AltLaw
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AltLaw is an American academic project aimed at making federal appellate and Supreme Court case law publicly available, "to make the common law a bit more common."[1] The project is a collaboration between Columbia Law School's Program on Law and Technology and University of Colorado School of Law's Silicon Flatirons program.
Currently the digital access to US Case Law is dominated by LexisNexis and Westlaw [2], charges for access to which can run in the hundreds of dollars per hour.
The data in AltLaw contains roughly 716,000 cases decided between 1950 and 2007, made available on US Circuit Appeals and Supreme courts web sites, all linked to from uscourts.gov, and collected by Prof. Paul K. Ohm at University of Colorado Law School and by public.resource.org.
[edit] Notes
- ^ AltLaw.org Stuart Sierra (Note: this describes an early pre-release version)
- ^ "The structure of market relations between Lexis and Westlaw suggests elements of a noncollusive duopoly." Wlliam G. Shepherd, The Economics of Industrial Organization 246 (4th ed. 1997) (discussing examples of noncollusive duopolies such as Boeing and Airbus and Mattel and Hasbro).
[edit] References
- Markoff, John. "A Quest to Get More Court Rulings Online, and Free", The New York Times, August 14, 2007. Accessed August 23, 2007.
- Arewa, Olufunmilayo. Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw, Law Schools, and the Legal Information Market, Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 10, p. 797, 2006. Accessed August 23, 2007
- Columbia Law School. Press release, August 23, 2007.
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