rstaudt@kentlaw.edu

martin@lii.law.cornell.edu

hunterd@wharton.upenn.edu

jack_goetz@concord.kaplan.edu

xhwfn@ttacs.ttu.edu

lbaker@acad.suffolk.edu

jbaker@lsu.edu

saintsingdg@ems.com

fbarnhart@kentlaw.edu

p.kinder@law.monash.edu.au
sredfield@fplc.edu
rob@ecollege.com,
jonathan.ricard@lexis-nexis.com
jerry.neece@eng.sun.com

jliebert@mail.law.utexas.edu

JonesDL@missouri.edu

swc3@po.cwru.edu

cooper@law.mail.cornell.edu

krikorian@law.mail.cornell.edu

justin.hummel@westgroup.com

jfriedman@law.tulane.edu
frances.warren@lexis-nexis.com
eraliski@law.wfu.edu

yjones@law.villanova.edu
gregory.ogden@pepperdine.edu
phillip.bohl@pepperdine.edu
Kaufmanb@nsu.law.nova.edu
Smith-butlerl@nsu.law.nova.edu
Sobchaks@nsu.law.nova.edu
Bmarkell@nevada.edu
pwiseman@gsu.edu

ihoffenb@kentlaw.edu

heywood@american.edu

tomryan@camlaw.rutgers.edu

givy@mail.smu.edu

lawgpm@hofstra.edu

wheland@staff.abanet.org

mgeist@uottawa.ca
williambyrnes@hotmail.com

paula.sicard@lexis-nexis.com
shellly.albaum@westgroup.com
awas@examsoft.com

Rosanna Cavallaro
Professor of Law
Suffolk University School of Law

Norm Garland
Professor of Law
Southwestern University School of Law

Ellen Suni
Professor of Law
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
SuniE@umkc.edu

Markus Dubber
Professor of Law
SUNY-Buffalo School of Law

Online Law: Peeling the Layers [BACK TO AGENDA]

Who should attend: faculty members thinking about running online courses and IT personnel who may be involved with providing support.

This session will look at the various layers involved in running a law course online. Two extreme scenarios will be canvassed, one where there is minimal IT support available and one where there is. Both are from my experiences as an IT staff and as a law academic at two Australian law schools. The IT competence of legal academics range widely from those who cannot even type to those who are programmers. Where there is a general law school policy to make courses available online, the challenge is to make the policy workable for all members of staff without draining all available resources, including time. No-one doubts that technology is a wonderful teaching and learning tool, but the practical realities are often overlooked in the name of progress. This paper will examine what exactly is involved in developing law courses online, ranging from the mere provision of information to the use of interactive tools such as threaded messaging systems and examination systems. The resource implications on faculty and tech support staff for each of these layers will also be discussed.

Yee Fen Lim
Lecturer in Law
Department of Law
Macquarie University
North Ryde NSW 2109
Tel: +612 9850 7093
Fax: +612 9850 7686
yee.lim@mq.edu.au

1:00p-2:00p

GEEKFEST 2000 - Apache Architecture: Installation and Configuration [BACK TO AGENDA]

The survey by Netcraft shows that Apache is today more widely used than all other web servers combined. Come see a very technical overview of installing and configuring the Apache web server to power your institution's websites.

John Heywood
American University
School of Law
heywood@american.edu

2:30p-3:30p

Tackling the Technophobes & Legal-XML [BACK TO AGENDA]

Part I
In any environment, there is a group of people that is either opposed to the imposition of technology, or frightened or frustrated by their encounters with technology. In the legal community, these people are judges; in academia, many are senior faculty members. While it is easy and fun to ridicule them as Luddites, it is important to address their concerns and acknowledge that sometimes, technology is not the solution. This address, by a writer who was trained on manual typewriters and who was handed the technology beat at the American Lawyer magazine because no one else cared about technology, will suggest ways that tech enthusiasts and technophobes can coexist peacefully and even profitably.

Part II
he Legal XML group is a volunteer organization which through a special agreement contracts with the Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.. Georgia State University College of Law houses and has incubated Legal XML as part of its Electronic Court Filing Project, which is fully funded by Georgia's Courts Automation Commission.

The mission of Legal XML is to develop open, non-proprietary technical standards for legal documents and related applications. As the name suggests, Legal XML bases its standards on eXtensible Markup Language ("XML"), a World Wide Web Consortium ("W3C") standard. XML and related W3C standards have gained widespread industry acceptance as a "smart" web technologies since early 1998 when the W3C recommended XML 1.0 as a standard. Legal XML is currently the only group in the legal community that is providing the development of such a standard.

