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abernard102@gmail.com 2012-09-17

Summary:

Use the link to access the full text article opening as follows: “Human institutions of justice exist to assist the poor and marginalized that would otherwise be unable to protect themselves.  To be a truly effective system of justice, access to this system must be barrier free.  To the poor, every cost is a barrier to access and unfortunately, justice systems incur myriad bureaucratic costs.  Therefore, institutions of justice should work to reduce the access costs generated in order to become effective.  Fortunately, there are many such options available.  One of the most easily attainable and widely beneficial steps is to lower the cost of researching the law.  This article will describe the creation, maintenance and benefits of a one-stop website where anyone – the general public, attorneys, law students, etc. – can find and research all primary law sources.  For the purposes of this article, and to differentiate from past efforts, I will call this the Citizen’s Law Library (CLL). The CLL will be a website which hosts both the law itself as well as key legal research tools.  It will be maintained by legal professionals who will be encouraged to participate by the realization that a few hours of time a year can erase thousands of dollars of research costs.  An API will be created from it that will encourage the development of new research tools by the technological community, either for altruistic or commercial reasons.  The end result will be basic and far reaching changes in the legal research market that will provide greater access to justice to the poor and those assisting them...”

Link:

http://www.cali.org/blog/2012/09/13/online-public-access-primary-law-time-has-arrived

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.libraries oa.crowd oa.costs oa.students oa.librarians oa.prices oa.lay oa.benefits oa.apis oa.law oa.cll

Date tagged:

09/17/2012, 20:16

Date published:

09/17/2012, 16:16