Only the readings specifically
assigned in advance of a class meeting are required reading. The others
listed here provide background for the topics covered in each unit.
Unit No. 1 - eLaw: An overview
- The transition from
print-based to digital law
- The relationship of
eLaw to eGovernment
- Accenture, eGovernment
Leadership: High Performance, Maximum Value 14 (May 2004)
- John C. Reitz, Section
VI: Computers and Law: E-Government, 54 Am. J. Comp. L. 733 (2006)
[Lexis][Westlaw]
- E-Government
Act of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-347, §§ 205-206, 116 Stat. 2899,
2913-16 (2002)
- Government of Canada,
Government
On-Line (2006)
- FirstGov.gov
- TexasOnline
- Washington State, Access
to Justice Technology Principles (2004)
Unit No. 2 - Judicial opinion
dissemination and access
- The market for legal
information and public access
- Copyright and law
reports
- L. Ray Patterson &
Craig Joyce, Monopolizing the Law: The Scope of Copyright Protection
for Law Reports and Statutory Compilations, 36 UCLA L. Rev. 719
(1989) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Oasis Publishing Co.
v. West Publishing Co., 924 F. Supp. 918 (D. Minn. 1996) (settled
while on appeal to the 8th Circuit, July 1997) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Matthew Bender &
Co. v. West Publishing Co., 158 F.3d 674 (2d Cir. 1998) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Matthew Bender &
Co. v. West Publishing Co., 158 F.3d 693 (2d Cir. 1998) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Matthew Bender & Co.
v. West Publ'g Co., 2001
U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8936 (S.D.N.Y. 2001), rev'd 41 Fed. Appx.
507 (2d Cir. 2002)
- Neutral format citation
of case law
- Public case reporting
- Selective case reports
in tension with unfiltered access (published/unpublished and precedential/non-precedential)
- Ky.
R. Civ. Pro. 76.28
- Cal. Rules of Court,
R. 8.1105,
8.1110,
8.1115,
8.1120,
8.1125
- Minn. Stat. §
480A.08(3)
- Ohio Sup. Ct. Rules for
Reporting of Court Decisions, R.
4.
- E-Government
Act of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-347, §§ 205-206, 116 Stat. 2899,
2913-16 (2002)
- Amendment to Federal
Rules of Appellate Procedure, R.
32.1 (which took effect 1/1/2007)
- In re Amendment of Wis.
Stat. § (Rule) 809.23(3) regarding citation to unpublished opinions,
2003
WI 84 [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Anastasoff v. United
States, 223 F.3d 898 (8th Cir. 2000), vacated as moot 235 F.3d
1054 (8th Cir. 2000) (en banc) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Lauren K. Robel, The
Myth of the Disposable Opinion: Unpublished Opinions and Government
Litigants in the United States Courts of Appeals, 87 Mich. L.
Rev. 940 (1989) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Melissa M. Serfass &
Jessie Wallace Cranford, Development and Practice Note: Federal
and State Court Rules Governing Publication and Citation of Opinions:
An Update, 6 J. App. Prac. & Process 349 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- J. Thomas Sullivan, Unpublished
Opinions and No Citation Rules in the Trial Courts, 47 Ariz. L.
Rev. 419 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Stephen L. Wasby, Unpublished
Court of Appeals Decisions: A Hard Look at the Process, 14 S.
Cal. Interdis. L.J. 67 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Stephen R. Barnett, From
Anastasoff to Hart to West's Federal Appendix: The Ground Shifts Under
No-Citation Rules, 4 J. App. Prac. & Process 1 (2002) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Stephen R. Barnett, No
Citation Rules Under Siege: A Battlefield Report and Analysis,
5 J. App. Prac. & Process 473 (2003) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Two examples of best
practice
Unit No. 3 - Dissemination
of codified law (statutes, administrative regulations, and municipal ordinances)
- Once again: The market
and public access
- Copyright and compiled
codes (legislative and administrative)
- L. Ray Patterson &
Craig Joyce, Monopolizing the Law: The Scope of Copyright Protection
for Law Reports and Statutory Compilations, 36 UCLA L. Rev. 719
(1989) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Irina Y. Dmitrieva, State
Ownership of Copyrights in Primary Law Materials, 23 Hastings
Comm. & Ent. L.J. 81 (2000) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Dealing with time
- The authoritative
status of online law
- Municipal codes: Some
distinctive practices and issues
- Bldg. Officials & Code
Adm'rs v. Code Tech., Inc., 628 F.2d 730 (1st Cir. 1980) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Veeck v. Southern Building
Code Congress Int'l, Inc., 293 F.3d 791 (5th Cir. 2002) [Lexis][Westlaw]
Amicus
Brief submitted to the Supreme Court by the Justice Department
(upon the Court's invitation) on the petition for Cert. in the Veeck
case
- County of Suffolk v.
