e-Law — Meeting No. 9

I. Improving the quality (“consistency, accuracy, timeliness, transparency, …”) of law application by an agency or court system through digital technology

• Characteristics of the setting
  
  
• Some illustrative examples (administrative and judicial)
  

II. Agency options =>

• Automated decision-making
• insured status? POMS RS 00301.120
• benefit amount? Benefit calculator
  
  
• Information on external law - e.g., common law marriage: POMS GN00305.060
  
  
• Internal law/procedure - e.g., how to conduct a hearing: HALEX I-2-6
  
  
• Guided decision-making with access to supporting information - DOL elaws
  
  
• Quality assurance, bringing management techniques to bear on an adjudicatory structure
  
  

III. Court options =>

• Interactive benchbook - CrimeTime
  
  
• Other?
  

IV. Next week: Litigation technology (high tech in the courtroom or hearing room)

• Readings
• Assigned: Weinreb and (Wiggins or Bermant); Poulin & Mondshein
• Submission: Think piece: a) criteria for selection of a trial presentation system; b) setting in which a computer simulation would be both permissible and effective; or c) circumstances in which you would counsel a client to agree to a video conference hearing on her Social Security benefit claim
  
  
• November 21 (midnight):
• Your paper in draft