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Amavi Tagodoe
	Amavi Tagodoe has a DEA (Diplôme d'études approfondies (master degree)) in private law and a DESS (Diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées (graduate level degree)) in Management of maritime affairs from the Université de Perpignan. He also has a master's degree in Law and information technologies from the Université de Montréal (thesis title: Diffusion du droit et Internet en Afrique de l'Ouest » later published in Lex electronica: http://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/v11-1/tagodoe.pdf.) He currently works as a Business Analyst at Bombardier Aerospace. Prior to this, he worked at LexUM from 2004 to 2006 as a research agent. He was particularly involved in such projects as Droit francophone, JuriBurkina, JuriNiger and CanLII. He participated as a speaker to the 8th Law via Internet conference with an article named “African experiences of the free diffusion of legal information: results and outlooks”, later published in Lex electronica (http://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/v13-1/tagodoe_ndiaye.pdf) His research interests gravitate towards such topics as the diffusion of law in Africa, the sociology of law, ancient and precolonial history of African law.

Andrew Mowbray
	Andrew is Professor of Law and Information Technology at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney. He is a Co-Director and co-founder of AustLII - the Australasian Legal Information Institute and also Co-Director of AsianLII, CommonLII and WorldLII. Andrew is the author of the /sino/ search engine, most of the hypertext markup software used by AustLII and various other systems and most recently the /LawCite/ case citator.

Andrew Rens
	Andrew Rens thinks and writes about the interaction of law, knowledge and innovation, and blogs his thoughts at www.aliquidnovi.org. Currently based in Cape Town where he is completing a three year fellowship as the Intellectual Property Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation, Andrew has worked in academe, private practise and the non profit sector. He was the founding Legal Lead of Creative Commons South Africa, a co-founder and former director of The African Commons Project, a charter member and director of Freedom to Innovate South Africa ,a fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society , and a research associate at the LINK Center at the School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Andrew qualified as an attorney in South Africa, and was awarded a Master of Laws from the Law School at the University of the Witwatersrand where he where he subsequently taught Master’s courses in Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Space and Satellite, and Media and Information Technology Law, before spending several years in San Francisco, California. He works closely with Intellectual Property Law Research at the University of Cape Town, and will be teaching a Master’s course in Electronic Intellectual Property Law at the UCT Law School during the second term of 2009 (July to November).

Daniel Poulin
	Daniel POULIN is professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal. He is director of LexUM - a University of Montréal services and research laboratory specializing in legal informatics - and holds the LexUM Research Chair at the Faculty of Law. Daniel Poulin is also one of the main designers of CanLII. Daniel POULIN is member of the Canadian Judicial Council’s Judges Technology Advisory Committee since 1994. Dozens of legal information systems have been designed and implemented by the professor Poulin’s LexUM team, such as Juris International and Droit francophone. Daniel Poulin has published over fifty papers and he is regularly invited to speak at conferences in Canada and abroad. He regularly carries out consulting mandates for Canadian legal institutions and international development agencies on matters related to legal informatics and its intersection with legal reform and judicial institutions development.

David Taylor
	David Taylor is an admitted attorney and an associate professor in the School of Law, UNISA. Prof Taylor has studied in South Africa and abroad and published various articles on IT law. Prof Taylor is an IT law consultant various to business and state organisations. He combines his IT knowledge with various areas of law such as anti-money laundering, gambling and commercial law to give legal, business and strategy advice. Prof Taylor has also provided training to law firms and government. He teaches IT law at UNISA, and has been involved with teaching IT law at various local and international Universities. Prof Taylor has received numerous awards and grants to do research in various countries. He will be a visiting Professor and researcher at the University of Stockholm in 2010. Prof Taylor has also written plays and educational videos, although none of them have been about IT law, yet!

Emilio Tucci
	Professor of Legal Informatics and Computer Science of Law at the Faculty of Law "Seconda Università degli studi di Napoli" and at the School of Specialization in the Legal Profession too. Worked, as a teacher instructed by the President of the Council of Ministers, in the School of Public Administration (headquarter of Caserta), as part of the Master in "Document management systems in e-government strategy" aimed at leaders of the P.A. Civilians Lawyer. Carries out research in the following scientific topics: Legal science documentary; Informatic Technology decision-making and applications of artificial intelligence to law; Legal Information Management, Law of computing, Public information technology. Perform consulting activities at public and private companies, about law and new technologies with particular reference to the law of intellectual and industrial property, to the techniques of drawing up contracts of ICT in business, the right of Internet and electronic communications, electronic commerce, all legal assistance in the field of government and digitization of public administration, project document management (document information, digital signatures, certified mail) to the crime, the protection of privacy; to publishing digital. Coauthor of legal texts and editorial consultant of leading national publishing houses. Constantly collaborates with the legal journal "Il Foro Italiano". Editor of the "Repertorio del Foro Italiano".

