Lexum has always been deeply involved in promoting free access to legal information. As such, we also have strong ties with the FALM movement. In the context of the pandemic, the Law via the Internet in-person conference had to be cancelled. For the first time since 2020, a LVI conference will be held from November […] Read more
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Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Keeping Track of Freely Available Legal Information
Websites providing free access to legal information have come to play a major role in the day-to-day work of legal practitioners. For a majority of Canadian lawyers legal, research now starts with free access websites and is completed by the use of commercial databases only when required. No wonder that the CanLII website serves between 200,000 […] Read more
Daniel
Poulin
Meaningful public access to legislation
03.11.2014 Tags: Free Access to Law Daniel Poulin, President of Lexum was a panelist at the Nudging Regulations conference by Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice in Ottawa on September 9th, 2014. See his slides below. Meaningful public access to legislation by Daniel Poulin, Emeritus professor, U. of Montreal, President, Lexum Inc. Can a statute or regulation... Read more
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Legal Informatics in Italy
16.07.2014 Tags: Free Access to Law Legal Informatics in Italy Fifty years of studies, research and experiences edited by: Ginevra Peruginelli and Mario Ragona Abstracts. Preface. A “giusliberista”, democratic and philosophical computer science (p. 13)by Luigi Lombardi Vallauri In my 1969-1995 writings on legal informatics, that this contribution diachronically marks, three... Read more
Daniel
Poulin
Free Access to Law in Canada
13.05.2012 Tags: Daniel Poulin, Free Access to Law, Electronic Access to Law in Canada Free Access to Law in Canada Author: Daniel Poulin Abstract: Today, the level of access to legal information in Canada equals or surpasses that of any country. Not only do several commercial publishers compete to sell their publications but, in […] Read more
Daniel
Poulin
Good Practices Handbook – Free Access to Law – Is it Here to Stay?
02.08.2011 Tags: Daniel Poulin, Ivan Mokanov, Free Access to Law Good Practices Handbook – Free Access to Law – Is it Here to Stay? Research Director – Chaire en information juridique: Daniel Poulin Project Leader – Lexum: Ivan Mokanov After over a year of field research, the results are in and include a rich collection […] Read more
Daniel
Poulin
Illustrated Judgments
28.04.2011 Tags: Daniel Poulin, Free Access to Law, Electronic Access to Law in Canada Daniel Poulin, Pierre-Yves RégnierProfessor, Chaire en information juridique, CRDP, Faculté de droit, Université de MontréalResearch agent, Chaire en information juridique, CRDP, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal Abstract. Legal information institutes (LIIs) are publishers. Today, a new form of... Read more
Ivan
Mokanov
Environmental Scan Report – Free Access to Law – Is it Here to Stay?
The Environmental Scans are the first component of the “Free Access to Law – Is it Here to Stay” global study on the sustainability of FAL initiatives. The overall goal of this research is to respond to a need to study what free access to law initiatives do and how they do it. Read more
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
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
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