Bibliographical Notes

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Timothy Arold-Moore is widely recognized as the world's leading expert on electronic management of legislation. He holds degrees in Law and Computer Science, both from the University of Melbourne and a doctorate in Computer Science from RMIT with a dissertation titled "Information Systems for Legislation".

He has been engaged as a consultant on various aspects of legislation management by jurisdictions including Tasmania, Papua New Guinea, New South Wales, Ontario Provincial, and Canadian federal. Timothy's primary focus has been on using international standards to provide a vendor-neutral, long-lasting repository of legislation. Such a repository can then form the basis of systems for drafting, managing and delivering the legislation repository. He is the primary developer and current technical director of the EnAct system, a legislation drafting, management and delivery system built for the Tasmanian Parliament. The EnAct system is also being deployed in Papua New Guinea and similar technology in NSW and Canada.

The Tasmanian system pioneered the automatic generation of amendment legislation, and the automation of the consolidation of amendments. It is still the only system in production that automates both processes. From this automatically generated repository of legislation versions, the system also delivers a "point-in-time" view of the legislation allowing users to search and browse the entire legislation collection as it was at any nominated time.

Pierre-Gilles Bélanger is a member of the Quebec Bar. Until 1992, he worked for the Law Reform Commission of Canada as a consultant in administrative law. In 1992, he joined the Department of Justice Canada as legal counsel where he was given the responsibility, among other things, for the legal education of judges in Haiti and then for a course on law and public management at the Canadian Centre for Management Development. He then became legal counsel to the Information Law and Privacy Section of the Federal Department of Justice, with the special responsibility for examining the impact of new information technologies on the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act. He served as director of the Department's Millennium Bureau whose principal project was the creation of a 3W site for young people on the evolution of human rights during the last century. He is now legal counsel in the Criminal Law Section where he coordinates, among other things, the connectivity project on mutual legal assistance in the Americas. His fields of expertise include civil liberties and criminal law, information law and the new technologies.

He was also the driving force behind the creation of Justice Canada's World Wide Web site, which has made statutes and regulations readily accessible on the Internet free of charge.

Valérie-Laure Bénabou is an Associate Professor at the University of Versailles-Saint Quentin and teaches at the Ecole des Mines. She is a member of the Centre d'Etude et de Recherche en Droit de l'Immatériel (CERDI) and of the Editorial Board of Propriétés Intellectuelles. She also teaches civil law at the University of Barcelona and taught international commercial law at the Law University in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She was a member of the Commission de réflexion du CONSEIL d'ETAT sur Internet et les réseaux numériques, co-ordinated by Ms Falque-Pierrotin, which produced the Rapport du Conseil d'Etat, (La Documentation française, 1998). She is the author of a number of works and articles, including La directive droit d'auteur, droits voisins et société de l'information: valse à trois temps avec l'acquis communautaire, Europe, No. 8-9, September 2001, p. 3, Communication Commerce Electronique, October 2001, p. 8., and Vie privée sur Internet: le traçage, in Les libertés individuelles à l'épreuve des NTIC, PUL, 2001, p. 89.

Mr Karim Benyekhlef is a professor at the Faculty of Law and a member or the Public Law Research Centre (CRDP) of Université de Montréal since 1989. Member of the Bar since 1985, he worked at the Department of Justice from 1986 to 1989. His research and teaching fields are the information technologies law, public liberties and legal theory. He has published several books, studies, repports and articles related to those subjects. Professor Benyekhlef was the instigator of the CyberTribunal project (1996-1999). He also presided over eResolution, an organization then accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, in order to solve domain name-related conflicts (1999-2001). He is the publisher of the electronic legal review, Lex Electronica, dealing with the impact of the information technologies on the law.

Louis Bergeron has had the position of Director of the Partnership Division of the Integrated Justice Information Secretariat at the Department of the Solicitor General of Canada since March 2002. Prior to that time, he worked as a Director in charge of the Summit Security Cost Policy at the Policing and Law Enforcement Branch. He previously held diverse positions at the Customs and Revenue Agency.

Guillaume Blain has been a member of the LexUM team since spring 2000. His works include the creation and maintenance of the Tax Court of Canada judgment website. He has worked on implementing and adapting the AustLII search engine, Sino, to the needs of the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII - IIJCan) and on its integration to the CanLII - IIJCan website. He is currently working on the creation of new software to support the publication of the law collections on CanLII - IIJCan.

Guillaume Blain has a Bachelor's degree in computer science from the Université de Montréal. His interests are in the field of modeling, compilation, linguistic, logic and common to those fields of study, namely terms of semantic representation communicated in those systems through the many symbols and signs. He dreams of the day when exchanged and processed electronic information will be sufficiently structured to convey easily understandable meanings to both computers and humans.

BA LLB (Macquarie); Solicitor (NSW), (England & Wales); Solicitor and Barrister (Vanuatu)

Robynne is the Director of the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII), www.paclii.org, and Manager of the University of the South Pacific (USP), School of Law, Internet Project, www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj.

She graduated from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts, focussing on Pacific History, and a Bachelor of Laws. She is admitted to practice in NSW, Australia, England and Wales and in the Republic of Vanuatu and has practised in each of those countries, largely in the areas of commercial law and music law. Soon after the commencement, in 1998, of the USP School of Law Internet Project Robynne was appointed as Manager of the Project, which now provides to the University's 12 Pacific island nations on-line

classrooms for law courses, course materials, Pacific island judgments and statutes, the electronic Journal of South Pacific Law and a wealth of other Pacific law related material. As the Project developed, PacLII was created to house the judgments, statutes and other material. Robynne has been Director of PacLII since its inception and launch as a demonstration site in 2001.

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François Brochu is a land rights publication specialist who is currently working on a research project entitled « L'accroissement de la sécurité des titres immobiliers au Québec » . He is also an Associate Professor at l'Université Laval, from where he graduated and received his Master's degree. Rewarded by the Centre français de droit compare, his thesis, « La publicité foncière et la prescription civile en droit québécois » also granted him a Doctorate in law from the University d'Aix-Marseille III. His expertise makes him a valuable contributor to La Revue du Notariat and for Géomatique, publications that deal with the computerization of rights publications. He is also frequently asked to give presentations at conferences, such as the 70^th Acfas congres (May 2002), where his participation is greatly appreciated.

Recent publications ;

• François Brochu, « Le système Torrens et la publicité foncière québécoise » , to be published in La Revue de droit de McGill , 2002.
• François Brochu, « La crise d'adolescence du RDPRM » , (2002) 104 La Revue du notariat (to be published).

After serving for several years as Director of Educational Technologies at the Cornell Law School, Bruce (with Peter Martin) co-founded the Cornell Legal Information Institute in 1992. It has since grown into one of the best-respected and most heavily used resources for public legal information on the Internet, serving in excess of ten million data requests each week. The LII has achieved a number of important firsts; it was the first legal Web site (1992) and the first to offer the United States Code, the opinions of the US Supreme Court, and the opinions of the New York Court of Appeals.

