Book contents
- Legal Informatics
- Legal Informatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction to Legal Informatics
- Part II Legal Informatics
- Part III Use Cases in Legal Informatics
- Part IV Legal Informatics in the Industrial Context
- A. Challenges Facing Innovation in Law
- 4.1 Adaptive Innovation
- 4.2 Legal Data Access
- B. Large Firm and Corporate Legal Informatics Case Studies
4.2 - Legal Data Access
from A. - Challenges Facing Innovation in Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021
- Legal Informatics
- Legal Informatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction to Legal Informatics
- Part II Legal Informatics
- Part III Use Cases in Legal Informatics
- Part IV Legal Informatics in the Industrial Context
- A. Challenges Facing Innovation in Law
- 4.1 Adaptive Innovation
- 4.2 Legal Data Access
- B. Large Firm and Corporate Legal Informatics Case Studies
Summary
The law is not free in either sense of the word: It is costly to access, and there are restrictions on its use. An ideal system would allow any member of the public free online access to all official primary law – cases, statutes, and regulations. In the twenty-first century, a digital-first court publishing system, and primary law in general, should be online, free, open, comprehensive, official, citable, and machine-readable. A modern online law system should also have eight additional, more specific characteristics: digital signing, versioning, good structure, medium-neutrality, archives, a search function, bulk conveyance, and an application program interface (API).1 Unfortunately, such an ideal system remains a distant aspiration in most jurisdictions.
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- Legal Informatics , pp. 467 - 480Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021