LawWithoutWalls Conposium 2013: Tweets and Resources

The LawWithoutWalls Conposium 2013 was held 13-14 April 2013 at the University of Miami School of Law in Miami, Florida, USA.

Here is a description of LawWithoutWalls:

LawWithoutWalls is a part-virtual, educational collaboratory created by Michele DeStefano and Michael Bossone at the University of Miami School of Law. It brings together a transdisciplinary group of people and institutions from around the world to engage on the burning issues facing the legal profession, collaboratively solve legal problems, and develop the skillsets needed to thrive in the new, global legal marketplace.

The 2013 Conposium presentations — during which “teams present their Projects of Worth (and prototypes) to a panel of judges” — included a number on new legal information or communication systems.

Click here for the event schedule.

The Twitter hashtag for the event was #lwow2013

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the event, in .csv format.

Knake on Democratizing Legal Education

Professor Renee Newman Knake of Michigan State University and the ReInventLaw Lab has posted Democratizing Legal Education, forthcoming in Connecticut Law Review.

Here is the abstract:

Millions of Americans lack representation for their legal problems while thousands of lawyers are unemployed. Why? Commentators and academics offer a range of answers to this question, from economic factors to regulatory constraints. Whatever the root cause, clearly a massive delivery problem exists for personal legal services. Most individuals simply do not realize when a lawyer might be necessary or helpful. This Article, written at the invitation of the Connecticut Law Review for their Volume 45 Symposium entitled “Are Law School’s Passing the Bar? Examining the Demands and Limitations of the Legal Education Market,” suggests that democratizing legal education — i.e., systematically providing basic information about how to access legal services to the general public — offers a solution to the unmet need for those services, as well as to the unemployment crisis among the legal profession more broadly. Law schools have an important role to play in this effort. This article offers three recommendations.

The recommendations are:

First, law schools can fuel innovation in new markets and in methods for delivery, thereby leading to greater public awareness of legal services. Second, schools and regulators should work together to reduce the cost and time involved in training and licensing for lawyers who desire to engage in limited practice areas that are underserved, such as housing, domestic relations, and child custody. Third, law schools should educate the public about law, lawyers, and legal services through programs that also enhance student learning.

Tweets and Resources for ReInventLaw Dubai 2012

Twitter tweets from ReInventLaw Dubai 2012: “an ‘un’conference devoted to law, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship”, held 10 December 2012 in Dubai, UAE, are archived here in .csv format.

Click here for the event’s Website.

The Twitter hashtag for the event is #ReInventLawDubai

Click here for the event’s program.

The event was sponsored by The ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law, and was co-organized by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake.

Goodenough and Purdom on Reimagining Legal Education

Professor Oliver Goodenough of Vermont Law School and Harvard’s Berkman Center Law Lab, and Assistant Dean Rebecca Purdom of Vermont Law School, have published Reimagining Legal Education, Huffington Post, 5 September 2012.

Summary:

[...] We need to invent ways to realize the goals of modern [legal] education in the new [technological] modalities and forms on their own terms, uncoupled from the old structures of classroom, text, and homework. In the process, we will create new forms of pedagogy and new goals for learning that will connect our students with a richer, more nuanced, and increasingly capable understanding of the complicated world of 21st century law. [...]

As an example the authors describe a law-school evidence course in which the content is delivered via an interactive computer game.

For more information, please see the complete post.

Resources About LawTechCamp London 2012

This post lists selected resources related to LawTechCamp London 2012 — “a BarCamp-style community UnConference for new media and technology enthusiasts and legal professionals” — held 29 June 2012 in London, England, UK.

Click here for the conference program.

Here is Twitter-related information about the event:

• The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #lawtechcamplondon.
• For archived Twitter tweets, in .csv format: click here for tweets dated 28-29 June 2012; click here for tweets dated 30 June-4 July 2012.
• For Ann Priestley’s graphs of tweeters and tweet volume, click here.
• For Ann Priestley’s TAGSExplorer network graph of tweeters, click here.
• LegalAware: my #lawtechcamplondon cloud.