Mr. Bruce is the author of Cello, the first Web browser for Microsoft Windows, and of a variety of other software tools used by the LII and others. As part of his LII activities Mr. Bruce has consulted on Internet matters for Lexis-Nexis, West

Group, IBM, Folio Corporation, and others; he also frequently consults on technology-management issues in law schools. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the national computer-assisted legal-education consortium, CALI, a Fellow of the University of Massachusetts Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution, and a Senior International Fellow of the University of Melbourne Law School, where he serves on the advisory board for the LLM program in e-business law. He has constructed any number of legal information resources on the Internet, ranging from an online edition of an early English law text (Bracton) to an electronic first-year law course authored by seven members of the Harvard Law School faculty. He has taught and written extensively about the economics and public policy surrounding legal information resources, and about the use of technology of law schools. His present research interests include the application of emerging digital-library technology to problems of public legal information, and problems of markup and structuring in legal texts. Over the years he has been deeply concerned with the management anddevelopment of computer technology in law schools, and has been among the principal organizers of both virtual and physical communities of law-school technologists via the TEKNOIDS mailing list and the CALI-sponsored conference for technical professionals. Mr. Bruce holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama. Prior to his arrival at Cornell Law School, Mr. Bruce worked as a stage manager and director for a variety of American performing arts organizations including Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the American Repertory Theater among many others. At a significant if little-known point in his professional career, Mr. Bruce was (very briefly) the lighting director for Richard Hell and the Voidoids.

Stéphane Caïdi is an Associate Editor at the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) in the Centre de Recherche en droit Public of the University of Montreal. He joined CANLII in October 2000, and has been researching issues concerning the diffusion of judicial records on the Internet. Stéphane is currently finishing his Masters Degree in Law at the University of Montreal. The topic of his thesis is « La preuve et la conservation de l'écrit dans la société de l'information » . He also holds a Masters in Business Law from the University Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble (France). He is the co-author of an article on privacy and the diffusion of judicial records in an electronic environment.

Karl Charbonneau graduated from l'Université de Montreal and is a software analyst who has been working in the LexUM research team of the Faculty of law of the université de Montréal for 4 years. He worked in a number of projects to develop computer programs to administer and publish law documents such as Juris International (a multilingual collection of legal information on international trade) and the publication of the canado-american treaties on the internet. He's currently working on the automatisation of the download and the normalisation of the statutes for the legal document repository of the Canadian Legal Information Institute (IIJCan - CanLII) with the help of Java and XML.

Philip is a graduate in Economics and Law from the University of Sydney, with a major in Computer Science. Philip manages the staff and resources of AustLII and jointly oversees the technical development of AustLII's projects and system administration. In addition to his responsibilities as AustLII's Executive Director Philip manages our primary legal materials, and has developed all of our facilities to automate the receipt and processing of cases and other materials. Philip lectures in computerised legal research at UTS. He is experienced in large scale legal publishing on the Internet, computerised legal research, computer legal applications and automated text processing.

Pierre Ciotola is a notary and Doctor of Law. He is a full professor at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Law, where he teaches economic rights: securities, property, matrimonial regimes and successions. On many occasions, he has been invited to national and international conventions, as well as in multiple training activities organized academic and professional collectivities in Québec as a speaker. He was awarded the Notarial Chair.

The Honorable Justice Norman Douglas Coo was a law practionner in British Columbia and in Ontario since 1953. He was appointed Queen's Councel in 1964, and appointed to the bench in 1973. Then he was named senior judge of the District Court of Ontario from 1979 to 1990. Since then he has been a Justice at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

It is relevant to note that he is deeply involved in the Integrated Justice Project of Ontario, in particular as a member of the Judges Advisory Committee, of the Executive Steering Commitee, and of the Integrated Justice Courts Steering Committee. He is also chair of the Provincial E-Filling Committee. He was a member of the judicial team involved with the intallation of Digital Audio

Recording System in Ontario; he was a member of the Civil Rules Committee for the Province of Ontario from 1977 to 1996. He presided the Provincial Simplified Rules Committee, such as the Toronto Judges Technical Committee and the Chief Justice's Committee on Province-Wide Expansion of Case Management. He was, for four years, a member of the Judges Computer Advisory Committee of the Canadian Judicial Council, and a member of the Toronto Case Management Steering Committee and of the Provincial Judicial MIS Committee.

François Daviault was called to the Bar in 1972 and practised criminal and penal law at Kaufman, Yarosky & Fish (now Yarosky, Daviault & Isaacs). He was appointed to the Superior Court in 1994, but later returned to private practice in criminal and penal law.

Me Daviault was a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montréal (1988-1994) and is now a lecturer in criminal and penal law at McGill University (1998-2002). He has participated in a number of workshops and seminars as a speaker and panelist at Québec and Canadian Bar Association conventions, study sessions, Québec Bar Association professional training courses, etc.

Senior Counsel for the Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces in Somalia and the commission of inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance and death of Mr. Louis-Georges Dupont, he has been presiding over the Comité d'inspection professionnelle du Barreau du Québec since 1998 and is the Bar's representative on the sectoral criminal and penal advisory committee under the Government of Québec's système intégré d'information de justice (SIIJ) project.

Nathalie Des Rosiers is President of the Law Commission of Canada. She is a Professor of law on leave from the Faculty of Law - Common Law - at the University of Ottawa. From 1987 to 2000, Ms. Des Rosiers was a Faculty member at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario. She was a law clerk to Justice Julien Chouinard at the Supreme Court of Canada from 1982 to 1983 and in private practice until 1987.

Ms. Des Rosiers is a Past-President of the Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario (AJEFO) and of the Canadian Law Teachers Association. She was a member of the Environmental Appeal Board, from 1988 to 2000 and a member of the Ontario Law Reform Commission from 1993 to 1996. She received the medal of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1999 and the Order of Merit from the AJEFO in 2000.

Ms. Des Rosiers obtained an LL.B. from the Université de Montréal in 1981 and an LL.M. from Harvard University in 1984. She became a member of the Barreau du Québec in 1982 and of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1987.

Claude Fabien is a full professor at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal. After his studies at Université de Montréal (B.A., LL.L.) and McGill University (LL.M.), he was admitted to the Bar in 1966. He practices as a lawyer, in Montreal, in the Deschênes, DeGrandpré, Colas firm (1966-1969) and participated in the DATUM legal information project at the Université de Montréal (1969-1972). He has taught at l'Université de Sherbrooke (1972-1979) and at l'Université de Montréal (since 1979). He has been Secretary, Associate Dean and Dean (1995-2000) of the Faculty of Law. He has been the President of the Association des professeurs de droit du Québec (APDQ), the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) and of the Canadian Law Information Council (CLIC). He is an accredited grievance arbitrator and mediator. His fields of research and teaching are that of contracts, civil liability, evidence and labor law.

Martin is President and General Counsel of Commonwealth Legal Inc., Canada's

national litigation support company. In this capacity Martin advises major law firm and government clients in Canada, the United States and overseas on the deployment of litigation support document management tools and resources.

Prior to joining Commonwealth Legal, Martin was Director of integer.actif, Canada's leading legal technology consulting firm. Integer.actif worked with more than 60 law firms and law departments to provide advice and support on strategic technology planning, information systems implementation and training. Before founding integer.actif, Martin was Legal Technology Counsel and a research lawyer at McCarthy Tétrault, Canada's national law firm. Martin obtained two doctorates from the University of Toronto (English and Law) and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1985. He teaches a course in Business Law and Ethics in the MBA program at Concordia University. Martin has written extensively on the subject of legal technology and is recognized as an expert in the field. He is frequently quoted in Law Times, The Canadian Bar Association National, Canadian Lawyer and other legal publications. For almost fifteen years, Martin was the Chairman of the Legal Research Network; serves as a technical adviser to the Judges Technology Advisory Committee of the Canadian Judicial Council; and is a member of the Canadian Citation Committee. Martin has spoken at dozens of conferences throughout North America, in Europe and New Zealand, including the ABA TechShow in Chicago, and Legal Tech in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles. His technology column in the Lawyers Weekly is widely read.