Enrico Francesconi
	Enrico Francesconi holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Florence and is currently a researcher at the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council (ITTIG-CNR). His main activities include knowledge representation and ontology learning, legal standards, legal drafting, artificial intelligence techniques for legal document classification and knowledge extraction, Web focused crawling, protocols for metadata harvesting, multilingual access to legal documents. He is a member of the Italian and European working groups establishing XML and URI standards for legislation. He has been involved in various projects of the eParticipation framework (DG Information Society & Media) as well as other programs of the European Commission and for the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (OPOCE).

Fabio Vitali
	Prof. Fabio Vitali teaches Web Technologies and Human-Computer Interaction for the Computer Science programme of the University of Bologna in Italy. His main interests include markup languages and technologies to work with documents and texts. He has been part of the technical committee of the NormeInRete standard for the Italian Government, one of the main authors of the United Nation proposal for an XML-based format for African legislation (Akoma Ntoso) and one of the main authors for the CEN European standard for XML interchange pf XML-based legislation.

Flavio Zeni
	Flavio Zeni is the Chief Technical Adviser of the Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, a regional capacity building initiative implemented by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) with the aim of empowering the legislatures to better fulfill their democratic functions by providing easy access to high quality information to citizens, MPs and Parliamentary administration in order to improve efficiency, transparency and accountability of Parliaments and public participation.

Gerald Byrne
	Gerald Byrne is a postgraduate student in the School of Law, University of Dublin, Trinity College, presently working on a thesis relating to Law and the Changing Role of the Pharmacist under the supervision of Prof. William Binchy. Mr. Byrne has attained the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy [B. Sc. (Pharm.)] from the National University of Ireland, the Diploma in Legal Studies (D.L.S.) and the Degree of Barrister-at-Law (B.L.), both awarded by The Honorable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin, and the Degree of Master in Science (M.Sc.) in Health Services Management from the University of Dublin, Trinity College. He has been called to the Irish Bar. A practising pharmacist, he is a Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (M.P.S.I.). Mr. Byrne is currently a Chief I Pharmacist in Ireland’s Health Service Executive.

Graham Giles
	Practising attorney & notary with considerable practical experience gained over more than 45 years as an attorney, notary, advocate, mediator, arbitrator, in-house legal counsel and lecturer, including a part-time professorship. Uses the Internet to source information and provide legal guidance to librarians, judges, arbitrators, academics, legal and human resource practitioners and researchers via GilesFiles, the online South African Work Law Resource. Consultant with Michalsons Attorneys, a provider of traditional legal solutions, and Michalsons Online which uses Internet technologies to reduce legal fees and increase access to legal guidance. Contributor to textbooks on South African Labour Law and lecturer at various South African universities at post-graduate level. Places a high premium on finding legal solutions in the Southern African “World of Work”. Graduate of the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Stellenbosch.

Graham Greenleaf
	Graham Greenleaf is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, where he specialises in the relationships between information technology and law. He has taught at UNSW since 1983, and been a Professor there since 1998. In 2009-10 he is an International Scholar at Kyung-Hee University Law School, Seoul, Korea. 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. Current areas of research focus are Asian data protection and privacy laws, public rights in copyright, and the globalization of free Internet access to legal information. He is a co-founder and Co-Director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), and of AustLII’s international projects, WorldLII, CommonLII and AsianLII. Since 2005 he has been awarded twenty three competitive research or infrastructure development grants with colleagues. He received the 2007 Dieter Meurer Prize for Legal Informatics at the University of Saarbrucken. He is also the founder and Co-Director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at UNSW. Since the mid-1970s he has been involved in privacy issues, and is currently Asia-Pacific Editor for Privacy Laws & Business International and involved in two consultancy projects on privacy for the European Commission. He co-edited Global Privacy Protection (Edward Elgar, 2008). Further details, copies of publications and links to web resources are on his Home Page at http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~graham/.