First Am. Real Estate Solutions, 261 F.3d 179 (2d Cir. 2001) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Lawrence A. Cunningham,
Private Standards in Public Law: Copyright, Lawmaking and the Case
of Accounting, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 291 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Some examples
- Cal.
- Minnesota
- Utah
- Municipal codes
Unit No. 4 - The input side
of legal institutions
- eFiling: In general
- William A. Fenwick &
Robert D. Brownstone, Electronic Filing: What is It? What Are Its
Implications? 19 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 181
(2002) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Donald J. Horowitz, Technology,
Values, and the Justice System: The Evolution of the Access to Justice
Technology Bill of Rights, 79 Wash. L. Rev. 77 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- efiling as implemented
by the IRS, http://www.irs.gov/efile/index.html,
SEC, http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml,
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, http://uscis.gov/graphics/formsfee/forms/eFiling.htm,
and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/efs/
- IRS Electronic Filing
Systems, GAO-01-306,
February 16, 2001
- Electronic Filing's
Past and Future Impact on Processing Costs Dependent on Several
Factors, GAO-02-205,
January 10, 2002
- Most Filing Season
Services Continue to Improve, but Opportunities Exist for Additional
Savings, GAO-07-27,
November 15, 2006
- EFS-Web
Help
- USPTO 12OCT2006 Webcast:
EFS-Web
1.1 Overview and Training
- eFiling: The litigation
context
- Bradley J. Hillis, The
Digital Record: A Review of Electronic Court Filing in the United
States, 2 J. App. Prac. & Process 319 (2000) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- John M. Murphy III, Note:
From Snail Mail to E-Mail: The Steady Evolution of Service of Process,
19 St. John's J.L. Comm. 73 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Matthew R. Schreck, Preventing
"You've Got Mail"(R) From Meaning "You've Been Served": How Service
of Process by E-Mail Does not Meet Constitutional Procedural Due Process
Requirements, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1121 (2005)[Lexis][Westlaw]
- California
Electronic Filing Technical Standards Program (ppt)
- Gregory M. Silverman,
Rise of the Machines: Justice Information Systems and the Question
of Public Access to Court Records Over the Internet, 79 Wash.
L. Rev. 175 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Ronald W. Staudt, Self-Represented
Litigants and Electronic Filing (2005) (see also Ronald W.
Staudt, Technology for Justice Customers: Bridging the Digital
Divide Facing Self-Represented Litigants, 5 RRGC 71 (2005))
- John M. Greacen, Self-Represented
Litigants and Courts and Legal Services Responses to Their Needs:
What We Know (2002)
- Benjamin Channing Palmer,
Comment: Disparate Impact of Electronic Signature Legislation on
Indigent Californians, 36 McGeorge L. Rev. 697 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Hugh Calkins, Something
About Technology: No Free Lunch, 20 Maine Bar J. 76 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Maria Perez Crist, The
E-Brief: Legal Writing for an Online World, 33 N.M.L. Rev. 49
(2003) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- National Center For State
Courts, Electronic
Filing Resource Guide
- American Bar Association,
Electronic
Filing Resource Page
- John T. Matthias, E-Filing
Expansion in State, Local, and Federal Courts, Future
Trends in State Courts (2007)
- Specific implementations
- Administrative Office
of the Courts, CM/ECF
- Drayton Nabers, Jr.,
Improving the Quality of Justice, 67 Ala. Law. 38 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Matthew C. Baltay, Heads
Up: Electronic Filing in D. Mass: Moving Towards the Paperless Practice,
49 B.B.J. 14 (Feb. 2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Joseph H. Firestone &
James C. Horsch, Technology and the Law: Are You Ready for E-Filing?,
84 MI Bar Jnl. 22 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Peter S. Vogel, Technology:
You Can EFile in State Courts Today, 69 Tex. B.J. 114 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Charles Bacarisse, Staying
Ahead of the Curve: E-Filing in State Courts: Fast, Cheap, and Under
Control, 68 Tex. B. J. 575 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Douglas E. Cressler,
Federal Appeals: The Scoop on Electronic Submission and Filing, 18
Utah Bar J. 30 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- New York State Unified
Court System, Practice System, https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/mainframe.html
- Public access to public
records in tension with other values and interests
- Lynn E. Sudbeck, Placing
Court Records Online: Balancing Judicial Accountability with Public
Trust and Confidence: An Analysis of State Court Electronic Access
Policies and a Proposal for South Dakota Court Records, 51 S.D.
