The Italian National Research Council houses an Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techiques (L’Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica — hence, ITTIG). ITTIG does research and makes tools available in the area of information technology as applied to law and public administration — an organized Slaw on steroids, perhaps.

It’s an intriguing site that will probably repay attention from anyone doing research in applied legal informatics, but which seems reluctant to give up much that’s concrete to the casual visitor. That said, there are some articles and PowerPoint presentations available from the recent conference, Legislative XML Workshop

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I had a wonderful time in St. John’s, Newfoundland (my first time to visit there) at the annual conference of the Canadian Bar Association (friendly people, wonderful harbour).

1) International Development Committee (“IDC”). I was attending meetings of the IDC who continue to do excellent work around the world in promoting the rule of law (based on outside funding; the cost of the work of the IDC is not borne by CBA membership fees). Major current projects are taking place in China (with their criminal bar involving the strengthening of legal aid) and Bangladesh, with past projects including work . . . [more]

It seems law professors just don’t have enough to do these days and some at least turn to the field of novel writing (as if law schools weren’t providing enough fiction). An article in Saturday’s New York Times has an interesting piece about a book coming out this Fall from Yale law professor Jed Rubenfeld- a murder tale tied in with a visit that Freud took to the US in 1909. Its touted as this year’s “The Historian”, a first novel from another academic (non law) last year – a great read for anyone who’s not yet read it. . . . [more]

Each summer I try to get a substantial web project launched. And like last summer, this post should add some transparency to that work, and describe some of the directions taken.

As of yesterday, my firm launched the Canadian Trademark Blog. It’s a collaborative blog approach, similar to slaw, mixing the perspectives of a solicitor, litigator and trade-mark agent. If you read the official first post, you can see that we’ve tried to define the blog in a focused way, but also leave room to provide commentary on other related topics & disciplines. To me, both are . . . [more]

Sharon Wang, Reference Librarian at Osgoode Hall Law School, has asked me to tell you that she has completed a draft of a research guide to intellectual property law and would very much appreciate your comments by email or via comments here.

The guide is available in MS Word format and pdf. . . . [more]

CARIBANA 2006, originally uploaded by Osei (Ozzy). Some rights reserved under Creative Commons.

This week at my individual blog I am hosting Carnival of the Infosciences #49. It is worth a visit!

Cheers,
Connie . . . [more]

Nous l’avons dit à plusieurs reprises sur notre blogue, l’affaire Dell, depuis que l’on sait qu’elle va être entendu par la Cour suprême, est l’affaire « phare » en matière de contrat électronique. Néanmoins, il va désormais falloir compter sur une autre belle jurisprudence, provenant encore de la Cour d’appel du Québec, à savoir, l’affaire Muroff c. Rogers Wireless. Une affaire pas totalement électronique dans le mesure où le contrat semble avoir été conclu sur du papier même s’il est également disponible sur le site Internet de la compagnie. Et bien oui, encore une fois, l’actualité de cette . . . [more]

Just a quick note to say that Slaw has been added to the Blawg directory. . . . [more]

For me, any information about Paris HiltonBTW any encyclopedia that claims to match Brittanica and has articles like this has a wondrous sense of irony. is too much information.

Too Much Information! BIALL 2007 Conference Call For Papers

‘Too Much Information!’ is the theme for the 38th BIALL Annual Study Conference and Exhibition which will take place Sheffield City Hall, Thursday 14th – Saturday 16th June 2007. BIALL has issued a call for papers.

The central theme is information overload, a major concern throughout the profession and a problem for all those we serve. How can we help them . . . [more]

Given the week’s theme of grey lit, it seemed only right to pursue that colour’s manifestations, shall we say.

I acknowledge a serious debt to web zen. (Okay, okay: I copied them. Picky picky picky.)

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WebCite is “an academic project, hosted at the University of Toronto / University Health Network's Centre for Global eHealth Innovation” the aim of which is to cache web pages cited by academic writers and to provide not merely a stable URL but long-term, if not permanent, access to the cited web material.

In a letter to the Co-Chairs of Access Copyright, the Canadian Library Association uses forceful language to express concerns about Access Copyright's Captain Copyright website initiative.