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Open Law Project
Paul Jacobson · Johannesburg Gauteng (South Africa) · Jul 12th, 2007 6:14 pm
The Open Law Project is aimed at creating a comprehensive and free legal reference work of South African law for the benefit of the South African public at large.
The Open Law Project facilitates the creation of a comprehensive body of South African law in a wiki environment to be developed and maintained by the legal community in South Africa. [more]
Category: Policy/law
Project end date: 9/1/2008 (125 days ago)
Creation date: Jul 12th, 2007 6:14 pm
Development stage: deployment
city: Johannesburg
country: South Africa
Other countries: South Africa
Main Language: English
Number of people involved: 6
recent posts
A vision for the Open Law Project
Jul 23rd, 2007 9:41 pm – 2 comments
I thought I should talk a little about a vision for the Open Law Project and share some of my thoughts about the OLP. Much of this post comes from my posts on the OLP blog at http://openlawproject.org which, admittedly, doesn't have all that much content up there just yet.
The idea for the OLP came from my need for a publicly available and accessible legal reference work. Unfortunately... [more]
what people think
2 people added this node as a favorite.
South Africans need coherence in our approach to issues of policy making and involvement with public debates that involve...
By max kaizen
It may sound contradictory. Its meant to sound contradictory. But open content is about process.
Its about process in...
By Andrew Rens
recent forum entries
I don't know that GFDL is the right license if we want to charge a license fee for commercial use. The restriction seems to be more a requirement that...
Aug 23rd, 2007 7:59 pm
It might be worth looking at what the Queensland government have done with their licensing structures (or have provisionally decided on; I'm not...
Aug 23rd, 2007 6:45 pm
What will people need to do to contribute to the OLP?
Given that this is a legal resource we should consider whether there should be some sort of accreditation...
Jul 24th, 2007 3:42 pm
recent scraps
There's a big project in the US attempting to free materials on case law. Typically, these documents are controlled almost...
By Michelle Thorne · Aug 20th, 2007 10:45 pm
Very exciting project!
This could and should change learning at Law Schools.
By Andrew Rens · Jul 27th, 2007 8:43 pm
I am going to flesh this node out more in the next few days (I hope). Please bear with me and feel free to pitch in too...
By Paul Jacobson · Jul 21st, 2007 5:10 am
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