{"id":230,"date":"2012-01-24T09:07:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T14:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2012-10-05T09:18:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T14:18:42","slug":"presentations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/schedule\/presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Overview\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/overview\/\">View Presentations by Track<\/a>\u00a0| <a title=\"Conference Program\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/schedule\/conference-program\/\">View Conference Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"presentations ul shortcodes\"><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/3-5-to-30\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track2.jpg\" alt=\"3.5\" to 30\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/3-5-to-30\/\" class=\"readmore\">3.5″ to 30″<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 16:19)\r\n\r\nToday, several options are available to publishers to present their books in electronic format. Those options include traditional web, mobile-friendly web and\/or apps and reader formats. The choice of e-format is not only a question of screen size and taste. It is, to a far greater extent, a matter of use case. The presentation uses practical examples from a publishing platform used by one of the leading Can<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/3-5-to-30\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/a-public-value-analysis-tool-for-open-government-planning\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"A Public Value Analysis Tool for Open Government Planning\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/a-public-value-analysis-tool-for-open-government-planning\/\" class=\"readmore\">A Public Value Analysis Tool for Open Government Planning<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video (starts at 31:20)\r\n\r\nOpen Government has traditionally been defined in terms of transparency, participation, and collaboration, however the real value of Open Government is in the public value that these principles generate. The Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany has developed a practical decision support tool, known as the Public Value Assessment Tool (PVAT), to help decision makers in government ag<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/a-public-value-analysis-tool-for-open-government-planning\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/a-statutory-time-machine\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track5.jpg\" alt=\"A Statutory \"Time Machine\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/a-statutory-time-machine\/\" class=\"readmore\">A Statutory “Time Machine”<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 4:50)\r\n\r\nMost online collections of codified statutes or regulations present a static view: the law as it is the day you are looking. But sometimes one wants to view statutory or administrative law as it was, as it might be if pending legislation or rulemaking is adopted, or how it has changed over time. We have been playing with a \"time machine\" that makes it easy to see the language of a statute as it was at any poi<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/a-statutory-time-machine\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/africanlii-a-community-portal-for-african-law\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"AfricanLII: A Community Portal for African Law\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/africanlii-a-community-portal-for-african-law\/\" class=\"readmore\">AfricanLII: A Community Portal for African Law<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 7:50)\r\n\r\n <\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/africanlii-a-community-portal-for-african-law\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/bedfellows-what-open-access-has-to-do-with-public-engagement-and-why\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"Bedfellows: What Open Access Has to Do With Public Engagement, and Why\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/bedfellows-what-open-access-has-to-do-with-public-engagement-and-why\/\" class=\"readmore\">Bedfellows: What Open Access Has to Do With Public Engagement, and Why<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 17:30)\r\n\r\nPrograms that create the means for citizens to engage government are all the rage, and now we're featuring them at LVI for the first time. Why? What do these programs have to do with open access to legal information? How can the two help each other, and why should they? The answers to these questions have to do with technology, with education, and above all, with dry cleaning.\r\n\r\n[download id=\"28\"]<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/bedfellows-what-open-access-has-to-do-with-public-engagement-and-why\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/birds-of-a-feather\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"Birds of a Feather\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/birds-of-a-feather\/\" class=\"readmore\">Birds of a Feather<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 8:45)\r\n\r\nThis session is a panel discussion about taking publicly available data and turning into an application, web or otherwise that adds value to that data and transforms it into something useful beyond the data itself. The members of the panel have been selected because they have created such applications. Among the themes of the discussion:\r\nData visualization and better user interf<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/birds-of-a-feather\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/building-a-free-open-source-legal-citator\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"Building a Free, Open Source Legal Citator\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/building-a-free-open-source-legal-citator\/\" class=\"readmore\">Building a Free, Open Source Legal Citator<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\r\n\r\nThis presentation will describe how we built an online application which detects citations in court opinions, creates links between cases, and tracks the resulting citation network. This presentation will describe the problems we encountered and solved, as well as directions for future work. A demo of the citator will also be provided.\r\n\r\n[download id=\"10\"]\r\n\r\n[download id=\"11\"]<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/building-a-free-open-source-legal-citator\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/can-we-trust-whats-online-conclusions-from-the-national-inventory-of-legal-materials\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track3.jpg\" alt=\"Can We Trust What\u2019s Online? Conclusions from the National Inventory of Legal Materials\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/can-we-trust-whats-online-conclusions-from-the-national-inventory-of-legal-materials\/\" class=\"readmore\">Can We Trust What\u2019s Online? Conclusions from the National Inventory of Legal Materials<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 5:30)\r\n\r\nDuring the past three years, hundreds of law librarians around the country have contributed more than 7,000 legal titles to create the first-ever National Inventory of Legal Materials. The inventory covers all three branches of government at the federal, state, county and municipal levels and includes questions related to copyright, cost to access, digital authentication, permanent public access, preservation<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/can-we-trust-whats-online-conclusions-from-the-national-inventory-of-legal-materials\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/cases-of-political-crowdsourcing-in-morocco\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"Cases of Political Crowdsourcing in Morocco\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/cases-of-political-crowdsourcing-in-morocco\/\" class=\"readmore\">Cases of Political Crowdsourcing in Morocco<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Hundreds of thousands of Moroccans are participating in the political sphere using online crowdsourcing tools ranging from popular constitutional drafting to the fight against corruption. This presentation outlines national pioneering cases and discusses the power and the challenges of crowdsourcing in politics.