Year: 2011
ICLR online – who’s putting it through its paces?
I’m wondering who’s using ICLR online and how they’re getting on? The service launched 18 October to a list of over 350 delegates that was “fairly select and exclusive due to the nature of our Council”. Before the event no doubt there was lots of direct mail and email promotion by ICLR to its customer […]
Judgment day for BAILII
First published by the Society for Computers and Law October 2011 A recent Guardian editorial criticised the status quo in relation to the publication of court judgments and called for more open access. In so doing BAILII came across as the villain of the piece rather than the saviour of free law which most lawyers […]
BAILII: Is free law enough?
It is ironic that BAILII, which came into being to free the law, has been called out recently for restricting access to the law. A Guardian editorial in September criticised the status quo in relation to the publication of court judgments and called for more open access. In so doing BAILII came across as the […]
Google+ thoughts so far
I’ve to date held off commenting on Google+, which is all of 3 weeks old, because it’s in “field trial” which basically means it’s a Beta with a restricted user base. The reason for this is I think that Goog needs to load test it out amongst modest millions before scaling it up. Consequently the […]
Innovations in law publishing and the death of (some) print
The first wave of digital products in the CD era consisted basically of “books on screen” – existing print product repurposed with search and hypertext bells and whistles. This continued online with the advent of the web. More books on screen. Same old product, different medium. But the earth never really moved. However, one of […]
Too many #LawBlogs ?
In the run up to the next #LawBlogs meet there have been a few pertinent posts about the state of the blawgosphere. John Bolch asks Has blawging become “establishment”? Well, yes, John, everyone’s at it now – blogging is normal. Lucy Reed of Pink Tape comments on the recent explosion of blawgs in Legal Blogging […]
Rough Justice – not so Gov 2.0
Who is Stephen Walter Pollak? [No relation to Charon QC’s post on BBC’s Rough Justice] A long time ago in a land far, far away I reported that under the 2006 Cabinet Office “Transformational Government Strategy” at least 550 government websites would be closed, with only 26 certain to be retained (basically, I speculated, one […]
The future of legal blogging
Image: Charon QC (In Blawg Review #292) Unfortunately I missed The future of legal blogging last night – a discussion hosted by a panel of legal bloggers David Allen Green (Jack of Kent / New Statesman), Carl Gardner (Head of Legal) and Adam Wagner (UK Human Rights Blog) and chaired by Catrin Griffiths, editor of […]
Accessible law
First published on VoxPopuLII, February 2011. Also published in Justice Wide Open Working Papers, May 2012. Professor Richard Leiter, on his blog, The Life of Books, poses The 21st Century Law Library Conundrum: Free Law and Paying to Understand It: The digital revolution, that once upon a time promised free access to legal materials, will […]
Are (law) ebooks the future?
You can’t have missed the fact that Amazon’s fastest selling product last year was its Kindle ebook reader. Even I bought one. And during the year his Godliness Steve Jobs gave us the iPad tablet. Though the iPad is more than an a e-reader, as such it is of course much more book-like than an […]
