{"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":"
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<\/a><\/div>A Public Value Analysis Tool for Open Government Planning <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>A Statutory “Time Machine” <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>AfricanLII: A Community Portal for African Law <\/span><\/a>Video\u00a0(starts at 7:50)\r\n\r\n <\/span>
<\/a><\/div>Bedfellows: What Open Access Has to Do With Public Engagement, and Why <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Birds of a Feather <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Building a Free, Open Source Legal Citator <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Can We Trust What\u2019s Online? Conclusions from the National Inventory of Legal Materials <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Cases of Political Crowdsourcing in Morocco <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Citation t1\/2: Evolution of Supreme Court of Canada Decisions\u2019 \u201cHalf-Life\u201d 1900-2000 <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Creating Open Government Ecosystems: A Research and Development Agenda <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Creating Public Value through Government Innovation: The Case of Open Government <\/span><\/a>Video<\/span>
<\/a><\/div>Crowdsourced Relational Law and the Redefinition of the Public Space <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Developing a Real Free Law Reporter as the Source of Court Opinions <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Digitising Australasian Legal History <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>E-Government and Its Limitations: Assessing the True Demand Curve for Citizen Participation <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>E-Participation: Cases From Around the World <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>E-participation in Local Climate Initiatives: From Collective Engagement to Measurable Impacts? <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Enhancing the Visualization of Law <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Feedback Loops and the Law <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Hypertext Markup in Bilingual Environment: The Challenge for HKLII <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Implications of Publishing Legal Information in a Small Island State: Privacy v Open Justice <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Joshua Tauberer: Observing the Unobservables in the United States Congress <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Keeping your Eye on the Ball: Current Awareness for Policy-making Based on Free Legal Resources <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Law Students, Technology, 21st Century Law Practice and the Access to Justice Gap <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Lawyering in the Digital Age: Technology Collaborations for Access to Justice <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Legislative Information: A Legislative History <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Making Legal Information Smart, Friendly and Inspiring <\/span><\/a>Video\u00a0(starts at 9:50)\r\n\r\n[download id=\"5\"]<\/span>
<\/a><\/div>Mining Legal Gold: A Social Approach to Navigating a Multimedia Legal Archive <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Modeling an Open Government Information Polity <\/span><\/a>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>
<\/a><\/div>Monday Keynote Address: Richard Susskind <\/span><\/a>'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>