<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/cases-of-political-crowdsourcing-in-morocco\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/citation-t12-evolution-of-supreme-court-of-canada-decisions-half-life-1900-2000\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track5.jpg\" alt=\"Citation t1\/2: Evolution of Supreme Court of Canada Decisions\u2019 \u201cHalf-Life\u201d 1900-2000\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/citation-t12-evolution-of-supreme-court-of-canada-decisions-half-life-1900-2000\/\" class=\"readmore\">Citation t1\/2: Evolution of Supreme Court of Canada Decisions\u2019 \u201cHalf-Life\u201d 1900-2000<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 10:55)\r\n\r\nA public digital collection of Supreme Court of Canada decisions going back to 1900 is now accessible. It could be used to validate new kinds of hypotheses. The measures of citation patterns in that collection will be used to shed light on phenomenons which have been difficult to apprehend in the past. This presentation hopes to contribute to the understanding of the case law system in Canada. It can as well<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/citation-t12-evolution-of-supreme-court-of-canada-decisions-half-life-1900-2000\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/creating-open-government-ecosystems-a-research-and-development-agenda\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"Creating Open Government Ecosystems: A Research and Development Agenda\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/creating-open-government-ecosystems-a-research-and-development-agenda\/\" class=\"readmore\">Creating Open Government Ecosystems: A Research and Development Agenda<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 7:45)\r\n\r\nIn this paper, we propose to view the concept of open government from the perspective of an ecosystem, a metaphor often used by policy makers, scholars, and technology gurus to convey a sense of the interdependent social systems of actors, organizations, material infrastructures, and symbolic resources that can be created in technology-enabled, information-intensive social systems. We use the concept of an ec<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/creating-open-government-ecosystems-a-research-and-development-agenda\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/creating-public-value-through-government-innovation-the-case-of-open-government\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"Creating Public Value through Government Innovation: The Case of Open Government\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/creating-public-value-through-government-innovation-the-case-of-open-government\/\" class=\"readmore\">Creating Public Value through Government Innovation: The Case of Open Government<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/creating-public-value-through-government-innovation-the-case-of-open-government\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/crowdsourced-relational-law-and-the-redefinition-of-the-public-space\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track5.jpg\" alt=\"Crowdsourced Relational Law and the Redefinition of the Public Space\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/crowdsourced-relational-law-and-the-redefinition-of-the-public-space\/\" class=\"readmore\">Crowdsourced Relational Law and the Redefinition of the Public Space<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 31:50)\r\n\r\nThe Web of Data and the rise of Web 2.0 technologies hopefully will bridge the adoption of Semantic Web Services. Adopting such a perspective in the legal domain requires first a redefinition of the public space. We propose four fundamental concepts to redefine it: crowdsourcing, crowdservicing, regulatory systems and relational law. We will focus especially on a model for Open Access publishing and archivin<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/crowdsourced-relational-law-and-the-redefinition-of-the-public-space\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/developing-a-real-free-law-reporter-as-the-source-of-court-opinions\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"Developing a Real Free Law Reporter as the Source of Court Opinions\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/developing-a-real-free-law-reporter-as-the-source-of-court-opinions\/\" class=\"readmore\">Developing a Real Free Law Reporter as the Source of Court Opinions<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video (starts at 40:45)\r\n\r\nThe goal of the Free Law Reporter (FLR) is to develop a freely available, unencumbered law reporter that is capable of serving as a resource for education, research, and practice. This presentation will explore what a national repository for original format court opinions would look like and how it would be used by commercial, not-for-profit, and academic publishers and researchers.<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/developing-a-real-free-law-reporter-as-the-source-of-court-opinions\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/digitising-australasian-legal-history\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"Digitising Australasian Legal History\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/digitising-australasian-legal-history\/\" class=\"readmore\">Digitising Australasian Legal History<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 34:50)\r\n\r\nAustLII has in 2012 embarked on a two year program of comprehensive digitisation of all the key sources of 200 years of Australasian legal history back to the inception of each colony and territory in Australia and New Zealand. This paper will explain how the project is being carried out, demonstrate its initial achievements, and discuss the challenges presented by particular categories of sources and how th<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/digitising-australasian-legal-history\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/e-government-and-its-limitations-assessing-the-true-demand-curve-for-citizen-participation\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"E-Government and Its Limitations: Assessing the True Demand Curve for Citizen Participation\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/e-government-and-its-limitations-assessing-the-true-demand-curve-for-citizen-participation\/\" class=\"readmore\">E-Government and Its Limitations: Assessing the True Demand Curve for Citizen Participation<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 14:30)\r\n\r\nMany e-government initiatives start with promise, but end up either as digital \"ghost towns\" or as a venue exploited by organized interests. This paper discusses e-government in the context of the literature on the demonstrated demand curve for citizen engagement. It highlights two policy pitfalls and discusses values and design features which can enhance e-gov in the future.