Martin is a Summation Certified Trainer and an experienced trainer of several other legal software packages. When he's not working, Martin volunteers on the Board of Directors of the Alzheimer's Society of Toronto and spends time at his island cabin with his wife Gail Czukar and their two boys.

Adelle Fruman was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. She received a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Common Law, and Bachelor of Civil Law from McGill University. Justice Fruman was admitted to the Quebec Bar Association and The Law Society of Alberta. She practiced corporate finance and securities law with a Calgary law firm prior to her appointment, in 1993, to the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta. In 1998, Justice Fruman was elevated to the Court of Appeal of Alberta.

Vincent Gautrais is a law professor and the Co-Director of the Master's in e-commerce at the Université de Montréal. He has been working on the topics of Internet, e-commerce and digital law since 1992. He has written numerous academic articles, papers, researches on e-contracts, electronic signatures, protection of "cyberconsumers", network security law, alternative disputes resolution in cyberspace, etc... He is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences on e-commerce.

Vincent Gautrais has obtained law degrees from the University of Montreal (LL.B 1995, LL.M 1993, LL.D 1998) and University of Rennes - France (Master 1990, Licence 1989) and is a member of the Québec Bar. His doctoral thesis, "L'encadrement juridique du contrat électronique international", was published in Europe in 2000.    He is also the Editor of a volume on e-commerce being launched at the conference Droit du commerce électronique, Montréal, Thémis, 2002.

Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa specializing in Internet and e-commerce law. Professor Geist has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School. He has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law, is national columnist on cyberlaw issues for the Globe and Mail, the creator and consulting editor of BNA's Internet Law News, a daily Internet law news service, editor of the monthly newsletter, Internet and E-commerce Law in

Canada (Butterworths), on the advisory boards of several leading Internet law publications including Electronic Commerce & Law Report (BNA), the Journal of Internet Law (Aspen) and Internet Law and Business (Computer Law Reporter) as well as the author of the textbook Internet Law in Canada (Captus Press). Professor Geist serves on the director and advisory boards of several Internet and IT law organizations including the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, the dot-ca administrative agency, the Canadian IT Law Association, Watchfire, and NetGeo. He is regularly quoted in the national and international media on Internet law issues and has appeared before government committees on e-commerce policy.    More information can be obtained at http://www.lawbytes.ca.

Ysolde Gendreaugraduated from McGill University where she obtained her B.C.L., LL.B., and LL.M. She is also a docteur en droit of the Université de Paris II. She is professor at the Université de Montréal, where she teaches intellectual property law and competition law, and has taught at McGill University, Université de Paris II, Université de Nantes, University of Victoria, University of San Diego, and Monash University. She has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1985 and is counsel to the firm Gowling Lafleur Henderson. From 1995 to 2000, she was a member of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board.

Copyright law is her field of specialisation and her publications in this area are numerous: The Retransmission Right : Copyright and the Rediffusion of Works by Cable (Oxford, ESC Publishing Ltd, 1990); La protection des photographies en droit d'auteur français, américain, britannique, et canadien (Paris, L.G.D.J., 1994). In collaboration with her colleague Ejan Mackaay, she is responsible for the annual edition of Législation canadienne en propriété intellectuelle / Canadian Legislation on Intellectual Property published by Carswell. Her articles appear in Canadian and foreign journals and she is the Canadian contributor to Paul Geller's International Copyright Law and Practice.

She is a member of several intellectual property organisations: the Association littéraire et artistique internationale (ALAI), the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), and the Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), of which she is president-elect.

Graham Greenleaf is a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong for 2001-2 where he is leading the development of the new LLM in Information Technology Law, and is Co-Director of the new China Information Technology and Law Centre and the Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII - www.hklii.org) that is part of the Centre.

He is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, where he specialises in the relationships between information technology and law. He teaches and researches in the areas of cyberspace law, privacy, computerisation of law and intellectual property. He has degrees in Arts and Law, and is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society.

At UNSW he is a co-founder and Co-Director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII - http://www.austlii.edu.au/), , and of the World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII - http://www.worldlii.org/), the largest free access law facility on the Internet. He is also the founder and Co-Director of the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre (http://www.bakercyberlawcentre.org/) at UNSW. He is the International Consultant for the Asian Development Bank's Project DIAL ('Development of the Internet for Asian Law'), which aims to provide lawyers in developing countries with access to an 'Internet Law Library'.

Professor Greenleaf has been involved in the relationships between IT and law for over 25 years. In 1983 he was the foundation president of the NSW Society for Computers and the Law. Since the mid-1970s he has been involved in privacy issues as a consultant to the Commonwealth Privacy Commissioner, Chairman of the Australian Privacy Foundation, a co-founder of Privacy International, a drafter of the Australian Privacy Charter, and a statutory Member of the NSW Privacy Committee). He has been General Editor of the monthly Privacy Law and Policy Reporter since 1994 .

Among awards received, he has been a ComputerWorld Fellow, awarded for distinguished contributions to the development of information technology in Australia and the Independent Monthly listed him as one of 28 'Most Respected Law Teachers' in its 1996 national survey. AustLII has also received various awards.

Further details, copies of publications and links to web resources are on his Home Page at < http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~graham/ >

B.A., LL.B. (Toronto), M.Sc. (Econ.) (London), LL.M. (Osgoode Hall Law School)

John D. Gregory is General Counsel in the Policy Branch, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario). After clerking for the Chief Justice of Canada, he was called to the Bar in 1977. He practised commercial law in Toronto with Wright & McTaggart until 1985, when he joined the provincial government. He has developed policies on alternative dispute resolution, private international law, trade law and provincial offences, including the electronic filing rules for photoradar speeding tickets. He has been president of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada.

He chaired the working group that produced the Uniform Electronic Evidence Act and another that created the Uniform Electronic Commerce Act. From 1997 to 2001 he was a member of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Laws working group on electronic commerce. He is a director of the Information Technology Lawyers Association of Canada and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Internet and E-Commerce Law in Canada. He is a frequent speaker on electronic commerce and the law of the paperless office, a subject on which his knowledge is more theoretical than real.

Selected Publications

• "Authentication Rules and Electronic Records", (2002) ... Canadian Bar Review (forthcoming)
• "Solving Legal Issues in Electronic Government: Jurisdiction, Regulation and Governance", (2002) 1 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (forthcoming)
• "Solving Legal Issues in Electronic Government: Authority and Authentication", (2002) 1 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 1.
• "Canadian Electronic Commerce Legislation", (2002), 17 Banking and Finance Law Review 277.
• "The United Nations Model Law on Electronic Commerce in Canada", (2000), 4 Canadian International Lawyer 35.
• "Receiving Electronic Messages", (2000), 15 Canadian Banking & Finance Law Review. 473
• "The Uniform Electronic Commerce Act", (2000), 6 Lex Electronica No. 1 (http://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/v6-1/gregory.htm )
• "Solving Legal Issues in Electronic Commerce", (1999), 32 Canadian Business Law Journal 84
• "The Authentication of Digital Legal Records", (1999), 6 The EDI Law Review 47
• "Electronic Legal Records: Pretty Good Authentication?", Canadian Association of Law Librarians, National Summiton the Authentication, Preservation and Citation of Electronic Legal Records 1998. (http://www.callacbd.ca/1997summit/auth-johngregory.html )

Lucie Guibault teaches copyright law in the Faculty of Law and is a researcher at the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam. She studied civil law at the University of Montréal (LL.B. 1988 and LL.M. 1995), and recently obtained a Doctorate of Law from the University of Amsterdam, where she defended a dissertation entitled Copyright Limitations and Contracts: An Analysis of the Contractual Overridability of Limitations on Copyright. Before joining the Institute for Information Law in 1997, Ms Guibault was in private practice in Montréal, in the intellectual property section of a major law firm. Prior to that, she was a policy analyst for the Canadian government in the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate of the Canadian Department of Industry in Ottawa.

