EDITORS

Bernard Hibbitts is Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. A Canadian Rhodes Scholar and former law clerk to Justice Gerald LeDain and Chief Justice Bora Laskin of the Supreme Court of Canada, he went to law school in the United Kingdom at Oxford University (B.A. Juris. 1983) and completed his legal education in the United States at Harvard Law School (LL.M. 1988). While at Harvard he was Associate Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal.

Professor Hibbitts has won the University of Pittsburgh Law School's Excellence in Teaching Award, and the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award. He currently teaches courses on the technology of law, legal history, and estates and trusts. His articles on electronic scholarly publishing, on the history of law and communication, and on legal theory are available online and have been printed in the New York University Law Review, Law & History Review, the University of Toronto Law Journal and other American, Canadian and English legal periodicals. Shorter essays and commentaries have appeared in a variety of online and print publications including Wired, Afronet, First Monday, and the British Medical Journal.

Professor Hibbitts created the website that eventually became JURIST in the spring of 1996. His development of that award-winning project and his ideas on the general application of Internet technology to legal education and scholarship have been the subject of conference panels and a law review symposium, and have been featured in a range of stories and interviews in the New York Times, the National Law Journal, American Lawyer, Intellectual Property magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere. He has been an invited speaker at meetings of the Association of American Law Schools, the American Association of Law Libraries, the Law and Society Association, the American Society for Legal History, the American Legal Studies Association, the College Art Association, the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and other academic and professional groups.

Professor Hibbitts was admitted to the Bar in the Province of Nova Scotia in 1987. He is a member of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society and the American Bar Association. He also serves on the Board of Directors of CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction.

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