Wikilaw -- Open Content Legal Resource

Hmm. There are Wikis for practically everything else, so why not legal information? At the same time, do I want to go to an open-edit site for information for which I normally pay a zillion dollars an hour to a lawyer? This is a decision all of us can make when we visit http://wiki-law.org/mwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page.

The information here is grouped into several sites, including a law dictionary, case reviews, and a law review site. It doesn't seem that a lot is happening yet; I went to Wiki-Treatise: Ethics, and chose the only entry, Model Rules of Professional Conduct. While there was an extensive outline here, there wasn't any commentary. Same for the dictionary; most of the words I looked at did not yet have definitions.

You can get a list of users at the Community Portal, and if you're interested in watching the development of the site, you can monitor the list of new pages. Consider that the list of the last 50 new pages goes back to December 14, you can tell that the site is a little slow. A lot of prebuilt infrastructure, though; it'd be nice to see it get filled in.

Posted to Government-Law | TrackBack