************************************************************************* NEWS FROM AUSTLII http://www.austlii.edu.au/ Wednesday 15th January 1997 ************************************************************************* Greetings! Well, time for us to come out of hiding and wish you all a Happy New Year. Please forgive our silence, we have been working on a number of improvements to the AustLII resources (including rewriting some of our custom software, adding new collections and updating existing materials). More news soon ... but for the moment, some information about our mid-year conference. Regards, Geoff (and Andrew, Graham, Kirsty, Philip, Simon and Trina!) ====================================================================== Announcement and Call for Papers ** Law via the Internet '97 ** 1st AustLII Conference on Computerisation of Law via the Internet AustLII, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 25-27 June 1997 ====================================================================== The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII - http://www.austlii.edu.au/), will host its first conference on 25-27 June 1997. The conference is timed to precede the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (6 ICAIL) which will be held in Melbourne on 30 June to 3 July 1997. Law via the Internet '97 will present both submitted and invited papers. Tutorials on legal research on the web and on building legal web sites, will be offered on 25 June, and the conference proper will take place on 26-27 June. CONFERENCE HOME PAGE For current information, see http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/conference/ CALL FOR PAPERS Proposed conference sessions, for which submission of papers is invited, include the following: * Publishing legislation on the internet * Caselaw via the web - citations, currency, and other issues * Electronic law journals * Indexing law on the web * The net and social justice * Search engines for legal research * Web sites for Parliamentary information * Public policy and public legal information * International law - finding and making it on the net * Commercial legal publishing via the web * Automated processing of large-scale law resources * Facilitating law reform via the web * Court registries and electronic filing / transactions * New legal services via internet * Law teaching using internet resources * Liability for provision of legal resources via the web * Asia-Pacific law on the net Papers may be submitted on other topics dealing with internet-based legal resources. Papers will not be accepted concerning 'cyberspace law' (except those relating directly to legal resources on the web), or concerning legal computerisation unrelated to the internet (CD-ROM products etc). Papers submitted should constitute more than a site description (see below), and should raise issues of theoretical or practical importance to others who are developing or using internet-based law resources. Papers submitted will not be refereed formally, but proposals / abstracts will be considered by AustLII staff and other selected referees, at the discretion of the Programme Chair. ** Key dates for submitted papers ** * 1 April 1997 - Submission of extended abstract or draft full paper * 1 May 1997 - Notifications of acceptance finalised * 26 May 1997 - Print-ready copies of papers due Submissions may be made by email to the Programme Chair (graham(at)austlii.edu.au) by these 3 means: (i) plain text in the body of the email (for abstracts); or (ii) an attached RTF file (only); or (iii) the URL of a web page containing the abstract/paper. Submissions/attachments in other forms will be ignored unless prior enquiries are made. CALL FOR SITE DESCRIPTIONS In addition to formal conference papers, any registrant at the conference (but not non-registrants) may submit a description of a web site with which they are involved of two A4 pages or less. These site descriptions will be collated into a booklet for conference participants, and a conference web page will contain a link to each site submitted. This will facilitate discussion between all attendees concerning the whole range of web sites represented at the conference. A site description submission form will appear on the conference home page shortly before the conference. Please do not submit descriptions until requested to do so, as we do not wish them to go out of date. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Registration forms for conference attendees will appear in due course on the conference home page. Requests to be emailed registration information may be sent to Trina Cairns (trina(at)austlii.edu.au). The conference will be priced as an academic conference, so it will not be possible to provide free registration to those whose submitted papers are accepted. We expect that registration fees will be in the order of: $500 Standard registration (legal practitioners, government, business etc); $350 Academics and community organisations; $175 Students (places may be limited). CONFERENCE PERSONNEL Joint Chairs - Andrew Mowbray (andrew(at)austlii.edu.au) and Graham Greenleaf (graham(at)austlii.edu.au), Co-Directors, AustLII Technical Director - Geoffrey King (geoff(at)austlii.edu.au), Manager, AustLII Registration/Facilities - Trina Cairns (trina(at)austlii.edu.au), Project Officer, AustLII Programme Chair - Graham Greenleaf (graham(at)austlii.edu.au), Co-Director, AustLII 15 January 1997 -- end