Here are posts and other resources about the event that I’ve been able to identify [please mention others in the comments]:

• Ajaz Ahmed’s presentation described in Legal Futures: Freeserve founder says it will take non-lawyers to bring innovation to “hated” legal market.
• Paul Bernal: Privacy Is Not the Enemy….
• Josh Blackman: Josh Blackman Presents at LawTechCamp London 2012 – Assisted Decision Making.
• Michael Bossone: PUSH: A Spoken Word Poem about Law, Technology, and Fear.
• Chris Dale: Moving on the discussion and ways of presentation at Lawtech Camp London.
• Michele DeStefano: Virtual Third Places: Making Room in the Law Market.
• John Flood: LawTechCamp London 2012.
• Joanna Goodman: Unconference! Beat poetry and quantitative analysis – we are all futurists now! (HT Brian Inkster)
• Monica Goyal: Challenges of Late Adoption.
• Monica Goyal: LawTechCamp London.
• Jon Harman: Reflections, Pushing and #LawTechCampLondon.
• Brian Inkster at The Time Blawg: LawTech Camp London 2012: In Tweets.
• Brian Inkster at The Time Blawg: LawTech Camp London 2012 Reviewed: Time to Push.
• Renee Newman Knake: Innovation in the Delivery of Legal Services.
• Renee Newman Knake: Recap of LawTechCamp London - renamed ReInvent Law London 2013.
• Renee Newman Knake: Technology and Untapped Markets in Law, a Pecha Kucha talk for LawTechCamp London.
• Marc Lauritsen: Ontologies and Openness in Law Practice Automation.
• LawSync: Law Tech Camp London 2012.
• Legal 2.0: Stuff I might have said at LawTechCamp London.
• Legal Aware: John Flood chairs a debate on the impact of the Cloud on law and legal education #LawTechCampLondon 2012.
• Legal Aware: #LawTechCampLondon 2012 : where law confronted innovation.
• LegalAware: my #lawtechcamplondon cloud.
• Paul Maharg: LawTechCamp, London (HT Ann Priestley).
• Tom McGinn at VirtualCourthouse: LawTechCampLondon 2012 (HT Brian Inkster).
• Alastair Moyes writing in Law Society Gazette: Challenging the speed of change (HT Brian Inkster).
• Richard Parnham: A tale of two conferences (HT Brian Inkster).
• Ann Priestley: #lawtechcamplondon 1: disruptive innovation?
• Ann Priestley: #lawtechcamplondon: data and disruption.
• Ann Priestley: #lawtechcamplondon: reinventing the law conference.
• Real Business Intelligence: Kicking the Machine.
• Neil Rose at Legal Futures: The next big thing.
• John Sheridan and The National Archives: Experts to contribute to world-leading legislation website.
• Solicitors Journal: Lawyers told to invest in ‘great ideas, not spreadsheets’ (HT Brian Inkster).
• Valentino Spataro has created a #lawtechcamplondon group on the Gloxa platform.
• Richard Susskind’s keynote address described by Legal Futures: “More for less”, liberalisation and technology: Susskind lays out vision of the future.
• Adam Wyner: 21st Century Law Practice and Law Tech Camp Presentations (HT Ann Priestley).

A notable characteristic of this event is that it gathers together in one place individuals from most of the different subgroups of the legal informatics community.

The event’s organizers include:

• Daniel Martin Katz, Michigan State University College of Law
• Renee Newman Knake, Michigan State University College of Law
• Monica Goyal, owner and CEO of MyLegalBriefcase.com
• Lisa Webley, University of Westminster Law School
• John Flood, University of Westminster Law School
• David Allison, The College of Law
• Jon Harman, The College of Law 

HT @reneeknake.

Knake on Innovation in the Delivery of Legal Services

Professor Renee Newman Knake of Michigan State University College of Law has posted slides of her presentation entitled Innovation in the Delivery of Legal Services, and How Legal Education Can Play a Role, given at The 21st Century Law Practice London Summer Program 2012, held June 17- July 3, 2012 in London, England, UK.

The presentation discusses three approaches to legal education reform that could encourage innovation in legal services delivery: “curriculum reform,” “cross-institution and cross-sector alliances,” and “creative communities.”

Katz and Knape to Lead Legal Innovation Lab @ MSU

A new law practice and legal technology laboratory — called ReInvent Law — will be launched at the Michigan State University College of Law, and co-directed by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake, according to a 19 May 2012 post at Computational Legal Studies.

According to the post, the work of the lab will embrace “innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship,” and will address topics including legal education, legal prediction, the development of new law-related technologies, legal marketing, the delivery of legal services, and legal problem solving.

For more information, please contact the directors.

HT @computational.