Five Recommendations to Law Schools Offering Legal Instruction Over the Internet

Redirecting Legal Scholarship in Law Schools

Artificial Intelligence and Legal Theory at Law Schools

Currently, Artificial Intelligence and Law is an interdisciplinary field somewhere on the border between Computer Science and Law. For many reasons, this interdisciplinarity hampers its further development and the transfer of its results into both legal theory and legal practice. In this position statement, we argue that AI and Law should become part of legal theory, or rather a “school” of leg...

Multimedia Architecture Offering Open Distance Learning Services over Internet

The increase in the use of the Internet not only as a repository of resources for learning but also as a means for the delivery of courses and specially prepared teaching material is a particularly significant innovation in the range of education. The main concept here is a Virtual class, which is based on the principles of CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning) systems. This paper de...

The holy trinity of legal fictions undermining the application of law to the global Internet

The clash between the borderless Internet and the geographically structured legal landscape is almost universally adopted as the starting point for discussions of Internet jurisdiction issues. This clash is important, but to fully appreciate its implications we need to proceed far into the territory of jurisprudence. Here, I draw attention to how three presumptions that underpin all legal syste...

Changes and improvements in schools' effectiveness: trends over five years

It is widely assumed that some schools improve more rapidly than others. However, unlike the well-established finding that schools differ in their effectiveness, evidence that schools improve at different rates is sparse. Using data on pupils' examination results and prior achievements from five cohorts of pupils passing through over 30 schools in one LEA, the study considers three questions. F...