While writing to
the SLAW community about the importance of social media feels a little redundant, I'd still like to expound on this book for a little while.
I've been remiss... will fix immediately, and here's hoping that
the Slaw community forgives me!
He brought me, a Texan, into
the Slaw community and taught me a great deal about blogging.
Cecily and I kicked the questions noted below around and we developed the idea of posting the questions here for consideration among
the Slaw community.
My young Canadian friend Tussy Mohr needs some advice from
the Slaw community — given its diversity of backgrounds and experience.
The Slaw community will enjoy your insights into the new trajectory of Canlii.
On behalf of
the Slaw community, we congratulate our colleague Dianne Saxe on her appointment as Environmental Commissioner of Ontario.
I am very curious to hear the perspectives of those in
the SLAW community regarding the role of clinical legal education in Canada and encourage comments below to share your thoughts.
Firstly, I'm delighted that
the Slaw community really came together.
Please join me in welcoming Nate to
our Slaw community!
You'll see a number of members of
the Slaw community listed as advisors.
: — RRB --- is a well - known founder of
the slaw community and recently launched another site for debate and data about the Supreme Court of Canada.
I thought I'd share some of my favourite learning, in hopes of provoking discussion in
the SLAW community.
The Slaw community will be very pleased to learn that our Founder Simon Fodden has been honoured as a co-recipient of this year's CBA President's Award, along with former MP, Irwin Cotler.
The name of Dwight Opperman will be familiar to older members of
the Slaw community — he was the former head of the West Publishing Company, who presided over the sale of the premier US legal publishing company to Thomson.
We're delighted to be able to explain some of the challenges of this area of the law to
the Slaw community, over the next week.
I also look forward to meet any member of
the slaw community attending the LegalIT Conference next Monday in Montreal!
I'm sure many in
the SLAW community are already aware of this conference, but given the topic, if a SLAW contributor were going to be attending perhaps they could volunteer to make some posts from the conference.
Faculty from
our Slaw community and the larger Canadian legal industry include:
I just received this information from the CALL webinar committee, and thought
the SLAW community would be interested.
Some of these, indeed, were cases where Slaw members or others well known to
the Slaw community chose to use a first name out of a desire for informality, perhaps.
Add to that the more than 10,000 comments you've given us, and
the Slaw community has produced the equivalent of something like 66 novels.
This month's Canadian Lawyer has its annual Top 25 Most Influential in the justice system and legal profession ranking, and I'm delighted to announce that three members of
the Slaw community, Malcolm Mercer, Colin Lachance and Adam Dodek have been honoured.
Not exact matches
I don't think
Slaw has mentioned the International Judicial Monitor, an «international law resource for judiciaries, justice sector professionals, and the rule of law
community around the world.»
I'm looking forward to joining the Canadian legal information
community and working with
SLAW denizens.
Fellow
Slaw - contributor Jack Newton and his
community sherpa Gwynne Monahan at Clio are the guiding forces behind the website.
Has
Slaw made the Canadian legal
community better and more thoughtful?
Looking forward to being an active part of the great
Slaw legal
community that I've enjoyed as a reader for years.
Thanks for making
SLAW the go to blog for the Canadian legal
community.
The decision by Justice O'Donnell in R. v. Duncan (on
SLAW here) has gained some notoriety in the legal
community -LRB-(Katie Daubs, «Legal Decision with literary flourish and dry wit making the round...», Toronto Star, March 29, 2013) and was the subject of a
SLAW post by Simon Fodden (The Judge's Tale, April 2, 2013).
Slaw is a great / fun / modern / diversified resource for the Canadian legal
community.
The practice is cowardly, an affront to the concept behind
Slaw and an insult to the members of its
community.
As you rightly note,
Slaw is written by and directed towards a primarily professional audience in the legal
community.
As our goal was to step away from the purely theoretical debates we academics are often criticised for, and to create guidelines and tools that could be implemented by those within the legal
community, we deemed it useful to use our presence on
Slaw to introduce our research to court administrators and decision makers so that interested parties could benefit from the fruits of our seven - year labour.
This is my hundredth
Slaw posting and rather than post on legal information, research and the Technologies of access and knowledge analysis, I'd like to think about slaw as a community of knowledge and where we've come from since those trans - mondial postings about taxonomies of legal knowledge back in June en route to In
Slaw posting and rather than post on legal information, research and the Technologies of access and knowledge analysis, I'd like to think about
slaw as a community of knowledge and where we've come from since those trans - mondial postings about taxonomies of legal knowledge back in June en route to In
slaw as a
community of knowledge and where we've come from since those trans - mondial postings about taxonomies of legal knowledge back in June en route to India.
From listserv personalities to fellow
Slaw members, the Canadian law library
community suddenly become tangible to me.
The Supreme Court of Canada rendered judgment today, granting application for appeal in PHS
Community Services Society v. Canada, the case of the Insite supervised injection site in B.C. I attended the hearings in Vancouver at the Court of Appeal last summer and posted my notes here on
Slaw.
As
Slaw readers will likely know, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently approved a change to the internet's domain name system that will mean, in the words of the ICANN press release [PDF]: Internet address names will be able to end with almost any word in any language, offering organizations around the world the opportunity to market their brand, products,
community or cause in new and innovative...
During her presentation Darlene identified that about half the law library folk in the audience are reading us here at
Slaw and, when asking who the «advance scouts» are for Web 2.0, the audience indicated that
Slaw fills this role in the legal research
community.
As much as we loved working on the legislative publications, we want to shift more into engaging with our clients directly, including in digital spaces like the amazing
community that is
Slaw.
This shows how
SLAW is useful as a focal point for the
community; it contributes to improve the tools in use by the legal
community.
Fellow
Slaw columnist Omar Ha - Redeye recently wrote a blog entry on how artificial intelligence is making its way into the Canadian legal
community more slowly that expected (by some) due to the fact that the data repositories that are behind SOQUIJ, CanLII, and other caselaw search engines are simply too limited in size to allow for true predictive capacities.
As both Malcolm and Jordan have also noted, the
community Simon brought together via
Slaw has been one I have always felt privileged to be part of.
He treated the law library
community with respect, bringing us into the
Slaw fold and making us feel like an important part of the legal field.
Building a more connected and stronger Canadian legal
community with
SLAW is a fitting and lasting tribute.
If there's one big lesson I came away from this process, it's this:
Slaw is a
community of very loyal readers and contributors.
Over a half million visitors swell into the
community for ten days of bike racing, Cole
slaw wrestling, concerts and partying.