Subject to ongoing revision:
last revised 11/21/2006

Reading List

Only the readings specifically assigned in advance of a class meeting are required reading. The others listed here provide background for the topics covered in each unit and serve as reference material for individual seminar projects.

Unit No. 1 - Overview

• Peter W. Martin, Pre-Digital Law: How Prior Information Technologies Have Shaped Access to and the Nature of Law, Law revue juridique, themis, volume 30, numero 2, 153-171 (1996)
• Peter W. Martin, The Internet: “Full and Unfettered Access” to Law — Some Implications, 26 N. Ky. L. Rev. 181 (1999)
• Accenture, eGovernment Leadership: High Performance, Maximum Value 14 (May 2004)
• John C. Reitz, Section VI: Computers and Law: E-Government, 54 Am. J. Comp. L. 733 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• E-Government Act of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-347, §§ 205-206, 116 Stat. 2899, 2913-16 (2002)
• Government of Canada, Government On-Line (2006)
• FirstGov.gov
• TexasOnline
• Washington State, Access to Justice Technology Principles (2004)

Unit No. 2 - Judicial opinion dissemination and access

• Background
• Kendall F. Svengalis, Legal Information Buyer's Guide and Reference Manual (2005) (excerpts)
• Peter W. Martin, Legal Information - A Strong Case for Free Content (2005)
• Daniel Poulin, Open Access to Law in Developing Countries, First Monday, vol. 9, no. 12 (2004)
• Michael Kirby, The Elusive Goal - Accessible Law
• Copyright and law reports
• L. Ray Patterson & Craig Joyce, Monopolizing the Law: The Scope of Copyright Protection for Law Reports and Statutory Compilations, 36 UCLA L. Rev. 719 (1989) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Matthew Bender & Co. v. West Publishing Co., 158 F.3d 674 (2d Cir. 1998) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Matthew Bender & Co. v. West Publishing Co., 158 F.3d 693 (2d Cir. 1998) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Oasis Publishing Co. v. West Publishing Co., 924 F. Supp. 918 (D. Minn. 1996) (settled while on appeal to the 8th Circuit, July 1997) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Neutral format citation of case law
• Technology Resource Committee, Report to the Wisconsin Board of Bar Governors, Proposed Citation System (1994)
• ABA Special Committee on Citation Issues, Report and Recommendations (1996)
• ABA House of Delegates Resolutions: 1996 and 2003
• Comments of the Department of Justice Before the Committee on Automation and Technology, Judicial Conference of the U.S. (1997)
• Responses of federal judges to 1997 survey by the Administrative Office of the Courts
• Public case reporting
• Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Official Law Reporting (2004) (excerpts)
• Robert C. Williams
• Edward W. Jensen
• Charles Dewey Cole, Jr.
• Tim Fuller, ... Milestones of Official Case Reporting in Washington (2005)
• Dissent by Frederick Muller from the AALL citation report (1995)
• Official publication agreements:
• New York
• California
• Ohio
• Selective case reports in tension with unfiltered access (published/unpublished and precedential/non-precedential)
• In re Amendment of Wis. Stat. § (Rule) 809.23(3) regarding citation to unpublished opinions, 2003 WI 84 [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Stephen L. Wasby, Unpublished Court of Appeals Decisions: A Hard Look at the Process, 14 S. Cal. Interdis. L.J. 67 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• J. Thomas Sullivan, Unpublished Opinions and No Citation Rules in the Trial Courts, 47 Ariz. L. Rev. 419 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Melissa M. Serfass & Jessie Wallace Cranford, Development and Practice Note: Federal and State Court Rules Governing Publication and Citation of Opinions: An Update, 6 J. App. Prac. & Process 349 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Stephen R. Barnett, From Anastasoff to Hart to West's Federal Appendix: The Ground Shifts Under No-Citation Rules, 4 J. App. Prac. & Process 1 (2002) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Stephen R. Barnett, No Citation Rules Under Siege: A Battlefield Report and Analysis, 5 J. App. Prac. & Process 473 (2003) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Cal. Rules of Court, R. 976, 976.1, 977
• Minn. Stat. § 480A.08(3)
• Ohio Sup. Ct. Rules for Reporting of Court Decisions, R. 4.
• E-Government Act of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-347, §§ 205-206, 116 Stat. 2899, 2913-16 (2002)
• Proposed amendment to Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, R. 32.1 (taking effect 12/31/2006)
• Two examples of best (and one of not so good) practice
• The North Dakota Supreme Court site, http://www.court.state.nd.us/court/opinions.htm
• The Oklahoma Supreme Court Network (OSCN), http://www.oscn.net/
• The U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit site, http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opinions/opinions.html

Unit No. 3 - Dissemination of codified law (statutes, administrative regulations, and municipal ordinances)

