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Holmes on Accessible Law

Rob Richards February 16, 2011

Nick Holmes of infolaw has posted Accessible Law, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.

In this post, Mr. Holmes discusses the state of the free access to law movement, and the challenges of making free law usable by ordinary citizens. Mr. Holmes describes FreeLegalWeb, his new free access to law service, that combines free primary law with expert legal commentary presented via blogs, to make the law more accessible to the people.

Mr. Holmes also discusses the recent debate between Bob Berring, Tom Bruce, and others over the quality of access to law provided by commercial computer assisted legal research services and free law services, as well as Jason Wilson’s concept of online legal publishing as curation.

This post will be of interest to those who develop or manage legal information systems; to the legal publishing community; to the free access to law community; and all who are interest in improving public access to legal information.

Tags: Adding legal commentary to free access to law services, Bob Berring, Citizens' use of legal information, Crowdsourcing and free access to law, Crowdsourcing and legal information systems, Crowdsourcing the writing of secondary legal resources, Free access to law, Free Legal Web, FreeLegalWeb, Jason Wilson, Legal commentary, Legal information institutes, Legal social media, Nick Holmes, Public access to legal information, Secondary legal resources, Tom Bruce, VoxPopuLII, Web 2.0 and law, Wikis and law

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Rob Richards March 5th, 2011

Wikipedia for law – pipe dream or possibility?, by @nickholmes http://tinyurl.com/6xgjazf

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Rob Richards March 5th, 2011

UKSC blog case comments now on FreeLegalWeb http://bit.ly/dHmYvG @nickholmes @UKSCblogcom

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