She is also a member of a working committee of the Dutch branch of the ALAI, belongs to the editorial board of the Cahiers de propriété intellectuelle and acts as Canadian and Dutch correspondent for the German journal, Computer und Recht International.

Recent publications:

• "Le tir manqué de la Directive européenne sur le droit d'auteur et la société de l'information", (2002) 14 Cahiers de propriété intellectuelle, forthcoming.
• Study on the Conditions Applicable to Contracts Relating to Intellectual Property in the European Union, L.M.C.R. Guibault & P.B. Hugenholtz (with M.A.R. Vermunt and M. Berghuis), Final Report, study commissioned by the European Commission (May 2002).
• "Netherlands: Peer-to-peer file sharing and the KazAa case", Computer und Recht International 2002/-.
• Copyright Limitations and Contracts: An Analysis of the Contractual Overridability of Limitations on Copyright, The Hague, London, Boston: Kluwer Law International, 2002, Information Law Series, No. 9, 377p.
• "Canada: Copyright Reform and Anti-Terrorism Legislation", Computer und Recht International 2002/1, p. 171.
• "Canada: New Legislation on Electronic Commerce Underway", Computer und Recht International 2001/1, p. 25.
• "Contracts and Copyright Exemptions", in P.B. Hugenholtz, Ed., Copyright and Electronic Commerce―Legal Aspects of Electronic Copyright Management, The Hague, London, Boston: Kluwer Law International, 2000, pp. 125-163.
• "Canada: New Privacy Legislation", Computer und Recht International 2000/4, pp. 81-82.
• Council of Europe, Discussion paper on the question of exceptions to and limitations on copyright and neighbouring rights in the digital era, Strasbourg, October 1998, 50p.
• "Limitations found outside of copyright Law", General report prepared for the ALAI Study Days, Cambridge, September 14-17, 1998: The Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright.

Sophie Hein has a Master's of Law from the University of Montréal and began her career as a jurist at the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP). Her Masters thesis won the 1996 Jean-Lucien Caron Award and was published in 1997 by Éditions Thémis under the title L'information gouvernementale: vers un droit d'accès sur l'inforoute. She also worked on the study of the legal framework for information highways entitled Droit du cyberespace, which was published by Éditions Thémis in 1997 (Pierre Trudel, France Abran, Karim Benyekhlef et al.). After completing the courses for the Bar, she was hired as a researcher at the Québec Court of Appeal, and then as a legal researcher in the research section of the Court of Québec. She recently joined the Québec système intégré d'information de justice (SIIJ) team. In recent years, she has published several articles and given talks on various topics related to the Internet and law.

Mr. Ives joined Quicklaw in April 2002 to manage the new Quicklaw Shared Solutions Group. After working in private practice for seven years, he joined the Unisys Justice Practice office in Charlottetown, P.E.I. in 1998, where he worked as a legal business analyst providing assistance in the implementation of case management systems for the P.E.I. and N.W.T. courts, creation of Crystal Reports for the P.E.I. Courts, and the system impacts of the new Youth Criminal Justice Act. He also worked on an E-Filing Feasibility Study for the P.E.I. Government. Leaving Unisys in November 2001, Mr. Ives ran his own company, Shared Solutions Inc. until he joined Quicklaw.

François Jacquot is a Professor of Private Law in the Faculty of Law in Nancy and specializes in contract law. He directs the Magistère program in European commercial law and the DEA in comparative European law, and heads the Centre de Recherche en droit privé in Nancy. He is responsible for a number of French and European research programs, including the Fédération Cohérence Europe, for which he is the server's Scientific Director.

Jennifer Jordan has her LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, 1976, and was called to the British Columbia bar in 1978. She has been Registrar in the BC Court of Appeal since 1982. Her committee memberships and involvements include : Technical Advisor, Judges' Technology Advisory Committee of the Canadian Judicial Council; Canadian Citation Committee; BC Superior Courts Technology Committee; Judicial Access Policy Committee; Lecturer on the BC Courts Website and Appellate Practice and Procedure; and publications on Court of Appeal Practice, BC Courts website and Electronic filing.

Professor Katsh has authored two books on law and technology, Law in a Digital World (Oxford University Press, 1995) and The Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law(Oxford University Press, 1989), as well as many articles. During the last ten years, he has been involved in many projects involving the application of technology to law and legal processes.

Since 1996, he has been involved in a series of activities related to online dispute resolution. He participated in the Virtual Magistrate project and was founder and co-director of the Online Ombuds Office. In 1997, with support from the Hewlett Foundation, he and Professor Rifkin founded the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts. In 2001, he received a grant from the Markle Foundation to improve accessibility to domain name dispute rulings.

From 1997-1999, he mediated a variety of disputes online, involving domain name/trademark issues, other intellectual property conflicts, disputes with Internet Service Providers, and others. In the Spring of 1999, he supervised a project with the online auction site eBay, in which over 150 disputes were mediated during a two week period. During the Summer of 1999, he co-founded Disputes.org, which later worked with eResolution to become one of four providers accredited by ICANN to resolve domain name disputes. He is also an adviser to SquareTrade.com, an Internet start-up focusing on online ADR.

Professor Katsh coordinated the June, 2002 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Online Dispute Resolution Forum and serves as chair of the ODR Expert Group. His work on online dispute resolution and domain names has recently been cited by the New York Times, National Public Radio, and ADRworld.

Among his recent publications are "E-Commerce, E-Disputes, and E-Dispute Resolution: In the Shadow of "eBay Law" (with Rifkin and Gaitenby) in the Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution (2000). His latest book, co-authored with Professor Rifkin, is Online Dispute Resolution: Resolving Conflicts in Cyberspace (2001).

Called to the Bar in Ontario in 1976.    Was in private practice in Toronto for 19 years.    In 1995 was appointed to what is now the Superior Court of Justice.    Has been involved in technology issues and particularly electronic filing since 1996 such as: member of the Toronto E-Filing Pilot Project which planned, developed, implemented and maintained the first electronic filing end-to-end system in a court in Canada; member of the Ontario E-filing Implementation Committee which is involved in planning, developing and implementing province wide electronic filing; member of the Judges' Technology Advisory Committee of the Canadian Judicial Council and Chair of it's Subcommittee on Computer Security which authored a report to the Council on security of computers used by judges and a report to the Council on monitoring of computers used by judges. For the fall of 2002 to the spring of 2003, will be on study leave authorized by the Council to investigate issues of privacy, freedom of the press and judicial independence which arise from the potential widespread electronic filing of documents in courts in Canada.

Éric Labbé is a student-researcher at the Public Law Research Centre (CRDP) and at the Center of Studies on international legal cooperation(CECOJI/CNRS).

His research activities have essentially focussed on self-regulation and the normativity inherent to dematerialized environments as applied to issues related to unsolicited emails and hyperlinks (CIPertexte campaign). His present works relate to the normative report between technology and the law as concurrent regulation methods, mainly regarding copyright and privacy.

Éric Labbé taught at the Faculty of Law of Université de Montréal and was the coordinator of an online publication project of international commercial law, Juris International. He is presently co-editor of a popularization work on e-commerce.

