Open Law: how technology impacts the rule of law with Michael Green SC

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 function” of paper in reflection and contemplation, and limitations of online research;
• The question of ownership and resourcing of online materials;
• The role of predictive analytics and imagination in moving our society forward;
• The difficulty in reconciling different lenses through which we should regulate AI;
• The need to think carefully about the role of justice, courts and litigants;
• How Michael has maintained a busy practice at the bar and an online research company; and
• Michael’s definition of legal innovation.

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