Archive for January, 2009
Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal Part 4 (questions) Final
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009“Law must be taught in primary school, it is a social science. We must demystify the law, as it stands many people do not understand the law.” “Peace starts With Access to information” Questions: How did this process effect you personally? Batya Friedman: The project is draining, I have to sleep 10 hours a day, [...]
Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal Part 3
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Justice and reconciliation do not go together. Criminal prosecutions relive the most horrific moments of the Genocide. Another process is need to move forward. (I will look into which interview brought this up once they are posted online. The interview clips are passing so quickly with so much to talk about) Brian: This shows how [...]
Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal Part 2
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Legal systems exist to enable other systems to deliver basic human rights – Don Horowitz: Access is key to this project not just access to the first world but also access to the people in Rwanda and to the rest of the world – Batya Friedman After opening remarks we viewed a short clip from [...]
Live Blogging: Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal Part 1
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Kane Hall @ the University of Washington is nearly full, my rough guess is that there are 370 people present. The event is also being broadcast on UW TV (Windows media player is need I hope thre is a linux and Mac compatible alternative). The website for the event and the project over all is [...]
Seattle University Law Joins Facebook
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009It is nice to see the school reaching out to online communities, the next step is to populate the page with student generated content to move into Web 2.0. Here is the full press release: To be effective as lawyers in the service of justice requires that we understand both legal theory and how our [...]
UW Informatics: New T-Shirt
Friday, January 23rd, 2009The shirt reminds me of a tag cloud: Design by Evan Hwang (if even has a web site send me a link to add) If you are interested in a T-Shirt fill out the survey (don’t worry, it’s just one question!): https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/iuga/68319
Event: Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal: Genocide and Justice
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009The ISchool and Seattle University School of Law are sponsoring a talk about the Rwanda Genocide Tribunal. Here is the event info: “Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal: Genocide and Justice” Date: Tuesday, January 27 Time: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Location: Kane Hall, Room 120 ,University of Washington Cost: FREE! To register, visit: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/lhatfiel/66846 or call [...]
Joined the Legal IP Profesional Group on LinkedIn
Thursday, January 1st, 2009I am curious how many of the members have a NPO focus and if there is much overlap with the NTEN community. No mention of open source or open access will see how locked into the legacy closed systems the community is or if there is some movement to more access and community projects. Here [...]