I'm a big fan of Worldlii and the «Declaration
on Free Access to Law».
TITLE: Legal Informatics Blog Posts
on Free Access to Law.
A new report
on the free access to law movement, entitled Free Access to Law: Is It Here to Stay?
The Declaration
on Free Access to Law affirms: that public legal information from all countries and international institutions is part of «the common heritage of humanity;» that maximizing access to this information promotes justice and the rule of law; that public legal information is «digital common property» and should be accessible to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge; and that organizations (such as legal information institutes) have the right to publish public legal information and the government bodies that create or control that information should provide access to it so that it can be published by other parties.
Back to our turf, in 2002 at the Law via the Internet conference in Montreal the LII movement adopted the Montreal Declaration
on Free Access to Law.
Not exact matches
Because the birth control cases all focus
on a 1993 federal
law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate
to provide
free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden»
on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections
to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt
to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.
If by
law or regulation stations could be required
to provide time regularly
to members of Congress,
on the basis that it is the right of all citizens
to have an opportunity
to see and hear their chosen representatives, and if a similar requirement were
to insure
free access to all congressional candidates during elections — only then can the knot be severed.
In January 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, finalized its updated nutritional standards for school meals in keeping with the Healthy Hunger -
Free Kids Act of 2010 (Public
Law No. 111 - 296), which reauthorized the school meal programs and placed an emphasis
on the need
to improve
access to healthy foods in schools.
Monday 11 March 2013 2.30 pm Oral Questions Plans
to tackle inequality in income and wealth in the UK - Lord Dubs Consequences for
access to justice for those who will not be able
to receive
free legal advice
on social welfare
law matters from 1 April - Lord Bach Future railway re-openings - Lord Faulkner of Worcester Progress towards achieving the projected increase in the size of the UK's reserve forces - Lord Rosser Legislation Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Report stage (Day 4)- Viscount Younger of Leckie Short Debate Recommendations of the Francis Report into the Mid-Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Lord Patel Short Debate Impact of NHS innovation and research strategies
on health improvement and wealth creation - Lord Kakkar
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While increasing the volume of data and products available
to all Members by providing these additional data and products, it is understood that WMO Members may be justified in placing conditions
on their re-export for commercial purposes outside of the receiving country or group of countries forming a single economic group, for reasons such as national
laws or costs of production; Members should provide
to the research and education communities, for their noncommercial activities,
free and unrestricted
access to all data and products exchanged under the auspices of WMO with the understanding that their commercial activities are subject
to the same conditions identified in Adopts (2) above; Urges Members
to:
Rather than rest
on its laurels, the LII continues
to be a leader today in providing
free and open
access to law.
The University of Iowa College of
Law is offering
free online
access this semester
to a colloquium
on the health care reform act.
[This is the first of a two - part column
on open
access and public
access to Canadian legal scholarship within the
free law movement.
The proper solution would be public
free access, available
to everyone,
on the LII model within the
free access to law movement.
And it's important
to us that
law students, college students, young lawyers, and others have
free, easy
access to the analysis and discussion
on our site,» Volokh writes.
The Statement, that promotes the principles of open
access in legal scholarly publishing in Canada and free access to legal information in society, follows the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship adopted by the law libraries of major American universities in late
access in legal scholarly publishing in Canada and
free access to legal information in society, follows the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship adopted by the law libraries of major American universities in late
access to legal information in society, follows the Durham Statement
on Open
Access to Legal Scholarship adopted by the law libraries of major American universities in late
Access to Legal Scholarship adopted by the
law libraries of major American universities in late 2008.
In mid-May, the Council of Canadian Academic
Law Library Directors adopted the Calgary Statement
on Free Access to Legal Information.
As we've remarked a number of times here
on Slaw, we who live in Canada and enjoy the
access to law that CanLII provides might find it hard
to believe that our neighbours lack the same
free access.
What's especially noteworthy about
Free the Law, though, and what distinguishes it from other preservation initiatives, is that it provides for the preservation of historical legal materials in connection with free, public access to them, on the conviction that access to legal information promotes access to just
Free the
Law, though, and what distinguishes it from other preservation initiatives, is that it provides for the preservation of historical legal materials in connection with
free, public access to them, on the conviction that access to legal information promotes access to just
free, public
access to them,
on the conviction that
access to legal information promotes
access to justice.
For the cost of a few hours a week teaching a clinic, Biglaw attorneys have
access to hundreds hours of
FREE work
on cert petitions by some of the top
law students in the country.
On June 10th, my colleagues in the Stanford University School of Education listened patiently as I stood before them explaining how the Harvard
Law School had passed an «open
access» motion which was going
to lead
to free online
access to all of the scholarly articles that they published.
The effect of
free sources and
free access to case
law via government and other web sites must have a significant effect
on law reporting.