L. Rev. 81 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Daniel J. Solove, Access
and Aggregation: Public Records, Privacy and the Constitution,
86 Minn. L. Rev. 1137 (2002) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Natalie Gomez-Velez,
Internet Access to Court Records - Balancing Public Access and
Privacy, 51 Loy. L. Rev. 365 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Peter A. Winn, Online
Court Records: Balancing Judicial Accountability and Privacy in an
Age of Electronic Information, 79 Wash. L. Rev. 307 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Administrative Office
of the United States Courts, Privacy
and Access to Electronic Case Files in the Federal Courts
(1999)
- Richard J. Peltz, Joi
L. Leonard, & Amanda J. Andrews, The Arkansas Proposal on Access
to Court Records: Upgrading the Common Law with Electronic Freedom
of Information Norms, 59 Ark. L. Rev. 555 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Jayne S. Ressler, Privacy,
Plaintiffs, and Pseudonyms: The Anonymous Doe Plaintiff in the Information
Age, 53 Kan. L. Rev. 195 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Nancy S. Marder, Introduction
to Secrecy in Litigation, 81 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 305 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Andrew D. Goldstein,
Sealing and Revealing: Rethinking the Rules Governing Public Access
to Information Generated Through Litigation, 81 Chi.-Kent L. Rev.
375 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Kristen M. Blankley,
Note: Are Public Records Too Public? Why Personally Identifying
Information Should Be Removed from Both Online and Print Versions
of Court Documents, 65 Ohio St. L.J. 413 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Michael Whiteman, Appellate
Court Briefs on the Web: Electronic Dynamos or Legal Quagmire?,
97 Law Libr. J. 467 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- CCJ/COSCA Guidelines
for Public Access
- Commission on Public
Access to Court Records, Report
to the Chief Judge of the State of New York (2004)
- Report of the Judicial
Conference Committee on Court
Administration and Case Management on Privacy and Public Access to
Electronic Case Files (2001)
- NSCS, State
rules on public access to court records
- MN Access
Rules
Unit No. 5 - The communication
of legal materials, policies, and standard practices within public law-making
and law-applying bodies
- In an agency setting
- In a judicial setting
Unit No. 6 - The conduct of
legal proceedings
- eDiscovery
- David K. Isom, Electronic
Discovery Primer for Judges, 2005 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 1 [Lexis][Westlaw]
- New FRCP
on e-discovery
- K&L Gates, Electronic
Discovery Law
- Cases:
- AMD
v. Intel, more
(failure to retain electronic records)
- Cenveo Corp. v. Slater,
2007
WL 442387, 2007
U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8281 (E.D. Pa. Jan. 31, 2007) (procedure
for protecting privileged information)
- In re Payment Card
Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litig., 2007
WL 121426, 2007
U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2650 (E.D.N.Y. Jan. 12, 2007)
(metadata)
- Best Buy Stores,
L.P. v. Developers Diversified Realty Corp., 2007
WL 4230806, 2007
U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88771 (D. Minn. Nov. 29, 2007) ("not
reasonably accessible")
- Ameriwood Industries,
Inc. v. Liberman, 2007
WL 496716, 2007
U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10791 (E.D. Mo. Feb. 13, 2007) ("good
cause")
- Courtroom Technology
- Elizabeth C. Wiggins,
What We Know and What We Need to Know About the Effects of Courtroom
Technology, 12 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 731 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Gordon Bermant, The
Development and Significance of Courtroom Technology: A Thirty-Year
Perspective in Fast Forward Mode, 60 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L.
621 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Elan E. Weinreb, “Counselor,
Proceed with Caution”: The Use of Integrated Evidence Presentation
Systems and Computer-Generated Evidence in the Courtroom, 23 Cardozo
L. Rev. 393 (2001) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Commonwealth v. Serge,
586 Pa. 671, 896 A.2d 1170 (2006)
[Lexis][Westlaw]
- State v. Sipin, 130 Wn.
