Title: Center for Legal and Court Technology; formerly: Courtroom 21

Source/Sponsoring Agency: College of William & Mary; National Center for State Courts; Center for Legal and Court Technology

URL: http://www.legaltechcenter.net/

Date Checked: 8/17/2011      Status: Updated

Date Annotated: 2/18/2002

Topics: Law Schools; Science and Technology

Other keywords: National Center for State Courts; Telecommunications; Technology

Contents: Update: The name of this website has changed to: Center for Legal and Court Technology. The Court 21 Project is an international demonstration and experimental courtroom that is run as a joint endeavor between the College of William and Mary School of Law and the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). The courtroom itself is located in the law school´s McGlothlin Courtroom. It uses commercially available technology in its quest to serve as a “central location for the international exchange of information concerning the use and consequences of legal technology, particularly technology affecting litigation and the courts.” The website for Court 21 Project is, as of this writing in February 2002, a cautionary tale of the ravages of “Internet time,” that phenomenon that causes all webpages to become obsolete the moment they are uploaded to a web server. The majority of the links on this page are to the commercial enterprises that provided the project its technology, and most of them are out-of-date. A legal researcher who relied on this site to research the latest online court-filing system, for example, would be led astray. However, the site is a wonderful reference for the project itself, providing reprints of scholarly articles and news items about the project, as well as a “digital tour” of the classroom/courtroom.

Author of Annotation: B. Kreisler