Simmonds, Ralph --- "Editorial Note: June 1997" [1997] MurdochUeJlLaw 9; (1997) 4(2) Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law

Editorial Notice

Ralph Simmonds
Contributions Editor and Acting Technical Editor

1. With the publication of this issue we mark two important milestones in the history of E Law.

2. One is the publication of our first multi-media issue. This is in fact the republication of an earlier issue, Volume 3, Number 3 (September 1996). This was largely devoted to the papers of the Conference "Sexual Orientation and the Law" held at Murdoch University on 3 August 1996. That issue has now been republished with the addition of a series of video files. These files permit the reader to see and hear most of the paper presenters, speaking to parts of their papers. This facility requires the reader's Web browser to have the QuickTime add-in, which the issue page allows the reader to download. With that facility, and by clicking on the picture of the author of the paper, the reader downloads a video clip.

3. We believe this video facility makes a useful contribution to understanding the Conference "Sexual Orientation and the Law". We are hoping to provide similar facilities ­ possibly with longer clips ­ in some future issues. We therefore would welcome feedback on this issue.

4. The second milestone in the history of E Law is the further development of our links with the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

5. For some time AustLII had provided a link to us. Also, it has helped us in the provision of html versions of our earliest issues. Shortly it will be a full mirror site for us.

6. We are thus very pleased to provide in this issue the first of what we intend to be a series of papers from the first AUSTLII Conference, "Law Via the Internet '97", held in Sydney between 25 and 27 June 1997, in conjunction with the University of Technology, Sydney. Presenters at the Conference were invited by the Conference organisers to submit papers to E Law for publication through us on the Web. We are pleased to publish in this issue the first paper submitted to us, by Professor David Thomas of Brigham Young University, "Accessing U.S. Land Title Records through the Internet".

   Ralph Simmonds
   Professor of Law
   Contributions Editor and Acting Technical Editor