We are proud to announce that the third edition of the Virtual Law Journal is now published and is available under Last Issue. 

The articles published in the Virtual Law Journal are directed to all aspects of law and information technology.

This embraces, inter alia, sub-fields such as

• regulation of telecommunications and data networks,
• data protection and privacy issues,
• freedom of information and rights of access,
• intellectual property rights in computer software and databases,
• contracting issues related to IT,
• security and vulnerability issues and
• international co-operation and harmonisation of national laws

Further on, some articles focus on the uses of information technology, in particular those having a legal orientation, such as

• legal information retrieval,
• document management in law firms,
• automated decision-making and
• artificial intelligence.

The board of editors includes Professor Peter Seipel and Professor Peter Wahlgren, Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute, Stockholm, as well as members of the Virtual Law Firm, an educational, non-commercial student project run by the Master's Course in Law and Information Technology at the Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Contributions by scholars, practitioners and postgraduate students are welcome.