Promoting global access to law: developing an open access index for official authenticated legal information. Part 2: Europe | World Library and Information Congress

"Theme: Promoting global access to law: developing an open access index for official authenticated legal information. Part 2: Europe....The IFLA Law Libraries Section...is seeking proposals for papers to be presented at a two-hour program to be held at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Helsinki, Finland in August 2012. Last year in Puerto Rico Part 1 focused on the Caribbean, Central and South American. This year the focus will be on new democracies examining their level of government transparency, with a special focus on their legal systems, e.g., Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, the Scandinavian countries, and others. Our Section’s interest to promote access to free legal information as a basic human right involves learning from our colleagues how their jurisdictions have tackled the provision of authoritative sources of legal information authenticated by their governments...."