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Presentations  are available as soon as we receive them. Program of the Conference  Abstracts Conference languages: English and Italian.
Simultaneous translation in Plenary Sessions and 1st Parallel Session.
2nd and 3rd Parallel Sessions in English.
| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30th 2008 | 8:30 am - 9:15 am Registration
9:15-9:30 Introduction
- Nicola Palazzolo, Director of ITTIG
- Federico Gelli, Vice-president of Region of Tuscany
- Andrea Di Porto, Member of the Board of Directors of the CNR
- Daniel Poulin, Representative of LIIs
1st PLENARY SESSION
The Right to Access Legal Information
(Chair: GRAHAM GREENLEAF, AustLII, Australia)
| 9:30 | Albrecht Berger (OPOCE - Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, European Union), Access to Legislation Online in the EU: From Fee-based to Free Information | | 9:55 | Maximilian Herberger (Saarland University, Germany), Free Access to Law: What Is Still Ahead? (Only oral presentation) | | 10:20 | Daniel Poulin (LexUM, Canada), Fifteen Years of Open Access to Law: What Have Been Done and What Are the Next Steps | | 10:45 | Coffee break | | 11:00 | Iain Currie (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Problems of Privacy in Online Legal Materials | | 11:25 | Gherardo Casini (UNDESA - United Nations Department of Economicand Social Affairs), The International Framework and the Response of the International Community (Only oral presentation) | | 11:50 | Italo Scotti, Enrico Seta (Chamber of Deputies, Italy), Italian Legislation on the Internet: Citizens’ Access to Legislation in Force and Regulatory Reorganisation | | 12:15 | Floretta Rolleri (CNIPA - National Centre for ICT in the PublicAdministrations, Italy), The Role of CNIPA in Accessing Legal Information | | 12:40 | Discussion | | 12:55 | Fabrizio Turchi (ITTIG, Italy), Presentation of the Exhibition “Open Software for Law” | | 1:00 | Light lunch | EXHIBITION
Open Source Software for Law
(Co-ordinator: FABRIZIO TURCHI, ITTIG, Italy) Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (Italy), Official Gazette of Italian Republic, Publication and Archiving Processing
ITTIG (Italy), Law Making Environment: A System of Integrated Tools, to Support Production and Management of Legislative Sources and Direct Research of Relevant Provisions
ITTIG (Italy), xmLeges: An Open Source Application Suite for Legal Drafting
Regione Toscana (Italy), PAESI: Integrated Access to Norms and Procedures in the Immigration Field
TecnoDiritto (Italy), PACTO: Software for Drafting Administrative Acts 2nd PLENARY SESSION
Free Access to Law: Information Systems
and Institutions in Europe
(Chair: PASCALE BERTELOOT, OPOCE, European Union)
| 2:15 | Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich (University of Rome 3, Italy), Legal Information As an Essential Aspect of Citizenship (Only oral presentation) | | 2:40 | Stéphane Cottin (General Secretariat of the Government, France), Free Access to Legal and Legislative Information: the French Approach through the Enlightenment of the Strategic Reviews of Better Regulation in the European Union | | 3:05 | Aki Hietanen (Ministry of Justice, Finland), Free Access to Legal Information in Finland: Principles and Practice | | 3:30 | Nina Koch (Ministry of Justice, Denmark), Advantages in Inter-Institutional Cooperation - Design and Production | | 3:55 | Caterina Lupo (CNIPA - National Centre for ICT in the Public Administrations, Italy), Free Access to Legislation in Italy: The Role of Standards CNIPA for the Integration of Information Systems | | 4:20 | Michel Moret (Swiss Federal Chancellery, Switzerland), Free Access to Legal Information in Switzerland: Current Situation and Trends for the Future | | 4:45 | Günther Schefbeck (Parliamentary Documentation Department, Austria), Free Access to Legal and Legislative Information: the Austrian Approach | | 5:10 | Fernando Venturini (Chamber of Deputies Library, Italy), Legal Documents as Core Public Sector Information: from Professional Information to Internet Development Support | | 5:35-5:45 | Discussion | | 7:00 | Gala Event | | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31st 2008 | 1st PARALLEL SESSION
A Legal Framework for Open Access to Legal Information
(Chair: GIOVANNI SARTOR, EUI, Italy)
