Zealand Context

  Track 3
  Legislative Information: A Legislative History

  Track 4
  –Building a Free, Open Source Legal Citator
  –Hypertext Markup in Bilingual Environment: The Challenge for HKLII

  Track 5
  Searching without Search Terms: Mapping Concepts to Authorities in Law

  Session 4

  Track 1 – The Promise and the Reality of E-Participation II
  –Under the Hood of Online Civic Participation: Lessons from the Regulation Room
  –The Promise and Perils of Using ICTs to Advance the Rule of Law and Access to Justice

  Track 2
  Sustaining the Free Law Enterprise

  Track 3
  Can We Trust What’s Online? Conclusions from the National Inventory of Legal Materials

  Track 4
  –Uniform Tools for Legal Referencing [citation needed]
  –Reflex 2: A Look at the Internals of an Automated Legislative Citator

  Track 5
  The Impact of Semantic Web Technologies on Legal Provisions Accessibility: Reasoning over Implicit Patterns

  Keynote 2

  Clay Shirky – Authority in an Age of Open Access

  Session 5

  Track 1 – E-Participation: Cases From Around the World
  –Voice and Accountability: The effects of e-Government on the Quality of Political Institutions
  –E-participation in Local Climate Initiatives: From Collective Engagement to Measurable Impacts?

  Track 2
  Working with Free Access to Law Initiatives: Narratives from Africa

  Track 3
  Reporting the Law in Perennial Time

  Track 4
  –Lawyering in the Digital Age: Technology Collaborations for Access to Justice
  –Law Students, Technology, 21st Century Law Practice and the Access to Justice Gap

  Track 5
  Mining Legal Gold: A Social Approach to Navigating a Multimedia Legal Archive

  Session 6

  Track 1
  Theresa Pardo – Creating Public Value through Government Innovation: The Case of Open Government

  Track 2
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  Track 3
  Keeping your Eye on the Ball: Current Awareness for Policy-making Based on Free Legal Resources

  Track 4
  –The Development of Translation Memory Database System for Law Translation
  –Open Standards and Open Source Applications for a Sustainable Open Access to Parliamentary Activities: the Experiences and Applications of Africa i-Parliaments

  Track 5
  –Making Legal Information Smart, Friendly and Inspiring
  –Enhancing the Visualization of Law

  Session 7

  Track 1 – Opening Government: Managing Complexity and Producing Public Value I
  –Modeling an Open Government Information Polity
  –A Public Value Analysis Tool for Open Government Planning

  Track 2
  Organizational and Business Perspectives on Open Access to Information

  Track 3

  –Implications of Publishing Legal Information in a Small Island State: Privacy v Open Justice
  –Putting the Law Online: Balancing Litigant Privacy and Access to the Law

  Track 4

  “Birds of a Feather”

  Track 5
  –The Case for Curation: The Relevance of Digest and Citator Results in Westlaw and Lexis
  –Crowdsourced Relational Law and the Redefinition of the Public Space

  Session 8

  Track 1 – Opening Government: Managing Complexity and Producing Public Value II
  –Creating Open Government Ecosystems: A Research and Development Agenda

  Track 2
  The Challenges Facing Law via the Internet in Tanzania

  Track 3
  Universal Access to Public Legal Information by Persons with Disabilities: The Kenya Law Reports Case Study

  Track 4
  –AfricanLII: A Community Portal for African Law
  –Digitising Australasian Legal History

  Track 5
  –A Statutory “Time Machine”
  –Search Engine Optimization and Implementation of Google Search Appliance in the Danish Legal Information System