Back to the Future

I'm in the Chicago Kent College of Law attending an all-day symposium called Back to the Future of Legal Research. The focus is on how electronic legal resources are causing an evolution and revolution in doing legal research. I just heard Ian Gallacher, the Director of the Legal Reading and Writing Program at Syracuse, discuss his proposal that American law schools should form a consortium to publish American law and make it freely accessible on the internet. Lots of food for thought.