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Richard E. Langelier (1951-), Reseach Agent, Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP), University of Montréal, is presently developing a policy for the protection of privacy in the Québec health and social services network. He has worked on various research projects, such as the legal framework applicable in emergency situations (CRDP/Commission scientifique et technique sur le verglas), local community law (City of Montréal/Hébert-Comeau-Dufresne), information and communications law, and especially the impact of media concentration and cross-ownership on diversity of information (Centre d'études des médias, Laval University).

Mr Langelier has just deposited a doctoral dissertation in Law (LL.D.), written under the direction of Prof. Pierre Trudel, on the relations between media and the judiciary. In the dissertation, he explores the various areas where components of the media and law meet, co-operate and conflict, and examines the legal standards that make sense of these rich and complex relations. Mr. Langelier has also begun a second doctoral dissertation (Ph.D.) in Sociology, under the direction of Profs. Guy Rocher and Pierre Trudel, in which he plans to re-examine the relations between the media and the legal community from sociological, political and historical points of view.

Mr Langelier taught in a number of African countries under the Démocratie et Médias project (1996-2001). He was responsible for the course entitled Liberté de presse, bonne gouvernance et démocratie: l'expérience étrangère, a comparative course on law governing the press and media.

He also led two training seminars for judges in Mali (2000) and Guinea (2001), in which African and Canadian judges and journalists compared experiences and discussed international legal standards for freedom of expression and protection of the integrity of legal proceedings.

He has published various articles related to the research projects on which he has worked, and is preparing a work on freedom of expression in Canada, in collaboration with Prof. Pierre Trudel.

Susan Jennen Larson is an information technology lawyer and consultant and a partner of the firm Boos, Grajczyk, & Larson of Milbank, South Dakota. She is licensed in South Dakota and Minnesota and has an undergraduate degree in computer science.

Susan focuses her practice on data and data privacy issues, intellectual property, and employment law. She also provides technology management and consulting services. Susan has provided services for the past six years to the Minnesota Supreme Court on court data and technology issues, including public access issues. She also works on various aspects of the Minnesota criminal justice data integration initiative, called CriMNet. She maintains a national web site on the topic of public access to court records on behalf of the National Center for State Courts, and closely follows state and federal developments in this area. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the E-Filing Report, a monthly publication by Glasser LegalWorks on legal, management, and technical issues pertaining to court electronic filing. Susan is also a member of the ABA Electronic Filing Committee, under the Science and Technology Section.

Previously, Susan worked as an associate for the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg, Virginia; and for the corporate law department of the H.B. Fuller Company, managing its international trademark portfolio.

Susan often lectures on government data and privacy issues and has authored various writings on technology and law.

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JAMES E. McMILLAN joined the National Center for State Courts in October, 1990 and currently directs the Court Technology Laboratory and assists with the Courtroom 21 project in conjunction with the William and Mary School of Law. These projects have received over two million dollars in computer hardware, software, and other technologies for demonstration to courts and interested parties. In the first eight years in existence, more than 800 visits from courts in 50 states, more than 70 foreign nations have been held in the CTL. Over 10,000 persons viewed remote CTL presentations. In November 2000, the TIES-CTL project received the State Justice Institute's Howell Heflin outstanding project award.

In addition, McMillan serves as senior faculty for the Institute for Court Management, and has provided technical assistance for numerous trial and appellate courts including the United States Supreme Court, Arkansas and Mississippi Supreme Courts, and Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Internationally McMillan has consulted with courts in the Bahamas, Egypt, Trinidad, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation and for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal. McMillan currently provides leadership in the effort to create Electronic Filing and XML electronic document systems.

Before joining the National Center, McMillan directed information services for the Arizona Supreme Court Administrative Office of the Courts, where he automated the state supreme court, administrative office of the courts, court of appeals, superior courts, limited jurisdiction courts, juvenile courts, and probation departments.

McMillan previously held positions with the US Department of Justice and the Los Angeles Superior Court. He has been a keynote speaker at the Fifth National Court Technology Conference and a lecturer for the National Judicial College, University of Southern California Judicial Administration Program, Smithsonian Associates, and many other national and international court, law, and technology interest groups. McMillan received his BA in government from New Mexico State University and an MPA with a specialization in judicial administration from the University of Southern California.

McMillan is co-author of A Guidebook for Electronic Court Filing and a contributing author to Caseflow Management: The Heart of Court Management in the New Millennium. He has been quoted by PC Week, The New York Times, American Lawyer, AmLaw Tech, Lawyer's Weekly, Government Technology and other magazines. He has also published articles in The National Law Journal, Court Manager, Trial, The Judges Journal and The Court Technology Bulletin.

After studying at the ESSEC, and at the ENA, Bertrand du Marais has been put in charge of several valuation reports within the French government, in particular within the Ministry of research and technology, then he was appointed as a legal advisor to the World Bank Group in 1995, assistant for the task force « State and New Information and Communication Technologies » of the Commissariat Général au Plan. At the age of thirty-six, he was appointed as a rapporteur to the Conseil d'Etat.

Since April 2000, he has been working, among other things, at the Reports and Studies Branch of the Electronic Administration. He also teaches public law and multimedia law at the Paris IEP, the Université Paris II Assas, and at the Sorbonne.

Finally, he is the author of several publications such as

• « Droit public de la régulation économique » , Presses de Sciences-Po - Dalloz, to be published Spring 2003, and
• « Diffusion des données publiques et révolution numérique » , La Documentation Française, 1999.

Simon Marcotte graduated from Ottawa University in 1969 and started his career there as a civil law professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law. From 1980 to 1999, he managed many services at the Québec department of Justice. Since the creation of the joint committee on Integrated Justice in May 1999, he has been the project manager of the Québec Integrated Justice Information System (SIIJ).

Peter W. Martin is the Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law at Cornell Law School where he has been a member of the faculty since 1971 and was dean from 1980 to 1988. He is the author of an electronic treatise, Martin on Social Security Law, released on LEXIS in November 1990 and published on CD-ROM by Clark Boardman Callaghan in July, 1994, as "Social Security Plus"; an electronic reference work, Basic Legal Citation (hypertext 1993); and numerous electronic articles on the history and future of legal information technology. The first of these was published on the Internet in January 1994 by GNN Magazine. His 1994 Internet article on "Five Compelling Reasons for Lawyers and Law Firms to Be on the Internet" was widely cited during the period lawyers were first discovering the Net. In revised form it appeared as a cover article for the Sept. 1995 ABA Journal. Martin is the author of numerous print works, as well. His most recent journal articles have dealt with the implications of computer technology for legal research, law libraries, and legal education. He received the 1992 Law Library Journal Article of the Year Award and his Social Security treatise received the 1994 Infobase Industry Award for "Best from the Field of Education." Professor Martin is a past president of the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction and past chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section of Law and Computers. His electronic treatise work was supported in part by the National Center for Automated Information Research (NCAIR), which awarded him the center's first Dixon Senior Research Fellowship in 1988.

In 1992 with support from NCAIR and others, he (and Thomas R. Bruce) established the Legal Information Institute at Cornell (the LII) which established the first Internet law resource and today operates the most heavily used non-profit comprehensive legal Web site.

The Institute's web site < http://www.law.cornell.edu > with its collection of U.S. Supreme Court and New York Court of Appeals decisions, a full, up-to-date version of the U.S. Code, and numerous other key primary law documents has set a standard for the growing number of public bodies (courts, legislatures, administrative agencies) putting "their" law on the Net. It has also organized and integrated the legal materials placed on the Internet by those public bodies and others into a "virtual law library" through a series of state and world law pages, as well as pages that organize the law around issues or topics ranging from bankruptcy to workers' compensation.

