Legal Framework for E-Research: Realising the Potential contains papers from the Legal Framework for e-Research Project’s International Conference held on 11 and 12 July 2007 in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia.
“The recognition that increasingly sophisticated ICT techniques would need to be matched by increasingly sophisticated ways of thinking about some of the legal issues that might arise, particularly given the minefield posed just by conditions relating to the collection and availability of data across a wide number of fields, therefore led to the initiative represented by the contents of this report. We need skilful thinking about the legal context for all of the rapid and new, indeed scarcely definable activities that are mushrooming in this sphere. An early start on this was the July 2007 conference on the topic.
It is my pleasure to commend the papers in this volume for those interested in considering the many interesting challenges posed for researchers, legal specialists and administrators in this area.”
Professor Tom Cochrane
Deputy Vice Chancellor of QUT
Chair of the Australian e-Research Infrastructure Council (AeRIC)
Brisbane, 30 June 2008
