Talk:Legal informatics

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I'm not sure that point 2, "law and policy", is properly part of legal informatics. The gist of the definition in Erdelez and O'Hare is that legal informatics deals with the application to informatics to the law, not the application of the law to informatics. I see the two as distinct areas. There are some people who are interested in both, but the two areas really don't have much in common.

Looking at the pages that drop from a Google search on "legal informatics" I find a few pages that imply that information policy is part of legal informatics, but a greater number that do not. Here's a link to a page that I think makes the distinction nicely: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~lucchi/legalinformatics.htm. Dpdabney (talk) 11:01, 9 April 2008 (UTC)