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    What can opening access to law achieve? The answer is simple, it can result in a more and wider legal knowledge, which means a “better informed citizenry”. Openlaws.eu is a DG Justice project intended to give citizens better access to legislation, case law and commentary in the UK, Netherlands and Austria. Professor Chris Marsden discusses the benefits that might come out of a wider legal knowledge, including: more litigation, more mediation, better consumer contracts, lower contract costs, better spread of liabilities, better protection for those whose rights are abused and so on. Professor Chris Marsden is Professor of Internet & Media Law at the University of Sussex, working at the intersection of law, social science and computer science. His latest book is Regulating Code (MIT Press, 2013) with Professor Ian Brown. Our videos: bit.ly/odi_vimeo Our photos: bit.ly/odi_flickr Our audio: bit.ly/odi_soundcloud Our slides: bit.ly/odi_scribd Our tweets: bit.ly/ODIHQ_tweets Our website: theodi.org ODI Summit videos: bit.ly/odisummit_video What is open data?: bit.ly/what-is-open-data

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    What can opening access to law achieve? The answer is simple, it can result in a more and wider legal knowledge, which means a “better informed citizenry”. Openlaws.eu is a DG Justice project intended to give citizens better access to legislation, case law and commentary in the UK, Netherlands and Austria. Professor Chris Marsden discusses the benefits that might come out of a wider legal knowledge, including: more litigation, more mediation, better consumer contracts, lower contract costs, better spread of liabilities, better protection for those whose rights are abused and so on. Professor Chris Marsden is Professor of Internet & Media Law at the University of Sussex, working at the intersection of law, social science and computer science. His latest book is Regulating Code (MIT Press, 2013) with Professor Ian Brown. Our videos: bit.ly/odi_vimeo Our photos: bit.ly/odi_flickr Our audio: bit.ly/odi_soundcloud Our slides: bit.ly/odi_scribd Our tweets: bit.ly/ODIHQ_tweets Our website: theodi.org ODI Summit videos: bit.ly/odisummit_video What is open data?: bit.ly/what-is-open-data

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    Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Hacking The Law System - Open Legal Data in Europe

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    #Hackingthela

    w
    OpenLaws.eu
    Prof. Chris Marsden
    #ODIFridays
    20 March 2015

    Law is difficult and boring


    we have better things to do

    But law matters to all of us

    We can open access to law

    Openlaws.eu DG Just project


    UK,

    Netherlands and Austria


    top 3 EU: OKFN legislation rankings
    open access to law in Europe
    legislation, case law and commentary

    Not just legislation.gov.uk

    social

    network for lawyers, students and


    interested citizens.

    What can opening access to


    law achieve?
    better

    and wider legal knowledge,


    which means a better informed
    citizenry
    1. on the legal community,
    2. in combination with open data
    entrepreneurs.

    1. Citizens understand their rights


    How to secure those rights, and costs of access to
    justice.
    Helps identify better the manner in which the law
    is applied in courts,
    feedback loop can help us understand how to
    draft and enforce laws more effectively

    better litigation,
    more mediation,
    better consumer contracts,
    lower contract costs,
    better spread of liabilities,
    better protection for those whose rights are abused.

    2. Open access to law alongside


    other open databases.
    If

    we find out that


    people are not using the law effectively
    to enforce their rights and seek justice,
    that can help us identify parts of our
    social and economic environment
    where we might have put rights and
    responsibilities in the wrong place.

    Example: if no-one is found effectively


    liable for computer security breaches
    due to defective products
    we

    might explore the insurance and criminal


    law implications for cybercrime

    also computers owners & software authors

    Designing

    new protocols, practices, laws?


    Might result in more trusted online
    environment
    Thats one small example.

    Openlaws release our first


    code today: March 20 at a
    hackathon in Salzburg
    We have completed our
    UK, EU and Netherlands
    case studies

    13

    Expanding open innovation to law


    Introducing mass-customization to law
    Proposing a comprehensive European
    Big Open Legal Data (BOLD) Vision 2020

    for incremental implementation,


    built on top of existing EU and national systems and
    content
    (e.g. EUR-Lex, e-Justice System, e-Codex).

    Chris Marsden (Sussex)

    14

    Developing BOLD ICT Platform


    Promote
    open data,
    open access publications, and
    open standards

    Chris Marsden (Sussex)

    15

    Developing big online legal data


    Free Access to Law movement (FALM)

    online case law via BAILII in the UK


    Legal Information Institutes (AustLII, Cornell etc.)

    #GoodLaw

    expanded rapidly, crowdsourcing ideas for #goodlaw

    Online

    online statutes

    legal education and research

    BILETA since 1985


    Electronic Law Journals project at Warwick
    EJLT now Script-ed + IJoC at USC many US law
    journals
    Journal of Open Access to Law (JOAL) est.
    2014!
    Chris Marsden (Sussex)
    publishing books via Creative Commons: Marsden 2010

    16

    Ministry of Justice ready for


    (r)evolution?
    #Goodlaw

    radical crowd-sourced legislative approach

    Open Data

    Very fashionable amongst G7 countries etc.


    Implementation more patchy than general

    UK: BAILII, ICLR, Supreme Court reforms;


    But we really need a pan-European
    approach
    Chris Marsden (Sussex)

    17

    Why not build a


    smartphone app for lawyers?
    Already

    done using
    open case law, statute,
    articles
    Where? Austria RIS:App
    Why not here? Why not
    everywhere?

    Chris Marsden (Sussex)

    18

    Team note Andres Guadamuz


    CC licence expert

    Institution

    UVAmsterdam

    Name

    Prof. Radboud G.F. Winkels


    Prof. Mireille van Eechoud
    LAPSI2.0
    Sussex
    Prof. Chris Marsden
    Dr Andres Guadamuz CC4.0
    London School Dr. Paolo Dini
    of Economics
    Dr. Shenja van der Graaf BXL
    Dr. Antonella Passani ROMA
    ALPENITE
    - Giulio Marcon
    developers
    Gianluigi Alberici
    SUAS
    Prof. Thomas Heistracher
    DI (FH) Thomas Lampoltshammer
    Chris Marsden (Sussex)
    BYWASS
    Dr. Clemens Wass, MBL, MBA

    c.marsden
    @sussex.ac.uk
    @openlaws
    @ChrisTMarsden
    openlaws.eu

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