Learning by Doing: Chicago-Kent students are "hands-on" in technology-based initiatives.

Chicago-Kent students working in the Self-Help Web Center support litigants with various services, including assistance with user-friendly, Web-based tools and legal resources designed specifically for self-represented litigants. The Self-Help Web Center is housed at Chicago's Daley Center, where many of the Cook County civil courts are seated.

A novel course in Litigation Technology, the first of its kind in the country, teaches students how to use technology to enhance their trial presentations and manage digital evidence in the courtroom.

Students take lead roles in the continuing development of Access to Justice Author, a Web-based interface that leads self-represented litigants in the civil courts through a guided interview process to help determine their eligibility for various forms of relief and to collect all the information needed to prepare court forms.

Chicago-Kent students working in the Operation Kosovo program devised an Internet-based system to support international relief agencies assisting Kosovar refugees.

Honors Scholars at Chicago-Kent collaborated with AT&T and the city of Chicago to run "You Don't Know Auctions!"-- an Internet game that educates the public about the dangers of online auction fraud. (www.youdontknowauctions.com)

Chicago-Kent students working on the War Crimes Documentation Project created a data collection application to gather testimonial evidence for war crimes prosecutions subsequent to the conflict in Kosovo.

Law students garnered a first-place award in 2002 from the American Association of Political Consultants for their work on a Web site dedicated to electronic campaigning -- www.electionmall.com.

A Web site created by Chicago-Kent students explores the emerging law of e-commerce in Ukraine and examines how some corporations in Poland have used the Web to launder illicit proceeds.

Chicago-Kent students working in the Balkans developed and installed a media server to promote the free flow of unbiased information via the Internet among the press, legal and governmental institutions, and the public in the Republika Srpska and Bosnia.

Chicago-Kent students working on the Albanian Legal Information Initiative contributed to a report to the World Bank concerning the status of the legal information infrastructure in Albania, with recommendations on creating a centralized legal information system, including technical infrastructure requirements.