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A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
note from the editors f the honorary volume
for Evi Laskari
This honorary volume is dedicated to the memory of Evi Laskari, philologist,
graduate of the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodestrian University
of Athens and graduate of the Department of the Archive and Library Sciences of
the Ionian University (Master’s diploma) and Head of the Central Public Library
of Corfu, until her untimely death in 2008. This volume contains texts dedicated
to her memory and papers from the fifth international conference on information
law 2012 (ICIL 2012), an international conference also dedicated to her memory
which took place in Corfu, in June 2012. The papers are published in English, in
the language they were written and presented in this international conference.
ICIL was “born” in Corfu, in 2008 due to the enthousiastic support of the chair
of the Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Professor Emeritus George
Bokos -the year Evi Laskari left us…
he idea was an international conference covering a wide field connecting in-
formation to the meaning of information with law, ethics and also, afterwards,
philosophy, psychology, sociology, criminology etc. - the connecting link is infor-
mation.
We dedicated to Evi Laskari the biggest and richest, until then, ICIL-that of 2012.
It run in three parallel sessions, hosted five special sessions and included more
than 100 speakers from all over the world.
In 2012, the conference was titled ‘Equity, integrity and beauty in information
law and ethics’. The concept of information was tied also to the concept of beau-
ty, which however belongs to aesthetics; this was the point where the Depart-
ment of Audio and Visual Arts came to its co-organization. The wonderful Renoir
painting featuring at the ICIL 2102 poster shows exactly this connection-thank
you again Nomiki Bibliothiki, for this beautiful poster.
here is, therefore, beauty in the law, as law and ethics in their turn “regulate”
beauty-hence the special session of ICIL 2012, Arts and Ethics. And how beauti-
ful was, also, the piano recital offered especially for the ICIL 2012 conference by
the world famous piano soloist and Professor of the Department of Music Studies
of the Ionian University, Lambis Vassiliadis -thank you, so much. Beautiful also
were the paintings of the Corfiot painter George Pennas, offered for a special
exhibition for ICIL 2012 by the painter, at the Spiritual Center of the Holy Greek
Orthodox Metropolis of Corfu, offered for ICIL during the conference-thank you,
so much for this generous offer. We would like to thank the Metropolitan Bishop
