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#HackingthelawOpenLaws.eu
Prof. Chris Marsden#ODIFridays20 March 2015
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Law is difficult and boring – we have better things to do
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But law matters – to all of us
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We can open access to law
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Openlaws.eu DG Just project UK, Netherlands and Austria top 3 EU: OKFN legislation rankings open access to law in Europe legislation, case law and commentary
Not just legislation.gov.uk social network for lawyers, students and
interested citizens.
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What can opening access to law achieve? better and wider legal knowledge, which means a “better informed
citizenry”1. on the legal community, 2. in combination with open data
entrepreneurs.
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1. Citizens understand their rights How to secure those rights, and costs of access to
justice. Helps identify better the manner in which the law
is applied in courts, feedback loop can help us understand how to
draft and enforce laws more effectively better litigation, more mediation, better consumer contracts, lower contract costs, better spread of liabilities, better protection for those whose rights are abused.
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2. Open access to law alongside other open databases. If we find out that people are not using the law effectively
to enforce their rights and seek justice, that can help us identify parts of our
social and economic environment where we might have put rights and
responsibilities in the wrong place.
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Example: if no-one is found effectively liable for computer security breaches due to defective products
we might explore the insurance and criminal law implications for cybercrime also computers owners & software authors
Designing new protocols, practices, laws? Might result in more trusted online
environment That’s one small example.
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Openlaws release our first code today: March 20 at a hackathon in Salzburg
We have completed our UK, EU and Netherlands case studies
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Expanding open innovation to lawIntroducing mass-customization to lawProposing a comprehensive European “Big Open Legal Data” (BOLD) Vision 2020
for incremental implementation, built on top of existing EU and national systems and
content (e.g. EUR-Lex, e-Justice System, e-Codex).
Chris Marsden (Sussex)
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Developing BOLD ICT PlatformPromote open data, open access publications, and open standards
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Developing big online legal dataFree Access to Law movement (FALM)
online case law via BAILII in the UK Legal Information Institutes (AustLII, Cornell etc.)
#GoodLaw online statutes expanded rapidly, crowdsourcing ideas for #goodlaw
Online legal education and research BILETA since 1985 Electronic Law Journals project at Warwick
EJLT – now Script-ed + IJoC at USC many US law journals
Journal of Open Access to Law (JOAL) est. 2014! publishing books via Creative Commons: Marsden 2010
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Ministry of Justice ready for (r)evolution?#Goodlaw
radical crowd-sourced legislative approachOpen Data
Very fashionable amongst G7 countries etc. Implementation more patchy than general
UK: BAILII, ICLR, Supreme Court reforms; But we really need a pan-European
approach
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17Why not build a smartphone app for lawyers? Already done using
open case law, statute, articles
Where? Austria RIS:App Why not here? Why not
everywhere?
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Team – note Andres Guadamuz CC licence expert
Institution Name
UVAmsterdam Prof. Radboud G.F. WinkelsProf. Mireille van Eechoud LAPSI2.0
Sussex Prof. Chris MarsdenDr Andres Guadamuz CC4.0
London School of Economics
Dr. Paolo DiniDr. Shenja van der Graaf BXLDr. Antonella Passani ROMA
ALPENITE - developers
Giulio MarconGianluigi Alberici
SUAS Prof. Thomas HeistracherDI (FH) Thomas Lampoltshammer
BYWASS Dr. Clemens Wass, MBL, MBA
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[email protected] @openlaws@ChrisTMarsden openlaws.eu