Singularity Law

Just slightly less than two years ago, a number of volunteers launched the IT Law Wiki. Their intent was to develop a comprehensive encyclopedia of materials relating to the burgeoning field of information technology law.

The IT Law Wiki has reached an important milestone with the posting of its 5000th article. We are grateful to all of the lawyers, law students and law professors who have contributed to the wiki.

While the work done thus far has been impressive, there is much more to be done. We have thus far been able to summaries only slightly more than 850 cases — most of which were decided in U.S. courts. We hope to continue to expand the number of case summaries and could use help in doing so. We are also looking to expand the number of articles that focus on non-U.S. law.

So we are issuing a general “Call for Articles” to accelerate the growth of the wiki.

If you are a law professor, and you have your students writing papers for your class, consider suggesting to those who write the best papers that they post them to the wiki.

If you are a lawyer that supervises law clerks or young associates who may not be fully occupied due to the slowing economy, consider having them do research for the wiki. It will keep them busy and help them continue to develop their research and writing skills.

Also, if you are a lawyer, law professor or judge writing papers for conferences or your firm’s website, consider posting them to the IT Law Wiki as well.

Authors retain copyright ownership of all materials posted to the wiki, and those postings are made under a Creative Commons license.

If you don’t have the time to post the materials yourself, you can forward them to me at mdscott@swlaw.edu, and I will make sure they are promptly posted.

Onward to 10,000 articles!!