Gregory Azeff
	Gregory Azeff is a co-founder, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of CourtCanada Ltd. Gregory practiced insolvency law and commercial litigation for 5 years at Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP, one of Canada's leading insolvency law firms. Over the course of his legal practice Gregory was centrally involved in a number of high profile national and international liquidation and restructuring cases. Gregory was recognized in the Insolvency and Restructuring section of the 2006 edition of Chambers and Partners: World's Leading Lawyers for Business. Prior to obtaining a law degree in 2000 from Osgoode Hall Law School, Gregory studied Management at McGill University in Montreal, his hometown. Gregory lives in Toronto with his wife, Melanie, and their three children.

Ineke Buskens
	Ineke Buskens is an international gender, research and facilitation consultant living in the Western Cape, South Africa. Having been one of the pioneers of women’s studies in the seventies in Europe, she currently leads the GRACE (Gender Research into Information Communication Technology for Empowerment) Network involving 28 research teams in 18 countries in Africa and the Middle East. Before she started her company Research for the Future in 1996, she was Head of the Centre for Research Methodology at the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria, South Africa for five years. In her research she focuses on emancipatory approaches that are aligned with a sustainable, just and loving world, in her research training on bringing out the genius in every participant, in her facilitation work on gender awareness and authentic collaboration. Ineke is a student in Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment, Yelm-Washington, USA and this journey helps her to become all that she can be.

Ivan Mokanov
	Ivan Mokanov is Deputy Director of LexUM and Chief Editor of CanLII. He oversees CanLII's publishing and development activities and works with the Board of Directors to set CanLII's strategic directions. At LexUM, Ivan supervises various consulting and research projects in Canada and abroad. As a member of LexUM's Executive Committee, he participates in LexUM's administration and business development. Ivan is a graduate from Sofia University (B.C.L.), the University of Montreal (LL.M.) and he is currently enrolled at HEC Montreal (M.B.A).

John Mayer
	John Mayer is the Executive Director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) - a non-profit consortium of over 200 law schools that performs applied research and development in legal education and technology. Mr. Mayer has been at CALI since 1994. Prior to CALI, Mr. Mayer was the Director of Computing Services at Chicago-Kent College of Law and he has been involved in legal education for over 22 years. Mr. Mayer has a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Northwestern University and a Masters of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology

Justice Egonda-Ntende, Chief Justice of the Seychelles
	Mr. Justice FMS Egonda-Ntende is the Chief Justice of the Republic of Seychelles since the 21 August 2009. Prior to that he was the Head and a Judge of the Family Division of the High Court of Uganda based in Kampala, the capital of the Uganda. Previously he has been head and a judge in the Commercial Court Division of the High Court of Uganda (December 2005-June 2008). He was also a part-time lecturer in Computers and the law at the Faculty of Law, Makerere University. Justice Egonda-Ntende started his career as an advocate of the High Court and a partner in Egonda-Ntende and Tuyiringire Advocates (1982 – 1991) where he was engaged in civil and criminal litigation as well as non-litigious matters. He was appointed a Judge of the High Court in 1991. In 1996, he was appointed a judge on the newly established Commercial Court Division of the High Court. In 1997, he acted as a judge of the newly established intermediate Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court pending the appointment of permanent members of the Court. He then moved to Masaka High Court Circuit (1998-1999) as Resident Judge. Justice Egonda-Ntende has served as a Civil Affairs Officer (Judicial) with UNTAET, Dili, East Timor Feb, 2000- July 2000), Judge of the Court of Appeal for East Timor July 2000 – October 2001, and International Judge, Peje / Pec, UNMIK (Kosovo, a province of the former Yugoslavia) (Nov. 2002 – December 2004). Justice Egonda-Ntende holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) of Makerere University, Kampala (1975 -1978), a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice of the Law Development Centre, Kampala (1978-1979) and a Master of Laws (Information Technology and Telecommunications Law), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom (2003). He is also a Humphrey Fellow at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, (1997-1998). Justice Egonda-Ntende has served as Chairman, Technology Committee (Judiciary-Uganda) 1998-2000); the Founder Chairman of the East African Judicial Education Committee (1996-1997);Chairman, Chairman, Judicial Training Committee (Uganda) (1995-1997); Chairman, Working Committee on the Computerisation of the Registries (1996-1997); Member, International Bar Association (1991-1996) and Vice-President, Uganda Law Society (1989-1991). Justice Egonda-Ntende has written and delivered papers extensively to seminars, workshops and conferences in the area of human rights, technology and the administration of justice / practice of law, legal and judicial education in and outside Uganda.

