I came away from the book with a much greater appreciation for the ways in which we might go about creating a more flexible
legal infrastructure in the future.
More precisely you will be looking for
good legal infrastructure — the term I use to describe all the legal resources that will make a difference to your venture.
We need more (properly regulated) markets involved in
producing legal infrastructure because markets are a better technology for directing resources to complex problems.
But almost all electronic technology
lacks legal infrastructure to control its use and enforce quality standards in the production of such evidence.
Legal infrastructure includes not only the legal rules you can find in law books but also the quality — and cost — of the legal advice, planning, and solutions you can access.
There will always be new forms of technology and new methods of applying existing technology, that can not yet be automated and therefore their
accompanying legal infrastructure will require legal advice services.
This challenge is often framed on a large scale, around the invention of a
renewed legal infrastructure and a broadly imagined scope for legal services.
It was only last year that our own government tried to introduce legislation that would have provided for the building of the physical and
legal infrastructure for substantially increased Internet surveillance.
There is a price to be paid in necessary
legal infrastructure of laws and courts if it is to provide adequate controls and safeguards for the technology upon which our lives are dependent and judges» decision are based; see: «Guilt By Mobile Phone Tracking Shouldn't Make «Evidence to the Contrary» Impossible» (pdf.; and see the summary, using the same title on Slaw, October 4, 2016).
Secondly, the Canadian Payment Association, which administers the clearing and payment of all items in Canada, had to have the
necessary legal infrastructure in place to enable the exchange of image capture payment items through the CPA system.
Electronic records management is a complex technology, which makes
current legal infrastructure of statutes, guidelines, and case law that controls the use of electronic records as evidence very inadequate because it ignores these facts: (1)...
Monica Goyal, J.D., M.Sc., of MyLegalBriefcase gave a presentation on technology, access to justice, and MyLegalBriefcase at the «Startups in the Law» panel at NELIC 2011: The New and
Emerging Legal Infrastructures Conference, held 15 April 2011 at the University... Continue reading →
Video is now available for NELIC 2011: The New and Emerging
Legal Infrastructures Conference, held 15 April 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall, in Berkeley, California, USA.
It was amazing that «justice innovation» was a topic (albeit small) at this summit and equally amazing that so
much legal infrastructure is simply assumed in relation to innovations in government.
In a recent speech by the Singapore Minister for Foreign Affairs and Law, Mr K Shanmugam said, «A
sound legal infrastructure has to be complemented by an outstanding set of professionals who practice in this field.
These innovations are necessary: (1) to give electronic records and their ERMS technology an
adequate legal infrastructure for litigation and other legal services; and, (2) to make litigation that is dependent upon the use of records, available at reasonable cost.
Government officials and landlords find themselves in an endless cat - and - mouse game of regulate - and - evade that has created its
own legal infrastructure in the form of the New York City Housing Court.
Blockchain technology may be the most important addition to
legal infrastructure since the Norman Conquest gave rise to the common law.
Four billion people around the world live without
basic legal infrastructure — can we build a blockchain - based global contracting platform to allow small traders in poor and developing countries to reliably participate in global supply chains?
When startups chasing greenfield opportunities achieve significant customer traction they may hit an air pocket unless you have the
key legal infrastructure in place ahead of time.
The dream of Neom should be for a bridge to the legal world that can sustain a better life for all Saudis, and a case study of how a
reinvented legal infrastructure — propelled by new technology — can be the lynchpin for a more prosperous and just society.
And the reason those social and economic sanctions exist is because all the ordinary people needed to help
keep legal infrastructure stable and effective — by both resisting the temptations of transgression themselves and sanctioning those who don't — see a reason to do their part.
«Vulnerable host» states are described as such because (i) typically only states and not investors can be sued under an International Investment Agreement («IIA»)(ii) A developing state is more likely to lack
sufficient legal infrastructure or internationally acceptable practices (political and economic) to protect satisfactorily the investment subject of the IIA.
While its roots lie in practice management, Abacus Law has recently made strides as a
hosted legal infrastructure provider through its Abacus Private Cloud environments.
The electronic records management system technology (ERMS technology) that controls their existence, accessibility, and integrity will need a larger and more
complex legal infrastructure of laws, and increased number of varieties of specialized personal such as lawyers, judges, administrators, and enforcers, than do motor vehicles.
There is always a price to be paid if a new technology is to be used safely — mass transportation by horses required much
less legal infrastructure than do motor vehicles, which has never stopped expanding in volume, complexity, and necessary resources.
«The gradual elimination of trusted third parties from our economic and
legal infrastructures belies a serious and unprecedented reorganisation of many legacy social structures.
For example, motor vehicle transportation would be too dangerous to use without its
current legal infrastructure, which must be vastly different and greater than that which controlled horse - powered transportation systems.
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