We’re hoping to make it happen with a 2023-24 project on #RulesAsCode
are almost there with DataLex datalex.org
Policy colleagues can already do some debugging with the likes of documentation.custhelp.com/euf/assets/dev
So we don’t think you’ll have to wait too long
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The Programming Languages and the Law workshop is coming again January 15th in Boston along with #POPL23!
📜 Call for submissions: popl23.sigplan.org/home/prolala-2
⏱️ Deadline: Thursday, Oct. 27th AoE
✍️ 2-pages short talk proposals or 5-pages extended abstract
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If you don't already follow and want thoughtful, informed commentary on the First Nations Voice that cuts through the guff, do yourself a favour👇 #auspol #ulurustatement
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This is nonsense & as was pointed out yesterday by A/Prof Hannah McGlade in the Oz, Senators Price & Thorpe & others will “make complaint and generate opposition” to anything the Govt does on the Voice #UluruStatement #auspol 
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The absolutely marvellous IT person did me a favour and ran the Book of Awards Awards database stats for me - in a little over 2 months there have been over 115,000 interactions with the database! Proves the build it and they will come statement.
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A great achievement for free access
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Today the @WhiteHouse announced that all federally funded research will be made openly available. Importantly, it eliminates the 12-month embargo. This is the result of decades of work by @SPARC_NA, @petersuber, @mbeisen, and so many more. #OpenAccess whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda
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. reports: 12 new data privacy laws in 2021. Now 157 data privacy laws worldwide. Most new ones 'are influenced substantially by the EU’s GDPR' papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf
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We are hoping this will be a useful resource for #RulesAsCode - gathering videos/channels from great sources like & #AUSCL/ and elsewhere, along with our own presentations
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Launching our new YouTube channel youtube.com/channel/UCULL7.
We think it’s the 1st for a legislative drafting office.
So far our own videos are mostly us talking over slides, but our Playlists collect other people’s too– 1 is on legislative drafting generally & 1 is on #RulesAsCode
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Important contribution from complementing the article in the Times Higher Education by Kathleen Shearer timeshighereducation.com/blog/transform
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Thankyou @GinnyBarbour for your advocacy in defense of Green Open Access and non-commercial/institutional research repositories #openaccess #hostedopenaccess #selfarchiving #bibliodiversity campusmorningmail.com.au/news/open-acce
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Transforming publishing agreements is very important but meanwhile it is worth remembering that has put over 100K Australasian law articles and related scholarship online austlii.edu.au/au/special/jou for free access. Enormous thanks to 150+ cooperating journals over 25 years.
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"Moving towards a new ethos in scholarly publishing is important." Important perspective from @KathleeShearer @COAR_eV on role of repositories -noting that transformative agreements alone will only result in a slow and partial transition to #openaccess timeshighereducation.com/blog/transform
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"No amount of detail will defuse the clamouring for 'detail' from those pundits who are disingenuous and predictably opposed to the Voice."
on those who conflate the constitutional amendment with what will follow. #UluruStatement #auspol
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An interesting commentary exploring why journalists reporting on legal issues do not regularly link provide links to the primary sources of legislation and case law. Would be interested in feedback on the situation here in Australia. What do you think?
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Replying to @mmasnick
Canadian context, but I just wrote about this! slaw.ca/2022/08/04/an-
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In 'Global CBPRs: A Recipe for Failure?' papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=41 I analyse why US attempts to reduce global privacy standards to OECD 1980 levels will fail. APEC's CBPRs (Cross-border Privacy Rules) involves only 3 countries & 42 companies after 10 years.'Globalising' failure!
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The difference it would make if even half our law firms did would be so amazing. Just look at how fantastic is with their certain and adequate funding from the legal profession. $10 per lawyer per year would make the most incredible difference in how much we could do
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To all NZ law tweeps please dig deep and help with some funding. We operate on the smell of an oily rag, they haven’t even got any oil to smell!
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500,000 documents relating to law now available for free on NZLII. And to rub it in, look how much we have achieved on a tiny budget (and @austlii 's invaluable support). Please please please help us celebrate this massive achievement by donating. alumni.otago.ac.nz/donate/NZLII6
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... and here are the old & new faces - some I already knew on Twitter & team, with remotely
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Had a great morning talking about #ruleascode - possibilities, limitations, and the public law issues this tech raises. Many thanks to all those who joined us especially !
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The thread below is about US caselaw, but it is a great opportunity to remind people how lucky we are to have free access to Australian caselaw via , and to please consider donating to keep them running austlii.edu.au
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PACER, the federal court website, charges 10 cents/page to access public records. I accumulate $1,000+ in fees/yr because I rely heavily on court records for my books and articles. In March, I learned that researchers can apply for a fee exception, so I did. Today: rejected!