Its collaborator in this endeavour, Lexum, then a legal info technology lab at the University of Montreal, has gone
on to play a significant role in many other Canadian achievements essential
to securing
free access to law in Canada, most notably through their role as the developer and operator of the CanLII website.
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Free Access to Lexis / Westlaw»
A fantastic development out of the United States last week — Harvard
Law School and Ravel Law plan to make access to the school's entire library of reported U.S. case law available for free on Ravel's websi
Law School and Ravel
Law plan to make access to the school's entire library of reported U.S. case law available for free on Ravel's websi
Law plan
to make
access to the school's entire library of reported U.S. case
law available for free on Ravel's websi
law available for
free on Ravel's website.
Not only does that give more people affordable
access to the
law, it
frees lawyers up
to take
on more complicated, interesting work.
Slaw's own Ted Tjaden is quoted in this week's Lawyers» Weekly
on whether the
free access to the
law movement has reached the point of such reliability and comprehensiveness that it can be considered as an adequate substitute for the commercial giants.
Free Law Project is a nonprofit devoted to providing the public with free access to primary legal materials on the Inter
Free Law Project is a nonprofit devoted
to providing the public with
free access to primary legal materials on the Inter
free access to primary legal materials
on the Internet.
The
Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to providing free, public access to primary legal materials, has announced plans to download all of the free opinions and order available on PACER, the federal courts» system for electronic access to court reco
Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated
to providing
free, public access to primary legal materials, has announced plans to download all of the free opinions and order available on PACER, the federal courts» system for electronic access to court reco
free, public
access to primary legal materials, has announced plans
to download all of the
free opinions and order available on PACER, the federal courts» system for electronic access to court reco
free opinions and order available
on PACER, the federal courts» system for electronic
access to court records.
If
freer access to primary
law were not a good enough thing, it's wonderful and exciting that the content on BC Law — all of it — is delivered as open data, under a Queen's Printer Licen
law were not a good enough thing, it's wonderful and exciting that the content
on BC
Law — all of it — is delivered as open data, under a Queen's Printer Licen
Law — all of it — is delivered as open data, under a Queen's Printer License.
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on
A recent post
on VoxPopuLII, Reaching Sustainability of
Free Access to Law Initiatives, gives a fascinating insight into LII funding and sustainability.
On the other hand, the work carried out by Legal Information Institutes (LII) 88 and the
Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) 99 deserves a mention.
Based
on the right of republication, they have devoted themselves, over the last twenty years,
to providing
free online
access to case
law, legislation, treaties,
law reforms, and legal scholarship.1010 This is a significant contribution
to the development of the rule of
law from a global point of view.
The app provides
access to the largest
free law library available
on the iPhone.
«Utah Bar Tries
to Put End
to Lawyers Freeloading
on Law Students»
Free Access to Lexis / Westlaw Main Things You Can't Do
on a Plane: Vol.
In celebration of Open
Access Day, Yale's Information Society Project and Fundação Getulio Vargas
Law School in Brazil have published a book,
Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research
on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development [PDF], and made it available
free.
*
Free access to law: the situation in different geographic areas * Legal aspects concerning management, creation and filing of digital information * Legal blogs and wikis * Open legal archives * Quality of legal information available
on the web * Right
to legal information as a fundamental right * Semantic
It features cloud storage, which helps keep office spaces
free from file - based clutter while allowing
law professionals
to work
on the go and
access information
on smartphones and tablets.
Users who click through
to read the full text of a case
on vLex Canada can create a
free account that provides no - charge
access to the entire vLex Canada Open primary
law collection, as well as personalization features
to create highlights, annotations, notifications, personal folders and so much more.
Isabelle Moncion of the Chair in Legal Information of the University of Montreal, and Lexum, has posted Building Sustainable LIIs — or
Free Access to Law as Seen Through the Eyes of a Newbie,
on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by... Continue reading →
This will lead
to an understanding of the effects FAL [
free access to law] initiatives have
on society and
to an
Lancaster House, as part of its contribution
to CanLII users of a
free e-text
on wrongful dismissal and employment
law, is also providing CanLII users with
free access to a wide selection of case summaries and commentaries from their very popular case alert service.
The invitation
to participate in the survey was found
on Lexum's Supreme Court of Canada's decisions web site (scc.lexum.org/en) and sent through the related e-mail distribution list, so it could be that the respondents come out of a group more interested in
free access to law than the general body of legal information users.
My reference
to law students in particular was based
on feedback that I received from university
law librarians and legal research instructors that it was difficult
to encourage
law students
to use CanLII when they have
free access to the commercial services.
Resources
on «
free access to law» and legal information institutes appear
on this page.
The term «
free access to law» refers generally
to efforts
to make primary legal resources, i.e., «
law,» available
free - of - charge
on the Internet.