Wiki-Law
| WikiLaw | |
|---|---|
| Status of the proposal | |
| Status | closed |
| Reason | No awnser since 2014 |
| Details of the proposal | |
| Project description | List all laws publically available, including Constitutional, Code, Regulations and Ordinance. Also Common Law and Case Law. |
| Is it a multilingual wiki? | Many language versions |
| Potential number of languages | Many |
| Proposed URL | wikilaw.org (?) |
| Technical requirements | |
| New features to require | No |
| Development wiki | Yes, at the following url: http://editthis.info/law/Main_Page |
| Interested participants | |
| Robert Harrison | |
Proposal
[edit]Ignorantia juris non excusat. I propose to create a comprehensive and free legal research wiki. It would be used to publish Common Law, Case Law, Statutes and Ordinance. (a free alternative to LexisNexis) My main focus will be in the English Language and US centric but this project could easily and logically be expanded to other politcal jurisdictions and languages.
--Robert Harrison (talk) 16:03, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]I am obviously not a lawyer, but I have a question: are laws themselves copyrighted/copyrightable? If they are in the public domain, you can upload them to Wikisource. πr2 (t • c) 16:15, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
- In answer to your question, in the United States all legislation etc is in the public domain under the edict of government rule. James500 (talk) 14:29, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
For the sake of full disclosure, a similar project was proposed a while ago and I forgot about it until just recently. The previous proposal can be found at Wikilaw. Robert Harrison (talk) 16:51, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
How does this proposal contrast with The State Decoded project? -GChriss (talk) 05:07, 2 December 2012 (UTC)