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Up next talks about the risks of building predictive applications on our existing judgment data- which is incomplete and therefore inherently risky. Before we even get to ML- we need to fix data pipeline #JusticeDataMatters
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8 out of 10 people believe there should be limits & controls on *who* can use information from court records and *how* they use it. That’s just one of the key findings of today’s @The_TLEF report exploring public attitudes to court data use #JusticeDataMatters
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Research from and team shows the extent of the disparity between case law data available from private publishers vs free to access providers. Undermines our ability to understand the system or have a “ground truth” #JusticeDataMatters
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On the possibility of predicting case outcomes “it is so far in the future” but is driving all the debate- we are a victim here of allowing too many early start-ups to make unverified claims - and missing insidious uses in the process. #JusticeDataMatters
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Thanks The software is open source (link in article to obtain a copy). Andrew Mowbray suggests anyone proposing code changes or wanting to discuss to contact him. Test applications can be built and run with tools at datalex.org
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Replying to @grahamgreenleaf @austlii and @mattwadd
Thanks @grahamgreenleaf , how can people contribute to the DataLex codebase? It is great the source code is available, so how can a bigger community of developers participate? :)
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Thanks , how can people contribute to the DataLex codebase? It is great the source code is available, so how can a bigger community of developers participate? :)
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's approach to systems 'traceable to leg' is in 'Explainable AI (XAI) in Rules as Code (RaC): The DataLex approach' papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=40 No analysis of government systems, sorry.
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Has anyone seen analysis of how many gov systems are explainable/traceable to leg? I have not seen a single system in a gov that is traceable to leg. Software/IT encodes what operational policy ppl define in biz reqs, which doesn't discriminate leg from dept op policy. Anyone? :)
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It is truly an honor (and a surprise) to be named a member of the Fastcase 50 2022. I am both humbled and delighted by this honor. Congratulations to all who were named!
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.@fastcase names the 2022 class of the Fastcase 50, the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.” Congratulations to all. Full list at my blog: lawnext.com/2022/07/fastca
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What magic words or phrases can I use that would convince you to donate to NZLII?
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I understand that the support of the Spanish DPA was crucial under the Directive. But when it comes to adequacy under the GDPR, has Argentina's law advanced sufficiently? When will we find out? (These history lessons are still about the present.)
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on this day in 2003 the @EU_Commission determined that Argentina provides an adequate level of protection for #personaldata transferred from the 
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judicial remedy of #habeasdata 'makes the protection of personal data a #fundamentalright' eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/
, noting the judicial remedy of #habeasdata 'makes the protection of personal data a #fundamentalright' eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/
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Seems ' talk "Open Source: the Foundation for Open Government in the Internet Age" is up from Monday night. It was really good, now you can enjoy it too!
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Interested in what the proposed constitutional amendment looks like? This wording has been worked on for five years by & me & many lawyers since 2017. Read the words here at: indigconlaw.org/home/naidoc-we
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's chronological list of links to data privacy resources is invaluable: a goldmine. Texts of many different resources are in WorldLII's Privacy Library worldlii.org/int/special/pr esp National Legis - Still incomplete, still growing. Thanks staff &
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Amazing resources @FusterGloria of historic data protection resources. A veritable goldmine. In a word: wow! glgonzalezfuster.blog/history-of-dat
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Just a reminder that the end of the Financial Year is nigh! Any financial support you can send our way would be most welcome!
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A lovely donor has notified me that they have arranged that their, and their co-editors, royalties on a recently published book be directed to NZLII instead of themselves. Legal academics are fantastic people. Thank you so much
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Open access to African law supports human rights, business, investment, service delivery and access to justice.
How would free access to your laws help you?
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This is HIGHLY useful.
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We are very excited to share that our entire back catalogue of reports and sentencing snapshots are now available and searchable on @austlii, thanks to the generous and hard work of our friends at Austlii.
Reports: austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb
Snapshots: austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb
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We are very excited to share that our entire back catalogue of reports and sentencing snapshots are now available and searchable on @austlii, thanks to the generous and hard work of our friends at Austlii.
Reports: austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb
Snapshots: austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb
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Correction: Twitter can't handle spaces in URLs - just copy & paste this whole URL into your browser (ie do no click on it in the tweet) to get the eSwatini law:
esccom.org.sz/legislation/DA PROTECTION ACT.pdf
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My 'Now 157 countries: Twelve data privacy laws in 2021/22' papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=41 brought the global count to 157 (to March 2022). Since then eSwatini (aka Swaziland) has enacted its Data Protection Act 2022 esccom.org.sz/legislation/DA PROTECTION ACT.pdf Thanks Dave @article19org
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My PPTs from Monday's CPDP in Brussels 'Default Whitelists: Networking Trust to Reduce Personal Data Export Problems': papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=41 Any country with a data privacy law could add to the virtuous circle. Thanks Congrats #CPDP
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Here’s the latest update from @grahamgreenleaf s famous database answering the q: how many countries in the world do have specific #dataprotection laws? #CPDP2022
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