\r\n\r\n[download id=\"30\"]<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/e-government-and-its-limitations-assessing-the-true-demand-curve-for-citizen-participation\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/e-participation-cases-from-around-the-world\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"E-Participation: Cases From Around the World\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/e-participation-cases-from-around-the-world\/\" class=\"readmore\">E-Participation: Cases From Around the World<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">From the Orange revolution in Ukraine, through the Open Government Directive of the Obama Administration, to the Arab spring \u2013 over the past decade we have witnessed numerous examples of e-participation initiatives around the world. This panel will delve into detailed discussion of a number of cases featuring different kinds of civic participation in various parts of the world.\r\n\r\nModerator: Dmitry Epstein, Cornell eRulemaking Initiative, Cornell Law School<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/e-participation-cases-from-around-the-world\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/e-participation-in-local-climate-initiatives-from-collective-engagement-to-measurable-impacts\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"E-participation in Local Climate Initiatives: From Collective Engagement to Measurable Impacts?\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/e-participation-in-local-climate-initiatives-from-collective-engagement-to-measurable-impacts\/\" class=\"readmore\">E-participation in Local Climate Initiatives: From Collective Engagement to Measurable Impacts?<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 37:00)\r\n\r\nPublic participation in the field of climate policies has considerable potential that largely lies idle. Local governments in Austria, Germany and Spain have taken an innovative approach based on citizen panels collaborating on CO2 reduction supported by online carbon calculators and other electronic tools. In the light of theories of environmental democracy and sustainable citizenship, empirical research re<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/e-participation-in-local-climate-initiatives-from-collective-engagement-to-measurable-impacts\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/enhancing-the-visualization-of-law\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track5.jpg\" alt=\"Enhancing the Visualization of Law\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/enhancing-the-visualization-of-law\/\" class=\"readmore\">Enhancing the Visualization of Law<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 40:50)\r\n\r\nThis presentation surveys the state of the art in online visualization of legislation and the implications of such visualization for the \u2018usability\u2019 and \u2018readability\u2019 of law. The presentation will explore potential enhancements of widely available visualizations drawing on techniques from the field of information visualization, methods demonstrated on small scale sites or in non-legal contexts. A survey of c<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/enhancing-the-visualization-of-law\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/feedback-loops-and-the-law\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"Feedback Loops and the Law\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/feedback-loops-and-the-law\/\" class=\"readmore\">Feedback Loops and the Law<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video (starts @ 33:00)\r\n\r\nAlthough feedback loops are ubiquitous in the information economy appearing everywhere from organizational dynamics to customer feedback on Amazon.com, feedback loops are strangely absent from law. What few feedback loops can be found in legal systems are crude, sluggish, and under-inclusive. AfricanLII and its partners are experimenting with a mechanism by which users can engage with the legal information pr<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/feedback-loops-and-the-law\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/hypertext-markup-in-bilingual-environment-the-challenge-for-hklii\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"Hypertext Markup in Bilingual Environment: The Challenge for HKLII\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/hypertext-markup-in-bilingual-environment-the-challenge-for-hklii\/\" class=\"readmore\">Hypertext Markup in Bilingual Environment: The Challenge for HKLII<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 22:30)\r\n\r\nThe Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII) provides the general public, free of charge, online legal information relating to Hong Kong. To cope with the bilingual nature (English and Chinese) of the Hong Kong Legal System, HKLII is designed to have the capability of handling both English and Chinese documents. In this paper, we will examine and present our solution to the problem of hypertext markup o<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/hypertext-markup-in-bilingual-environment-the-challenge-for-hklii\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/implications-of-publishing-legal-information-in-a-small-island-state-privacy-v-open-justice\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track3.jpg\" alt=\"Implications of Publishing Legal Information in a Small Island State: Privacy v Open Justice\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/implications-of-publishing-legal-information-in-a-small-island-state-privacy-v-open-justice\/\" class=\"readmore\">Implications of Publishing Legal Information in a Small Island State: Privacy v Open Justice<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 6:10)\r\n\r\nThe power of modern Internet search engines means that anything published on-line, anywhere in the world, can be at our fingertips in a fraction of a second, having serious implications for a small island jurisdiction wishing to make its case law available on-line. The Jersey website is funded partly by government and partly by subscription, causing the website to be split into areas to cater for different au<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/implications-of-publishing-legal-information-in-a-small-island-state-privacy-v-open-justice\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-4-headliner-joshua-tauberer\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"Joshua Tauberer: Observing the Unobservables in the United States Congress\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-4-headliner-joshua-tauberer\/\" class=\"readmore\">Joshua Tauberer: Observing the Unobservables in the United States Congress<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 10:15)\r\n\r\nThe political reality we know today is entirely manufactured. Can Big Data help us cut through the spin to see what is really going on? Yes it can. This talk will present several statistical techniques used on GovTrack.us to quantify what is really going on in the U.S. Congress, including applying Google's PageRank algorithm to Members of Congress, principle components analysis on bill sponsorship, and logis<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-4-headliner-joshua-tauberer\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/keeping-your-eye-on-the-ball-current-awareness-for-policy-making-based-on-free-legal-resources\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track3.jpg\" alt=\"Keeping your Eye on the Ball: Current Awareness for Policy-making Based on Free Legal Resources\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/keeping-your-eye-on-the-ball-current-awareness-for-policy-making-based-on-free-legal-resources\/\" class=\"readmore\">Keeping your Eye on the Ball: Current Awareness for Policy-making Based on Free Legal Resources<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 18:50; video unavailable, but audio and accompanying slides work)\r\n\r\nWhen thinking of a free legal resource\u2019s primary benefit, we quite often imagine the typical user as being one gearing up for a legal battle, or at least somebody conducting legal research. But freely accessible legal information can also serve to inform and support policy-making efforts and advocacy. The presentation will demonstrate two business ca<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/keeping-your-eye-on-the-ball-current-awareness-for-policy-making-based-on-free-legal-resources\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/law-students-technology-21st-century-law-practice-and-the-access-to-justice-gap\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"Law Students, Technology, 21st Century Law Practice and the Access to Justice Gap\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/law-students-technology-21st-century-law-practice-and-the-access-to-justice-gap\/\" class=\"readmore\">Law Students, Technology, 21st Century Law Practice and the Access to Justice Gap<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 50:40)\r\n\r\nIn a 2002 research project conducted by the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology \u201cAccess to Justice: Meeting the Needs of Self-Represented Litigants\u201d, the authors defined the problem thus...