Law via the Internet 2005 7th Conference on  Computerisation of Law via the Internet University of the South Pacific Emalus Campus, Port Vila, Vanuatu 17-19 November 2005

Last updated: 17 October 2005

Note: It is not too late to submit an abstract. A few places are still available. Please send your abstract directly to papers@austlii.edu.au.

• Jo’ Abuodha (Assistant Editor, Kenya Law Reports, Nairobi), “Law Reporting as a Tool for Fighting Corruption in Kenya”
• Dr Mohammed L Ahmadu (University of the South Pacific, Fiji), “Expectation versus Reality: Access to Online Legal Education and Materials in South Pacific Island Countries
• Marcus Bornfreund (University of Ottawa, Canada), “Opensource.law”
• Karl Charbonneau, Marc-Andre Morissette, Daniel Poulin (LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada), “PULP: Serving the needs for open publication of law in Canada”
• Michel Djomeni (International Relations Institute of Cameroon), “The Impact of Constitutional Bilingualism and the Status of Developing Country on the Accessibility of the Law via the Internet: the Case Study of Cameroon”
• Graham Greenleaf, Andrew Mowbray and Philip Chung (AustLII), "CommonLII - Creating an international common law"
• Carlos G Gregorio (Instituto de Investigacion para law Justicia, Buenos Aires, Argentina), “The Current State of Access to Law in Latin America and the Caribbean”
• Roslyn Hoping and Julie Hulama (Department of Prime Minister and NEC, Papua New Guinea), “Electronic Publishing of Laws the Way to Go for Papua New Guinea”
• Professor Robert Hughes (Head, Law School, University of the South Pacific) and Anton Hughes (Law Faculty, University of Tasmania), “A Virtual Legal Community: An Online Support Network for Pacific Legal Professionals”
• Dan Hunter (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania/University of Melbourne), “Freeing the Walled Gardens”
• Professor Dr Makoto Ibusuki (Ritsumeikan School of Law, Kyoto, Japan), “Digital Revolution on the Japanese Legal Resources: Why and How”
• Pierre-Paul Lemyre (LexUM – CRDP, University of Montreal, Canada), “Availability, Reliability and Usability: Some Thoughts About Free Access to Law”
• Janine Miller (CanLII, Canada), “The Institute or the Law Library?”
• James G Milles (State University of New York, University of Buffalo Law School), “Collection Economics: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market”
• Justice Stuart Morris (President, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Australia), “The Importance of Free Access to Law in a Participatory Planning Appeals System”
• Andrew Mowbray, Philip Chung and Graham Greenleaf (AustLII), Roger Burton-West (BAILII), "Improving a global research network of free access providers of legal information: Synchronisation, stability, redundancy, load balancing and shared metadata"
• Peter Murgatroyd (University of the South Pacific), “The Pacific law portal: Development of a Regional Online Law Library to meet the needs of small Island States in the South Pacific” with Margaret McAleese (University of Sydney), “Encouraging the Use of Medium Neutral Citation”
• Hajime Nishitani (Hiroshima University), “Application of Treaties under Japanese Law Necessities for Database”
• Osai J Ojigho (Legal Research and Development Consultants, Nigeria), “Free Access to Law in Developing Countries on the Internet: How to Obtain and Sustain It? – The Nigerian Legal Environment”
• Dr Oladejo Olowu (University of the South Pacific), “Citing the Law: The Challenges of Uniform Referencing Style for Internet-Based Resources”
• Daniel Poulin, Eric Pare and Ivan Mokanov (LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada), “RefLex – Bridging Open Access with a Legacy Legal Information System”
• Talwant Singh (Additional District Judge, Delhi, India), “ICT in the District Courts of Delhi”
• Erica Taylor (CCH Australia Limited), “Commercial Legal Publishing On-Line”
• Donna Buckingham (NZLII), “What’s in a Name? New Zealand and the growth of free on-line legal information”
• Armin Wittfoth, Philip Chung, Graham Greenleaf and Andrew Mowbray (AustLII), "Making Point-in-time legislation generic"
• Edward P Wolfers (Professor of Politics, University of Wollongong, Australia)

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