Law via the Internet '99

2nd AustLII Conference on
Computerisation of Law via the Internet

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 21-23 July 1999

See the Conference Home Page for Registration and other details

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Call for Papers has now closed. Programme details are now available. Anyone wishing to discuss the Programme should contact the Programme Chair, Professor Graham Greenleaf. (18 April 1999)

Proposed conference sessions, for which submission of papers is invited, include the following:

The effect of the Internet on legal practice
Automation of large-scale legal data on the web
Community legal information
Commercial legal publishing via the web - thrive or survive?
Standards for law on the web - citations, metadata etc
Asian and Pacific law on the Internet
Issues in computerising legislation
Finding law across the web - indexing and searching
Litigation support and 'electronic casebooks' on the web
Has free access to public legal information been won?
Workplace relations law - a revolution on the net?
Facilitating law reform and law-making via the web
Court registries and electronic filing / transactions
Interactive and 'intelligent' legal services on the web
Indigenous law and reconciliation via the net
Teaching law using internet resources
Treaties and international law on the web
Legal issues in providing law via the web

This year we hope to have a particular focus on the following areas: Asian law on the Internet; community legal information; large-scale automation of legal data; standards for legal information; and use of the Internet in legal practice. Papers in these areas are particularly welcome.

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, such as liability issues or Crown copyright), 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.

SUBMITTED, REFEREED AND INVITED PAPERS

Submitted papers / abstracts will be considered by the Programme Chair, AustLII staff and selected referees, at the discretion of the Programme Chair. Submitted papers will not be automatically subjected to a formal refereeing process, but submitters may request formal refereeing of their paper. Any papers accepted after refereeing will be marked 'Refereed Paper' in the Conference Proceedings. AustLII may also invite the presentation of papers, at its discretion.

KEY DATES

1 April 1999 - Submission of extended abstract / draft full paper
1 May 1999 - Notifications of acceptance sent out by AustLII
1 June 1999 - Finalised / revised papers due

Submissions may be made by email to the Programme Chair (graham@austlii.edu.au) by these three means: (i) plain text in the body of the email (for abstracts only); 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.

When submitting a paper, please indicate if formal refereeing is required. If a paper is by joint authors, the name and email address of the author who is to receive any notifications should be provided.

The finalised paper will be required in RTF (exceptions may be made on request), and a style guide will be provided with the notification of acceptance. Please use styles recognised by RTFtoHTML such as: 'Heading 1' for the title of the paper; 'Heading 2', 'Heading 3' etc for sub-headings in the text; 'bullet list' for lists etc.

PUBLICATION OF PAPERS

Papers are to be submitted on the following basis:

A print copy of the paper will appear in the Conference Proceedings to be provided to Conference delegates.
The Proceedings will be available for purchase in print form after the Conference concludes (possibly a month later).
All Conference papers will be available in the 'Computerisation of Law Resources' database on AustLII within 6 months of the completion of the Conference.
Authors are free to publish their papers elsewhere once the Conference has concluded. AustLII will assist editors of print and electronic journals to contact authors to discuss publication of papers.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Registration forms for attendees and speakers can be found here. All registration enquiries should be sent to the Conference Administrator (cathy@austlii.edu.au).

Registration fees for the Conference (22 & 23 July) are as follows:

A$600 Standard registration (legal practitioners, government, business etc)
A$400 Academics (full-time) and community organisations (including public libraries)
A$150 Students (full-time) (places will be limited; Conference Dinner additional A$50).

Registration fees for the Tutorials are additional: see the Conference home page.

Registration fee for the Conference include lunches on the two days (one will be in nearby Chinatown) and the Conference Dinner on the evening of 22 July.

Conference registration fees are reduced by A$200 for authors of papers accepted for the Conference.