** Apologies for cross postings **
This is to advise that the latest edition of the Journal of Information Law
& Technology (JILT), is now available online as from 22 March.
Issue 2002 (1) - http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/02-1/
Topics include: the use of IT by law firms; the use of computers in the
police and the courts; e-commerce; digital signatures; privacy; intellectual
property; databases, UCITA and legal IT software.
This issue includes six refereed articles, five commentaries, a work in
progress piece, and two book reviews and we welcome authors from Australia,
Austria, Hong Kong, Germany, Norway, The Netherlands, Spain and the UK and
the US.
Papers include:
No Remedy for Disappointed Trust - The Liability Regime for Certification
Authorities Towards Third Parties Outwith the EC Directive in England and
Germany Compared, by Steffen Hindelang, Germany.
The Value of Privacy Engineering by Steve Kenny and John Borking, Dutch Data
Protection Authority.
An Empirical Study in the Use of IT by Small and Large Legal Firms in the
UK, by Gurmak Singh, John O'Donoghue and Karen Broome, the Business School,
University of Wolverhampton.
Law Firm Clients as Drivers of Law Firm Change, by Petter Gottschalk,
Norwegian School of Management.
Name-Matching Algorithms for Legal Case-Management Systems by
L. Karl Branting from LiveWire Logic, Incorporation, Morrisville, USA.
The EU Database Right and University Teaching Materials by Jacqueline
Lipton, Case Western Reserve University School of Law,Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
BA Law with Information Technology - The First Graduates, by Christopher
Gale, Leeds Law School, Leeds Metropolitan University.
Engineering Students' Moot Court Debates the Question: 'Is Software
Patentable?' by Orlan Lee, School of Business & Management
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.
Weathering the Commercial Storm: Why Everyone Should Steer Clear of the
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act by Debra Tuomey, Assistant
State Attorney, Florida, USA.
The Schengen Information System in Austria: An Essential Tool in Day to Day
Police and Border Control Work? by Stephen Karanja, Section for Information
Technology and Administrative Systems, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo,
Norway.
A Code of Practice for the Globalisation of Electronic Commerce and
Government, by Fernando Galindo, Professor of Philosophy of Law
University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Audit Trails in Evidence - A Queensland Case Study by Caroline Allinson,
Information Management Division, Queensland Police Service, Brisbane,
Australia, and Information Security Research Centre (ISRC), Queensland
University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Intellectual Property Law, by Lionel Bently and Brad Sherman
Reviewed by:Charles Oppenheim, Loughborough University
Internet Law and Regulation, 3rd Edition, by Graham J Smith
Reviewed by: Uta Kohl, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
The next issue, 2002 (2), will be published at the end of June 2002.
As ever we are keen to highlight new and important areas of research, so
please contact us if you have a paper you would like to be considered for
publication, be it an academic paper, commentary, information paper, a work
in progress or book or IT review. Papers for consideration should be sent to
us by end of May 2002
Please pass this information onto any interested colleagues. Thank you for
your time
Julie Moreton
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J Moreton (BSC, hons, DipIT)
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Electronic Law Journals Project
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