A review of the legal world in the 21st century and an argument that open information ecosystems are vital.

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It’s a Small World
After All…
Sarah Glassmeyer
@sglassmeyer
sarahglassmeyer.com

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An American
librarian that
works for a
non-profit?

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What do we when we
zoom out?

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16. Will MOOCs replace
traditional legal education?
The technological changes
affecting legal practice?
The Access to Justice crisis?
The legal employment and
law school bubbles?
It’s a world of laughter…
A world of tears…
It’s a world of hopes…
and a world of fears…

17. It’s a small
world
after all!

18. Saving Mr. Banks

19. There are many
strange people
and phenomena in
the world, but
only Mary Poppins
is familiar with
them all.

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27. Liberty Square
• The Courts
• The Legislatures
• Regulatory Agencies
• Law making bodies

28. Main Street, USAMain Street, USAHigh Street, UK
•Great majority of lawyers
•Citizens with regular, basic
transactional needs
• E.g. Wills, basic business Ks
•Huge disconnect between
the two
• 80% need not being met

29. Tomorrow Land
• SusskindLand
• Not just tech
• NewLaw
• Bringing new techniques/technologies
into existing practice
• Keyword: Adaption
• SeyfarthShaw’s Lean and Project
Management
• Inksters’ Pop-Up Lawyers
• Distance Education

30. Tomorrow Land
• AltLaw
• New practice areas
• New players, tools, mechanisms
• Keywords: creation, new
• Shake – phone app to make contracts
• Collateral Consequences Calculator
from Columbia Law
• LegalZoom / Form Automation
• MOOCs – Massive Open Online
Courses

31. Tomorrow Land
• Hackers
• Punk aesthetic
• Homegrown tools to serve
themselves/communities
• Keyword: DIY
• Options:
• EduPunk
• LibPunk
• LexPunk?

32. Fantasy Land
• Our regulatory bodies
• Law Societies
• Bar Associations
• University consortiums
• Solicitor’s Regulatory Agency/Bar Standards
Board
• Funders
• Fairy Godmother or Wicked
Stepmother?
• Education has more than one

33. Frontier Land
• Legal Aid / Public Defenders /
Self-Represented
• ER/A&E of legal help
• Where Access to Justice Issues go to live
• …or go to die?
• Hardships – Financial,
Technological, Infrastructure
• Justice Desserts

34. Adventure Land
• The legal academe
• Yes, you.
• Translates law, provides
context
• Incredible freedom to “think
big” via scholarship
• How valuable is scholarship really?

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Law students
should be taught
to program
computers!
TOMORROW LAND

39. Obviously you’ve
never sat in a faculty
meeting! And where
do we fit it in to
existing curriculum?
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/119987-have-yourself-lego-minifig-red-nose-day#
ADVENTURE LAND

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Can you change
the rules so we can
use technology to
increase Access to
Justice?
FRONTIER LAND

41. But what about the
quality of the work?
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FANTASY LAND

42. You should publish law in a way
so that people can use and
read it for free and not have to
pay private companies!
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TOMORROW LAND

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LOL, WUT?
No.
LIBERTY SQUARE

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http://www.thedailybrick.co.uk/lego-minifigures/indiana-jones/last-
crusade/lego-indiana-jones-indiana-jones-grey-suit-minifigure.html
We just need some basic
legal advice and help with
some transactional forms.
I can’t afford
to help you.
Sorry!
HIGH STREET, U.K.