A substantial number of Legal XML members, including the majority of those who organized the initial Organizing Committee meeting attended the Dixon Conference 2000 on E-filing and E-Commerce on February 17th and 18th in Orlando Florida. That conference clearly demonstrated the interest of the legal community as a whole and the court community, both judicial and clerk's office, in particular, in the ongoing development of open, non-proprietary technical standards for legal documents. However, a debate arose over the proposed Legal XML intellectual property policy.

In particular, some members have raised questions about the appropriateness of a "copyleft" policy where government contributed intellectual property to a standards effort, the feeling being that this intellectual property should be in the "public domain." The question then arises whether the group can create a General Public License (GPL) (a license granted by a copyright or patent holder to the public to use, copy, and distribute either documentation or software and documentation without fee or royalty and without warranty, provided that the copyright and the license terms are perpetuated in copies or derivative works).

Additionally, a GPL generally requires the GPL to be perpetuated in new copies or derivatives. Thus, granting a GPL is similar to publishing into the public domain, except that the owner retains certain rights in the work. The retained rights are generally kept to preserve the openness of the work. Although the validity of a GPL has never been challenged in court,41 there are good arguments based on analogous shrinkwrap and shareware case law that suggest a GPL would be enforceable. Whether or not a GPL would be enforceable, it would be risky to violate the terms of a GPL both because of the threat of litigation and because of the risk of damaged goodwill.

Wendy Leibowitz
Technology Columnist
Pro2Net
1140--23rd St. NW
Washington, DC 20037
wendytech@justice.com or wendyl@pro2net.com
202-293-1693

Tom O'Connor
Senior Acquisitions Editor
Legal Division
1730 Minor Ave. Suite 1900
Seattle, WA 98101
206.664.7827
tomo@pro2net.com

Beyond Brochureware for Law School Websites [BACK TO AGENDA]

Can anybody imagine a Law School without a website anymore? But what do Law Schools really use their websites for? What possibilities of support for research, publication and teaching are there? What are the technical and organizational problems? What could be the solutions?

This session will try to examine the role of websites in a changing environment of legal information needs and legal publishing and in a competitive 'market' with new players.

Sieglinde Schreiner-Linford
Emile Noël Fellow
Harvard Law School
617-496-4283
schreine@law.harvard.edu

Anytime, Anywhere with Anyone Practice of Law: Practicing in the New Millennium [BACK TO AGENDA]

Who should attend: Those attendees who are interested in the lastet technical advances for law practictioners.

Learn West's vision of the law practice in this new millennium, leveraging the latest in technology and harnessing the power of the Internet.

Loren D. Jones
Director of WestWorks Product Development
Loren.jones@westgroup.com
651 687-8364

GEEKFEST 2000 - MySQL and ODBC [BACK TO AGENDA]

MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. MySQL is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon and many different client programs and libraries. The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and ease of use. The two Toms will show you some code and talk about MySQL's appropriateness to task for many web-based database projects.

Tom Bruce
Legal Information Institute
Cornell University
School of Law
trb2@cornell.edu

Tom Ryan
Rutgers University-Camden
School of Law
tomryan@camlaw.rutgers.edu

2:30p-3:30p

The Justice Web Collaboratory [BACK TO AGENDA]

The Justice Web Collaboratory is a working partnership formed by Chicago-Kent College of Law and the National Center for State Courts to use the tools of the World Wide Web to create a laboratory for collaboration aimed exclusively at U.S. judges and their close support organizations. The Justice Web Collaboratory will be organized as a communications and publications and education web site. The Collaboratory will use the best available Web tools for publishing, conferencing, email, web meetings and distance learning to "to influence the top decision makers about those improvements to the judicial system that can come from incorporating advanced technology into the work of judges themselves in their chambers and on the bench."

Todd Pedwell
Chicago-Kent College of Law
tpedwell@kentlaw.edu

4:00p-5:00p

XML Again -- a Schema or a Scheme? [BACK TO AGENDA]

The development of the XML family of standards continues apace. W3C seems to issue a new recommendation about every week or so, and keeping up is hard to do. This session will consist of two parts: 1) a quick review of the year's activity on the W3C front with pointers on finding the right stuff, and 2) an overview of the year's activity in the LegalXML group, with insightful comments and suggestions.

