SubTech 2008

SubTech 2008, as recorded

Webcast recordings at http://mslclct.courtroomconnect.net/mslCLCT/

(approximate hours/minutes below)

See http://www2.law.columbia.edu/edtech/subtech2008/ for list of participants

Thursday 7/24

07/24/2008 Part 1
00:03:20
00:10:50

Opening Session

• Welcome – Fred Lederer and Ed Zilavy
• Quick history of SubTech – Marc Lauritsen and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (remote) 

Part 1, 00:24

Introductory remarks – Ethan Katsh

07/24/2008 Part 1

01:03

01:32

02:12

02:50

First plenary

  Theme – State of the Legal Tech Curriculum

  Stage setters –

• Fernando Galindo – Update on legal tech education in the European Union
• Abdul Paliwala (remote) – The culture of eLearning: From Biopower to eConfucius
• Kevin Ashley – Teaching argumentation skills with the LARGO program
• Larry Farmer – Facilitating and improving skills instruction

Session chair: 

John Mayer

07/24/2008 Part 2

00:01

00:04

00:24

00:48

07/24/2008 Part 3

00:09

Second plenary  

Theme –  New Communities and Collections

  Stage setters –  

• David Johnson – LegalOnramp and similar developments
• Paul Marharg (remote) – SIMulated Professional Learning Environment (SIMPLE)
• Lavern Pritchard – LawMoose

• Thorne McCarty – Deep Semantic Interpretations of Legal Texts

Session chair: 

Tom Bruce

00:54

Demo

• Larry Farmer – MediaNotes

Friday 7/25

07/25/08 Part 1

00:03:45

00:37

02:14

Third plenary

  Theme – Access to Justice

  Stage setters – 

• Ron Staudt – “Involving law students in systems that teach the public about legal choices and lead people  through the steps needed to exercise those choices.”
• John Mayer – A2J and beyond
• Richard Granat (remote) – The new commercial online legal services world and its implications for lawyers and law teachers

[Note:  Richard was unable to attend;
Marc presented his slides.  Good ensuing discussion.]

Session chair: 

Marc Lauritsen

07/25/08 Part 2

00:00

 
00:25:45

Fourth plenary  

Theme –  Court and Administrative Technology

 Stage setters – 

• Fred Lederer – Litigation Technologies and Law School (the study of high tech evidence, e-discovery, data seizures, …)
• Peter Martin – “Some tentative ideas about the relationship between the institutional and financial structure of US courts and the pace and pattern of their take-up of digital technology - focusing on efiling and associated litigation document management systems”

Session chair: 

Brian Donnelly

07/25/08 Part 3

Plenary resumes

Continued discussion

Saturday 7/26

07/26/08

00:05
00:43:45

Final plenary

  Theme –  Web 2.0 and 3.0

  Stage setters – 

• Daniel Poulin – “Web 2.0 and legal information”
• Ahti Saarenpää – “The important role of legal informatics as a systematic link between our constitutional rights and practical legal problems in the new network society”

00:00

Session chair:  Tom Bruce

01:24:45

Plenary resumes

Continued discussion

02:23:45

Wrap up – thinking about SubTech 2010