Dear Colleagues, I hope you will find the following call for presentation relevant. Please note that the deadline for submissions has been extended until April 2. Additional details at: http://blog.law.cornell.edu/lvi2012/ Best, Dmitry ------- Dmitry Epstein Cornell eRulemaking Initiative www.regulationroom.org CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS In 2012, we mark the 20th Anniversary of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School, the first legal website on the Internet and the birthplace of the free law, open access movement. This year also marks the 10th Anniversary of the Declaration on Free Access to Law, a document crafted and signed by delegates from more than a dozen countries assembled at the Law Via the Internet (LVI) conference in 2002. To mark this achievement and to strategize for the next 20 years, the 2012 LVI conference will be held in the United States for the first time, at the birthplace of the open access, free law movement, Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY. Please join us! The format of this year's conference differs slightly from past conferences. Each day will begin with a keynote address delivered to all participants by a high-profile speaker. Following the keynote, participants will then attend shorter sessions in five themed tracks: - The Promise and Reality of e-Participation - The Business of (Open) Legal Publishing - Free Law and Government Policy - Application Development for Open Access and Engagement - Data Organization and Legal Informatics Each track session will be one hour in duration with 30 minutes for open discussion in between sessions. Sessions can take the form of papers, visual demonstrations, panel discussions, or any format which is suitable to the material being discussed. There will be four sessions on Monday and four sessions on Tuesday, for a total of 40 in all. Attendees are encouraged to move freely between tracks to sessions which interest them. We expect nearly 500 attendees in all. Catered lunches will be provided on Monday and Tuesday at the conference location. In addition, there will be an opening reception on the evening of Sunday, October 7, an Anniversary Gala on Monday evening with dining and dancing, and a closing reception after the last session on Tuesday afternoon. *Our Approach to Presentations* The Law via the Internet community now reaches significantly beyond the academic community where open access to law began. LVI 2012 is meant to be a place for interaction and discussion among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers situated in universities, in private industry, in government, in non-profit settings outside universities, and wherever people who work with open access to law can be found. For that reason, we are soliciting presentations in addition to papers. Both approaches will be considered equally in the selection process. Please read the Track Descriptions to learn what themes are being explored and decide under which Track your submission should be considered. Bear in mind that the conference chairs and organizers reserve the right to move your submission to a different track for reasons of thematic continuity or scheduling. Submission and review of proposals and abstracts will be coordinated through our registration site. Proposals and/or abstracts are due by March 15, 2012. The more details you can provide, the better. You will be notified of the chair's decisions no later than May 1, 2012. *To Propose a Presentation* Please submit a 400-500 word description of your presentation, which may take any form: moderated panel discussion, single speaker, or multiple speakers. Please provide names and biographic information on each person who will participate in your presentation. If your presentation is accepted, we would appreciate sharing either the text of your presentation, or the slides or other materials you may be using, so that it can be shared with conference attendees who may not have been able to attend your specific session. All presentations will be video recorded and available for download after the conference. If for purposes of funding or travel, you need your presentation to be peer reviewed, we will provide it. *To Submit a Paper* Those wishing to submit papers should submit a 400-500 word abstract or a first draft. Accepted papers will be published in PDF format on the conference website. We are not currently planning to create a printed volume of proceedings.