Open Law: how technology impacts the rule of law

<p>In episode no. 65 I speak with Michael Green SC, Barrister and founder of Barnet.</p> <p>The discussion covers:</p> <ul> <li>Open Law and how technology can make information more accessible;</li> <li>Who are custodians of legal information and how to best maintain it for future generations;</li> <li>The importance of libraries, their centrality to the law and the function of a library in an online world;</li> <li>The changes to the practise of law over the past few decades due to digitisation;</li> <li>Issues of copyright in digitising Commonwealth Law Reports in the “One to a hundred project”</li> <li>A failed experiment in the law:</li> <li>How BarNet’s purpose and activities have changed since 1997 including splitting the networking and the legal publishing functions;</li> <li>How legal researchers select online research platform;</li> <li>Why JADE considers cases at the “paragraph level” and how it actually works in terms of citations, note-ups and the technology and research that supports it;</li> <li>Current research into the differences in information retention from paper and electronic means;</li> <li>The function” of paper in reflection and contemplation, and limitations of online research;</li> <li>The question of ownership and resourcing of online materials;</li> <li>The role of predictive analytics and imagination in moving our society forward;</li> <li>The difficulty in reconciling different lenses through which we should regulate AI;</li> <li>The need to think carefully about the role of justice, courts and litigants;</li> <li>How Michael has maintained a busy practice at the bar and an online research company; and</li> <li>Michael’s definition of legal innovation.</li> </ul> <p>Proudly sponsored by Neota Logic</p> <p>Links:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://openlaw.org.au/">Open Law </a></li> <li><a href="https://jade.io/">Jade</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.iclr.co.uk/">Welcome to ICLR</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.neotalogic.com/neota-logics-client-solution-gallery/">Neota Logic's App Gall