http://openlawproject.wordpress.com Working towards meaningful and open legal resources for all Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:04:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I gave a presentation at the recent Law Teacher's Conference at the University of Pretoria. Only about 3 or 4 people came to the session where I presented with Kerry Anderson from SAFLII. It is unfortunate that there was so little interest in this important topic (the mechanics of open ... http://openlawproject.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/a-presentation-on-the-open-law-project/ This is a post I submitted to the iCommons site. You can find that version here. There are a number South African legal resources with varying degrees of accessibility and completeness. On the one hand there are a number of official sources of law and legal information from organs of ... http://openlawproject.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/south-african-legal-resources/ I mentioned in my last post that the OLP is now being run through The African Commons Project. TACP is also the local facilitator of the iCommons presence in South Africa and I have created a node on the iCommons site dedicated to the OLP. The node will ... http://openlawproject.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/join-the-open-law-project-node-on-icommons/ I had a meeting with Heather Ford this morning about the OLP. Heather is the executive director of iCommons and a a big part of the African Commons Project, the parent entity/facilitator of iCommons in South Africa and Creative Commons South Africa. The outcome of the meeting is that the ... http://openlawproject.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/progress-thanks-to-the-african-commons-project/ I received a link to a wiki called Jurispedia which seems to be a global version of the Open Law Project. The wiki runs on MediaWiki software (the same software that powers Wikipedia and the OLP wiki). What is interesting about Jurispedia (besides its global approach) is the ... http://openlawproject.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/jurispedia/ iCommons has been made an offer of $100 000 funding towards the upcoming iCommons summit in Dubrovnik in Croatia. The catch is the $100 000 must be matched by $100 000 to be raised by iCommons itself in 7 days! So iCommons, under the leadership of the remarkable ... http://openlawproject.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/21-visionary-patrons-it-is-about-innovation-free-culture-and-open-science/ I came across a post on Lexblog over the weekend titled "Niche bloggers could threaten legal publishers" which I found pretty interesting. The post referred to another post by Ron Friedmann where he pointed out that publishing tools like blogs, wikis and podcasts enable law firms and other publishers to ... http://openlawproject.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/niche-bloggers-threatening-legal-publishers/ I just realised how big the Open Law Project can become. I was in the bath thinking about the OLP (I do my best thinking in the bath) and I realised that the scope of the OLP is quite a bit bigger than I initially thought - assuming it ... http://openlawproject.wordpress.com/2007/04/08/the-scope-of-the-project/ This is the companion blog for the Open Law Project. There are very few sources of legal content in South Africa on South African law. Google can be tremendously helpful in finding what is available but, as yet, there is no single comprehensive legal reference work on the Web on South ... http://openlawproject.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/the-open-law-project/