\r\n\r\n\u201cCivil justice reform in the United States has failed to address the problems faced by self-represented litigants in their efforts to obtain access to the justice system. Although the great majo<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/law-students-technology-21st-century-law-practice-and-the-access-to-justice-gap\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/lawyering-in-the-digital-age-technology-collaborations-for-access-to-justice\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"Lawyering in the Digital Age: Technology Collaborations for Access to Justice\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/lawyering-in-the-digital-age-technology-collaborations-for-access-to-justice\/\" class=\"readmore\">Lawyering in the Digital Age: Technology Collaborations for Access to Justice<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 10:25)\r\n\r\nThe primary focus of this presentation will be by Prof. Conrad Johnson who will describe the Four C\u2019s initiative and the Collateral Consequences Calculator.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/lawyering-in-the-digital-age-technology-collaborations-for-access-to-justice\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/legislative-information-a-legislative-history\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track3.jpg\" alt=\"Legislative Information: A Legislative History\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/legislative-information-a-legislative-history\/\" class=\"readmore\">Legislative Information: A Legislative History<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 7:00)\r\n\r\nLegal information institutes rely on the production of data from public sector sources. What motivates a legislature to build the technological and organizational infrastructure to produce that data? This session provides insight into that question by examining key legislative actions that impacted the availability of Congressional information in the United States.<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/legislative-information-a-legislative-history\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/making-legal-information-smart-friendly-and-inspiring\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track5.jpg\" alt=\"Making Legal Information Smart, Friendly and Inspiring\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/making-legal-information-smart-friendly-and-inspiring\/\" class=\"readmore\">Making Legal Information Smart, Friendly and Inspiring<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 9:50)\r\n\r\n[download id=\"5\"]<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/making-legal-information-smart-friendly-and-inspiring\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/mining-legal-gold-a-social-approach-to-navigating-a-multimedia-legal-archive\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track5.jpg\" alt=\"Mining Legal Gold: A Social Approach to Navigating a Multimedia Legal Archive\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/mining-legal-gold-a-social-approach-to-navigating-a-multimedia-legal-archive\/\" class=\"readmore\">Mining Legal Gold: A Social Approach to Navigating a Multimedia Legal Archive<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 10:30)\r\n\r\nThe Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent, a multimedia archive of the Supreme Court of the United States, has developed a tool that takes a social approach to identifying key points in its dataset. By tracking basic user interactions, the tool helps to highlight moments of particular interest in an otherwise overwhelmingly large collection. This presentation will discuss the tool's design and implementation, and wil<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/mining-legal-gold-a-social-approach-to-navigating-a-multimedia-legal-archive\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/modeling-an-open-government-information-polity\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"Modeling an Open Government Information Polity \" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/modeling-an-open-government-information-polity\/\" class=\"readmore\">Modeling an Open Government Information Polity<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 6:30)\r\n\r\nThis presentation discusses a new approach to improving government openness that is under development at the Center for Technology in Government, in collaboration with SAP. The research is developing a way of modeling, what we are calling an opening government information polity, that will aid government decision makers in understanding and evaluating the impact of different technology, management, and policy<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/modeling-an-open-government-information-polity\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/monday-keynote-address-richard-susskind\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/06\/Keynote.jpg\" alt=\"Monday Keynote Address: Richard Susskind\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/monday-keynote-address-richard-susskind\/\" class=\"readmore\">Monday Keynote Address: Richard Susskind<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">'Liberating the Law Yet Further'\r\n\r\nSusskind will identify the major drivers of change in the legal marketplace, discuss ongoing policy changes in relation to public information, and introduce a variety of disruptive technologies that will transform the way in which citizens and organisations obtain legal help. He will argue that legal information will not be fully liberated until the working practices of lawyers and the courts are overhauled.<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/monday-keynote-address-richard-susskind\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/open-standards-and-open-source-applications-for-a-sustainable-open-access-to-parliamentary-activities-the-experiences-and-applications-of-africa-i-parliaments\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"Open Standards and Open Source Applications for a Sustainable Open Access to Parliamentary Activities: the Experiences and Applications of Africa i-Parliaments\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/open-standards-and-open-source-applications-for-a-sustainable-open-access-to-parliamentary-activities-the-experiences-and-applications-of-africa-i-parliaments\/\" class=\"readmore\">Open Standards and Open Source Applications for a Sustainable Open Access to Parliamentary Activities: the Experiences and Applications of Africa i-Parliaments<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 40:00)\r\n\r\nAfrican i-Parliaments Action Plan, an initiative of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN\/DESA), was designed to build upon the technological opportunities provided by the Open Standards (OS) and Open Source Software (OSS). These opportunities have been largely ignored by the development assistance when in fact they are an unique opportunity to empower parliaments to effectively