Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are now available online, with more coming. The Israel Museum partnered with Google to digitize the manuscripts and make them available to anyone with a web connection. The scrolls are so fragile that direct…
Posts Tagged ‘web’
University of Illinois Investigating Posts of Fudged Class Profile Data
12
Sep
The news came this morning that the University of Illinois has withdrawn inaccurate data about the law class of 2014 that had been posted to its web site. The information consisted of grades and test scores composing the class profile….
Does Google Want To Be Our Lawyer?
11
Aug
Google has indirectly entered the legal services fray when its venture capital arm gave Rocket Lawyer $18.5 million. Rocket Lawyer is a subscription legal services web site similar to LegalZoom with one minor twist. Rocket Lawyer offers the opportunity to…
Some Thoughts On the Web’s 20th Birthday
10
Aug
Did anyone notice that last Saturday, August 6th, was the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web? The anniversary didn’t make much of an impact, or at least not enough to justify a Google doodle. Instead we had a graphic…
UK Decides (for now) Against Site Blocking To Combat Internet Piracy
03
Aug
The British government has decided not to introduce measures under the Digital Economy Act (DEA) that would block web sites that facilitate illegal file sharing. The Act had called for blocking in Sections 17 and 18. The Guardian is reporting…
Iceland’s Crowdsourced Draft Constitution Submitted
01
Aug
On July 29, 2011, Iceland’s Constitutional Council presented its draft constitution to the Speaker of Althingi. The drafting process was crowdsourced by way of the Council’s website. In Icelanders hand in draft of world’s first ‘web’ constitution, Agnes Valdimarsdottir (AFP)…
Something New in the Academic Law Journal Genre: UDC-DCSL’s Illustrated Law Journal
29
Jul
The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law has launched the Illustrated Law Journal (ILJ) project “to use web technology and Free Culture licenses to generate meaningful visual illustrations of laws and legal concepts… .”…
Opening: Electronic Services Librarian, Washington & Lee Univ. School of Law Library
03
Jun
Position Summary: The Washington and Lee University School of Law Library seeks applications to fill the position of Electronic Services Librarian. This position is responsible for database management, the general web presence of the law library and reference. The Electronic…
The Law Wizard – from Great Britain
03
Feb
I discovered an interesting web site called The Law Wizard, still in beta, for pro se parties doing their own probate, in the United Kingdom. The site promises to offer a unique package of online interactive tools, guides and videos. The Probate Wizard is initially designed for individuals who want to probate their own estates, but the site states that the tools will be made available for law firms as well.
The site is scheduled for launch later n 2011. The site looks interesting because it combines a web-enabled document automation system with extensive video and other information guides that takes the user through a complicated process step by step. We will see more web sites like this, both in the legal form market space and the virtual law firm space.