• Background
• Kendall F. Svengalis, Legal Information Buyer's Guide and Reference Manual (2005) (excerpts)
• Timothy Arnold-Moore & Jane Clemes, Connected to the Law: Tasmanian Legislation using EnAct (2000)
• Copyright and compiled codes (legislative, administrative, municipal)
• L. Ray Patterson & Craig Joyce, Monopolizing the Law: The Scope of Copyright Protection for Law Reports and Statutory Compilations, 36 UCLA L. Rev. 719 (1989) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Irina Y. Dmitrieva, State Ownership of Copyrights in Primary Law Materials, 23 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 81 (2000) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Bldg. Officials & Code Adm'rs v. Code Tech., Inc., 628 F.2d 730 (1st Cir. 1980) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress Int'l, Inc., 293 F.3d 791 (5th Cir. 2002) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Amicus Brief submitted to the Supreme Court by the Justice Department (upon the Court's invitation) on the petition for Cert. in the Veeck case
• County of Suffolk v. First Am. Real Estate Solutions, 261 F.3d 179 (2d Cir. 2001) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Lawrence A. Cunningham, Private Standards in Public Law: Copyright, Lawmaking and the Case of Accounting, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 291 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Some examples
• Cal.
• Compiled statutes
• Compiled regulations
• Minnesota
• Compiled statutes
• Compiled regulations
• Utah
• Compiled statutes
• Compiled regulations
• Municipal codes
• Dayton, Ohio (Municode)
• Rochester, Minnesota (public)
• Lafayette, Indiana (LexisNexis)
• Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (Amlegal)
• Ithaca, New York (General Code)
• Los Alamitos, California (Quality Code)
• Richfield, Utah (Sterling Codifiers)

Unit No. 4 - The input side of legal institutions

• Background
• William A. Fenwick & Robert D. Brownstone, Electronic Filing: What is It? What Are Its Implications? 19 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 181 (2002) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• John M. Murphy III, Note: From Snail Mail to E-Mail: The Steady Evolution of Service of Process, 19 St. John's J.L. Comm. 73 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Gregory M. Silverman, Symposium: Technology Values, and the Justice System: Rise of the Machines: Justice Information Systems and the Question of Public Access to Court Records Over the Internet, 79 Wash. L. Rev. 175 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Ronald W. Staudt, Self-Represented Litigants and Electronic Filing (2005) (see also Ronald W. Staudt, Technology for Justice Customers: Bridging the Digital Divide Facing Self-Represented Litigants, 5 RRGC 71 (2005))
• National Center For State Courts, Electronic Filing Resource Guide
• Individual Jurisdictions
• Administrative Office of the Courts, CM/ECF
• Drayton Nabers, Jr., Improving the Quality of Justice, 67 Ala. Law. 38 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Matthew C. Baltay, Heads Up: Electronic Filing in D. Mass: Moving Towards the Paperless Practice, 49 B.B.J. 14 (Feb. 2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Joseph H. Firestone & James C. Horsch, Technology and the Law: Are You Ready for E-Filing?, 84 MI Bar Jnl. 22 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Peter S. Vogel, Technology: You Can EFile in State Courts Today, 69 Tex. B.J. 114 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Charles Bacarisse, Staying Ahead of the Curve: E-Filing in State Courts: Fast, Cheap, and Under Control, 68 Tex. B. J. 575 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Douglas E. Cressler, Federal Appeals: The Scoop on Electronic Submission and Filing, 18 Utah Bar J. 30 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Public access to public records in tension with other values and interests
• Lynn E. Sudbeck, Placing Court Records Online: Balancing Judicial Accountability with Public Trust and Confidence: An Analysis of State Court Electronic Access Policies and a Proposal for South Dakota Court Records, 51 S.D. L. Rev. 81 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Daniel J. Solove, Access and Aggregation: Public Records, Privacy and the Constitution, 86 Minn. L. Rev. 1137 (2002) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Natalie Gomez-Velez, Internet Access to Court Records - Balancing Public Access and Privacy, 51 Loy. L. Rev. 365 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Kristen M. Blankley, Note: Are Public Records Too Public? Why Personally Identifying Information Should Be Removed from Both Online and Print Versions of Court Documents, 65 Ohio St. L.J. 413 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Michael Whiteman, Appellate Court Briefs on the Web: Electronic Dynamos or Legal Quagmire?, 97 Law Libr. J. 467 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• CCJ/COSCA Guidelines for Public Access
• Commission on Public Access to Court Records, Report to the Chief Judge of the State of New York (2004)
• Report of the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management on Privacy and Public Access to Electronic Case Files (2001)
• NSCS, State rules on public access to court records
• MN Access Rules
• Some e-filing systems as examples
• New York State Unified Court System, Practice System, https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/mainframe.html
• e-filing as implemented by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, http://uscis.gov/graphics/formsfee/forms/eFiling.htm, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/efs/

