Law as an app

This post was originally written in preparation for a conference by the Trust for Legal Information (Stiftelsen för rättsinformation) on ‘Law as a Service’. Being inspired by last year’s VQ Forum, and an blog post titled ‘I Am Now an App™ by Jason Wilson, I would like to share some ideas and thoughts. When we …

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VQ Knowledge and Strategy Forum Legal – 11-12 November 2010

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11 November 2010 Annette Magnusson, Secretary General of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, opened the conference in her role as the chair for the day. She described that there is an unprecedented level of interconnection and interdependency (referring to a survey by IBM on capitalising on complexity). According to a recent …

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Sweden now represented in Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia for Cyber Law

I have recently authored the Swedish monograph for Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia for Cyber Law. The series discusses legal issues that information and communication technology has given rise to. Each monograph in the Cyber Law Encyclopaedia covers the regulation of the ICT market, the protection of intellectual property, ICT contracts, electronic transactions, non-contractual liability, privacy protection …

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The future of the Internet – should it be stopped?

The network of networks has come a long way since its beginnings. Last week, the Economist wrote about “A virtual counter-revolution“. From being a “great unifier of people, companies and online networks”, the Internet is now developing in a slightly different direction: Fifteen years after its first manifestation as a global, unifying network, it has entered …

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Digitization project of the U.S. Library of Congress

A video presentation of the project can be found here. As the project was organized in cooperation with the Internet Archive, a list of electronic books can also be found here. Nice to see that not only Google can initiate projects of this kind. The Library of Congress already has a rather impressive archive of digitalized material (see their Digital …

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10th International “Law via the Internet” Conference, Durban, South Africa, 26 – 27 November 2009 – Day 2

Day two at the The 10th International “Law via the Internet” Conference, started with a Keynote Address by Graham Greenleaf, Co-Director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII). Greenleaf outlined eight strategies that can support the aims of the Free Access to Law Movement which include maximizing free access, assisting local organisations and an implied goal of high quality. …

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10th International “Law via the Internet” Conference, Durban, South Africa, 26 – 27 November 2009 – Day 1

The 10th International “Law via the Internet” Conference, was held in Durban, South Africa, 26 – 27 November 2009, hosted by Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) The Law via the Internet Conference is an initiative of the Legal Information Institutes worldwide that constitute the Free Access to Law Movement. The principles of the Free Access to …

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