Abdulhusein Paliwala

• Doctor of Philosophy
• University of Warwick

This is the edited transcript of a seminar on 27 February 2020 organised at Warwick Law School in appreciation of the work of Peter Fitzpatrick. Peter was seriously ill at the time but was desirous of online participation. Sadly, the seminar was the last public performance by Peter prior to his death. A variety of themes in Peter's work are discuss...

This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that has influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, André‐Jean Arnaud, Alan Hunt, Michael Adler, Lawrence O. Gostin, John P. Heinz, Roger Brownsword, Roger Cotte...

How can we explain the complexities of Upendra Baxi’s lifework? He is committed to activism yet is attached to complex theorising; he is committed to the Global South yet has a deep engagement with Northern thinking; he makes a trenchant critique of human rights and law while asserting the importance of human rights and the rule of law; he is commi...

Headlines suggesting that Google scientists had developed the first computer programme capable of learning a wide variety of tasks independently, in what has been hailed as a significant step towards ‘true artificial intelligence’¹1 Accessed February 26, 2015. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/25/google-develops-computer-program-capabl...

Law's Ethical, Global and Theoretical Contexts examines William Twining's principal contributions to law and jurisprudence in the context of three issues which will receive significant scholarly attention over the coming decades. Part I explores human rights, including torture, the role of evidence in human rights cases, the emerging discourse on '...

The above statements seem to suggest that the Internet is a space for contestation between freedom and security, but, for Morozov, in that contestation it is the forces of security, for regulation and control of the Internet which may be gaining the upper hand. cf. Mueller3 The primary aim of this article is to consider ways in which a Netizen cult...

This paper examines the critical role of the global expansion of IP rights in the construction and maintenance of digital inequalities and suggests that the irresolution of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) as well as the struggles for a Development Agenda mark a crucial dimension in the global politics of digital inequalities. It sugg...

Aspects of the law teacher's role from a range of legal education experts espousing a professional practice based upon a commitment to the effective design and planning of learning activities and the provision of suitable learning environments. The authors adopt a reflective and developmental approach to teaching law emphasising the strengths of ex...

This paper will describe and analyse an Anglo-French student exercise in electronic negotiation for the sale of fragrances on the internet, with the Warwick based team representing a high value internet shopping mall and the EDHEC, France based team representing a prestigious fragrance firm. The paper will analyse the development and implementation...

This paper will provide an overview of the nature of paradigm change being brought about in legal education. In particular it will explore the impact of the interrelationship between information technology and globalization on the changing nature of law and legal practice and the commodification of legal education. It will explore from both pedagog...

The Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems (JURIX) has, sinceits foundation in 1988, become an internationally renowned forumfor Law and Artificial Intelligence in theNetherlands. This paper is based onan intellectual review of the work of JURIX requested by theorganisation as part of its 10th anniversary in December 1997 andpresented as a keynote...

USING THE example of Leila, a law student in the year 2010, this paper is an attempt to map out some positive directions for legal education in which Information and Communications Technology (ICT) plays a key role. The argument is that it is possible to construct a pedagogically stimulating educational environment while taking into account the pos...

This paper discusses the development of computer-based learning (CBL) in law in the United Kingdom. It argues that the growth of CBL in law has been slow because of a number of inhibiting factors some of which, such as the computer illiteracy of lawyers, are similar to those in other disciplines, while others such as the nature of law, legal cultur...

THIS PAPER explores the techniques of evaluating the role of technology in legal education. It reflects on the specific experience of the technology in legal education project at Warwick, but its main function is to think aloud—to work out ways in which the newly-established Law Technology Centre for United Kingdom Law Schools can evaluate itself a...

The involvement of law in peace action has to be understood as part of wider political strategies both on the part of states and of peace movements. Peace movements are not monolithic, but are coalitions of different interests and perspectives united on the single issue of nuclear weapons. There is a great difference between the marches and demonst...

This paper describes the ESRC funded research project on constructing a methodology for legal cal (CMLCAL). The project is mainly aimed at examining the way in which computer assisted learning (CAL) courses were developed by a selected group of academics in the United Kingdom. The medium selected for the courses was LEXICAL, an authoring system dev...

This paper explores the implications of the Kasparov v Deep Blue Chess Match for work onlegal knowledgebasedsystems. It suggests that it is necessarytoaccept the specificityof computerandhumanlegal cultures andnot simplyadopt legal theories which appear most easily palatable for AI workers. A second suggestion is that AI work is better conceived in...

This paper reviews the last nine JURIX conferences. It applauds the overall effort but also suggests some directions for future development based largely on papers presented. It suggests in particular: 〈 The breadth of research has been commendable, but there is a need to move towards greater integration of systems and migration to internet based s...

The notion of a digital divide has become an accepted part of the information society scape as ‘one of the greatest impediments to development’ (Wolfensohn,World Bank, 2000).Yet the significance of the divide does not go unchallenged. For those such as Michael Powell, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission, technology diffusion is a m...

This chapter examines the history of technology in legal education and considers the ways in which the sages Socrates, Confucius and the medieval inventors of the lecture have been the iconic stimulators of methodologies of eLearning. It argues that earlier ventures into information technology in legal education were influenced either by the Langde...