Those attending this session will learn which major software giant headquartered in Redmond, WA has managed to be singled out for achieving both the best and the worst standards implementation at the same time (and in almost the same product). Also, more updates on the updates . . . .

Nick Finke
University of Cincinnati School of Law
Nick.Finke@Law.UC.Edu

Who are we, how did we get here, and where are we going? IT Career Path in Law Schools [BACK]

Digital Archiving & Project Nuremberg [BACK TO AGENDA]

Mr. MacDonald is the database programmer, and web search engine programmer, and web designer for the Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project The database is an MS ACCESS 97 database with several extensive modules in VBA and the web page scripting is all in PHP using an ODBC driver to connect to the database. There are 14 different ways to search the database on the web and we will have web deliverable and readable images of every page of the trials. They are starting off with just the Medical Trials (case and evidence documents of doctors doing criminal things to prisoners) with photos of same. This will consist of about 14,000 pages of documents and a couple hundred photos. They have over 1 millions pages of Nuremberg Trials documents filling over 500 boxes.

Mr. Joergensen has been doing work on data conversion and digital archiving, both with print materials and with native electronic material. He will discuss the the role of digital archives, why and when to create them (and often more important, why and when NOT to create them), the respective merits of data conversion methods, and the relative costs of the different methods.

Peter MacDonald
User Support Specialist
Harvard Law School Library
(617) 495-3683
(617) 496-4409 (fax)
pmacdon@law.harvard.edu
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library

John P. Joergensen
Reference Librarian
Rutgers University Law School - Camden
5th & Penn Streets
Camden, NJ 08102
e-mail: jjoerg@crab.rutgers.edu
Phone: (856) 225-6460

4:00p-5:00p

Who should attend: Professors who have a Virtual Classroom or who are interested in having a web course without impacting their school's IT and web resources.

Professor McGaugh will cover (1) issues to consider in creating a supplemental classroom for a skills course, (2) using the supplemental classroom to receive and comment on student drafts, (3) using the supplemental classroom as a safe haven for students to answer questions and receive grades, and (4) encouraging students to use a supplemental classroom without creating resistance. She will show her WCB sites for an upper-level Criminal Practice Skills course and for first-year research, analysis, and writing course. She'll discuss her different experiences in using the course with upper-level students and first-year students.

Prof. Tracy L. McGaugh
Texas Tech School of Law
806-742-3548
xwtlm@ttacs.ttu.edu

4:00p-5:00p

Making Your Class Better with The West Education Network [BACK TO AGENDA]

Who should attend: teaching professors

Professor Joseph will demonstrate how he uses TWEN to enhance the classroom experience for first year and upper level day and evening class students in Torts and Criminal Procedure.

Paul Joseph
Associate Dean and Professor of Law
Nova Southeastern University Center for the Study of Law
josephp@nsu.law.nova.edu
954 262-6171

GEEKFEST 2000 - CGI/PERL [BACK TO AGENDA]

Code and talk. 'nuff said. Knowledge of elementary Perl assumed.

Tom Bruce
Legal Information Institute
Cornell University
School of Law
trb2@cornell.edu

Tom Ryan
Rutgers University-Camden
School of Law
tomryan@camlaw.rutgers.edu

8:30a-9:30a (during breakfast)

CS-SIS Meeting (Room 210) [BACK TO AGENDA]

Attention CS SIS! Members of the Computing Services Special Interest Section of the American Assocation of Law Libraries are invited to join us in Room 210 for Saturday's HOT breakfast. It has become a yearly tradition for us to have an informal meeting at the CALI conference. So, pile on the food and shuttle your plates over to Room 210. See y'all there!

Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law
University of Chicago Law School
D'Angelo Law Library
1121 East 60th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.
Phone: 1-773-702-9612
Fax: 1-773-702-2889
E-mail: llou@midway.uchicago.edu
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/law-lists

9:30a-10:30a

The Palm digital organizer makes personal critical information instantly available in a device not much bigger than a pack of cards. It lets you carry your datebook, address book, a to-do list and email and also synchronize that information back to your desktop computer. The Palm OS market has now expanded to include a huge number of applications and devices including ebooks, document readers, web browsing, wireless communications, travel guides, and databases. The panelists (all enthusiastic Palm owners) will discuss shopping, essential software, web sites, and tips and tricks for getting the most of out of your Palm OS organizer.