App. 403, 123 P.3d 862 (2005)
[Lexis][Westlaw]
- Friend v. Time Mfg. Co.,
2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52790 (D. Ariz. 2006) (Part III B.1. only)
[Lexis]
- People v. Cauley, 32
P.3d 602 (Colo. Ct. App. 2001) (Part II only)
[Lexis][Westlaw]
- Video Conference Hearings
or Testimony
- Stuart G. Mondschein,
Lights,
Camera, Action: Video Conference Trial Technology, 70-Jul
Wis. Law. 14 (1997)
- Anne Bowin Poulin, Criminal
Justice and Videoconferencing Technology: The Remote Defendant,
78 Tul. L. Rev. 1089 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- People v. Stroud, 208
Ill. 2d 398, 804 N.E.2d 510 (2004)
[Lexis][Westlaw]
- Aaron Harmon, Recent
Development, Child Testimony Via Two-Way Closed Circuit Television:
A New Perspective on Maryland v. Craig in United States
v. Turning Bear and United States v. Bordeaux, 7 N.C. J.L.
& Tech. 157 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- United States v. Yates,
438 F.3d 1307 (11th Cir. 2006)
[Lexis][Westlaw]
- United States v. Guild,
2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3605, 2008 WL 191184 (E.D. Va. Jan. 17. 2008)
[Lexis][Westlaw]
- Roger A. Hanson, American
State Appellate Court Technology Diffusion, 7 J. App. Prac. &
Process 259 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Daniel Stepniak, Technology
and Public Access to Audio-Visual Coverage and Records of Court Proceedings:
Implications for Common Law Jurisdictions, 12 Wm. & Mary Bill
of Rts. J. 791 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Bridging the Distance:
Implementing Videoconferencing
in Wisconsin (2005)
- Aaron Haas, Videoconferencing
in Immigration Proceedings, 5 Pierce L. Rev. 59 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Eugenio Mollo, Jr., Note,
The Expansion of Video Conferencing Technology in Immigration Proceedings
and Its Impact on Venue Provisions, Interpretation Rights, and the
Mexican Immigrant Community, 9 J. Gender Race & Just. 689 (2006)
[Lexis][Westlaw]
- AIMF, Objecting
to Video Merits Hearings - Sample
motion
- Information about Social
Security's Video Hearing Process
- HALLEX, Video
Teleconferencing Procedures
- eRulemaking
Unit No. 7 - Impact of eLaw
on the work of lawyers and structure of law firms
- Hugh Calkins, Something
About Technology: Building the Virtual Lawyer, 21 Maine Bar J. 122
(2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Justin D. Leonard, Cyberlawyering
and the Small Business: Software Makes Hard Law (But Good Sense),
7 J. Small & Emerging Bus. L. 323 (2003) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Robert J. Howe, The
Impact of the Internet on the Practice of Law: Death Spiral or Never-Ending
Work?, 8 Va. J.L. & Tech. 5 (2003) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Working Notes: Deliberations
of the ABA Committee on Research About the Future of the Legal Profession
on the Current Status of the Legal Profession, 17 Maine Bar J. 48
(2002) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Lynn A. Epstein, The
Technology Challenge: Lawyers Have Finally Entered the Race But Will
Ethical Hurdles Slow the Pace?, 28 Nova L. Rev. 721 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Ron Friedmann, Pragmatic
Approaches to Knowledge Management (2006)
- Judith Lamont, KM
for law firms - legal or not? (2006)
- Gretta Rusanow, Global
Law Firm Knowledge Management Survey 2006
- West km, http://west.thomson.com/westkm/
- Ron Friedmann, The
Future Law Office: Going Virtual (2004)
Unit No. 8 - Putting eLaw
in a comparative perspective
- US in comparison with
Canada and Norway
- EU and eLaw
- Developing Countries
Unit No. 9 - Speculations
about the future
- An increased role
for ODR?
- Ethan Katsh, Online
Dispute Resolution: Some Lessons from the E-Commerce Revolution,
28 N. Ky. L. Rev. 810 (2001) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Elizabeth G. Thornburg,
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Lessons from the ICANN Dispute
Resolution Process, 6 J. Small & Emerging Bus. L. 191 (2002)
[Lexis][Westlaw]
- Amy S. Moeves & Scott
C. Moeves, Two Roads Diverged: A Tale of Technology and Alternative
Dispute Resolution, 12 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 843 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- Asynchronous legal
proceedings?
- Paul D. Carrington, Virtual
Civil Litigation: A Visit to John Bunyan’s Celestial City, 98
Colum. L. Rev. 1516 (1998) [Lexis][Westlaw]
- A fully integrated
criminal justice system?
- New forms of expressing
and communicating law?
- An altered role for
lawyers and law firms?
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