Kirchberger on Law as an App

Christine Kirchberger, Esq., LL.M., M.L.I.T., junior lecturer and doctoral candidate at Stockholm University Department of Law‘s Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute (IRI), has posted Law as an App, on her blog entitled iinek’s blog.

The post was written in preparation for Ms. Kirchberger’s presentation at the conference, Juridiska tjänster via webben – drivkrafter och överväganden, held 15 November 2011 in Stockholm.

Click here for the presentation slides.

Here is an excerpt of the post:

[...] When we talk about law as a service or law as an app, we could start by discussing what law is. While legal theorists have done this for quite some time now, there is still no generally accepted answer. If we – more practically – assume that law is there for a purpose – the purpose of making society run smoothly and avoiding unbalance – one could assume that society should be aware of the law on a daily basis in order to allow it to run smoothly.

The ideal law app, therefore, tells a person in advance – proactively – if a legal problem is near and how to avoid it. This could be compared to a GPS navigator warning a car driver of a nearby traffic jam and suggesting alternative routes. Think about how many legal disputes could be prevented just by getting the right information/advice at the right time. [...]

For more information, please see the complete post.

The post is to some extent a response to Jason Wilson‘s post entitled I am Now an App.

For more information on Ms. Kirchberger’s research, please see her post at VoxPopuLII entitled, If the mountain will not come to the prophet, the prophet will go to the mountain.

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