| CALL FOR PAPERS |
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Proposed conference sessions, for which submission of papers is invited,
include the following:
- Commercial legal publishing via the web - survival or maturity?
- Social impact of access to law - Self-representation, privacy etc
- Legal information for fee and for free: A symbiotic relationship?
- Law of developing countries on the Internet: How to sustain it?
- Standards for law on the web - citations, metadata, legalXML etc
- Community legal services - using and providing information
- International law on the web: Treaties, International Courts etc
- New developments in computerising legislation
- Finding law across the web - indexing and searching
- Litigation support on the web
- Innovative research uses of online legal data
- Court registries and electronic filing / transactions
- The effect of the Internet on legal practice
- Interactive and 'intelligent' legal services on the web
- Globalisation of Legal Information Institutes (LIIs)
- Teaching law using internet resources
- Automation of large-scale legal data on the web
This year we hope to have a particular focus on the following areas: law of
developing countries on the Internet; use of the Internet in the Courtroom;
social impact of access to legal information; legislation systems; search
techniques for legal information; and innovative research uses of online
legal data. 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 , and
should raise issues of theoretical or practical importance to others who
are developing or using internet-based law resources.
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| 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.
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| Key Dates |
- 22 August 2003 - Submission of extended abstract / draft full paper
- 19 September 2003 - Notifications of acceptance sent out by AustLII
- 17 October 2003 - Finalised / revised papers due
Submissions may be made by email to the Programme Chair (papers@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 RTF to HTML 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.
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| Publication of Papers |
Papers are to be submitted on the following basis:
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A CD-ROM will be provided to Conference delegates.
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CD-ROMs will be available for purchase after the Conference.
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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.
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