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Open Law : a project

Source : https://github.com/esbranson/openlaw/tree/develop

Open Law

This project provides a toolset for the conversion and analysis of legislative, regulatory and judicial documents with the Akoma Ntoso legal document standard.

Rationale

"Ignorance of the law is no excuse," as the saying goes, but a majority of citizens, nationals and residents are not informed about the law due to its inaccessibility, cost, language, complexity, volume, and rapid change. The law shapes economics and society, and thus the majority are denied the full profits of their democratic labor.

Overcoming these barriers is a necessary step for true government and political transparency. This project can help do so by:

Providing standards-based retreival and presentation of the law over the World Wide Web.

Providing a minimal toolchain for analysis of legal information.

This project is not meant to exist alone in a vacuum. By taking advantage of a global community, this is meant as a working demonstration of the possibilities of this approach.

Handbook on European data protection law

 Handbook on European data protection law

The English version of the re-edition of this handbook is available on this page. The language versions of this handbook are also available in EU bookshop.

The rapid development of information and communication technologies underscores the growing need for the robust protection of personal data - a right safeguarded by both European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) instruments.

Technological advances expand the frontiers of, for example, surveillance, communication interception and data storage; all of these pose significant challenges to the right to data protection. This handbook is designed to familiarise legal practitioners who are not specialised in the field of data protection with this area of law. It provides an overview of the EU's and the CoE's applicable legal frameworks. It explains key jurisprudence, summarising major rulings of both the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Where no such case law exists, it presents practical illustrations with hypothetical scenarios.

In a nutshell, this handbook aims to help ensure that the right to data protection is upheld with vigour and determination.

See http://bookshop.europa.eu/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/EU-Bookshop-Site/en_GB/-/EUR/ViewPublication-Start?PublicationKey=TK0414319

Public Survey on Open Justice

See

http://www.opengovpartnership.org/blog/carlos-e-jimenez/2014/08/13/public-survey-open-justice-will-you-participate

A survey which forms part of the study “Open Justice: transparency and proximity to justice within the current context of Open Government” is now available for public participation. The study intends to explore the concept of Open Justice using the philosophy and principles of Open Government and apply those to the sphere of law. 

Discover the new EUR-Lex website

 

The Publications Office launched the new portal to EU law. Clearly structured, attractively designed and with improved content, it offers you interesting new features. The EUR-Lex website is now the single point of access to legal information of the European Union: the Official Journal, EU law and case-law, consolidated versions of EU legislation, legislative procedures and other collections. The new portal uses innovative technologies and insights in information management — such as linked data technologies — and thus paves the way for cutting-edge functionalities and a better user experience.      

On the electronic publication of the Official Journal of the European Union

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:069:0001:0003:EN:PDF

have a look on the text

Download L_06920130313en00010003

New EUR-Lex

New EUR-Lex: change of URL

On 20 March 2013 the address of the new EUR-Lex portal will change to http://new.eur-lex.europa.eu Please update all bookmarks you made. The website will also stay online on the current address https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/publications/eurlex/eurlex-frontoffice until 1 May 2013.

If you would you like to find out more, contact us at:

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A new EUR-lex for 2013

See http://surveys.publications.europa.eu/formserver/PO/EURLEX/eurlex_newsletter_en.html

 

 

 

Your opinion about N-Lex, a survey

See https://e-justice.europa.eu/newsManagement.do?idNews=49&action=show&plang=en&init=true

Introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI)

Council conclusions inviting the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law

Source: Official Journal  of the European Union, C127, 29 april 2011 (noted by Stephane Cottin)

Download C_12720110429en

About Legal Information Institutes

Source:

http://legalinformatics.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/new-on-voxpopulii-moncion-on-new-research-about-legal-information-institutes/

extract: 

Isabelle Moncion of the Chair in Legal Information of the University of Montreal, and Lexum, has posted Building Sustainable LIIs – or Free Access to Law as Seen Through the Eyes of a Newbie, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.