JurisPedia (/ˈdʒʊərɪsˌpiːdiə/) is a wiki-based online encyclopedia of academic law in many languages,[1] currently available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. It was started in October 2004, inspired in part by Wikipedia and the Enciclopedia Libre (University of Seville). JurisPedia runs on the MediaWiki software, but it is not a Wikimedia Foundation project.
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Type of site | Wiki-based online encyclopedia |
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| Available in | Multiple |
| Created by | African Legal Information Institute, Can Tho University, Université du Québec à Montréal, Institut für Rechtsinformatik, Paul Cézanne University |
| URL | jurispedia |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Required to edit or create content |
| Launched | October 2004 |
| Current status | Unresponsive |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license |
JurisPedia was developed on the initiative of the African Legal Information Institute, the Faculty of law of the Can Tho University (Vietnam), the team of JURIS (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada), the Institut für Rechtsinformatik of Saarland University (Germany), the Institut de Recherche et d'Études en Droit de l'Information et de la Communication (IREDIC) of Paul Cézanne University.[2]
The site, one of the largest legal encyclopedias and online legal references, won the Dieter Meurer Prize for Legal Informatics for 2009.[3][4]
Since 2012, JurisPedia is member of the Free Access to Law Movement.[5]
On 10 March 2014, the French version of Jurispedia and the Bar Association of Paris have signed an agreement to take part in the creation of the "Great Library of Law".[6][7]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Law Practice Tips and Tricks Entertain a Crowd in 1 Hour". ABA Journal. 13 April 2011.
- ^ Fodden, Simon (12 March 2007). "About Jurispedia". Jurispedia. Archived from the original on 4 September 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
- ^ Fodden, Simon (5 October 2009). "JurisPedia Wins Legal Informatics Prize". Slaw.
- ^ "Dieter Meurer Förderpreis Rechtsinformatik". EDV-Gerichtstag (in German). Archived from the original on 10 April 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
- ^ "Members of the Free Access to Law Movement (FALM)". Retrieved 3 November 2012.
- ^ "The Great Library of Law". Bar Association of Paris (in French). Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
- ^ "Article:The Bar Association of Paris launches «Great Library of Law »". Bibliofrance.org (in French). Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
External links edit
- JurisPedia home page Archived 8 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine
- Article about JurisPedia (in French) (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, World Summit on the Information Society).
- Esther Hoorn, "Using the Wiki-Environment of Jurispedia in Legal Education Archived 2 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine, BILETA Annual Conference 2006 Malta, April 2006.