| 9:15 | Jon Bing (NRCCL - Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, Norway), Reconstructing a Vision: May a Consolidated Legal Information Service be Achieved, and What Requirements Should a Professional Service Meet? (Only oral presentation) | | 9:40 | Roberto Caso (University of Trento, Italy), Open Access to Legal Information and Copyright Rules: A Law and Technology Perspective | | 10:05 | Graham Greenleaf (AustLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute, Australia), The Obligations of Public Authorities Responsible for Originating Legal Materials | | 10:30 | Pasquale Costanzo (University of Genoa, Italy), Theory and Reality of the Official Publication of Legal Acts on Internet (Only oral presentation) | | 10:55 | Coffee break | | 11:10 | Davide Sarti (University of Florence, Italy), Open Access and Legal Exceptions to Copyright: Towards a General Fair Use Standard? | | 11:35 | Philip Leith (Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom), Current Copyright Problems and the History of Law Reporting in the UK | | 12:00 | Sebastiano Faro (ITTIG, Italy), Open Access to Outcomes of Publicly Funded Research | | 12:20 | Kevin Pun (HKLII - Hong Kong Legal Information Institute, Hong Kong), An Unexplored Legal Issue for the Provision of Free Legal Information in Hong Kong | | 12:40 | Discussion | | 1:00 | Light lunch | 2nd PARALLEL SESSION
The Global Scope of Free Access to Law
(Chair: DANIEL POULIN, LexUM, Canada)
| 9:15 | Fernando Galindo Ayuda (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Free Access to the Law in Latinamerica: Brasil, Argentina and Uruguay as Examples | | 9:40 | Carlos G. Gregorio (Research Institute for Justice, Argentina), Access to Judicial Information Via the Internet in Latin America: a Discussion of the Experiences, Trends and Difficulties | | 10:05 | Abdul Paliwala (University of Warwick, United Kingdom), Free Access to Law in Africa: Issues for Network Society | | 10:30 | Mariya Badeva-Bright (SAFLII - Southern African Legal Information Institute, South Africa), Re-thinking Open in Free and Open Access to Law (Only oral presentation) | | 10:55 | Coffee break | | 11:10 | Roberta Nannucci, Mario Ragona (ITTIG, Italy), Towards Free Access to Law: Research Experiences and Prospects | | 11:35 | Guillaume Blain, Karl Charbonneau, Marc-André Morissette (LexUM, Canada), SATAL, a Novel (and Cheap) Way of Building a Point- in-time Legislation Publication System | | 12:00 | Andrew Mowbray, Philip Chung, Graham Greenleaf (AustLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute, Australia), Improving Case Law: Automated Citators and Virtual Databases | | 12:20 | Alessandro Gallo (Springer Southern Europe, Italy), Open Access, Digital Preservation and Semantic Web: the New Era of a Multi-disciplinary Global Publisher | | 12:40 | Discussion | | 1:00 | Light lunch | 3rd PARALLEL SESSION
ICTs and the Quality of Legal Information
(Chair: DANIELA TISCORNIA, ITTIG, Italy)
| 9:15 | Roland Traunmüller (University of Linz, Austria), Legal Information Systems: Some Aspects on Quality and Access | | 9:40 | Friedrich Lachmayer (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Harald Hoffmann (Metadat, Austria), ICT and Quality of Legal Information | | 10:05 | Tom Van Engers (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Beyond the Internet Hype; How Law Can Be Made Effective | | 10:30 | Thomas Gordon (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), The Legal Knowledge Interchange Format | | 10:55 | Coffee break | | 11:10 | Pompeu Casanovas (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), Justice Through the Internet: Hopes and Challenges of Law and the Semantic Web | | 11:35 | Monica Palmirani (University of Bologna, Italy), Modeling Dynamic Legal Information System | | 12:00 | Hans Van Bossuyt (Court of Appeal in Ghent, Belgium), Bertel De Groote (University College Ghent, Belgium), Towards a Standard Structure for the Drafting of Judgments? How Small Measures Can Give Way to Great Effects | | 12:20 | Hughes-Jehan Vibert (MINES ParisTech, France), Legal Wikis: In Search of Credibility | | 2:40 | Discussion | | 1:00 | Light lunch | 3rd PLENARY SESSION
Strategic Solutions and Sustainability Models
for the Diffusion and Sharing of Legal Knowledge
(Chair: THOMAS R. BRUCE, Cornell Law School, USA) | 2:15 | Thomas R. Bruce (Legal Information Institute - Cornell Law School, USA), Foundlings on the Cathedral Steps: Public Search, Domain-Enhanced Search, Metadata, and End Users | | 2:40 | Pascale Berteloot (OPOCE - Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, European Union), Cross-border Access to Law and Access to EU-law: Possible Common Approaches | | 3:05 | Graham Greenleaf (AustLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute, Australia), AustLII's Enterprise Model: Constraints and Opportunities in Funding Free Access to Law | | 3:30 | Pierre-Paul Lemyre (LexUM, Canada), The Evolving Ecology of Legal Information Market | | 3:55 | Danièle Bourcier (CNRS, France), Is Creative Commons a Strategic Solution for the Diffusion of Legal Knowledge? | | 4:20 | Gianmaria Ajani (University of Turin, Italy), Introducing the Legal Taxonomy Syllabus (LTS) on EU Consumer Law | | 4:45 | Ivan Mokanov (LexUM, Canada), Logical Framework for the Evaluation of the Outcome of Free Access to Law on Lawyers Competence | | 5:10-5:30 | Discussion and Conclusions
Mario Ragona (ITTIG, Italy), Final Speech (in Italian) |
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