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Global movements for OA to legal information
John Wonderlich, Legal Information as a Global Movement, The Open House Project, May 27, 2008. A blog post and three videos. (Thanks to Free Government Information.)
... All around the world, without centralized planning, institutes have sprung up in response to a pressing need: non-lawyers have a real use for legal information, but can’t get it. In countries across several continents, new initiatives online are successfully giving the general public information that they wouldn’t have been able to search before, information that used to be controlled exclusively by the legal information publishing businesses. ... |