Law via the Internet '97

8:45 - Daniel Poulin, Alain Lavoie, Guy Huard (University of Montreal, Quebec) Supreme Court of Canada's cases on the internet via SGML
9:15 - Andrew Mowbray (Co-Director, AustLII)* Automated conversion of legal documents to rich hypertexts
9:45 - Jeremy Gregson (AGPS) and Graeme Starkey (Fujitsu) HEART: A means of providing a richly linked distributed database, without having to create or maintain hyperlinks
10:45 - Dieter Scheithauer, Erich Schweighofer, Günter Ehrentraut and Peter Untersmayr (Institute of Applied Computer Science and Information Systems; Research Center for Computers and Law; and Institute of Software Technology, Vienna) The Automatic structuring of hypertext links: statistical methods, genetic algorithms and classifier systems

11:15 - Tom Smith and Evan Predavec (Butterworths, Sydney) Commercial legal publishing via the web: Butterworths Online
11:45 - Trygve Harvold (Director, Lawdata, Norway) Commercial legal systems on the Web - Norway's experience
12:15 - Joanne Sherman (Queensland Law Foundation Technology Services) THEMIS - An extranet to facilitate electronic business in the legal arena
12:45 - Panel Discussion - Legal publishers (including speakers from the first two sessions, Fay Smith (LBC Information Services) and other legal publishers)
2:15 - Archie Zariski (Murdoch University, and Founding Editor, E-Law) 'Never ending, still beginning' - A defence of electronic law journals from the perspective of the E-Law experience

2:45 - Marc Lauritsen (Capstone Group, Harvard, USA) Legal practice systems in cyberspace
3:15 - Philip Kellow (Director, Centre for Legal Process, Sydney) Legal expert systems and the internet
3:45 - Simon Cant (ARC/AustLII Research Associate on legal inferencing)* Issues in legal inferencing via the internet
4:15 - Peter Johnson and Surendra Dayal (SoftLaw) Smart Government: Internet Delivery of Public Services
4:45 - Nigel Hamilton (Department of Information Science, University of Technology, Sydney) Agents in legal information systems

2:15 - Victor Perton MP (Chairman of the Law Reform Committee, Parliament of Victoria) Practical law reform using the internet
2:45 - Michael Pronin (ParlInfo Manager, Parliament of Australia, Canberra) Towards 2001: The Australian Parliament's information on the internet
3:15 - Peter Quinton (Director, ACT LawNet) Attorney-Generals on the internet - ACTLawNet

4:00 - Tony de la Fosse (Senior Deputy Marshall, High Court of Australia) and Bruce Finlay (Assistant Director, IT Policy and Planning, Federal Court of Australia) The Council of Chief Justices Electronic Appeals Book Project.
4:30 - Mayee Warren (InfoLex, Sydney) Litigation support via the internet
5:00 - Allison Stanfield (Supreme Court, Queensland) Cybercourts

Friday 27 June

8:30 - David Grainger (Director, SCALEplus, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department) SCALE's twenty years of computerised law in the public sector
9:00 - Graham Greenleaf (Co-Director, AustLII)* Freeing the law in Australia's nine jurisdictions - a progress report
9:30 - Mark Perry (University of Auckland Faculty of Law) Roadblocks to LIINZ - problems facing public access to New Zealand's laws
10:15 - Panel discussion - Public policy and legal information in Europe, North America and Australasia (Panelists including speakers and Jon Bing (Norway) , Daniel Poulin (Canada), Peter Jones (New Zealand))

10:45 - Pearl Rozenberg (University of New South Wales and University of Sydney) Legal citation of electronic information
11:15 - Les Stein (Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia) Alternative indexing strategies for legal material
11:45- Geoffrey King (Manager, AustLII)* A new approach to internet law indexing - the targeted web spider

12:15 - Justice Vince Bruce (Supreme Court of NSW and Chairman, Law Foundation of NSW) Using the internet in the delivery of legal services
2:00 - Philip Argy (Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney) Issues in the use of internet legal resources by law firms
2:30 - Alan Davidson (University of Queensland) Dr Myles McGregor-Lowndes (Queensland University of Technology) Innovation diffusion theory, the internet, and the legal office
3:00 - Derek Hamill (Information Technology Adviser, Law Society of New South Wales) and Peter van Dijk (Director, Social Change Online) The internet as a strategic business tool for a professional society
3:45 - Brendan Scott (Webmaster, Gilbert & Tobin, Sydney) Delivery of law firm information over the web

4:15 - David A. Thomas (Professor of Law, Brigham Young University, Utah) Accessing US land title records through the internet
4:45 - Michael Pattison (Partner, Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks) Patents on the internet
5:15 - Ernest Schmatt (Chief Executive, Judicial Commission of New South Wales) Sentencing information and the Judicial Information Research System

2:00 - Layman Allen (Professor of Law & Research Scientist, University of Michigan Law School) Legal Argument Games - learning legal reasoning skills via the internet
2:30 - Brian Fitzgerald and Natalie Cuffe (Griffith University) Internet-assisted student-centred learning in law
3:00 - Panel discussion - Experiences in teaching law using the internet (including speakers, Judith Bannister (UWS), Petal Kinder (Monash), Graham Greenleaf (UNSW) and others)

3:45 - Sean Kidney and Peter van Dijk (Directors, Social Change Online)Social change, justice and the internet
4:15 - Tim Moore (Honorary Research Associate, AustLII)* Using the internet to advance reconciliation and social justice

4:45 - Costas Popotas (Library, Court of Justice of the EC) Internet resources for EU law
5:15 - Kirsty Magarey (ARC/AustLII Research Fellow on indigenous legal issues)* Human rights resources on the internet

* Papers by AustLII staff are co-authored, but only the author who will present the paper is listed here.