Grace Lee
Electronic Services Librarian
Mendik Library
New York Law School
57 Worth St., NY NY 10013
212-431-2858
glee@nyls.edu

Anna Williams Shavers
NEW EMAIL: ashavers@unl.edu
Professor of Law
215 Law College
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583-0902
http://www.unl.edu/ashavers/aws.htm
Office: (402) 472-2194
Fax: (402) 472-5185

Trotter Hardy
Professor of Law
William and Mary School of Law
thardy@wm.edu (757) 221-3826

Marjorie A. McDiarmid
Professor of Law
College of Law
West Virginia University
University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
Telephone: 304-293-6821
Fax: 304-293-6891
mcdiarm@wvnvm.wvnet.edu

9:30a-10:30a

Distributing the Load: Empowering Faculty to Maintain Web-based Content [BACK TO AGENDA]

Coordinating web-based content with traditional paper-based information has presented many administrative challenges, including staffing, training, and issues of timeliness and currency. Whereas paper-based materials were expected to be updated infrequently, information on the web is expected to be up-to-the-minute. At the University of Wisconsin Law School, we have developed a model that permits individual staff and faculty members to update critical, time-sensitive sections of the Law School's web site to ensure the accuracy of the content. Our system also reduces the workload of support staff and technical staff. This presentation discusses both the technical and administrative methods we employed to enable this system.

TARGET AUDIENCE: Technology staff, web masters, administrators.

Jim Loter
Director of Technology
University of Wisconsin
975 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI 53706
jim@law.wisc.edu
608-265-4272
608-262-5485

9:30a-10:30a

The Evolution of Law School IT Structures [BACK TO AGENDA]

Information technology has become an increasingly important part of the law school organization. What for many schools started as a single technically savvy librarian has grown in some cases to departments with over a dozen IT professionals. The organizational structures of information technology departments within law schools are extremely diverse. While some law schools have the staffing to handle all of their technical needs on their own, others are heavily dependant upon their respective universities IT departments. The reporting structures can be quite different as well. At some schools, IT staffing falls under the umbrella of the library, while at others, it falls under the law schools administration.

I will begin by presenting the results of a survey I conducted to assess the current state of law school IT structures and how they got that way. I will explore how these structures are often reflective of the relationships between the law school, law library, and university IT. I will then open up the floor for discussion.

Adam Gutterman
Senior IT Liaison
William and Mary Law School
axgutt@wm.edu

9:30a-10:30a

9:30a-10:30a

Geekfest 2000 - Developing Web Applications with ColdFusion [BACK TO AGENDA]

Who should attend: Web application developers, database developers, IT directors and anyone interested in harnessing the power of Internet technology that drives e-commerce applications to handle dynamic information publishing.

ColdFusion provides a Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment that allows businesses (including law schools) to quickly and easily build web applications to deliver dynamic content and interactive web sites. ColdFusion applications use the interface familiar to all users - the browser - to access and manage databases as well as produce and publish dynamic web pages. This session will provide an overview of the ColdFusion development environment. We will discuss different applications developed using ColdFusion and how this environment could be used to build an integrated information system in law schools. An introduction to the server-side CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) will be provided and we will build a simple application using HTML and CFML.

Technical Level: Intermediate

Mohyeddin Abdulaziz
Director of Information Technology
University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
P.O. Box 210176
Tucson, AZ 85721-0176
Phone: (520) 621-3053
Fax: (520) 621-9140

If you are looking for some simple self-maintenance tips to keep your PC working in peak condition, wondering how to prolong to the life of your laptop battery power, aching to get off some of those listservs you subscribed to long ago, afraid to open attachments even if they are from your friends, wondering if your school really needs a digital camera, tired of carrying books on your trips but still want reading material, wishing you could access files from your office at home or feeling like you have that one computer question that you are embarrassed to ask--- then this is the session for you. This is a fast-paced session that will provide at least 60 tips designed to make the use of technology in law schools easier.

Anna Williams Shavers
NEW EMAIL: ashavers@unl.edu
Professor of Law
215 Law College
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583-0902
http://www.unl.edu/ashavers/aws.htm
Office: (402) 472-2194
Fax: (402) 472-5185

Trotter Hardy
Professor of Law
William and Mary School of Law
thardy@wm.edu (757) 221-3826

Grace Lee
Electronic Services Librarian
Mendik Library
New York Law School
57 Worth St., NY NY 10013
212-431-2858
glee@nyls.edu

Brian Donnelly
Director of Instructional Services and Lecturer in Law
Columbia Law School
donnelly@law.columbia.edu

Comparing Web Course Management Systems [BACK TO AGENDA]

This session is designed primarily for law faculty who are using or considering the use of course management software in their courses. No technological expertise or experience is required. There will be a general overview of some of the merits and pitfalls of using course mangement software in the law school setting. The session will also compare some particular course management software now being used in law schools, including Lexis Virtual Classroom, The West Education Newtwork, Web Course in a Box, Web CT, and Blackboard. Issues such as features, ease of use, navigation, speed, flexibility, and system/browser requirements will be compared.

