If you will be in Chicago for the American Bar Association's Annual Meeting please join The ABA Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress for a free CLE Program.
Friday, July 31, 2009
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
InterContinental, Burnham Room, 8th Floor
505 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL
In a world that is linked together through increasingly numerous and complex transactions, access to reliable, quality texts of laws, regulations and court opinions is essential. There can be no substitute for the words of lawmakers and judges.
Given the vast availability of online legal resources, how easy is it to determine what constitutes a reliable source of information? How does one know when the law is the law that it purports to be? And why does it matter?
This panel will address these issues in part by describing an effort designed to provide access to the official and authentic legal texts from around the world known as the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN). The standards developed for this global legal information system are equally applicable to U.S. federal and state online primary legal resources. The results of a survey conducted by the American Association of Law Libraries finds that online primary legal resources for U.S. states currently cannot be considered trustworthy. Finally, the critical need for access to trustworthy legal access in the context of Rule of Law efforts, legislative strengthening programs, and legal/judicial reform projects will also be discussed.
Given the vast availability of online legal resources, how easy is it to determine what constitutes a reliable source of information? How does one know when the law is the law that it purports to be? And why does it matter?
This panel will address these issues in part by describing an effort designed to provide access to the official and authentic legal texts from around the world known as the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN). The standards developed for this global legal information system are equally applicable to U.S. federal and state online primary legal resources. The results of a survey conducted by the American Association of Law Libraries finds that online primary legal resources for U.S. states currently cannot be considered trustworthy. Finally, the critical need for access to trustworthy legal access in the context of Rule of Law efforts, legislative strengthening programs, and legal/judicial reform projects will also be discussed.
Panelists:
- Dr. Janice Hyde, Law Library of Congress, Washington, DC
- Mary Alice Baish, American Association of Law Libraries, Washington, DC
- Catherine Sanders Reach, American Bar Association Legal Technology Resource Center, Chicago, IL
*CLE credits have been requested for this program. Registered attendees of the 2009 ABA Annual Meeting are eligible to receive free CLE credits.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact Amy Horton-Newell at hortona@staff.abanet.org or (202) 662-1693.
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