I could not find anything to indicate that the ABA has taken a stand
on open access to law one way or another.
How do we balance our interests in an open internet, open courts,
open access to law with the protection of privacy?
The technical challenges and economic opportunities created
by open access to law and public sector information.
But there is another obstacle to using technology to increase access to justice: the lack
of open access to law.
Not only did the LII set the standard
for open access to law a quarter - century ago, it continues to set the standard today.
This is a foundational principle of our society and our system of justice so we should accept nothing less than free and
open access to the law from our legislatures and courts as we have already decided to pay the price.
My thanks to Ivan and the bar associations of BurkinaFaso, Senegal and Niger for their leadership role in
promoting open access to law in western Africa.
Visualizing the law: Crisis mapping as an open tool for legal practice Marta Poblet Journal of
Open Access to Law Vol 1, No 1 (2013)
So, I guess today's episode with Alan Sugarman is kind of one in our ongoing series on how we got to this place
where open access to law is a conversation.
Research and other articles Library Access to Scholarship Open Access Overview The Impact of Open Access Journals: A Citation Study from Thomson ISI Walled
Gardens Open Access to Law in Developing Countries The Life of the Law Online «Never Ending, Still Beginning»: A Defense of Electronic Law Journals from the Perspective of the E Law Experience
That issue is now available and, true to its subject, is openly accessible at the Journal of
Open Access to Law site.
The Journal
of Open Access to Law (JOAL) is a project of Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII), the Italian National Research Council's Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques (ITTIG - CNR), and the Institute of Law and Technology (IDT) of the Autonomous University in Barcelona.
Sam Glover: Yeah, I kind of geek out on the nuts and bolts of how we get to where we are today, and one of the reasons why I'm interested
in open access to law is that law is kind of the oil, Ed Walters would say, on which innovation in a lot of legal tech works, right?
I've been an avid promoter of
open access to law and of law blogging, and I've been on the receiving end of scores of calls, emails and letters from people with serious concerns about the appearance of their personal information in Canadian court decisions and summaries.
Rather than rest on its laurels, the LII continues to be a leader today in providing free and
open access to law.
Not all the technology that may lead to
open access to the law need to come from lawyers, and so it's quite likely that not all the ideas about open access to the law need to come from lawyers.
Like, if you wan na build AI, you have to have a dataset to train it on and a lot of that comes from
open access to law.
Today brought the launch of the Journal of
Open Access to Law, an open - access, peer - reviewed academic journal devoted to promoting international research on the topic of open access to law.
For websites that provide free and
open access to law, there are still bills to pay.
So we've had lots of practicing lawyers talking about their interesting practice niches and we've had a number of leaders in
the open access to law movement and the legal librarian movement talking about those topics.
The ABA should be a champion of
open access to law, the foundation on which the future of access to justice will be built.
Sam Glover: I try to talk about public access and
open access to law and, whenever I bring this up with lawyers, I feel like I often get kind of blank stares.
One of the lead articles by Michael Carrol, «The Movement for
Open Access to Law» describes the development of the open access movement that gave rise to CANLII and WorldlI but wishes to see this go further and argues that the «time is ripe for legal scholars and scholarly legal periodicals to fully join this movement for open access to law» (741).
Sarah Glassmeyer is trying to get to the bottom of
open access to law, and Ed Walters is trying to build a company based on access to that law.
On today's podcast, she talks about the state of
open access to law, including the important distinction between content and containers.
The first issue of Journal of
Open Access to Law has been published.
This is an incredible advance in
open access to law and one that is being rightly praised in the U.S. and around the world.
Charbonneau, Olivier (2009) Collaboration and
open access to Law: How can Web 2.0 technologies help us understand the law?
Olivier Charbonneau, Associate Librarian at Concordia University, and author of the Culturelibre blog, has posted Collaboration and
Open Access to Law, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
Needless to say, this is a powerfully impressive service and a considerable contribution to
the open access to law movement.
Join me in welcoming the debut of Journal of
Open Access to Law, or JOAL.
I'm proud to announce the debut of the Journal of
Open Access to Law, a multidisciplinary journal that will publish the work that its title suggests: research related to legal information that is made openly available on the Internet.
In «Collaboration and
Open Access to Law,» Charbonneau talks about certain aspects of his research work on the way in which the public and legal documents interact with each other on the web.
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