Ric Rondan, University of Richmond School of Law,
SESSION DESCRIPTION:
The University of Richmond's T.C. Williams School of Law has a mature network of 540 faculty, staff and students. They have required a laptop of each entering student for the past five years and have examined issues of both PC- and network-based testing. Students and faculty are producing legal scholarship and resources on the WWW. Professors Jones and Ric Rondan
will discuss what the advantages are to working in this technology-rich environment. They will also touch on how the technology infrastructure has improved on the "traditional" teaching of the law and what adjustments a modern-day faculty member must make to exploit these resources.
TITLE: SINSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION AND FACULTY MIGRATIONS
Elmer Masters, LII
SESSION DESCRIPTION:
TITLE: STAFFING AND COMPENSATING THE COMPUTER CENTER
SESSION DESCRIPTION:
TITLE: PRIVACY AND USAGE POLICIES FOR LAW SCHOOLS
Tom Ryan, Rutgers University School of Law, tomryan@camlaw.rutgers.edu
SESSION DESCRIPTION:
TITLE: ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTING - WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Terri L. Winkler, University of Utah School of Law, terri.winkler@law.utah.edu
Jeff Ferriell, Capital University School of Law, jferriel@capital.edu
Laurie Davenport, University of Washington School of Law, duport@u.washington.edu
SESSION DESCRIPTION:
TITLE: CONTENT DELIVERY AND BEYOND USING FOLIO VIEWS
Professor Camille Chin, Widerner University School of Law, CChin@aol.com
SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Professor Chin teaches a entitled "Tax Law in Cyberspace: The Taxation of Electronic Commerce on the Information Superhighway" to 2Ls and 3Ls. She has developed an e-casebook for the class working closely with LEXIS-NEXIS using Folio Views and will discuss her experiences and uses of the technology.
DATE: Sunday, June 29
TRACK: LAW LIBRARIES, COMPUTER CENTERS AND BEYOND
SPEAKER(S):
Thomas R. Bruce, LII, trb2@cornell.edu
Global networks may make physical location irrelevant, but nonetheless the annual movement of faculty visitors from institution to institution causes a flood of misinformation, confused expectations, data anxiety, and missed connections as these migratory birds move into their offices away from home. What can we do to communicate faculty needs and idiosyncrasies across
institutions? The time seems to be ripe for some sort of exchange.
DATE: Sunday, June 29
TRACK: LAW LIBRARIES, COMPUTER CENTERS AND BEYOND
SPEAKER(S):
Jon Kamm, Denver University School of Law, jkamm@lib.law.du.edu
Mr. Kamm will lead a lively discussion surrounding issues of finding, retaining and compensating staff for a law school’s computer operations. This session will afford the attendees the opportunity to express their opinions, share their experiences and discuss issues that are of great interest to computer professionals in law schools.
DATE: Sunday, June 29
TRACK: LAW LIBRARIES, COMPUTER CENTERS AND BEYOND
SPEAKER(S):
Jon Garon, Western State University, jong@wsulaw.edu
Is it legal to read your student's email? Can you be compelled to give outsiders access to your network? Will you be the first law school to fight a sexual harassment claim because someone was viewing obscene materials in your computer lab? These and other issues will be discussed in the context of computer privacy and policy issues.
DATE: Sunday, June 29
TRACK: TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONS
SPEAKER(S):
Neal Plotkin, University of Michigan Law School, nplotkin@umich.edu
The panelists will discuss how administrative computing issues are handled at their respective institutions and will posit their own predictions on the current and future state of administrative computing in law schools post Tailored Solutions.
DATE: Sunday, June 29
TRACK: E-PUBLISHING & COMPUTER-BASED INSTRUCTION
SPEAKER(S):
Professor Gary Neustadter, South Carolina University School of Law, gneustadter@mailer.scu.edu
Professor Neustadter and a colleague and have completed the first draft of an Electronic
casebook entitled Secured Debt, using the Folio Views platform and have used it this past academic year to teach a course of the same name. The course is taught in a newly remodeled classroom which allows projection into a screen and television monitors in front of the classroom from a laptop computer. Every student seat has electricity and network ports