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Law Belongs to the People: Access to Law and Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2016

Ginevra Peruginelli
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Abstract

This paper written by Ginevra Peruginelli is devoted to a discussion of the issues concerning the provision of free access to law in our global society and investigates the effects and benefits of freely available information to the legal profession, citizens and governments. The knowledge of rights, responsibilities and policies allows people and institutions to know what is expected of them and which protections they enjoy. In particular, the paper focuses on the main actors, namely the Legal Information Institutes, involved in the free access to law all around the world. These institutions publish legal information from more than one source for free, and mutually collaborate both politically and technically through membership.

Keywords

free legal informationaccess to justice
Type
Current Issues
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 107 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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21 The last meeting was organized in February 2012 in Brussels jointly by the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the European Commission.

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23 Among the projects involved in linking legal open data it is worth mentioning the European Project BO-ECLI: Building on ECLI. (http://www.bo-ecli.eu/bo-ecli/at-a-glance).