de<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/open-standards-and-open-source-applications-for-a-sustainable-open-access-to-parliamentary-activities-the-experiences-and-applications-of-africa-i-parliaments\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/opening-government-managing-complexity-and-producing-public-value\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Government: Managing Complexity and Producing Public Value\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/opening-government-managing-complexity-and-producing-public-value\/\" class=\"readmore\">Opening Government: Managing Complexity and Producing Public Value<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Opening government initiatives have become central to a wide range of important policy and program goals of public administrations worldwide. These broad goals require initiatives that are both technologically sound and tailored to the demands of complex governance contexts in which they must function. Design and development of open government projects therefore require holistic analyses and planning that is suited to the task. Research and practice projects are providing provide governments with improved capabilities to better understand and support open government initiatives that look to in<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/opening-government-managing-complexity-and-producing-public-value\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/organizational-and-business-perspectives-on-open-access-to-information\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track2.jpg\" alt=\"Organizational and Business Perspectives on Open Access to Information\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/organizational-and-business-perspectives-on-open-access-to-information\/\" class=\"readmore\">Organizational and Business Perspectives on Open Access to Information<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 6:55)\r\n\r\nBased on the Cornell's arXiv.org sustainability initiative, the goal of the presentation is to discuss the business and governance aspects of open access initiatives. Open access models are instrumental in removing financial barriers that may pose barriers for public engagement and participation. However such communication models should not be conflated with free production. Open access does not entirely remo<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/organizational-and-business-perspectives-on-open-access-to-information\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/participation-2-0-online-engagement-and-democracy\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"Participation 2.0: Online Engagement and Democracy\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/participation-2-0-online-engagement-and-democracy\/\" class=\"readmore\">Participation 2.0: Online Engagement and Democracy<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\r\n\r\nThis presentation will focus on Participation 2.0, which refers to the use of Internet and social media technologies to engage citizens in issues of public concern. First, I will provide a very brief history of Participation 2.0. Second, I will turn to an examination of why Participation 2.0 matters, specifically focusing on this issue from the perspective of democracy and democratic theory. I will also briefly discuss the \u201cc<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/participation-2-0-online-engagement-and-democracy\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/putting-the-law-online-balancing-litigant-privacy-and-access-to-the-law\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track3.jpg\" alt=\"Putting the Law Online: Balancing Litigant Privacy and Access to the Law\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/putting-the-law-online-balancing-litigant-privacy-and-access-to-the-law\/\" class=\"readmore\">Putting the Law Online: Balancing Litigant Privacy and Access to the Law<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 31:55)\r\n\r\nThose that operate websites that provide free access to court opinions experience something that few others will: frequent, sometimes daily, (often angry) requests that court opinions be removed from their site or blocked from discovery by search engines. This presentation presents an empirical study of the nature of these requests made upon collections of federal Circuit Court of Appeal decisions. After des<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/putting-the-law-online-balancing-litigant-privacy-and-access-to-the-law\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/reconsidering-the-meaning-of-free-access-to-legal-information-after-the-hague-guiding-principles\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track3.jpg\" alt=\"Reconsidering the Meaning of \"Free Access to Legal Information\" After the Hague \"Guiding Principles\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/reconsidering-the-meaning-of-free-access-to-legal-information-after-the-hague-guiding-principles\/\" class=\"readmore\">Reconsidering the Meaning of “Free Access to Legal Information” After the Hague “Guiding Principles”<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 15:00)\r\n\r\nThe main questions asked in this paper is \"after twenty years of development, what should 'free access' mean in relation to legal information in order for it to be fully effective?\" and 'what steps should be taken to most effectively realise a reformulated concept of 'free access to legal information', by legal information institutes, by States at the national level, and at the international level'. It argue<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/reconsidering-the-meaning-of-free-access-to-legal-information-after-the-hague-guiding-principles\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/reflex-2-a-look-at-the-internals-of-an-automated-legislative-citator\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"Reflex 2: A Look at the Internals of an Automated Legislative Citator\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/reflex-2-a-look-at-the-internals-of-an-automated-legislative-citator\/\" class=\"readmore\">Reflex 2: A Look at the Internals of an Automated Legislative Citator<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 41:00)\r\n\r\nReflex is the technology developed by Lexum to hyperlink cases and statutes on CanLII. We introduce several new approaches to facilitate the development of our citator including token based regular expressions and a generative model to efficiently recognize variations of citations and titles.\r\n\r\n[download id=\"26\"]<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/reflex-2-a-look-at-the-internals-of-an-automated-legislative-citator\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/reporting-the-law-in-perennial-time\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track3.jpg\" alt=\"Reporting the Law in Perennial Time\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/reporting-the-law-in-perennial-time\/\" class=\"readmore\">Reporting the Law in Perennial Time<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 11:35)\r\n\r\nWho are these Reporters of Decisions, and why are they demanding these impossible things of me? This presentation explores the responsibilities, needs, and goals of the government officials who report court opinions not as breaking news, but as precedent meant to shape the law for ages.