[open-government] Fwd: Berkman Center: Law.gov Workshops Next Week - Thursday 6/17 and Friday 6/18

Mon Jun 14 16:59:38 UTC 2010

Very interesting! Would love to hear from anyone who attends.

Jonathan

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Next Thursday (6/17) and Friday (6/18) the Harvard Law School Library
and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society will host two workshops
focused on the Law.gov initiative, a proposed registry and repository
of all primary legal materials of the United States. The workshops,
organized by Carl Malamud, President of Public.Resource.Org, aim to
convene advocates for the public domain, lawyers, policy makers,
librarians, archivists, students, and all those interested to discuss
issues around access to primary materials in Massachusetts, and also
to reflect on the national series of workshops held in the past year
in order to identify core principles and policy mechanisms for public
information.

The workshops will feature Carl Malamud, Berkman Faculty Co-Director
John Palfrey, Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, the Honorable
Dina E. Fein, Boston College Librarian Joan Shear, Harvard Law
Cyberlaw Clinic Director Phil Malone, and many more.

We hope you will join us for one or both of these events. To learn
more or register, please visit:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgovMA or
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgov.

More about the workshops:

Law.gov: Massachusetts (6/17)

Do we have access to all primary legal materials in Massachusetts?
What are the best practices for making information accessible?  What
obstacles face institutions trying to make it available?  Our hope is
to create a document outlining the most salient issues in
accessibility to Massachusetts legal information with suggestions of
things that could be done to effect the most accessible system
possible in Massachusetts.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgovMA

Law.gov: Putting it All Together (6/18)

The Harvard Law School Law.Gov workshop on June 18 is the last in a
6-month series of such workshops that have taken place throughout the
country.  In this final workshop, participants will discuss the
implications of some core principles about access to primary legal
materials. Are these principles workable? What will it take to make
them real? What are the implications of these principles? Our hope is
that upon completion of this workshop, a crisp set of basic principles
can be presented and discussed, perhaps leading to the enactment of
some of these principles into policy through mechanisms such as
judicial rules, executive orders, or legislation.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgov

Registration and full agendas for both workshops can be found at
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgovMA and
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgov.

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