Some of Martin's LII projects include --

• creation of several Internet-based law courses offered to students at participating law schools across the United States (1996 - present)
• creation of a CD-ROM collection of several hundred Historic Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court first released in the fall of 1996 to high schools, colleges, libraries and individuals and updated annually
• assistance in the creation of a digital compilation of the legal materials of Zambia and the establishment of a national law Internet server (Jan. - Feb. 1996)
• establishment and ongoing supervising of an e-mail delivered current awareness service offering student written casenotes on important decisions of the NY Court of Appeals that arrive days not months after the opinions are released (1995 - present)
• coordination and publication of the American Legal Ethics Library project which combines commentary prepared by major law firms, pertinent codes, in a single coherent structure enabling research of a single issue of the law governing lawyers across multiple U.S. jurisdictions

Mr Massé is the Legislative Information Access Manager at the head of the legislative services of the Department of Justice. Since July 2001, he is in charge of the management of the Legislation Information Management System (LIMS). Before that, as a Management Coordinator, he initiated and developped the Archilat project, in order to support the lawyers of the service to harmonize the Federal Laws and the Quebec Civil Code.

Mr Massé began his career at the Federal Government in 1998. He has alternately been, Terminologist-Analyst, Project Representative, then Head of Department for the Translation Bureau. In these functions, he was, in particular, responsible for identifying the new technological developments in order to promote the development, and updating of TERMIUM® and other techno-language practionners' tools of the Translation Bureau. From 1994 to 1997, he was an instructor and the Assistant Director of the French immersion program at the University of Saskatchewan and then a French teacher for the French college of Riviere-du-Loup. M Massé was enrolled in the Linguistics Graduate Program at the Université de Sherbrooke.

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In 1996, Janine Miller was appointed Director of Libraries for the Law Society of Upper Canada. Prior to that date she was an independent consultant advising small and medium-sized law firms on their collections, designing automated research services and training lawyers on online legal research.

The cost of acquiring and maintaining online subscriptions made her realize that access to primary legal information was becoming unaffordable for lawyers, libraries and the public. As Director of Libraries she traveled across the Province of Ontario visiting County Law Associations in small towns and looked for ways to provide the same access to legal information to lawyers both inside and outside urban centres. With the increase in access to the Web there seemed to be an opportunity to provide free public access to the law via the Internet. Through a joint project with LexUM and under the auspices of the Federation of Law Societies CanLII was born, and she has been the Project Director of CanLII since that time.

Ivan Mokanov works as a research agent for LexUM on the legal and technological issues related to the publication of case law on CanLII, as well as on the websites of the Federal Court, the Tax Court and the Supreme Court of Canada. Ivan joined the LexUM team in 2001 and participated in such LexUM projects as Juris International and the creation of a website on the Quebec Act to Establish a Legal Framework for Information Technology.

Ivan is a graduate from Sofia University (B.C.L.) and is a member of the Sofia Bar Association in Bulgaria, his country of origin. The subject of his Master's thesis is the importance of reliability of electronic environments for law.

John Montgomery is a senior tutor who provides technology and research support in the Law School. Teaching responsibilities include running courses in Computer Literacy for law students, and co-ordinating a course on Legal Electronic Research. The uses of technology in legal research education are his main areas of interest, and he is involved with the maintenance and development of the Law School's website. LLM(Unisa) MA(RAU) ACIS

Micheline Montpetit is director of the Legal information Department at the Société québécoise d'information juridique (SOQUIJ). She is in charge of the development and production of printed and electronic SOQUIJ publications. She is a member of the Québec Bar Association and holds a Master's Degree in labour and social law.

Marc-André Morissette is a software analyst and a member of the LexUM team at the Université de Montréal. He has now been a member of the team for close to 5 years. Marc-André has contributed to numerous software projects linked to legal document analysis and publication. Among other projects, he contributed to the publication of the Supreme Court of Canada's judgments during the early days of the Internet, established some of the early infrastructure used by the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) and designed the software infrastructure that drives the Department of Justice's Statutes and Regulations web site. Furthermore, he has contributed in a major way to all the document conversion tools currently used by LexUM to publish legal documentation.

Marc-André Morissette is a computer science graduate from the Université de Montréal. His area of Specialization are theoretical computer science and cryptology. During his years with LexUM, Marc-André has acquired a comprehensive understanding of automated document conversion from unformed text to XML. He is also well versed in the technological infrastructure required to mass publish legal documents on the Internet.

Andrew is the principal software author and technical director of AustLII. He has degrees in Computing Science and Law. He wrote the sinosearch engine, the hypertext markup software, and the ysh inferencing engine. Pre-AustLII, Andrew wrote the DataLex Workstation Software, the AIRS free text retrieval engine and the LES legal expert system shell. He teaches and publishes in computerised legal research, computerisation of law and information technology law.

Senator The Hon. Velma Newton, Director, Faculty of Law Library, University of the West Indies since 1996 and is at the professorial level. Formerly, Deputy Executive Director of the Caribbean Law Institute, she has been an Independent Senator in Barbados since 1999 and a member of the Governor-General's Privy Council since 2000. Senator Newton holds the B.A. (Special Hons.), the LL.B. and the M.A. from the University of the West Indies, is a Fellow of the Library Association of Great Britain and holds a legal education certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School which entitles her to practice law in the Commonwealth Caribbean. She has been called to the Bar in her native Barbados. Senator Newton has written on the subjects of legal bibliography and legal history of the Commonwealth Caribbean, librarianship and immigration from the region. She is currently editor of the Barbados Law Reports and the National Insurance Tribunal Reports (Severance Payments and Benefits).

She been a law library consultant for the Caribbean Community Secretariat, the World Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, U.S. AID, the Royan Danish Government and the National Democratic Institute, Washington, and has also undertaken projects for various Commonwealth Caribbean governments.

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Frédéric Pelletier, a member of the Québec Bar, is a research agent for the LexUM team at the Public Law Research Centre (CRDP) at the Université de Montréal. He specializes in standards' research regarding legal documentation. Frédéric is a member of the Canadian Citation Committee. He is a Philosophy and Law graduate.

Anne Penneau is now professor in private law at the Université de Lille 2, participating in the René Demogue center activities, after some teaching at the Paris I ( Panthéon ? Sorbonne ) et Paris IX ( Paris ? Dauphine ) universities.

In the context of her thesis, she took some interests in the normalization domain : Règles de l?art et normes techniques, L.G.D.J., bibliothèque de droit privé, 1989, Préface G. Viney.

While teaching obligation and labour law, she continue her research activities on normalization :

• Nature juridique des normes A.F.Nor., Note sous Conseil d'Etat, 17 février 1992, Recueil Dalloz, pp. 519
• Les nouveaux aspects des limites de la normalisation, Chronique, J.C.P. éd. E. 1996 , I , n° 599
• Aspects juridiques de la normalisation technique, Colloque du 27 novembre 1997, Université de Paris IX ( Paris-Dauphine ), Petites affiches , n° spécial du 11 février 1998
• De la latitude de ne pas transposer littéralement les dispositions de la directive « produits défectueux » relatives à l?exonération fondée sur le risque de développement , Note sous C.J.C.E 29 mai 199, Recueil Dalloz 1998, pp. 488
• Analyse juridique des conséquences des habilitations données par l?Etat aux organismes de contrôle et des conséquences sur la spécification de marque et leur équivalence pour l?acheteur public, Rapport pour le Ministère français de l?équipement, en collaboration avec F. Péraldi-Leneuf ( 180 pages )
• Cadres juridiques du marquage « CE » par tierce partie, notification et mission des organismes notifiés, Colloque du 7 décembre, Université Paris IX - Dauphine:
• Fascicule au Jurisclasseur Concurrence et Consommation n° 870 « Normalisation » en collaboration avec Denis Voinot

Ernst Perpignand has worked with the LexUM team at the Public Law Research Centre for many years. He obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Sciences as well as a Master's Degree in Information Retrieval from the Université de Montréal. During his studies, he joined the team and participated in numerous projects such as the elaboration of an expert system on employment insurance, the creation of Internet sites and the development of document conversion tools. As part of his Master's project, he conceived a search engine linking decisions on the basis of their citation and reference patterns. Shortly after, he left to work in the flight simulation field at CAE Electronic. Two years ago, he returned to LexUM where he works as an analyst leveraging best practices of software development processes and object oriented approaches in the development of the new software architecture for Canlii.