\r\n\r\n[download id=\"25\"]<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/reporting-the-law-in-perennial-time\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/search-engine-optimization-and-implementation-of-google-search-appliance-in-the-danish-legal-information-system\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track5.jpg\" alt=\"Search Engine Optimization and Implementation of Google Search Appliance in the Danish Legal Information System\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/search-engine-optimization-and-implementation-of-google-search-appliance-in-the-danish-legal-information-system\/\" class=\"readmore\">Search Engine Optimization and Implementation of Google Search Appliance in the Danish Legal Information System<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 35:40)\r\n\r\nAs a response to user demands and political interest, access for search engine crawlers was allowed to the Danish legal information system, and the case story will explain how the best and most correct results were obtained for end-users of the general purpose search engines.\r\n\r\nWith the satisfying result of SEO we decide to implement Google Search Appliance in our system to give end-users an alternative to <\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/search-engine-optimization-and-implementation-of-google-search-appliance-in-the-danish-legal-information-system\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/searching-without-search-terms-mapping-concepts-to-authorities-in-law\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track5.jpg\" alt=\"Searching without Search Terms: Mapping Concepts to Authorities in Law\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/searching-without-search-terms-mapping-concepts-to-authorities-in-law\/\" class=\"readmore\">Searching without Search Terms: Mapping Concepts to Authorities in Law<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\r\n\r\nLegal documents generally contain a rich set of authorities and references including cases, legislation and law journal articles. This underlying structure can be utilised to facilitate different forms of searching and categorisation. Patterns of references can be used to describe materials falling in distinct clusters. Applications of this approach discussed in the paper include: lateral search (that is, using vectors of sim<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/searching-without-search-terms-mapping-concepts-to-authorities-in-law\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-1-headliner-steve-ressler\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Ressler: Beyond Cats & Kardashians - How to Build Meaningful Online Engagement\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-1-headliner-steve-ressler\/\" class=\"readmore\">Steve Ressler: Beyond Cats & Kardashians – How to Build Meaningful Online Engagement<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video (starts at 21:45)\r\n\r\nBuilding meaningful engagement online is a difficult challenge. \u00a0If it were easy, you would have created Huffington Post yourself and be sitting on $300 million.\r\n\r\nAt first, it's simply hard to make people aware that you exist as you are competing with millions of other websites with cat videos and Kim Kardashian photos. \u00a0Once there, how do you turn people from lurkers and consumers to engaged participants <\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-1-headliner-steve-ressler\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/sustaining-the-free-law-enterprise\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track2.jpg\" alt=\"Sustaining the Free Law Enterprise\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/sustaining-the-free-law-enterprise\/\" class=\"readmore\">Sustaining the Free Law Enterprise<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 5:55)\r\n\r\nTim will cover the best ways Websites that provide free legal and regulatory materials can monetize their content to support their development efforts. Tim was a cofounder of FindLaw.com and is currently CEO of Justia.com, which provides free legal information and commentary.<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/sustaining-the-free-law-enterprise\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-capacity-to-endure-leveraging-the-question-of-sustainable-free-access-in-the-new-zealand-context\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track2.jpg\" alt=\"The Capacity to Endure: Leveraging the Question of Sustainable Free Access in the New Zealand Context\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-capacity-to-endure-leveraging-the-question-of-sustainable-free-access-in-the-new-zealand-context\/\" class=\"readmore\">The Capacity to Endure: Leveraging the Question of Sustainable Free Access in the New Zealand Context<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 6:20)\r\n\r\nIn 2010 the global research project \"Free Access to Law \u2013 Is it here to stay?\" began under the research directorship of Professor Daniel Poulin of the University of Montreal. It focuses on building case studies on the operational sustainability of free access to law projects. Whilst not the subject of a case study, the New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII) is on track to sustainability, if the measu<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-capacity-to-endure-leveraging-the-question-of-sustainable-free-access-in-the-new-zealand-context\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-case-for-curation-the-relevance-of-digest-and-citator-results-in-westlaw-and-lexis\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track5.jpg\" alt=\"The Case for Curation: The Relevance of Digest and Citator Results in Westlaw and Lexis\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-case-for-curation-the-relevance-of-digest-and-citator-results-in-westlaw-and-lexis\/\" class=\"readmore\">The Case for Curation: The Relevance of Digest and Citator Results in Westlaw and Lexis<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 9:25)\r\n\r\nHumans and machines are both involved in the creation of legal research resources. For legal information retrieval systems, the human-curated finding aid is being overtaken by the computer algorithm. But human-curated finding aids still exist. One of them is the West Key Number system. The Key Number system\u2019s headnote classification of case law, started back in the nineteenth century, was and is the creation <\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-case-for-curation-the-relevance-of-digest-and-citator-results-in-westlaw-and-lexis\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-challenges-facing-law-via-the-internet-in-tanzania\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track2.jpg\" alt=\"The Challenges Facing Law via the Internet in Tanzania\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-challenges-facing-law-via-the-internet-in-tanzania\/\" class=\"readmore\">The Challenges Facing Law via the Internet in Tanzania<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 9:40)\r\n\r\nTanzania is one of the five Countries forming the East African Community, which located between longitude 29o and 41o East, Latitude 1o and 12o South with an estimated population of about 43 million people. The country is very vast, with a total surface area of 94.3 million Swahili, which is a Bantu language, with some Arabic and Far East influence, is the main language, spoken by almost every citizen on this<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-challenges-facing-law-via-the-internet-in-tanzania\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-development-of-translation-memory-database-system-for-law-translation\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"The Development of Translation Memory Database System for Law Translation\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-development-of-translation-memory-database-system-for-law-translation\/\" class=\"readmore\">The Development of Translation Memory Database System for Law Translation<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 25:50)\r\n\r\nWe introduce the development of \u201cJapanese Law Translation Memory\u201d: a translation memory database system for translating Japanese laws and regulations. We aim to show the background and purpose of the development, overview the database and functions of the system and discuss about problems and tasks for further development.