18th Law Via the Internet Conference, Florence, Italy, 2018 (Free Access to Law Movement)
The Law Via the Internet Conference (LvI) is the annual international conference of the Free Access to Law Movement (FALM). The Free Access to Law Movement was formed in 2002 when it made its famous Montreal Declaration on Free Access to Law. According to the Free Access to Law Movement, it is “an international voluntary association which has as its members more than 50 organisations from around the world.
FALM members provide and support free access to legal information, consistent with the principles of the Free Access to Law Movement and subscribe to the Declaration on Free Access to Law.” The said Declaration is built on the following three pillars: “Public legal information from all countries and international institutions is part of the common heritage of humanity. Maximising access to this information promotes justice and the rule of law; Public legal information is digital common property and should be accessible to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge; Organisations such as legal information institutes have the right to publish public legal information and the government bodies that create or control that information should provide access to it so that it can be published by other parties.”
Law Via the Internet (LvI) 2018 Conference Information
Event: 18th Law Via the Internet Annual International Conference of the Free Access to Law Movement
Conference theme: Knowledge of the Law in the Big Data Age
Date: 11 – 12 October 2018
Venue: The Aula Magna of the Rectorate of the University of Florence, Piazza S. Marco 4, Firenze, Italy
Conference chairs: Ginevra Peruginelli, MC Italian Member of a European COST Action on research evaluation in the SSH and an editor of Journal of Open Access to Law; Sebastiano Faro, Primo Ricercatore (Senior Researcher) at ITTIG-CNR.
Keynote Speakers: Deirdre Curtin, Professor of Law and Head of the Law Department at the European University Institute; Miguel Poiares Maduro, Professor of Law at the European University Institute.
Speakers: Alejandra Abal, Warren Agin, Comfort A.B. Asare, Mariya Badeva-Bright, Matthew Bell, Frank Bennett, Denis Berthault, Giovanni Cattarino, Luca Cervone, Philip Chung, John Dann, Giulia Del Gamba, François Desseilles, Rossana Ducato, Fernanda Faini, Marie Farge, Gianluigi Fioriglio, Jean Gasnault, Marco Giacalone, Giorgio Giannone Codiglione, Deborah Grbac, Graham Greenleaf, Carlos Gregorio de Gràcia, Nikitas Hatzimihail, Aki Hietanen, Václav Janeček, John Joergensen, František Kasl, Greg Kempe, Camille Le Douaron, Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Giuseppe Lisella, Brunero Liseo, Sandro Mameli, Jim Mangiafico, Sarah Markiewicz, Patricia Martín-Chozas, Bruno Mathis, François Mestre, Giulio Michetti, Leesi Ebenezer Mitee, Felipe Moreira, Andrew Mowbray, Janet Odetsi-Twum, Arttu Oksanen, Elena Alina Ontanu, Jenny Paglia, Monica Palmirani, Lucia Panciera, Fabio Pappalardo, Stefano Pietropaoli, Publications Office of the EU, Publications Office of the EU and ELI Task Force, Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel, Francesco Romeo, Arianna Rossi, Gianpaolo Maria Ruotolo, Francesco Giuseppe Sacco, Nicolas Sannier, Claudio Sarra, Erich Schweighofer, Ranbir Singh, Sarah Sutherland, Arianna Toniolo, Mark Tottenham, Giuseppe Vaciago, Marc van Opijnen, Marco Velicogna, Kshitiz Verma, and Giancarlo Vilella.
Law Via the Internet (LvI) Conferences From 1997
The first Law Via the Internet Conference (1st LvI) was held in 1997 at the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), Sydney, Australia. Subsequent conferences were held as follows: 1999 (2nd LvI), Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), Sydney, Australia; 2001 (3rd LvI), Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), Sydney, Australia; 2002 (4th LvI), LexUM, Montreal, Canada; 2003 (5th LvI), Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), Sydney, Australia; and 2004 (6th LvI), ADBS (Association of Specialized Researchers and Librarians), the ADIJ (Association for the Development of Legal Information) and Juriconnexion (Association of Legal Information Users), Paris, France.
The others are as follows: 2005 (7th LvI), Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) & Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), Port Vila, Vanuatu; 2007 (8th LvI), LexUM, Montreal, Canada; 2008 (9th LvI), Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques (ITTIG), Florence, Italy; 2009 (10th LvI), Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII), Durban, South Africa; 2011 (11th LvI), Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII), Hong Kong, China; 2012 (12th LvI), Legal Information Institute (Cornell), (LII) Ithaca, United States; 2013 (13th LvI), Jersey Legal Information Board (jerseylaw) Jersey, Channel Islands; 2014 (14th LvI), Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII), Kenya Law & African Legal Information Institute (AfricanLII), Cape Town, South Africa; 2015 (15th LvI), Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), Sydney, Australia; 2016 (16th LvI), Cylaw (Cylaw), Limassol, Cyprus; 2017 (17th LvI), The Rutgers University School of Law, Newark Law Library (Rutgers Law Library, Newark), Newark, United States.
Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee is an Associate Professor of Law. He holds a multidisciplinary PhD in international human rights law, legal information technology (aspects of legal informatics), indigenous customary law, and indigenous rights and LLM in transborder comparative analysis of free access to public legal information. He is a former legal research national consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the 1998 PCASED project that provided the juridical foundations for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) 1998 Moratorium which culminated in a regional multilateral treaty: ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and other Related Matters 2006. He devised the <.officiallaws) official public legal information generic top-level domain (gTLD) system for easy identification of the reliable versions of the laws published online worldwide; developed the system of nationally networked one-stop official public legal information websites (the NOPLIW system) for the optimal findability and management of online law databases; invented the human rights-based public access-adequate huricompatisation model of ascertainment of indigenous customary law (huricompatisation); formulated the new human rights-advocacy approach (NHRAA) that consists of a set of ten onerous criteria for the formal universal recognition of new human rights; and pioneered the global advocacy of the formal universal recognition of the right of free access to public legal information as a substantive or stand-alone human right in 2017 (https://publiclegalinformation.com). His New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series consists of 22 (twenty-two) modern academic article-style independent but interconnected chapters of the following four books:
Developments in Human Rights Law and the Proposed Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information: The New Human Rights-Advocacy Approach and the Ten Criteria for the Formal Recognition of New Human Rights (Volume 1) — ISBN 9789083108520 (eBook) and 9789083108506 (paperback);
The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access (Volume 2) — ISBN 9789083108568 (eBook) and 9789083108544 (paperback);
Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information (Volume 3) — ISBN 9789083108513 (eBook) and 9789083108582 (paperback); and
A Model Empirical Study of the Current State of Governmental Provision of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information (Volume 4) — ISBN 9789083108551 (eBook) and 9789083108537 (paperback).
The Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Advocacy (HURAPLA) website (https://publiclegalinformation.com) contains details of the availability of these books and valuable legal information resources.
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