Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 21-23 July 1999
Conference Report by Tom McMahon
 

The Australasian Legal Information ( AUSTLII ), is part of a world-wide network of Public Legal Information Institutes working towards providing free access to legal materials via the Internet.

AustLII's legacy includes some fifteen years of research and development and since 1995, AustLII's web site has been one of the largest sources of legal materials on the Web and is currently one of Australia's most popular web sites.

There is much to learn from the AustLII example in the establishment of the UK Legal Information Institute, (see the Free the Law meeting , 8 November 1999, and the web pages of Laurence West-Knights for the latest information), and we are very pleased to present a selection of papers delivered at the 2nd AustLII Conference .

These papers, comprising refereed articles, commentaries and conference papers, raise a number of issues in getting legal information onto the web, but also demonstrate some innovative and fascinating solutions to the various problems. We hope you enjoy them.

There are a few more papers that will be included as part of the 2000 (2) issue, which will be online as soon as possible.

The proceedings of the second AustLII Conference is available for purchase, for details see the Conference home page .

Papers published with the permission of the Australasian Legal Information Institute ( AustLII ).