\r\n\r\n[download id=\"9\"]<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-development-of-translation-memory-database-system-for-law-translation\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-impact-of-semantic-web-technologies-on-legal-provisions-accessibility-reasoning-over-implicit-patterns\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track5.jpg\" alt=\"The Impact of Semantic Web Technologies on Legal Provisions Accessibility: Reasoning over Implicit Patterns\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-impact-of-semantic-web-technologies-on-legal-provisions-accessibility-reasoning-over-implicit-patterns\/\" class=\"readmore\">The Impact of Semantic Web Technologies on Legal Provisions Accessibility: Reasoning over Implicit Patterns<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 4:55)\r\n\r\nThe development of the Semantic Web in the legal domain is an essential precondition to guarantee advanced services able to manage the complex nature of legal information as well as the peculiarities of legal users\u2019 information needs. A model of normative provisions and related axioms using RDF\/OWL are presented as a contribution to facilitate accessibility to legislation. In particular, a design pattern able<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-impact-of-semantic-web-technologies-on-legal-provisions-accessibility-reasoning-over-implicit-patterns\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-promise-and-peril-of-using-icts-to-advance-the-rule-of-law-and-access-to-justice\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"The Promise and Peril of Using ICTs to Advance the Rule of Law and Access to Justice\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-promise-and-peril-of-using-icts-to-advance-the-rule-of-law-and-access-to-justice\/\" class=\"readmore\">The Promise and Peril of Using ICTs to Advance the Rule of Law and Access to Justice<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video (starts at 35:20)\r\n\r\nAround the world, information and computer technologies (ICTs) are being used to advance development in areas such as health, education, and poverty alleviation.\u00a0 While the legal and judicial sectors have been slower to catch onto this emerging trend, they are beginning to experiment with these new tools to advance the rule of law and provide greater access to justice.\u00a0 Certainly, the potential of this new a<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/the-promise-and-peril-of-using-icts-to-advance-the-rule-of-law-and-access-to-justice\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/e-participation-round-table-discussion\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"The Promise and the Reality of E-Participation I & II\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/e-participation-round-table-discussion\/\" class=\"readmore\">The Promise and the Reality of E-Participation I & II<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">The Internet, and particularly Web 2.0, brought with it a significant promise for direct democracy. More than half a decade after the term \u201cparticipatory web\u201d was coined, there are still mixed results in the area of online civic participation. This panel will explore the tension between the promise and the realities of e-participation, highlighting best practices and principles for the use of information technology for civic participation.\r\n\r\nModerating:\r\n\r\nSession 3 - Dmitry Epstein, Cornell eRulemaking Initiative, Cornell Law School\r\nSession 4 - Mary Newhart, Cornell eRulemaking Initiative, <\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/e-participation-round-table-discussion\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-2-headliner-david-curle\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track2.jpg\" alt=\"Track 2 Headliner: David Curle\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-2-headliner-david-curle\/\" class=\"readmore\">Track 2 Headliner: David Curle<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">The Business of (Un)Open Legal Publishing: Lessons From the Commercial Publishers\r\n\r\nVideo\u00a0(starts at 16:00)\r\n\r\nThe commercial legal information players have transformed themselves, and they are no longer simply information providers. Some of the changes they have gone through have implications for open access legal information as well. This presentation takes a historical look at the development of legal publishers s<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-2-headliner-david-curle\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-3-headliner-gherardo-casini\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track3.jpg\" alt=\"Track 3 Headliner: Gherardo Casini\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-3-headliner-gherardo-casini\/\" class=\"readmore\">Track 3 Headliner: Gherardo Casini<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 24:00)\r\n\r\nMr. Casini will provide an overview of today\u2019s international framework surrounding legal information and legal informatics, highlighting in particular the role that legislatures, in cooperation with other governing institutions and stakeholders, can play in promoting access to law and the law-making process.<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-3-headliner-gherardo-casini\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-5-headliner-anurag-acharya\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track5.jpg\" alt=\"Track 5 Headliner: Anurag Acharya\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-5-headliner-anurag-acharya\/\" class=\"readmore\">Track 5 Headliner: Anurag Acharya<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Legal Search for Everyone: The Google Scholar Approach\r\n\r\nVideo\u00a0(starts at 11:00)\r\n\r\nWe believe that a legal search that works for everyone, experts as well as non-experts, is a key component of making law accessible to all. I will describe how we have tried to build such a service in Google Scholar. I will present some of the problems and our approach in addressing them. I will share experiences and lessons learnt.<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/track-5-headliner-anurag-acharya\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/tuesday-keynote-address-clay-shirky\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/06\/Keynote.jpg\" alt=\"Tuesday Keynote Address: Clay Shirky\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/tuesday-keynote-address-clay-shirky\/\" class=\"readmore\">Tuesday Keynote Address: Clay Shirky<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Authority in an Age of Open Access\r\n\r\nThe overlapping but not synonymous categories of expertise and authority have been tied up with the concepts of access to canonical information and the right to certain forms of public speech. Who can see what information, and who can talk about it in sanctioned ways, have co-evolved with the mechanisms of access and speech themselves. As the digital revolution alters the cost of ubiquitous access to information, and provides the material basis for every consumer of information to be a producer, the practical possibilities inherent in the current media lan<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/tuesday-keynote-address-clay-shirky\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/under-the-hood-of-online-civic-participation-lessons-from-the-regulation-room\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"Under the Hood of Online Civic Participation: Lessons from the Regulation Room\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/under-the-hood-of-online-civic-participation-lessons-from-the-regulation-room\/\" class=\"readmore\">Under the Hood of Online Civic Participation: Lessons from the Regulation Room<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 8:25)\r\n\r\nRulemaking, the