can the law handle the wiki?
many moons ago, i spent some time brutalizing a paper describing an interesting political concept (emergent democracy).
today, i learned that this paper and some related materials would be required reading for law students at a well-known university. that’s interesting in and of itself. but it gets better….
apparently, these lawyers-in-training are having a hard time wrapping themselves around the philosophy of the wiki.
i can think of several reasons a “mutable text” would disturb lawyers and lawyers-in-training, but i’ll just leave it with this, in the hopes that some of these students will “get it”…
a wiki is like the entire body of laws and court opinions, only everyone’s a lawyer and everyone’s a judge and everyone’s a legislator.
… oh, and it’s important to play nice on a wiki.
update: added link to the course syllabus