8th International Conference Law Via The Internet

LexUM, the University of Montreal's legal informatics laboratory, is hosting the 8th International Conference Law Via The Internet to be held in Montreal on October 25-26th, 2007.

"This year, a number of relatively innovative topics have been chosen for the Conference: we will introduce new themes relating to doctrine, document preservation and legal information overload. Doctrine and its production and publication are very high profile. Indeed, issues related to documents that complement primary sources of law are certainly the next frontier. Preservation of both pre-digital law and that born today in digital environments will also be the focus of a major session. Also, issues related to the proliferation of legal information will be presented and discussed. The more traditional themes of development through promotion of access to legal information and, generally, the obstacles, challenges and lessons learned with respect to free publication will round out the program..."

The conference will be preceded by the Annual Meeting of the Legal Information Institutes, including CanLII, the Canadian Legal Information Institute.