Open Law: Technology in Service of the Rule of Law

Sarah Glassmeyer; Pete Smith

doi:10.1017/S1472669614000425

Open Law: Technology in Service of the Rule of Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2014

Sarah Glassmeyer and

Pete Smith

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Abstract

In this article Sarah Glassmeyer and Pete Smith address, and focus on, ‘open law’ and the technical issues that can enable access to primary law, and the secondary materials associated with it.

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open law free legal information

Type: Technologies and E-Resources
Information: Legal Information Management , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 2014 , pp. 181 - 187

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1472669614000425 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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¹ We would like to thank Jennifer Findlay, Ian Clark, and Helen Smith for their comments on a draft of this article. We would also like to record our thanks to Carol Tullo, John Sheridan and Dawn Dean of The National Archives and Richard Heaton of the Cabinet Office for replying to our questions on the topic of statutes on legislation.gov.uk

² http://www.bailii.org

³ See also Tullo, Carol ‘Legislation.gov.uk: essential for the law business’ (2013) 13(4) LIM 218CrossRef Google Scholar

⁴ http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/

⁵ http://supremecourt.uk

⁶ Leith, P. and Fellows, C.‘BAILII, legal education and open access to law’, (2013) 4(1)Google Scholar EJLT <online> http://ejlt.org/article/view/209/289

⁷ http://uscode.house.gov/about/info.shtml

⁸ http://lawschool.westlaw.com/knumbers/history.asp?mainpage=16&subpage=4

⁹ ibid

¹⁰ http://lawschool.westlaw.com/federalcourt/NationalReporterPage.asp

¹¹ http://www.slaw.ca/2010/04/23/fascinating-graphic-on-consolidation-in-legal-publishing/

¹² http://www.falm.info/declaration/

¹³ Leith and Fellows op. cit.

¹⁴ See T Bingham The Rule of law (Penguin 2011) for a detailed discussion

¹⁵ P Leith and C Fellows op. cit.

¹⁶ http://www.falm.info

¹⁷ Greenleaf, G., Mowbray, A., and Chung, P. ‘The meaning of “Free access to legal information”: a twenty year evolution’ (2013) Journal of Open Access to Law 1 (1)Google Scholarhttp://ojs.law.cornell.edu/index.php/joal/article/view/11

¹⁸ http://canliiconnects.org/en

¹⁹ See https://twitter.com/ctullo/status/484783441935077376; Tullo, Carol ‘Legislation.gov.uk: essential for the law business’ (2013) 13 (4) LIM 218CrossRef Google Scholar, 222

²⁰ See https://twitter.com/johnlsheridan/status/484743458079662080; Tullo, Carol ‘Legislation.gov.uk: essential for the law business’ (2013) 13 (4) LIM 218CrossRef Google Scholar, 222

²¹ Personal communication, Dawn Dean, The National Archives

²² http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32013R0216

²³ http://europa.eu/index_en.htm

²⁴ For an example see http://aallnet.org/Documents/Government-Relations/authen_rprt/authenfinalreport.pdf

²⁵ See http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/

²⁶ See Leith, Philip ‘Enabling Free On-line Access to UK Law Reports: The Copyright Problem’ (2010) 18(1) Int J Law Info Tech 72CrossRef Google Scholar for a full discussion

²⁷ See: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sarah_g/10557489183/in/photostream/lightbox/

²⁸ http://legisweb.state.wy.us/titles/statutes.htm

²⁹ Leith and Fellows ‘op. cit. and open access to law’ European Journal of Law and Technology (2013) 4 (1)Google Scholar <online> http://ejlt.org/article/view/209/289