Justice Gordon L. Campbell
	Justice Gordon L. Campbell has been a member of the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island, Canada, since 2001. Prior to his appointment, he practiced law with Stewart McKelvey in Charlottetown, P.E.I., focusing primarily on corporate and commercial law. A graduate of the University of New Brunswick Law School in 1980, he holds a Masters in Public Administration from Dalhousie University (1977) and a B.A. in political science from the University of Prince Edward Island (1975). He has been a director and officer of the Canadian Superior Court Judges Association (CSCJA) and is the past chair of the CSCJA Technology Committee. As well he was the chair of the CSCJA Website Committee and is currently a member of the PEI Courts Website Committee. He is the past chair of the Education Committee for the Supreme Court and is a member of both the Rules Committee and the Courts-Media Committee for the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of Prince Edward Island. He is a member of the faculty of the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program at the Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is a past president of the Canadian Bar Association -PEI Branch and at the time of his appointment to the Supreme Court was the vice-president of the PEI Law Society. Justice Campbell is a member of the Judges Technology Advisory Committee (JTAC) which is a committee of the Canadian Judicial Council (CJC). He is the chair of the Open Courts - Access and Privacy subcommittee of JTAC which is responsible for providing advice and making recommendations to the CJC on matters relating to the effective use of technology in the promotion of access to justice and legal information.

Khaled Fourati
	Khaled Fourati is currently a Senior Program Officer with Acacia program initiative at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Before joining the Acacia team he was with the Centre’s Trade, Employment and Competitiveness program. He has worked with Sun Microsystems and Oracle in their international marketing programs. He holds an MBA in finance and computers information systems and a MA in International Affairs. His research interests include Intellectual Property Rights and access to knowledge issues, the role of ICTs in social and economic development, Telecom policy, new business models for publishing, open access models and open source software .

Lakhsara Mint Dié
	Lakhsara Mint Dié is an international consultant specialized in legal information dissemination, communication and public relations. One of her special areas of interest is the assistance to legal institutions for the installation of the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) www.glin.gov She has been collaborating with GLIN central at the Law Library of Congress in Washington, DC, USA since 2001. In 2005 she was awarded the “GLIN Extraordinary Service Award” in recognition of her exemplary service and ongoing efforts on behalf of GLIN. In April 2007 she was designated to act on behalf of GLIN in an official capacity as GLIN Network Officer for Africa. In that role she was authorized to promote GLIN, coordinate and participate in training efforts and otherwise facilitate participation of African nations in GLIN. In that respect, she has been working for World Bank financed projects creating and establishing GLIN stations in West and Central Africa. Other donors financing such projects which she implemented include: the German GtZ, UNDP and French Cooperation.

Mark Heyink
	Mark Heyink specialises in Information law and Information security. He holds both legal and information security qualifications and has been part of the South African Law Reform Commission’s project team which has researched and presented recommendations including a recommended Bill on the Protection of Personal Information to the Minister of Justice. Mark has attended and participated in the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee’s consideration of the recommendations over the past six weeks.

