Select Publications
Books
2014, Overcoming technical challenges in developing a global free-access legal information system for research - the WorldLII experience, Verlag Alma Mater
,Book Chapters
2019, 'Legal Information Institutes and AI: free access legal expertise', in Peruginelli G; Faro S (ed.), Knowledge of the Law in the Big Data Age, IOS Press, pp. 199 - 211, http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/knowledge-of-the-law-in-the-big-data-age
,2017, 'Free scholarship: Developing a national legal scholarship library', in Peruginelli ; Faro (ed.), Access to legal scholarship: Tools, approaches, technologies, Giappichelli
,2016, 'Models for a global system for free access to legal information: the WorldLII approach', in Weth S; Oostrom SV (ed.), Festschrift fur Maximilian Herberger, juris GmbH, pp. 193 - 193
,2007, 'Networking LIIs: how free access to law fits together', in Holmes ; Venables (ed.), Legal Web 2007/2008: Legal Information Topics, infolaw Limited
,Journal articles
2023, 'Explainable AI (XAI) in Rules as Code (RaC): The DataLex approach', Computer Law and Security Review, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2022.105771
,2023, 'Representing legislative Rules as Code: Reducing the problems of ‘scaling up’', Computer Law and Security Review, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2022.105772
,2020, 'Utilising AI in the legal assistance sector—Testing a role for legal information institutes', Computer Law & Security Review, 38, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2020.105407
,2018, 'Building sustainable free legal advisory systems: Experiences from the history of AI & law', Computer Law & Security Review, 34, pp. 314 - 326, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2018.02.007
,2016, 'A Free Access, Automated Law Citator with International Scope: The LawCite Project', European Journal of Law and Technology (EJLT), 7
,2015, 'Supporting and influencing data privacy practice: The free access International Privacy Law Library', Computer Law & Security Review, 31, pp. 221 - 221
,2013, 'Challenges for Free Access to Law in a Multi-Jurisdictional Developing Country: Building the Legal Information Institute of India', Journal of National Law University Delhi, 1, pp. 63 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2277401720130105
,2013, 'The meaning of ’free acess to legal information’: A twenty year evolution', Journal of Open Access to Law (JOAL), 1
,2012, 'Digitising and searching Australasian colonial legal history (Part 1)', Australian Law Librarian, 20, pp. 133 - 133
,2012, 'Digitising and searching Australasian colonial legal history (Part 2)', Australian Law Librarian, 20, pp. 223 - 223
,2012, 'Searching Legal Information in Multiple Asian Languages', Legal Information Management, 12, pp. 173 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1472669612000436
,2012, 'Searching Legal Information in Multiple Asian Languages', Legal Information Management, 12, pp. 173 - 173
,2011, 'AustLII: Thinking locally, acting globally', Australian Law Librarian, pp. 101 - 101
,2011, 'Challenges for free access in a multi-jurisdictional developing country: Building the Legal Information Institute of India', SCRIPTed, 8, pp. 292 - 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.2966/scrip.080311.292
,2010, 'Building a commons for the common law: the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) four years on', Commonwealth Law Bulletin, 36, pp. 127 - 127
,2010, 'The Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) after four years progress', Commonwealth Law Bulletin, 36, pp. 127 - 134
,2007, 'Challenges in improving access to Asian laws: the Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII)', Australian Journal of Asian Law, 9, pp. 152 - 152
,2007, 'Improving stability and performance of an international network of free access legal information systems', Journal of Information, Law & Technology (JILT), 2
,2006, 'Emerging Global Networks for Free Access to Law', Journal of Electronic Resources in Law Libraries, 1, pp. 1 - 1
,2005, 'Responding to the Fragmentation of International Law - WorldLII’s International Courts and Tribunals Project', Canadian Law Library Review, 30, pp. 13 - 13
,2005, 'What was the law at that point in time?', Law Society Journal, pp. 2 - 4
,2005, 'What was the law at that point in time?', Law Society Journal, 43, pp. 7 - 7
,2004, 'A New Home for Commonwealth Law: A Proposal for CommonLII', Journal of Information, Law & Technology (JILT), 2
,2004, 'A new home online for Commonwealth law: A proposal for a CommonLII', Journal of Information, Law and Technology, 9, pp. 1 - 30
,2004, 'Australian Treaties Library 1901-2003: The Fifth Pillar of Treaties Reform', UTS Law Review, 6, pp. 145 - 145
,2002, 'The Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII): Its Roles in Free Access to Global Law Via the Internet', Hong Kong Law Journal, 32, pp. 401 - 401
,2002, 'World Law: Finding Law After Google', UTS Law Review, 4, pp. 11 - 11
,2000, 'A Defence of Plain HTML for Law: AustLII’s Approach to Standards', Journal of Information, Law & Technology, 1
,2000, 'Reconciliation Online: Reflection and Possibilities', Journal of Information, Law & Technology, 2
,2000, 'Scalability of Web Resources for Law: AustLII’s Technical Road Map: Past, Presentand Future', UTS Law Review, 2, pp. 88 - 88
,2000, 'Solving the Problems of Finding Law on the Web: World Law and DIAL', Journal of Information, Law & Technology, 1
,2000, 'With a Wysh and a Prayer: An Experiment in Cooperative Development and Legal Knowledgebases', Journal of Information, Law & Technology (JILT), 2
,'AustLII's DataLex Developer's Manual (1st Edition, June 2019)', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3408555
,'Building Datalex Decision Support Systems: A Tutorial on Rule-Based Reasoning in Law', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3034430
,'The Datalex Project: History and Bibliography', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3095897
,Conference Papers
2019, 'Utilizing AI in the Legal Assistance Sector', in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on AI and Intelligent Assistance for Legal Professionals in the Digital Workplace (LegalAIIA 2019) co-located with the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2019), Montreal, QC, Canada, pp. 1 - 7, presented at First International Workshop on AI and Intelligent Assistance for Legal Professionals in the Digital Workplace (LegalAIIA 2019), Montreal, QC, Canada, 17 June 2019, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2484/paper2.pdf
,2019, 'Utilising AI in the legal assistance sector: Testing a role for Legal Information Institutes', in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 12 - 18
,2009, 'Free-access Case Law Enhancements for Australian Law', in Peruginelli ; Ragona (ed.), European Press Academic Publishing, pp. 285 - 285
,2005, 'Unlocking IP - National dimensions of public rights and the public domain in Australian copyright', in Canada-Australia Comparative IP & Cyberlaw Conference, University of Ottawa, University of Ottawa
,2004, 'WorldL11`s International Courts & Tribunals Project - Improving access to decisions on the Internet', in Seminar on International Courts and Tribunals for Practitioners from South-East Asia and the South Pacific Regions, Wellington, New Zealand, presented at Seminar on International Courts and Tribunals for Practitioners from South-East Asia and the South Pacific Regions, Wellington, New Zealand, 28 June 2004 - 02 July 2004
,2004, 'Can One Size Fit All?: AustLII’s Point-in-time Legislation Project', in UTS Law Review, pp. 117 - 117
,2003, 'WorldLII: A new home for Commonwealth law online', in 13th Commonwealth Law Conference, Melbourne, presented at 13th Commonwealth Law Conference, Melbourne, 13 April 2003 - 17 April 2003
,2002, 'Free access to law via Internet as a condition of the rule of law in Asian societies: HKLII and WorldLII', in 4th Conference on Asian Jurisprudence, University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong
,2001, 'AustLII’s aide - natural language legislative rulebases', in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
,1999, 'With a wysh and a prayer: an experiment in cooperative development of legal knowledges', in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
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