Institutet för rättsinformatik (IRI) is the Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute within the Faculty of Law at
Stockholm University
Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, 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, social ...
. 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 (IT law), also known as information, communication and technology law (ICT law) or cyberlaw, concerns the juridical regulation of information technology, its possibilities and the consequences of its use, including comp ...
), but also on the development of technical solutions within the legal field (
legal informatics
Legal informatics is an area within information science.
The American Library Association defines informatics as "the study of the structure and properties of information, as well as the application of technology to the organization, storage, r ...
).
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
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...
, ''Blawblaw'', with posts in English and Swedish.
References
External links
IRI websiteFaculty of LawADBJ websiteBlawblaw IRI blog
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Stockholm University
Law schools in Sweden