Monica Palmirani
	Monica Palmirani, Associate professor of Computer Science and Law at Bologna University, School of Law, Italy. Graduated in Mathematic, Ph.D. in Legal Informatics and IT Law, teacher of several courses since 2001of Legal Informatics, eGovernment, Legal drafting techniques, Legal XML. She is member of CIRSFID, one of the main centres of excellence in Italy and one of the leading centres at international level for the area of computer science and law. She is member of Ph.D. Programme in Legal Informatics and IT Law, of the Master in the Law of the New technologies, especially for the module regarding eGovernment. She leads the LEXML.it inside of wide European network. She is a member of the scientific committee of the LEX Summer School, organised to the European University Institute in Fiesole, oriented to divulgate the usage of Legal XML in the public offices respecting and guaranteeing the legal principles embedded in the legal document form. The principal field of research is in Legislative and Legal Informatics, in particular she is expert of XML techniques for modelling legal documents both in structure and legal knowledge aspects. She is proficient of Legal Drafting techniques supported by the ICT and she manages several projects with the Public Administration (e.g. Supreme Court of Cassation of Italy, Senate of Italy, Authority of Privacy in Italy, European Parliament, Inter-America Bank for Development, United Nations) to improve legal quality, to design legal information system, to apply the point-in-time ICT techniques. She is a member of the AKOMA NTOSO project managed by the UN/DESA and oriented to promote XML standard for e-Parliament in Africa, as well as she is a part of the technical committee of standardisation process of CEN MetaLex Workshop (European XML legal standard) and of NormeInRete the government initiative for the standardisation of legal document in Italy. She dedicated attention also to the ontological aspects contributing to the definition of same sub-schema of the LKIF (Legal Knowledge Interchange Format) and to the logic formalism of the rules represented in the norms (LKIF-rule). Recently she is joined to a group working in the RuleML standardisation process in order to open a new track dedicated to Legal RuleML. Recently she was invited to take a lecture in Stanford University, School of Law, inside of an initiative promoted by CODEX: Stanford Center for Computers and Law, part of the Stanford Programme Research in Law, Science and Technology.

Peter W. Martin
	Peter W. Martin, the Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law, Emeritus, and former dean, Cornell Law School, has long been a student of the impact of technology on the functioning of law and legal institutions. Professor Martin co-founded Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII) with Thomas R. Bruce in 1992 and served as the LII's co-director for over a decade. Professor Martin has also created a CD-ROM treatise and database on Social Security law, prepared an online reference on legal citation, offered law courses via the Internet to students at over a dozen US law schools, employing electronic materials prepared by him, and written numerous articles on uses of digital technology in law and legal education. His most recent arti>cles are available at http://www.access-to-law.com/papers.htm.

Philip Chung
	Philip is Lecturer in Law at the Univeristy of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He is the Executive Director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) and its international systems (AsianLII, CommonLII and WorldLII). He has degrees in Economics and Law 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. He has developed all of the automated processes for the receipt and processing of cases and other materials. Philip lectures in computerised legal research. He is experienced in large-scale legal publishing on the Web, computerised legal research, computer legal applications and automated text processing.

PierLuigi Spinosa
	PierLuigi Spinosa is a senior researcher at CNR-ITTIG and has a back-ground in electronic engineering. His research field regards different aspects of legal documentation, mainly legal data bases, publication of legal documents on the Web and projects of feasibility for public administrations aimed at the legal information systems design. He is the coordinator of the NormeInRete (NIR) working group defining the URN (Uniform Resource Name) standard to identify Italian legislative documents, and he is a member of the working group for document standardisation of both case-law and legislation. Recently he submitted to IETF a proposal of a namespace for a URN identifier for legal documents at international level. He is the supervisor for ITTIG of the development of tools aimed at making the adoption of NIR standards easier (cross-reference parser, automatic XML-NIR conversion of legacy legislative texts, xmLegesEditor open source legislative drafting environment).

Pierre-Paul Lemyre
	Pierre-Paul Lemyre is in charge of the products and business development of LexUM. He focus his energies on experimenting with innovative implementations of the various technologies coming out of LexUM's broad range of projects. Pierre-Paul is highly interested in the challenges that lasting development poses, as well as in the existing links between access to legal material and a fair and efficient justice system. He is also recognized as an expert on legal issues related to free and open source software.

Pompeu Casanovas
	Dr. Pompeu Casanovas is Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Autonomous University of Catalonia (UAB), Law School; Director of Advanced Research (ACQU), Consultant of Artificial Intelligence and Law at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC); and Director of the UAB Institute of Law and Technology (http://idt.uab.cat). He has conducted research in several institutes and universities (UCSD, OIISL, Stanford, Bologna…). He has been principal investigator of over 35 national and international projects, and author of above 10 books and 100 scientific articles in the areas of legal philosophy, legal sociology, judicial studies, and AI and Law (the Semantic Web). He is the General Editor of the Research Series La Razón Áurea (Editorial Comares, Spain).

Shirley Ann Gilmore
	Shirley Gilmore holds Bachelor degrees in the Biological Sciences and Law, and a Higher Diploma in Library Science. During her life she has worked in the CSIR library as well as in the Veterinary Science Library at Onderstepoort. For the last 10 years she has been head of the Law Library (now the Oliver R Tambo Law Library) of the University of Pretoria.

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