However, I remain sceptical (SLAW has discussed
legal wikis numerous times, including my own naïve proposal for a free web - based legal encylopedia).
As I noted here earlier this week, my Law Technology News article surveying
legal wikis is currently available on Law.com Legal Technology.
I know there are
some legal wikis, like jurispedia, but for a quasi-official or at least highly reputable site like LexUM, can it afford the risk of aberrant or malicious annotations?
I wrote last June about Standardforms.org,
a legal wiki intended to serve as a free repository of sophisticated legal documents.
A new
legal wiki, Standardforms.org, has been launched to provide a free depository of sophisticated legal documents.
Additional features in subsequent updates to the network will include
a legal wiki, forums, and expanded access to content from LexisNexis and other sources.
Now,
another legal wiki has launched, Wiki - Law, and its co-founder says its mission «is to become the Wikipedia of the legal world.»
Now,
another legal wiki has launched, Wiki - Law, and its co-founder says its mission «is to become the Wikipedia -LSB-...]
As an example, let's compare the pure community approach of Wikipedia, to Cornell's
legal wiki Wex.
Not exact matches
• The NSA's internal «
wiki» website characterizes political and
legal opposition to drone attacks as part of «propaganda campaigns» from America's «adversaries.»
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Wiki.
Only a developer can permanently delete information from the
wiki and there is no guarantee this will happen except in response to
legal action.
Wiki: «Regulation can take many forms:
legal restrictions promulgated by a government authority, self - regulation by an industry such as through a trade association, social regulation..»
The Foundation provides the servers and electricity, dedicated design work and research, as well as the
legal and technical support needed to operate Wikimedia's eight global
Wiki projects.
Via The Law Librarian Blog, Sarah Glassmeyer has started LISVendor.info, a
wiki to collect and share information on the relations, financial and otherwise, between law librarians and
legal publishers.
«It's
legal to engage in reverse engineering in order to create a competing product, it's
legal to talk about reverse engineering, and it's
legal for a public
wiki to host those discussions.»
Working in conjunction with the Massachusetts court system, the project will publish the daily docket on the web and build a knowledge
wiki for the public with common
legal terms.
Commentary is defined as being (1)
legal texts, (2)
legal encyclopaedias such as Halsbury's Laws of Canada, (3) law journals and seminar papers, (4) memoranda and factums, and (5)
wikis blogs and newsletters.
A
Legal Rebels manifesto was cooperatively written over the last month by contributors to a wiki and is now open for legal professionals to add their signat
Legal Rebels manifesto was cooperatively written over the last month by contributors to a
wiki and is now open for
legal professionals to add their signat
legal professionals to add their signatures.
That «lawyer room» would lend itself most clearly to a firm intranet or
wiki, an internal resource — unless the firm were interested in packaging this information to consumers of
legal knowledge outside the firm, including other lawyers.
At the blog KM Space, Doug Cornelius of Boston's Goodwin Procter is posting live from the conference and has provided coverage of programs on developing the right IT and KM governance structure for your firm; how
wikis, blogs and discussion forums relate to
legal KM; stories from client - facing KM implementers; and the alignment of information management, KM and records management.
«If one of us is doing a case about one issue, we can upload that information onto a
wiki so that other lawyers across the province have access to the cases and
legal work that's been done so we're not reinventing the wheel 77 times,» says Abramowicz.
And now it seems as if
wikis are also poised to take off within the ranks of the
legal profession, at least according to tech guru Dennis Kennedy, who posts here at Between Lawyers about an article that he and Tom Mighell just published on
wikis.
-- nGenera, together with California law firm Folger, Levin & Kahn, and
Legal OnRamp, today announced that they had collaborated to use a wiki tool to author a sophisticated white paper on legal issues presented by new Internet technologies, including wikis themselves... [
Legal OnRamp, today announced that they had collaborated to use a
wiki tool to author a sophisticated white paper on
legal issues presented by new Internet technologies, including wikis themselves... [
legal issues presented by new Internet technologies, including
wikis themselves... [more]
At the same time, Jaffe published a white paper on Web 2.0 and
legal PR, Web 2.0 and PR 2.0, and unveiled a
wiki, which is as yet without content.
The article,
Wikis for the
Legal Profession, published in the ABA's Law Practice Management magazine (February 2007), provides an expansive overview that describes what
wikis are and how lawyers can use them to benefit their practices.
In addition, there's a
Legal Rebels Manifesto posted at the site
wiki so that lawyers can make their own edits.
Substantive approaches to evaluating online
legal information are being proposed in academic journals as blogs,
wikis and other forums attract serious
legal commentators.
And there have been some attempts to create
legal treatises and encyclopedias using the
wiki group - authoring format.
«
Legal Wikis Are Bound to Wow You» (May 7) not only gives a good overview of
wikis in general (what are they?
I thank Ted for taking the cynical view: taken as a whole, our comments on this post are building some substantive ideas on when and why one would use
wikis in
legal practice.
But in the
legal world, as elsewhere,
wikis have become more widely used in the last year or two.
Of course, there are any number of innovative
wikis outside the
legal sphere, as well.
This month, we look at some of the innovative and intriguing ways
legal professionals are using
wikis.
to «what is the future of the
wiki in
legal publication?»
I think one of the reasons that
wikis all but failed to have a transformative impact in the
legal sphere is that the «allow changes first, let the community correct later» approach of
wikis creates too much uncertainty about the quality of the current version of the document.
Over the next few weeks» I'll be adding content to both of these public
wikis, destined of course for our students, but I hope some of the information and resources might be of use to other
legal research instructors (why reinvent the wheel?!).
Some
wikis are now appearing as sources of
legal information.
The final factor is technology, which encompasses not just IT gadgets and processes that help us do our work, but also new ways in which
legal information may be shared (such as through open - source, online
legal «
wikis»).
In a column last year, I wrote about the use of
wikis and other collaborative resources for
legal publication.
I suppose the point to my post is whether we can wrap a
wiki - like structure and interface around the
legal web, and make it a destination for learning about both general topics and specific issues, rather than just a portal for all results that match search terms.
From
wiki: Some oaths of office are a statement of loyalty to a constitution or other
legal text or to a person or other office - holder (e.g., an oath to support the constitution of the state, or of loyalty to the king).
It's been a few months since I've posted to Slaw (tsk, tsk) so I thought I'd try and redeem myself and share two
legal research
wikis that I've created using PBWiki, for two courses I'm teaching this term.
We know the databases that are available whether that be case - law, legislation, citation managers,
legal literature indexes or full - text, blogs,
wikis you name it, that is our stock in trade.
In October Knowledge Management Specialist Heather Colman made a presentation to both the Toronto and New York
Legal KM Groups, and we subsequently invited her to present at Toronto
Wiki Tuesdays.
If
Wiki - Law aims to be the Wikipedia of the
legal world, then Lawbby aspires to become the MySpace of the
legal world.
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Back in what now seems eons ago I thought hard for quite a while about building a
legal forms
wiki — an open site that would feature
legal forms for open use, that could be built upon and improved — even annotated — by the community.
The
wiki social authorship model on
Legal OnRamp is easy to learn and easy to use.