24.08.2009 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Electronic Access to Law in Canada A couple of days ago I was at the Supreme Court to discuss potential improvements to the Supreme Court decision website. Some of you probably noticed that over the last year LexUM greatly expanded the scope of decisions available on this site. Read more
Author: Pierre-Paul Lemyre
The Evolving Ecology of the Legal Information Market
02.05.2009 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Free Access to Law Pierre-Paul Lemyre, “The Evolving Ecology of the Legal Information Market”, in Ginevra Peruginelli and Mario Ragona, Law via the Internet: Free Access, Quality of Information, Effectiveness of Rights,European Press Academic Publishing, Florence, 2009. Read more
Law, Culture and Beaches
18.03.2009 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Free Access to Law Last year, I had the incredible opportunity of spending five weeks in Port Vila, Vanuatu, working on a research project to evaluate the impact of free access to law in the Pacific Islands. Read more
Sharing Information on the Semantic Web: The Reminiscence of an Old Legal Issue
01.07.2008 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Open source Free Software, Others “Letting your data connect to other people’s data is […] not about giving to people data which they don’t have a right to. It is about letting it be connected to data from peer sites. It is about letting it be joined to data from other […] Read more
The Legal Issues Surrounding Free and Open Source Software: Challenges and Solutions for the Government of Québec
02.05.2005 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Open source Free Software Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Richard Willemant, “The Legal Issues Surrounding Free and Open Source Software: Challenges and Solutions for the Government of Québec”, for the Conseil du Trésor du Québec (2005), translated from original in French. The Government of Québec is slowly but surely turning its attention to the [&hellip... Read more
Access to law in the french-speaking world: A renewed strategy
13.05.2004 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Free Access to Law Bobson Coulibaly, Pierre-Paul Lemyre, François Viens Free access to legal material offers many advantages for participating countries. Free access reinforces national legal institutions while also ensuring the rule of law and strengthening democratic ideals. An increased visibility of law also bolsters its dissemination. Read more