47. • Keyword: Content
• Data
• Unprocessed facts
• Metadata
• Law, when created, is data
• Information
• Data put into context
• Codifications, Annual Publishing
• Knowledge
• Applied Information
• Scholarship, annotations
Raw Material

48. Data
Information
Knowledge

49. Area Creates Consumes
Courts Raw Law, Rules
Treatises, Annotations,
Organized Law
High Street
Treatises, Annotations,
Organized Law, Briefs,
case law
Treatises, Annotations,
Organized Law, Raw Law,
Educational Materials
AltLaw/New
Law/Hackers
Algorithms,
processes,
annotations
Treatises, Annotations,
Organized Law, Raw
Law
Academe
Treatises, Annotations,
scholarship,
educational materials
Treatises, Annotations,
Organized Law,
educational materials
Governing
Bodies
Treatises,
Annotations,
scholarship
Treatises, Annotations,
Organized Law
Legal Aid/Public
Defender/SRL
Briefs, case law
Treatises, Annotations,
Organized Law, Raw
Law

50. Transportation
•Keyword: Containers
•Publishers
• Government
• Commercial
(Thomson, Wolters, Lexis)
• Non-Profit (LIIs)
•Format
• Print vs. Electronic

51. Transportation
• Vessel
• Book / Article
• CD-ROM / Internet
• Software
• Proprietary
• Cost
• Compatibility
• Copyright

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53. Access to Information
is a human right.

54. Access to Information
is Access to Justice.

55. Justice and human
rights issues are the
business of everyone
in Law

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57. Medium Data Information Knowledge
Law Raw Law
Codes,
chronological
order
arrangements
Annotations,
Indexes
Scholarship Data set
Organization –
census tables
Articles, books
Music Music note e.g. Eb6 Key e.g. G Major
Melody –
Reflection (from
Mulan)
Visual Art Color, format
Method e.g.
Pointillism ; color
e.g. International
Klein Blue
"A Sunday
Afternoon on the
Island of La
Grande Jatte"
Education
Questions,
Readings
Problem Set, Syllabi
Casebook/
textbook
Story Archetype, style
Moral, theme, fairy
tale
Disney’s Cinderella

58. Most information and
its methods of
dissemination are
locked up –
format, copyright, payw
alls.

59. Most information
has already been
paid for several
times over.

60. Indexed and placed in electronic database
Published in Journal
Peer Review
Law journal article written
(School pays faculty salary)
(School pays faculty salary)
(School pays for subscription)
(School pays for subscription)

61. Libraries have
traditionally been
the fail safe for
information access.

62. The goal posts keep
getting moved or
game is other wise
rigged.

63. Corporate interests
extend copyright
protections far beyond
original contemplations

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Most of Disney’s early
work based on public
domain tales.

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Publishers special treatment
of digital materials prevents
ownership and other
traditional rights and uses.

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Orphan works represent 50%
all digitized works and
therefore are closed.

67. Technology has
rendered much
of the added
value of publishers
unnecessary.

68. The only way to
guarantee Access to
Information is via
Open Source and
Open Access.

69. • No monetary cost only part
• Different levels
• Prevent Remix, Commercial Uses, etc
• Creator can maintain ownership
–Open via licenses like CC
• Access just as important
–Containers in “bad” format
–Should be obvious – no need to ask!
What is Open?

70. • Open Access
• Content
• Open Source
• Container
• Open Education and Open
Educational Resources
• Combination of Content and Container
• Copyright and accessibility
• Open Law
• Combination of Content and Container
• Copyright and accessibility
What is Open?

71. Open Source and
Open Access will
help or solve many
problems facing the
legal world.

72. Creation of tools to increase
productivity for lawyers and allow
public to navigate legal world.
Open Legal Data:

73. Let public access the law that governs
them and make decisions without an
attorney.
Creation of open legal knowledge
products?
Lower practice costs.
• Last year Thomson/Reuters had $1,400,000,000
revenue from firms for basic legal research
Open Legal Information

74. Open Source Tools
Proprietary software keeps people
from owning electronic
information
Also requires dependence on
company
Allows legal start ups to live on
after failure.

75. Open Education and
OER
Removes barriers to education –
distance, price, admissions
OE & OER benefits educators and
students – formal and informal
No more reinventing wheel and
low cost

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79. • Publish your scholarship in OA
journal OR
• Self-Archive
• Retain your copyright
• Encourage academe creation
of FOSS software
• Use OS tools
• Advocate to governments
• Donate to LIIs/FOSS
What Can I Do?

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