Dr Darius Whelan is a lecturer in law at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland. He established the Irish Law discussion list and the Irish Law web site (now at www.irish-law.org) in 1994. He has written articles on electronic access to Irish law for the Irish Law Times, the Bar Review, the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers and the Irish Times. He has previously held lecturing posts at University College Cork and Waterford Institute of Technology.