Susanna Fischer
Assistant Professor
Columbus School of Law
The Catholic University of America
202-319-5568
fischer@law.edu

11:00a-12:00p

Application Service Providers [BACK TO AGENDA]

Make More Money! Amaze Your Friends! Attract Non-abhorrent Members of the opposite (or non-opposite) SEX! Yes FRIENDS, all this is possible with SilverStream, the J2EE (that's Java folks, yes, good 'ol open source hi-octane JAVA and version 2 to boot!) Quickly and easily build WEB PAGES, Java APPLETS, or even real live APPLICATIONS all using the same relational database INFORMATION you are using TODAY in your organization. Need a Web-based interface to your course registration database? Do you desire an INTRANET for your school? Need to do exams and even GRADE THEM over the Internet? Confused by people who pronounce "Gnu" as "Gu-new" and refer to mythical places like /dev/null in daily conversation? Then this session is for YOU!!!

[The speaker will also briefly give an overview of application servers, how they are deployed, database integration with HTML and Java applications, servlets, JSP, Linux, NT, Dreamweaver, Portals, B2B, B2C, and B2G (Bruce to Geek) among other topics.]

Will Sadler
Web Developer
Knowles Electronics
will@laser.org

GEEKFEST 2000 - PHP [BACK TO AGENDA]

PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print it out and hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to the world of Open Source software! Smile, be happy, the world is good.

John Heywood
American University
School of Law
heywood@american.edu

12:30p-1:30p

Upgrading to W2K [BACK TO AGENDA]

This session will offer department administrators and network managers an unflinching look into the W2K upgrade process. Specifically, Pepperdine School of Law's experience starting with a brief background on administration priorities, staffing limitations, and personnel development. The bulk of the session will address the pitfalls and successes of our W2K project though anecdotes and in-depth technical review of both workstation and server environments. The session will emphasize Q&A.

David Dickens
Academic Computing Support Manager
Pepperdine School of Law Library
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90263
Phone: (310) 456-4047
Fax: (310) 456-4836
David.Dickens@pepperdine.edu

12:30p-1:30p

12:30p-1:30p

GEEKFEST 2000 - LDAP and Wrapup [BACK TO AGENDA]

X.500 is an overall model for Directory Services in the OSI world. The model encompasses the overall namespace and the protocol for querying and updating it. The protocol is known as "DAP" (Directory Access Protocol). DAP runs over the OSI network protocol stack -- that, combined with its very rich data model and operation set makes it quite "heavyweight". It is rather tough to implement a full-blown DAP client and have it "fit" on smaller computer systems. Thus, the folks at University of Michigan, with help from the ISODE Consortium, designed and developed...

LDAP, or "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol". LDAP is, like X.500, both an information model and a protocol for querying and manipulating it. LDAP's overall data and namesapce model is essentially that of X.500. The major difference is that the LDAP protocol itself is designed to run directly over the TCP/IP stack, and it lacks some of the more esoteric DAP protocol functions.

A major part of X.500 is that it defines a global directory structure. It is essentially a directory web in much the same way that http & html are used to define & implement the gobal hypertext web. Anyone with an X.500 or LDAP client may peruse the global directory just as they can use a web browser to peruse the global Web. Additionally, with the help of web<->X.500 gateways, you can use your favorite web browser to peruse both!

Ken will discuss the use of LDAP in an Alumnii Database project at Duke.

All of the Geeks will be in attendance for a final wrapup of Geekfest. The last of the Jolt will be consumed and spontaneous acts of croquet may break out.

Kenneth J. Hirsh
Duke University School of Law
ken@law.duke.edu
(919) 613-7155

Video and Voice over the Net [BACK TO AGENDA]

IThis session will be a wide-ranging discussion of the future possibilties of video and voice over the Internet. A guest speaker from Cisco Systems will provide the expert commentary.

Gred Edwards
Cisco, Inc.
gedwards@cisco.com