====== Open Legal Data sources ======

We will soon [[event:2013-09|host an event]] on these topics, and would very much appreciate contributions to this page. If you know a source of legal/law data that is open (or should be!), please add it here and/or notify us on the forum.

==== Swiss Law ====

  * [[http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/sr.html|Laws and Statutes]]
  * [[http://www.openjustitia.ch/|OpenJustitia]]
  * [[http://thinkdata.ch|ThinkData.ch]] (use cases for data protection matters)
  * [[https://www.myright.ch/Home|MyRight.ch]] (online legal consultation
  * [[https://www.oeffentlichkeitsgesetz.ch/deutsch/befreite-dokumente/?departement=2|Open Documents]] (Oeffentlichkeitsgesetz.ch)
==== Reference ====

  * [[http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/all|Legal Dictionary]] from [[http://www.law.cornell.edu/|Cornell University]]
  * [[http://www.fatlm.org/|Free Access to Law Movement]]
  * [[http://en.jurispedia.org/index.php/Main_Page|Jurispedia]] (illustrates the difficulty of such projects)
  * [[http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/|Free Legal Dictionary]]
  * [[http://modeltrademarkguidelines.org/index.php?title=Home:_Model_Trademark_Guidelines|Model trademark guidelines wiki]]
  * [[http://computationallegalstudies.com/legal-information-technology-mini-course/|Legal information technology mini course]]

==== Legal Templates ====

  * [[https://www.docracy.com|Docracy]]
  * [[http://www.koncision.com/|Koncision]]
  * [[http://bit.ly/15vEjtx|Stanford Project]]
  * [[http://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/free-privacy-policy-generator.php|Free privacy policy generator]]
  * [[https://www.iubenda.com/en/privacy-policy-generator/51707/embed|Iubenda Privacy Policy generator]]
  * [[https://ictrecht.nl/diensten/juridische-generatoren/eula-generator/|EULA generator]]
  * [[https://www.myright.ch/Home|MyRight.ch]]

=== Document analysis ===

  * [[https://www.docracy.com/legalgenome/|Legal Genome]] (Docracy)

==== APIs ====

For law firm management:

  * [[http://myshingle.com/2013/03/articles/trends/future-of-law-friday-api-your-law-practice-for-future-growth-and-collaboration/|Future of law article]]
  * [[http://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/resources/uniform_task_based_management_system/activity_codes.html|Categorizing lawyers work and metadata]] (USA)

For law firm marketing:

  * [[http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/developer/media/|LexisNexis]]

Crossposting legal articles:

  * [[http://www.programmableweb.com/api/lawyers.com|Lawyers.com API]]

==== Metadata ====

For legal information:

  * [[http://www.law.cornell.edu/wiki/lexcraft/metalex|Metalex]]
  * [[http://www.law.cornell.edu/wiki/lexcraft/suggested_metadata_practices_for_legislation_and_regulations|Cornell suggested practices]]

For adding reference material to Statutes:

  * http://www.lexfind.ch/
  * http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/project:semantic_legal
  * http://www.metalex.eu/
  * http://visualisiert.net/parteiengesetz/index.en.html
  * http://resolutionfinder.org/

Thesaurusses

  * [[http://tds.eurospider.com|TDS3]] (Multilingual legal thesaurus)

Legal automation theory:

  * [[http://www.law.stanford.edu/event/2012/11/15/codex-speaker-series-with-marc-lauritsen-liberty-justice-and-legal-automata|Talk at Codex Stanford]]

===== Example visualizations =====

  * [[http://computationallegalstudies.com/2010/02/11/the-development-of-structure-in-the-citation-network-of-the-united-states-supreme-court-now-in-hd/|The Development of Structure in the Citation Network of the United States Supreme Court]] (computationallegalstudies)
  * Visualize the [[http://manybills.us|US Congressional Legislation]] (manybills.us)

===== Example applications =====

  * An [[http://docracy.org|open collection of legal contracts]]
  * Legal designs at the [[http://direct-democracy-navigator.org/legal_designs|Direct Democracy Navigator]]
  * [[http://tosdr.org/classification.html|TOS;DR]] know what "I agree" means (also see 'how it works')
  * [[http://500px.com/terms|500px lists out its terms]] in legalese on the left, plain text on the right, similarly stripe, aviary
  * [[http://www.iubenda.com|iubenda]] allows you to generate readable and updated privacy policies
  * [[http://creativecommons.org|Find free content, protect your work]] in the public domain
  * Browse the [[http://open.nysenate.gov|New York Senate]]
  * Legal aspects of [[http://re3data.org|science repositories]]
  * [[https://github.com/bundestag/|The German laws]] in GitHub (Bundesgit)
  * [[http://lawc.at/|Lawcat]], an app based on [[https://github.com/statengeneraal/wettenbestand/|Dutch laws in Github]]

=== Related articles/discussions ===

  * [[http://www.steigerlegal.ch/2013/04/18/bundesgericht-blockiert-google-suche-nach-urteilen/|Bundesgericht blockiert Google]]
  * [[http://blog.ldodds.com/2013/04/30/how-do-we-attribute-data/|How do we attribute data]]
  * [[http://service.re3data.org/repository/214?surl=http%3A%2F%2Fservice.re3data.org%2Fsearch%2Fresults%3Fterm%3Dbio|On research policy]]
  * [[https://certificates.theodi.org/certificates/31|Open data certificates]]
  * [[http://blog.openingparliament.org/post/60853976879/visualizing-the-legislative-process-with-sankey|Visualizing the legislative process with Sankey diagrams]]