Evidence on the World Wide Web

Objectives:

• To explore the ways computer technology and particularly computer conferencing can facilitate problem-based learning and access by diverse groups to legal education.
• To offer a course on Evidence on the WWW which incorporates our past experience, draws on new technology and knowledge about learning and design and which will be a prototype for the delivery of other law courses both at UBC and across the country in this format.
• To investigate the utilization of electronic versions of judicial decisions, transcripts, journal and newspaper articles and information on the WWW in the instruction of law.
• To investigate the ways in which computer technology facilitates dialogue and information sharing between law students, the legal profession and decision-makers.

Christine Boyle, Professor, Faculty of Law
Marilyn MacCrimmon, Professor, Faculty of Law