Palfrey on The Path of Legal Information

Vice Dean John G. Palfrey of the Harvard Law School recently gave a lecture entitled The Path of Legal Information, on 9 November 2010, at the Harvard Law School.

In his lecture, Dean Palfrey proposes the development of an open, interoperable system of digital legal information, and describes possible consequences of such a system for legal scholars, law students, citizens, and government.

The system proposed seems consistent with the objectives of the free access to law movement and the Law.gov legal open government data movement.

Click here for video of the lecture.

Click here for Dean Palfrey’s abstract of the lecture.

Conference Calls for NHPRC Electronic Records & Digitizing Historical Records Grants

Conference calls have been scheduled for potential applicants for Electronic Records Projects grants and Digitizing Historical Records grants offered by the U.S. National National Historical Publications and Records Commission. These grants cover the preservation of digital legal information and the digitization of legal information. Here are the conference call dates:

• Conference Calls for Electronic Records Projects:
• 28 January 2010, 3:00 pm Eastern Time;
• 8 February 2010, 4:00 pm Eastern Time.
• Conference Calls for Digitizing Historical Records Projects:
• 2 February 2010, 3:00 pm Eastern Time;
• 10 February 2010, 4:00 pm Eastern Time.

Electronic Records Projects grants are “normally … for 1 to 3 years and up to $300,000. The Commission expects to make up to 6 grants in this category, for a total of up to $600,000.” Electronic Records Projects grants have an optional draft submission deadline of 1 April 2010, and a final submission deadline of 3 June 2010.

Digitizing Historical Records grants are “normally … for 1 to 3 years and up to $150,000. The Commission expects to make up to 5 grants in this category, for a total of up to $400,000.” Digitizing Historical Records grants have an optional draft submission deadline of 1 April 2010, and a final submission deadline of 3 June 2010.

Fore more information on the conference calls, please see the announcement (lower right screen).

For more information on the grants, please see the Electronic Records Projects grants page or the Digitizing Historical Records grants page.

HT Margie Maes.

AALS 2010

AALS 2010: The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, is being held 6-10 January 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The conference theme is “Transformative Law.” Many of the programs concern legal technology or legal communication.

The conference Website is available here.

The conference program is available here.

The conference events are being tweeted on Twitter at #aals and #aals2010.