How do we help law help people? Law doesn't work if it's not helping people. ~ Naomi Sayers Naomi Sayers (@kwetoday) is an Indigenous lawyer, teacher, writer and advocate who is committed to making the law work better for people - especially those who have experienced trauma. She is passionate about re-framing the problems we... Continue Reading →
It’s really important that we understand that there are real people’s lives being affected by this crisis. It’s not just numbers. ~ Julie Macfarlane Dr. Julie Macfarlane (@ProfJulieMac) is a recognized leader behind the idea that we should turn the attention of our justice system to the “real people” facing the challenges of access. As... Continue Reading →
How do I define success? Being useful. Making something better. We all have, in our jobs, these moments... we're like: Why am I doing this? And I always have an answer. ~ Katie Sykes Prof. Katie Sykes (@katiesykes01) is a legal innovation powerhouse. She has degrees from the University of Toronto (Gold Medalist), Harvard and... Continue Reading →
"The big shifting point in my mentality was that I decided it wasn't essential to me, or essential to my sense of identity, to be considered a lawyer or to work in a traditional legal career." ~ Lauryn Kerr Lauryn Kerr (@lauryn_kerr) has a legal innovator’s dream job as in-house counsel for a world-leading online... Continue Reading →
This is episode 4 of my Continuing Professional Development podcast. It considers how the openness principle, as commonly applied in our justice system, can come into conflict with considerations like information privacy and new technology. Topics covered: An introduction to the openness principle as it’s applied in our court processes.Theoretical and jurisprudential underpinnings of the... Continue Reading →
This is episode 3 of my Continuing Professional Development podcast. It's all about the capacity of online dispute resolution (ODR) to handle human emotion in the conflict resolution process. Course Topics for this episode: Brief introduction to online dispute resolution (ODR). The impacts of emotions on disputes on conflict situations. The state of current research... Continue Reading →
This is episode 2 of my Continuing Professional Development podcast. It's all about online dispute resolution, also called ODR. Topics covered: A definition of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR).Types of communication channels involved in ODR.Comparisons and contrasts between ODR and electronic court document filing.The history of ODR.The use of technology for digitization, as opposed to innovation... Continue Reading →
This is episode 1 of my Continuing Professional Development podcast. It’s just a pilot episode that explains what this is all about. Listen to "1 Pilot Episode" on Spreaker. I plan to use quizzes to try and qualify you for CPD credits. Take a sample quiz here.
My Continuing Professional Development (CPD) podcast is now in the experimentation phase! I've been thinking about doing this a long time. Seriously. I'm talking years here. The basic idea is to merge the benefits of podcasting with the desire of lawyers to continuously learn and develop. Oh, and qualify for CPD credits, of course. Podcasts... Continue Reading →
There are different ways to model or structure the expert knowledge in a technology-based system. Some of the approaches are actually quite complicated and theoretical. At least they seem that way to me. The approach I take to knowledge engineering is what I believe to be quite a simple approach. In my view, knowledge engineering... Continue Reading →
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