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Michel A. Pinsonnault is a lawyer and a senior partner at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. His practice is oriented towards the fields of commercial and banking litigation, bankruptcy, insolvency and business restructuring, real estate law, as well as general and constitutional litigation.

Since 1988, Michel A. Pinsonnault has occupied various positions at the Montreal Bar and the Québec Bar, including being President of the Montreal Bar in 2000-2001. He is also a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Turnaround Management Association, the International Federation of Insolvency Professionals (INSOL) and of the Canadian Institute of Insolvency. Mr. Pinsonnault served on the Board of Directors of the Réseau des bibliothèques de droit du Québec for many years and was president of the Québec Legal Information Network. He received the Mérite du Barreau de Montréal in September 2001, and is a director and the President of the Legal Information Access Centre.

Daniel Poulin is a computer scientist and associate law professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal. Professor Daniel Poulin teaches Cyberspace and Information technologies for the Law. He is also director of LexUM, the foremost team working on the use of Internet for the Law in Canadian universities. Current projects include : CanLII, LexUM, Juris International. All these projects are related to the furthering of information technologies in the name of a better legal system.

Jeanne Proulx comes from the wide open spaces of Abitibi, where she completed her elementary and secondary education. She did her post-secondary studies at the Universityof Montréal, where she earned a Bachelor of Law (1975) and a Masters in Criminal Law (1978). In 1983-84, she attended the University of Ottawa and obtained a diploma in legislative writing.

Me Proulx was called to the Bar in 1976 and practised criminal law for about 20 years as a defence lawyer, prosecutor, researcher and drafter and revisor of legislation, namely:

- As a defence lawyer with Me Michel Proulx (1972-1975)

- As a prosecutor and researcher at the Fraud and Bankruptcy Directorate of the Québec Department of Justice (1976-1977)

- As a researcher at the Law Reform Commission of Canada (1978-80)

- As a prosecutor for criminal cases at the City of Montréal(1980-83)

Ms. Proulx has been drafting legislation for 16 years at the Québec Department of Justice, where she was involved in the reform of penal procedure, particularly in drafting the Code of Penal Procedure, implementing laws and related regulations, and in revising legislative provisions covering criminal acts in other sectors.

In 1995, she pioneered in the field of legal information by contributing to the computerization of the Code of Penal Procedure. Her experience in research and legislation brought her into contact with all areas of Québec law, comparative law and numerous legal, practical and technical problems created by the use of information technology, and has resulted in her being called upon to develop a global legal framework for information technology.

Ms. Proulx is now concentrating on developing the Act to establish a legal framework for information technology, but also participates in various training and briefing activities and serves on a range of national and international committees, including the UNCITRAL task force on electronic commerce.

Ruth Rintoul has been the Editor in Chief of Quicklaw since 1985, and Vice President, Editorial, since 1999. She is a graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. Prior to joining Quicklaw she worked in law library and research positions in a number of government, academic, private and court library systems in Ottawa and Vancouver. At Quicklaw, Ms. Rintoul oversees editorial operations for a wide range of caselaw and legislative projects involving Canadian as well as U.S., U.K. and Commonwealth legal materials.

In 1981, Madame Rivet was appointed judge of the Youth Court, in Montréal, after having been a full time professor in law at University Laval (Québec) and counsel in a Québec law firm.

As of September 1^st, 1990, Madame Rivet is the first President of the Québec Human Rights Tribunal. This court was created by an amendment of the Québec Charter of Rights and Freedoms and has jurisdiction in the areas of discrimination, exploitation of the elderly and the handicapped as well as programs on access to equality.

From 1987 to 1990, Madame Rivet was seconded to the Law Reform Commission of Canada where she was one of the five Commissioners. Her main responsibilities were to carry out the research project on the Protection of Life (health law, ethics and environmental law). As Commissioner, Madame Rivet published working papers on a variety of subjects, including crimes against the foetus, experimentation on human beings and medically assisted procreation.

As President of the Tribunal, Madame Rivet participated in national and international conferences namely in North America, Europe and China, on several human rights issues, as the right on equality. She has also published papers, on the rights of immigrants workers, assisted suicide and euthanasia, the New York Convention on the Rights of the Child, discrimination in the workplace and in international and internal law, etc.

Madame Rivet did her undergraduate studies at the University of Montréal's Law Faculty. During her studies, she obtained the Lord Reading Society Award, the Women's Press Club Award and the civil law Award for all the licence's years. In 1970, Madame Rivet graduated from the Université de Paris with a D.E.S. (diplôme d'études supérieures).

Along side her judicial functions, Madame Rivet was from 1993 to 1995, the President of the Canadian Institute on the administration of Justice, for which she had previously been vice-president for a period of two years.

From 1996 to 2001, Justice Rivet was the President of the International Commission of Jurists (Canadian Section), for which she had previously been Vice-President for a period of four years. It was under her aegis that the International Commission of Jurists developed an important two years project between Canadian and Croatian judges on the questions related to the independence and impartiality of the judiciary. This project permitted many exchanges of views between judges, both in Canada an in Croatia.

This project has now been developed into a regional project involving four countries of South East Adriatic under the direction of Justice Rivet as chair of International Projects Committee pour International Commission of Jurists (Canada) These different projects are funded by CIDA.

Madame Rivet is also the mother of four children.

Anne Roland received a Law Degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Paris (1969) and a diploma from the "Institut supérieur d'interprétariat et de traduction de l'Institut catholique de Paris" (1969). She graduated with a Law Degree from the University of Ottawa in 1979 and has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1980. She began her career with the Federal Public Service at the Translation Bureau (Secretary of State). In 1976, she was appointed Special Assistant to the Chief Justice of Canada. She became Chief Law Editor at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1981 and Deputy Registrar of the Court in 1988, and has occupied the position of Registrar since 1990. Over the years, she has acquired a vast knowledge and experience of management in the court context, enhanced by her participation in the Programme for Advanced Management at the Canadian Centre for Canadian for Management in 1993. She is a member of various associations, including the Association of Canadian Court Administrators (president from 1998-1999), the Canadian Bar Association and the National Association of Court Managers (U.S.A.). She was president of the Group of Heads of Federal agencies from 1994 to 1999 and she continues to be an active member of the Group. She is also an honorary member of the Association of Reporters of Judicial Decisions (U.S.A.) which she presided in 1989. In addition to caring for family and friends, Anne Roland has contributed to various activities on a volunteer basis, in particular, the Canadian Boy Scouts Movement. Her hobbies include hiking, skiing, theatre, concerts, cinema, gardening and cooking.

