In order to fully grasp whether a technical solution is legal or not, one must of course be able to interpret existing legal frameworks in a digital environment. At the same time, an in-depth understanding of applicable IT law requires insights into what technology has to offer.

The need for legal awareness beyond applicable law is captured in the title of this book, “Legal Management of Information Systems”. In general terms the wording denotes legal issues of relevance when designing, developing and administrating information systems of different kinds. The book covers such broad application areas as e-government, knowledge management in law firms, and e-business models.

The field of Law and IT is moving towards a deepened approach in terms of how substantive law interacts with regard to legal management of information systems. Mention can be made here of the steadily growing business area for lawyers which can be termed legal knowledge management. In a broad sense this comprises business positions such as product designer of legal information services, information managers associated to business law firms, security law consultants offering legal advice on risk analyses, secure legal document management, etc.

The book is divided into five separate parts each covering a number of chapters within the following areas:

- basic notions of law and IT

- automating the law

- legal information retrieval

- information management in the legal environment

- information security and the law.

This anthology contains contributions from lecturers in the Stockholm University Master Programme of Law and Information Technology (www.juridicum.su.se/iri/masterIT/) representing business law firms, the information industry, government and academia. The intention is, however, that this book will not only serve the role of major course literature but also be of interest to other professionals engaged in legal aspects of IT in the modern information society.