The Internet has the potential to play a key role in the way civil society organizations promote the rule of law in transitional states. In many states several barriers stand in the way of utilizing the Internet for this purpose. Challenges that…
This paper examines the development of copyright in Nigeria by looking at the different legal regimes that have existed within Nigeria’s copyright system. It provides an historical perspective of the development of Copyright law in Nigeria by tracing…
Abstract. Slaw (http://www.slaw.ca) has blogged for eight years to Canadian lawyers and others who work in law, regularly and explicitly supporting the work of CanLII and Lexum by offering suggestions, a platform for discussion and an opportunity to…
Open data is fuel for the future economy. Opening and sharing data owned by public bodies, communities and companies has an incredible economic value. This will potentially lead our society to a new data-driven thinking paradigm. They also enable a…
Data protection laws require organisations to be transparent about how they use personal data. This article explores the potential of machine-readable privacy notices to address this transparency challenge. We analyse a large source of open data…
The observation of the general practices of translation of End-User License Agreements from English into Spanish lead to the finding that some companies accounted for the difference between the legal requirements of the source text - the original…
This papers sits at the intersection of citizen access to law, legal informatics and plain language. The paper reports the results of a joint project of the Cornell University Legal Information Institute and the Australian National University which…
The mobile telephone alternatively referred to as mobile handset, has immense advantages over the traditional land line telephone in that it enables the user to traverse wherever he desires, and yet able to communicate with others either for purposes…