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Alain Roy is a Doctor in Law (Laval - Québec) and a professor at the Faculty of Law of Université de Montréal. His research and his teaching are focused on the fields of family and notarial law. He was associated with the legislative business that led to the new Notaries Act (Q.S. 2000, c.44) which set forth the dematerialized notarized act and the reception of a signature in the virtual presence of a receiving notary. His recent publications in notarial law include :

• « La nouvelle Loi sur le notariat: un virage décisif vers l'avenir » , (2001) 1 C.P. du N. 53;
• « Aperçu de la réforme du notariat québécois » , (2001) 127 Revue du Notariat belge 562;
• Déontologie et procédure notariales, Montréal, Thémis which will be published in November 2002;
• A. ROY & B. SALVAS, « Réflexions sur l'acte notarié électronique en droit québécois » , in V. GAUTRAIS, ed., Le commerce électronique, Montréal, Thémis, 2002;
• A. ROY & J. MARTINEAU, « Notariats québécois et français : Entre ressemblances et dissemblances » , in M. MOREAU, ed., Le 200ème anniversaire de la Loi de Ventôse, Paris, to be published in 2003.

Jean Michel Salvador is Scientific Counsel for the Information Highway Branch of the Québec Department of Culture and Communications.

Since 1981, he has been working on remote data processing and information technologies, such as telematics, information highways and the Internet. From 1983 to 1985, he was Scientific Counsel for the Québec Minister of Communications, and then for the Québec Minister for Science and Technology.

From 1986 to 1996, he was involved in Research and Development at the Department of Transportation, and was responsible for projects relating to intelligent road systems and expert systems. Since 1996, he has been Scientific Counsel for what was initially the Information Highway Secretariat, then Directorate and finally Branch. He was extremely involved in developing and implementing the Politique québécoise de l'autoroute de l'information and, more recently, in developing the Loi sur la normalisation juridique des technologies de l'information.

Bertrand Salvas is editor of the CanLII website (www.canlii.org) . After his law studies, he was sworn in as a Quebec notary and then passes his Bar exams. He worked in private practice as a notary in the Montreal region for seventeen years, specializing mainly in business law. He recently completed his master degree in Law, in the information technology law concentration. His research subject was the projected P3P platform that seeks to settle personal information issues on the Internet.

He keeps a column on information technology law in the Quebec Order of Notary's newspaper, the Entracte, and in the Canadian Bar Association Magazine, the National. He's taking part in the Quebec Order of Notary's consultative committee that seeks to allow the introduction into Quebec Law of electronic notarial deeds.

Finally, since the summer of 2000, he's a research agent at the Public Law Research Centre of the University of Montréal, in the LexUM team, as editor of the CanLII website.

Wendy Seltzer is a Fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she recently launched ChillingEffects.org, a collaboration of law school clinics helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist letters. She practices litigation and intellectual property law as an associate with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel and is an Adjunct Professor at St. John's University School of Law, teaching a course in Internet Law. Wendy is a 1999 graduate of Harvard Law School, cum laude, and a 1996 graduate of Harvard College, magna cum laude.

Eric She, is the President of DLS Technology Corporation and provides advice to high tech companies in the areas of business development and Technologies. Eric spent over 15 years in the consulting firm and telecommunications industry. During his tenure in the industry, Eric worked in consulting, marketing, project management, CIO and in business/corporate development functions. He played a key role in several successful initiatives including new product launches, market entry and positioning campaigns. Eric has also worked as an independent consultant providing Senior Technical Architect services to many government departments, specially Eric has spent many years with Department of Justice and he has a lot of experience with Law and technologies.

Salim Succar graduated from the Faculty of Law and Economics of Port-au-Prince in 1996, and after an original career path that equally balanced computer science and marine law, he is currently a consultant with Minister of Justice and Public Security of Haïti. As a computer specialist, he is interested in the electronic distribution of law in developping countries.

Pierre Trudel is a Professor at the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP) at the University of Montréal's Faculty of Law. He has been a guest professor at Laval University (Québec), Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and Namur (Belgique). In 1987-88, he was Research Director for the Federal Task Force on Broadcasting Policy. From 1990 to 1995, he was the Director of the CRDP, and has been directing a research program at the CRDP on the legal consequences of digitalization of information and information highway law since 1990. The program has resulted in the publication of a number of books, such as La carte à mémoire: ses aspects juridiques et technologiques, Les Publications du Québec, 1992; La preuve et la signature dans l'échange de documents informatisés, Les Publications du Québec, 1993; L'identification et la certification dans les échanges de documents informatisés, Éditions Yvon Blais, 1996; and Droit du cyberespace, Éditions Thémis, 1997. He is one of the authors of the Industry Canada study on Liability on the Internet and has also co-directed the implementation of the experimental dispute resolution Internet service (CyberTribunal).

Sandra Tychsen is trained in economics and statistics (University of California, Berkeley and Vanderbuilt University), and labour arbitration (Columbia Law School/ American Arbitration Association). As a public servant, she has focused on change management, as well as in labour market and finance policy. Her negotiation and conflict resolution experience includes credit rating agency relationships and mediation and adjudication. Ms. Tychsen has also taught at both the M.B.A. and undergraduate level.

In her current role, Ms Tychsen is leading a large-scale technological transformation of services within Ontario courts as they affect the recording of court proceedings, filing of court documents, and the sharing of information among justice partners.

Holding a Master's law degree from Columbia University (New York), and a PHD degree from University of Louvain, Ivan Verougstraete started to work as a lawyer at the Brughes Bar. Then, in an impressing career path, he moved from appointments to the Tribunal de première instance de Bruxelle, to the Cour d'appel to finally be nominated President of the Cour de Cassation in 2000.

He is also a member of several law review drafting committees, and in particular he is the chief editor of the Revue de droit commercial Belge.

François Viens is a student in Computer Science at the Université de Montréal, specializing in Web programming. For the past 2 years, he has been a programmer analyst for the LexUM research group of the Public Law Research Centre at the Law Faculty of the Université of Montréal.

He has taken part in many computer related projects such as the Website of the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs, the most recent version of Juris International's Website and the privacy policy generator available on the Juris International Website. Furthermore, he is the designer of the new Web interface for the LexUM and the Judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Madam Justice Linda Webber was appointed to the Prince Edward Island Supreme Court Appeal Division in January 2001, after spending three and one-half years in the Trial Division of that court.

Prior to her appointment to the bench, Justice Webber's legal career included private practice with the firm of Scales, Ghiz, Jenkins and McQuaid in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; service as Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the P.E.I. Public Utilities Commission and the P.E.I. Regulatory and Appeals Commission; and a period at the City Attorney's Office in Fresno, California. Prior to her appointment to the Bench, Justice Webber was a member of the Law Society of Prince Edward Island and the California State Bar Association. Prior to becoming a lawyer, she was a journalist.

Justice Webber received her LL.B. at the University of New Brunswick (1977), attended Stanford University as a Visiting Scholar (1977), and has received training in regulatory affairs and mediation. She is a member of the Judges' Technology Advisory Committee of the Canadian Judicial Council and Chair of the Prince Edward Island Court/Media Committee.

Kate Welsh is a lawyer with Court Services in the Department of Justice for the Province of Alberta, Canada. She researches and analyzes issues related to privacy and access to court records for the judges and court administrators of the three Alberta courts, and also presents seminars on these issues to the judiciary and court staff. As well she manages the Internet judgment database and creates and revises the procedures for managing court records. Before joining the public service, she had a legal writing and research practice in Edmonton, Alberta. Ms. Welsh has also served as the Director of Research for the 'ALITA' computer law project (1990-93) at the University of Alberta, where she taught and published in the areas of computer law and computer systems in practice.