VALL 2013 FALL MEETING
Friday, October 25
Washington & Lee School of Law
Lexington, VA
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:00 – 10:10 a.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:10 – 11:00 a.m. Eric Mill, The Sunlight Foundation
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 – 12:15 p.m. Waldo Jaquith, The Miller Center
12:15 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch and tours of Law Library
1:30 – 2:15 p.m. The Necessity, the Plan, the Payoff: Implementing a Law Repository at Washington & Lee
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Business Meeting
ABOUT THE PROGRAMS
Eric Mill, Sunlight Foundation
There are a lot of great public projects out there making creative and powerful use of legal information. This talk will demonstrate some tools that I or colleagues at Sunlight have built (such as Scout and Open States), and some tools created by others in the community (including GovTrack and CourtListener). We'll also dive into how members of the community work together across project boundaries. From there, we'll talk about the technical, social, and legal conditions that are required for projects like these to be possible, and some barriers that the legal information community should work on tearing down.
Waldo Jaquith
Legal codes are presented no differently now than they were 150 years ago. Even on the web, they're provided basically as they are on paper. Waldo Jaquith, of the University of Virginia, will talk about The State Decoded, his free, open-source project that displays legal texts online in a fashion that takes advantage of the niceties of the modern web. He'll explain how it works, who's adopting it, and how it might change how you think about legal texts.
What Law Librarians Need to Know about the Changing Landscape of Lawyering
The environment for law practice has changed radically in response to dramatic economic and technological shifts. Each of our panelists will offer a unique point of view about altered expectations for lawyers generally, and particularly for new lawyers as legal researchers. The panelists are Audrey Burges, Attorney at Davenport & Poindexter, PC; Andrew P. Connors, formerly Law Clerk to Judge William G. Petty; and Kevin M. Donovan, Senior Assistant Dean for Career Services at the University of Virginia School of Law. The session will conclude with an open discussion about how we can best continue to fulfill our mission as law librarians.
The Risk, the Plan, the Payoff: Implementing a Law Repository at Washington & Lee
Law Library Director Caroline Osborne, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian John Jacob and Electronic Services Librarian Stephanie Miller describe their repository’s growth from a library “experiment” to a campus-wide initiative with the support and participation of the Dean, the faculty, and the student body. Topics will include:
• Selecting a platform and determining the scope of the project
• Archiving and publishing law reviews
• Mounting special collections and archives
Registration Form for October 25, 2013
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