Reimagining Justice

In episode no. 65 I speak with Michael Green SC, Barrister and founder of Barnet. The discussion covers: Open Law and how technology can make information more accessible; Who are custodians of legal information and how to best maintain it for future generations; The importance of libraries, their centrality to the law and the function of a library in an online world; The changes to the practise of law over the past few decades due to digitisation; Issues of copyright in digitising Commonwealth Law Reports in the “One to a hundred project” A failed experiment in the law: How BarNet’s purpose and activities have changed since 1997 including splitting the networking and the legal publishing functions; How legal researchers select online research platform; 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; Current research into the differences in information retention from paper and electronic means; The fu