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Information Society e-Legal Education: Information Society e-Legal Education: Integrating the Social Economic and Integrating the Social Economic and

Political ContextPolitical Context

Prof. Abdul Paliwala, Univeristy of Warwick; Director (ICT) UK Centre for Legal Education; Electronic Law

Journals; Law Courseware Consortium

Legal Framework of Information Society

LEFIS Durham Workshop 2004

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Conceptual ChangesConceptual Changes

Impact of IT on nature of law and governance Lessig – Code in Law Castells – Network = organisational form Globalisation – of IT & of Law

Therefore redefinitions Democracy, Separation of Powers, Rule of Law Self-regulation Global, regional and national Hard and soft law, legal networks

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CODE in LawCODE in Law

Cyberspace has an architecture; its code — the software andhardware that defines how cyberspace is — is its architecture. Thatarchitecture embeds certain principles; its sets the terms on whichone uses the space; it defines what’s possible in the space. Andthese terms and possibilities affect innovation in the space. Somearchitectures invite innovation; others chill it. The Code in Law, and the Law in Code Lawrence Lessig †

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/works/lessig/pcforum.pdf

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Network SocietyNetwork Society

In the information age, the critical organisational form is networking. The most critical distinction in this organisational logic is to be or not to be – in the network. Be in the network, and you can share and, over time, increase your chances. Be out of the network, or become switched off, and your chances vanish since everything that counts is organised around a world wide web of interacting networks (Castells 1998).

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The audienceThe audience

Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies IT policy makers and operators eg JLIS Public

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E-Learning for E-LawE-Learning for E-Law

Ubiquitous role of Web Intranets – enclosures E-Communication Interactive Group Learning Not abandoning the personal

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Global, Regional and National Global, Regional and National

Transcending Boundaries Transcending Positivist Methodology Independent Collaborative Learning

Problem: Digital Divide