Institutet för rättsinformatik (IRI) is the Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute within the Faculty of Law at
Stockholm University
Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...
.
About IRI
accessed 2013-07-31 The institute examines the relationship and interaction between law and IT. IRI not only focuses on legal issues of technology and the Internet (legal aspects of computing
Information technology law (also called cyberlaw) concerns the law of information technology, including computing and the internet. It is related to legal informatics, and governs the digital dissemination of both ( digitized) information and s ...
), but also on the development of technical solutions within the legal field ( legal informatics).
IRI was founded in 1968 as the Working Party for EDP and Law. The working party enabled specialised research into the fields of legal informatics and legal aspects of computing and was also very successful in supporting a network of lawyers within these fields. In 1981, the Working Party was rearranged into IRI at Stockholm University and as part of the networking the Swedish Association for IT and Law (ADBJ) was established.
The Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute also runs the team blog, ''Blawblaw'', with posts in English and Swedish.
References
External links
IRI website
Faculty of Law
ADBJ website
Blawblaw
IRI blog
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Stockholm University
Law schools in Sweden