“In partnership with a legal research startup, Harvard University is digitizing 200 years’ worth of U.S. court decisions and putting them in a searchable database.”

November 10, 2015

If you aren’t a lawyer, you may be surprised to learn that much of the country’s legal rulings aren’t freely accessible to the public, despite the crucial role many played in the shaping and organization of American society. While the documents are part of the public domain, a byzantine patchwork of outdated government interfaces and expensive paywalls restrict access to them.

Now, as part of an ambitious multiyear project, Harvard University is liberating that information. Home to the country’s most comprehensive collection of U.S. case law, second only to the Library of Congress, Harvard is partnering with technology startup Ravel Law to digitize its legal library — more than 200 years’ worth of cases — making it fully and freely searchable.

“Driving this effort is a shared belief that the law should be free and open to all,” said Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow. “Using technology to create broad access to legal information will help create a more transparent and more just legal system.”

This is wonderful! Thx Machen for sharing this with me!

Source: Hamza Shaban. “Harvard Is Offering Its Entire Collection Of U.S. Case Law To The Internet.” Buzzfeed. November 10, 2015. http://www.buzzfeed.com/hamzashaban/harvard-is-offering-its-entire-collection-of-us-case-law-to.

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