Evento - SubTech 2010

SubTech 2010 Eleventh International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice University of Zaragoza - 1st to 3rd July 2010

What is SubTech?
SubTech is a European/US conference which has been meeting bi-annually for the past 22 years since 1990, alternating between a US and a European host. The topic of the conference is the use of technology in legal education - how to produce better graduates who have a greater understanding of technology as well as how to use technology in the law school to enable better teaching. This includes training students for a technological law practice or court.
SubTech has been an invited conference since it's inception - most of the costs of attending (except for hotel and travel) are met by the conference sponsors. For the 2010 event we intend to similarly cover these costs. Attendees are active participants, rather than observers, so the conference has the feel of an informal workshop more than that of the typical academic conference. In 2010, the conference is being hosted by Fernando Galindo and Lefis in Zaragoza.

Why attend SubTech?

SubTech is an opportunity to meet with other legal educationalists and to discuss and test out ideas, and to see recent usages of technology in the law school. The social programme has always been an important element of the conference, with an opportunty to make links with other Universities and researchers into technology and legal education.
SubTech has always been an attractive conference to attend and - since it has not been accessible without invite - it has meant that those who do attend have been active in the field. This year, we want to attract younger people. Those who attend are usually invited back for the following years, so it is important to take this opportunity to become a member of the SubTech invitee list. To ensure that we get only attendees who are active in the field, everyone will prepare a short paper (to be included in the conference pack) outlining the progressive issues they have been tackling in legal technology over the past 3 or 4 years. This is to be emailed to Fernando Galindo by 1^st June.
The major themes are: State of the Legal Technology Curriculum, Access to Justice, Court and Administrative Technology, New Developments in Legal Education.

Where is SubTech being held?

SubTech is being held at the University of Zaragoza which is within walking distance of the city centre (around 20 mins to the Pilar Basilica). Working facilities are good.

What is the SubTech philosophy?

The conference series is dedicated to substantive applications of information technology in law, as they are used or studied in legal education.

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  By "substantive" we mean applications that deal with the distinctively legal substance of what lawyers, judges, and law teachers do.
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  By "legal education" we mean all contexts in which law is studied and taught (not just traditional law schools).

The historical application categories include:

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  Computer-aided instruction, broadly conceived
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  Artificial intelligence & knowledge management
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  Practice technologies like document automation
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  Legal research, databases

These applications and contexts define such a vast landscape of subjects that we avoid getting into doctrine, policy, and other collateral matters. (For instance, "law of technology" and topics like privacy and intellectual property.) Our focus, in other words, is on where the technology of law intersects with legal education. In atruly international gathering that nurtures inter-speciality exchange.
Organizational Principles:

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  Lots of open spaces for informal interaction; don't overload schedule;
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  A coherent topical framework with elements of spontaneity & serendipity;
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  Emphasizing activities that can best be done in person; use Web and e-mail before and after for generic information exchange, finding common interests;
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  Maintain balances: structure/chaos; practical/way-out; spontaneous/produced;
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  Short talks, small groups, strong moderators, participant profiling, topical cohesion;
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  High interaction and real-time collaboration; mixing people in different groupings;
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  Being sure everyone gets a chance to tell his/her story, not feel anonymous;
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  Geographical, substantive, and gender balance;
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  Established figures as well as significant newcomers;
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  Active participation - this is a working conference.

Current List of Attendees Includes

Kevin Ashley, University of PIttsburgh

Bill Boyd, James E. Rogers College of Law

Joe Cannatacci, University of Central Lancashire

Larry Farmer Brigham Young University

Fernando Galindo, University of Zaragoza

Stanley Greenstein, Stockholm University

Andres Guadamuz, Edinburgh University

Dan Hunter, New York Law School

Pilar Lasala, University of Zaragoza

Marc Lauritsen, Capstone Practice Systems

Philip Leith, Queens University of Belfast

Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, Harvard University

Orides Mezzaroba, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brasil)

Roberta Nannucci, Istituto per la Documentazione Giuridica del CNR

Abdul Paliwala, University of Warwick

Jeanne Pia Mifsud Bonnici, University of Groningen

Radim Polák, Masaryk University

Daniel Poulin, University of Montreal

Jose Renato Gaziero Cella, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Curitiba, Brasil)

Aires Rover, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brasil)

Ahti Saarenpaa, University of Lapland

Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna

Olav Torvund, University of Oslo

Dana Van der Merwe, University of South Africa

Richard Wright, Illinois Institute of Technology

SubTech 2008, as recorded Webcast recordings at http://stream.legaltechcenter.net/ (approximate hours/minutes below) See http://www2.law.columbia.edu/edtech/subtech2008/ for list of participants
Thursday 7/24
07/24/2008 Part 1 00:03:20 00:10:50	Opening Session Welcome – Fred Lederer and Ed Zilavy Quick history of SubTech – Marc Lauritsen and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (remote)
Part 1, 00:24	Introductory remarks – Ethan Katsh
07/24/2008 Part 1 01:03 01:32 02:12 02:50	First plenary   Theme – State of the Legal Tech Curriculum   Stage setters – Fernando Galindo – Update on legal tech education in the European Union Abdul Paliwala (remote) – The culture of eLearning: From Biopower to eConfucius Kevin Ashley – Teaching argumentation skills with the LARGO program Larry Farmer – Facilitating and improving skills instruction	Session chair:  John Mayer
07/24/2008 Part 2 00:01 00:04 00:24 00:48 07/24/2008 Part 3 00:09	Second plenary   Theme –  New Communities and Collections   Stage setters –   David Johnson – LegalOnramp and similar developments Paul Marharg (remote) – SIMulated Professional Learning Environment (SIMPLE) Lavern Pritchard – LawMoose Thorne McCarty – Deep Semantic Interpretations of Legal Texts	Session chair:  Tom Bruce
00:54	Demo Larry Farmer – MediaNotes
Friday 7/25
07/25/08 Part 1 00:03:45 00:37 02:14	Third plenary   Theme – Access to Justice   Stage setters –  Ron Staudt – “Involving law students in systems that teach the public about legal choices and lead people  through the steps needed to exercise those choices.” John Mayer – A2J and beyond Richard Granat (remote) – The new commercial online legal services world and its implications for lawyers and law teachers [Note:  Richard was unable to attend; Marc presented his slides.  Good ensuing discussion.]	Session chair:  Marc Lauritsen
07/25/08 Part 2 00:00 00:25:45	Fourth plenary   Theme –  Court and Administrative Technology  Stage setters –  Fred Lederer – Litigation Technologies and Law School (the study of high tech evidence, e-discovery, data seizures, …) Peter Martin – “Some tentative ideas about the relationship between the institutional and financial structure of US courts and the pace and pattern of their take-up of digital technology - focusing on efiling and associated litigation document management systems”	Session chair:  Brian Donnelly
07/25/08 Part 3	Plenary resumes	Continued discussion

Saturday 7/26
07/26/08 00:05 00:43:45	Final plenary   Theme –  Web 2.0 and 3.0   Stage setters –  Daniel Poulin – “Web 2.0 and legal information” Ahti Saarenpää – “The important role of legal informatics as a systematic link between our constitutional rights and practical legal problems in the new network society”	00:00 Session chair:  Tom Bruce
01:24:45	Plenary resumes	Continued discussion
02:23:45	Wrap up – thinking about SubTech 2010