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A little over two years ago, I posted a piece titled “Big World”<\/a> here. The occasion was the inauguration of our now-very-successful VoxPopuLII guest-blog<\/a>, whose theme might be summed up as “good ideas about legal informatics from all over”. You could say the same thing about the Law via the Internet 2012 conference that we’re hosting in October<\/a>. The theme is “good ideas about putting law on the Internet, from all over the world”. This post says a little bit about why; the main points are six:<\/p>\n There is much that we can learn from each other. LVI2012 is meant to be an opportunity for that. While we have Clay Shirky<\/a>, Richard Susskind<\/a>, and an impressive, global crew of experts giving talks<\/a> and chairing<\/a> and headlining tracks, the real expertise will be among the attendees. We’ve paid attention to that in the way we’ve structured the schedule<\/a>. This won’t just be a parade of people reading papers<\/a>. There is lots of time for conversation, and we put a premium on exchange.<\/p>\n Open access to law via the Internet started here at Cornell in 1992 with an offering of Title 17 of the US Code. We used a now-forgotten protocol called Gopher<\/a>. Just yesterday, we put up .mobi and .epub versions of Title 17 in the Kindle and Nook stores, which tells you something about how far both the technology and the consumer have come in the meantime. But the real story of change over two decades is a story about an explosively growing community that provides people with information about the law that governs them, without fees. It’s about what that community knows and how it knows it and how what it knows makes things better for people. It’s about that community getting to know itself and what it can do and talking to itself about what it should do and how.<\/p>\n That’s what we’re doing in October. We hope you’ll join us.<\/p>\n PS: Registration fees go up at the end of the week. Register now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A little over two years ago, I posted a piece titled “Big World” here. The occasion was the inauguration of our now-very-successful VoxPopuLII guest-blog, whose theme might be summed up as “good ideas about legal informatics from all over”. You could say the same thing about the Law via the Internet 2012 conference that we’re […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n