Unit No. 5 - The communication of legal materials, policies, and standard practices within public law-making and law-applying bodies

• Social Security Administration, POMS GN 00305.075 and surrounding sections (communicating state domestic relations law to Social Security personnel)
• Social Security Administration, HALLEX, I-2-0-60. Good Cause for Late Filing & Chapter I-2-6. Conduct of Hearings
• Department of Labor, elaws Advisors
• USDOJ, Immigration Judge Bench Book (2001)
• CA Dept. of Social Services, Bench Book and ParaRegs
• TX Municipal Courts Education Center, Bench Book
• CrimeTime Sentencing Software (2006), http://www.georgedentes.com/
• SentenceMaster
• 20 CFR § 405.410 (2006) and background

Unit No. 6 - The conduct of legal proceedings

• eDiscovery
• David K. Isom, Electronic Discovery Primer for Judges, 2005 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 1 [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Courtroom Technology
• Elizabeth C. Wiggins, What We Know and What We Need to Know About the Effects of Courtroom Technology, 12 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 731 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Gordon Bermant, Symposium: The Powers and Pitfalls of Technology: The Development and Significance of Courtroom Technology: A Thirty-Year Perspective in Fast Forward Mode, 60 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 621 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Elan E. Weinreb, “Counselor, Proceed with Caution”: The Use of Integrated Evidence Presentation Systems and Computer-Generated Evidence in the Courtroom, 23 Cardozo L. Rev. 393 (2001) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Video Conference Hearings or Testimony
• Anne Bowin Poulin, Criminal Justice and Videoconferencing Technology: The Remote Defendant, 78 Tul. L. Rev. 1089 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Aaron Harmon, Recent Development, Child Testimony Via Two-Way Closed Circuit Television: A New Perspective on Maryland v. Craig in United States v. Turning Bear and United States v. Bordeaux, 7 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 157 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Roger A. Hanson, American State Appellate Court Technology Diffusion, 7 J. App. Prac. & Process 259 (2005) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Stuart G. Mondschein, Lights, Camera, Action: Video Conference Trial Technology, 70-Jul Wis. Law. 14 (1997)
• Daniel Stepniak, Technology and Public Access to Audio-Visual Coverage and Records of Court Proceedings: Implications for Common Law Jurisdictions, 12 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 791 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Bridging the Distance: Implementing Videoconferencing in Wisconsin (2005)
• Eugenio Mollo, Jr., Note, The Expansion of Video Conferencing Technology in Immigration Proceedings and Its Impact on Venue Provisions, Interpretation Rights, and the Mexican Immigrant Community, 9 J. Gender Race & Just. 689 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Information about Social Security's Video Hearing Process
• eRulemaking
• William R. Andersen, Symposium: Technology, Values, and the Justice System: Technology and the Washington State Administrative Process - Some Preliminary Notes, 79 Wash. L. Rev. 13 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Stuart W. Shulman, The Internet Still Might (but Probably Won't) Change Everything: Stakeholder Views on the Future of Electronic Rulemaking (2004)
• Cary Coglianese, Citizen Participation in Rulemaking: Past, Present, and Future, 55 Duke L.J. 943 (2006) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• eRulingmaking at the Crossroads (2006)
• New DG Team Pursues eRulemaking Research

Unit No. 7 - Impact of eLaw on the work of lawyers and structure of law firms

• Ron Friedmann, Pragmatic Approaches to Knowledge Management (2006)
• Judith Lamont, KM for law firms - legal or not? (2006)
• Gretta Rusanow, Global Law Firm Knowledge Management Survey 2006
• West km, http://www.elite.com/solutions/product-fam/westkm/index.asp
• Ron Friedmann, The Future Law Office: Going Virtual (2004)

Unit No. 8 - Speculations about the future

• Ethan Katsh, Online Dispute Resolution: Some Lessons from the E-Commerce Revolution, 28 N. Ky. L. Rev. 810 (2001) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Elizabeth G. Thornburg, Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Lessons from the ICANN Dispute Resolution Process, 6 J. Small & Emerging Bus. L. 191 (2002) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Amy S. Moeves & Scott C. Moeves, Two Roads Diverged: A Tale of Technology and Alternative Dispute Resolution, 12 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 843 (2004) [Lexis][Westlaw]
• Canadian Judicial Council, Use of Personal Information in Judgments and Recommended Protocol (2005)
• Paul D. Carrington, Virtual Civil Litigation: A Visit to John Bunyan's Celestial City, 98 Colum. L. Rev. 1516 (1998) [Lexis][Westlaw]