process federal agencies use to make new health, safety, environmental, and other regulations, is one of the U.S. government's most important policymaking methods. The federal agencies propose roughly 4,000 new rules each year. In 2002, the G. W. Bush administration published the E-Government Strategy, which included creation of an \u201conline rulemaking management\u201d system. The result was the buil<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/under-the-hood-of-online-civic-participation-lessons-from-the-regulation-room\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/uniform-tools-for-legal-referencing-citation-needed\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"Uniform Tools for Legal Referencing [citation needed]\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/uniform-tools-for-legal-referencing-citation-needed\/\" class=\"readmore\">Uniform Tools for Legal Referencing [citation needed]<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 6:30)\r\n\r\nLegal citation styles are complex and chaotic, but automating them is essential if the benefits of standardization and Linked Data initiatives are to be brought to the user's desktop. This session will present a prototype of the Zotero research platform, adapted for use with legal resources across multiple jurisdictions, with support for multiple citation styles. Discussion will focus on the challenges involv<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/uniform-tools-for-legal-referencing-citation-needed\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/universal-access-to-public-legal-information-by-persons-with-disabilities-the-kenya-law-reports-case-study\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track3.jpg\" alt=\"Universal Access to Public Legal Information by Persons with Disabilities: The Kenya Law Reports Case Study\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/universal-access-to-public-legal-information-by-persons-with-disabilities-the-kenya-law-reports-case-study\/\" class=\"readmore\">Universal Access to Public Legal Information by Persons with Disabilities: The Kenya Law Reports Case Study<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 6:05)\r\n\r\nThis presentation is a demonstration of how governments can form strategic partnerships to enhance universal accessibility to public legal information by persons with disabilities and create jobs by using emerging models such as impact sourcing.\r\n\r\n[download id=\"20\"]\r\n\r\n[download id=\"23\"]<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/universal-access-to-public-legal-information-by-persons-with-disabilities-the-kenya-law-reports-case-study\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/voice-and-accountability-the-effects-of-e-government-on-the-quality-of-political-institutions\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track1.jpg\" alt=\"Voice and Accountability: The effects of e-Government on the Quality of Political Institutions\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/voice-and-accountability-the-effects-of-e-government-on-the-quality-of-political-institutions\/\" class=\"readmore\">Voice and Accountability: The effects of e-Government on the Quality of Political Institutions<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 14:45)\r\n\r\nTransparency and accountability of political institutions has been a major issue in the research agenda on governance, development, and democracy. The basic model states that transparency makes political institutions more effective, fosters economic growth, increases the capacity of\u00a0citizens to make political officials accountable, and promotes citizen participation. The expansion of e-government initiatives<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/voice-and-accountability-the-effects-of-e-government-on-the-quality-of-political-institutions\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/when-the-dog-catches-the-car-canliis-evolution-from-free-law-concept-to-cornerstone-of-canadian-legal-research-to-potential-commercial-competitor\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track2.jpg\" alt=\"When the Dog Catches the Car: CanLII's Evolution from Free Law Concept to Cornerstone of Canadian Legal Research to Potential Commercial Competitor\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/when-the-dog-catches-the-car-canliis-evolution-from-free-law-concept-to-cornerstone-of-canadian-legal-research-to-potential-commercial-competitor\/\" class=\"readmore\">When the Dog Catches the Car: CanLII’s Evolution from Free Law Concept to Cornerstone of Canadian Legal Research to Potential Commercial Competitor<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 13:20)\r\n\r\nCanLII is far from being without its policy and financial challenges, but in most respects concerning the core vision of proving a sustainable service through which Canadians can freely access the vast majority of current case law and legislative resources, it is an absolute success. The dog has caught the car. With core operational funding derived from all Canadian law societies and therefore secured, a new<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/when-the-dog-catches-the-car-canliis-evolution-from-free-law-concept-to-cornerstone-of-canadian-legal-research-to-potential-commercial-competitor\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/working-with-free-access-to-law-initiatives-narratives-from-africa\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track2.jpg\" alt=\"Working with Free Access to Law Initiatives: Narratives from Africa\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/working-with-free-access-to-law-initiatives-narratives-from-africa\/\" class=\"readmore\">Working with Free Access to Law Initiatives: Narratives from Africa<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 11:00)\r\n\r\nThe objective of the paper is to present narratives from legal information institutes (LIIs) in various stages of development from across Africa. Representations are made here from Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Swaziland, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Within each of the narratives there lie significant lessons, which provide the basis for a regional community of African legal information institutes to s<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/working-with-free-access-to-law-initiatives-narratives-from-africa\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><li><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft circle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/wrangling-court-data-on-a-national-level\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/files\/2012\/05\/Track4.jpg\" alt=\"Wrangling Court Data on a National Level\" \/><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/wrangling-court-data-on-a-national-level\/\" class=\"readmore\">Wrangling Court Data on a National Level<span class=\"mosaic-overlay\"> <\/span><\/a><span class=\"exc\">Video\u00a0(starts at 9:15)\r\n\r\nAccess to case law has recently become easier than ever: By simply visiting a court's website it is now possible to find and read thousands of cases without ever leaving your home. At the same time, there are nearly a hundred court websites, many of these websites suffer from poor funding or prioritization, and gaining a higher-level view of the law can be challenging. \u201c<\/span><p class=\"button readmore hover margin15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/presentation\/wrangling-court-data-on-a-national-level\/\">Continue reading<span> <\/span><\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Presentations by Track\u00a0| View Conference Schedule<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"parent":225,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/1258"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/lvi2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}