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EU Project openlaws.eu

openlaws helps you find legal information more easily, organize it the way you want and share it with others. 

Together with you we create a network of legislation, case law, legal literature and legal experts – both on a national and a European level – leading to better access to legal information. 

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The EU Project openlaws.eu was co-financed by the European Commission (DG Justice) under action grant JUST/2013/JCIV/AG (April 2014 – March 2016).

Next Generation Legal Technology

openlaws takes legal information systems beyond closed and static databases to an open and interactive level.

The rule of law is fundamental to all democratic states. The sheer growth of legal documents and their complexity make access to legal information burdensome. The Internet has made it a lot easier to search for legislation, case law and legal literature. There are growing numbers of online commercial and government databases to consult online. Today, web technologies allow users to collaborate with each other, creating and sharing content. Personalized search and group profiles enable users to cater content to their needs. openlaws takes advantage of these new technologies in order to provide better access to legal information.

Search

openlaws makes it possible to search multiple databases at once. You will be able to find legislation, case law, legal literature and legal experts. Relations between these elements will be visualized. openlaws starts with connecting EUR-Lex and databases from the UK, the Netherlands and Austria. Our ambition is to provide access to legal databases from all EU Member States, including yours.

Organize

With openlaws it is easy to organize any legal content you find. For example, you will be able to create personal folders with all the material that is necessary for your research or for the case you are currently working on. You will also be notified whenever there is an update in one of your personal folders or when there are new search results for keywords that you have specified before.

Share

openlaws allows you to collaborate with colleagues and the legal community. It will be possible to share folders either in a closed group with your colleagues or with the general public – it is up to you to decide. Rather than printing and carrying cases and papers, check on your mobile or laptop, forward them electronically and save time and effort.

open data

open innovation

open source software

Legislation
Case Law
Literature
Community

There is an enormous amount of legislation within the EU and its member states. openlaws integrates EUR-Lex and national databases. You can create links between national legislation and cases, making it easier to identify implementing laws of EU instruments across member states.  You may even uncover previously unknown anomalies between EU legislation and national law.

There is a growing demand to find case law from other member states. The European Court of Justice interprets EU law to make sure it is applied in the same way in all the EU countries. Knowledge of judgments at a European level is crucial to understand local laws. openlaws creates links between related cases and references to the underlying legislation.

openlaws provides an extensive overview about legal literature. Lawyers and other legal experts can use openlaws to share their knowledge and commentary. This includes blog posts, papers, journal articles and academic outputs. Share your expertise with a select group or all of the legal community on your terms. Publishers can contact the openlaws team for more information.

openlaws brings the legal community together. Whether you are a lawyer, a judge, a notary, a civil servant, a legal scholar, a law student, a business person or an interested citizen - openlaws will make it easier to nd the right experts and to work with them. Together we can make law more accessible and easier to understand.

EU Project Participants

The following organisations participated in the project:

  • Legal informatics
    University of Amsterdam

    University of Amsterdam Legal informatics

    http://www.leibnizcenter.org

    The University of Amsterdam was the lead partner of the openlaws.eu project. The Leibniz Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam started in 1988 and cur- rently employs about 10 people. It is part of the Faculty of Law and maintains strong connections with the Science Faculty. The Leibniz Center develops intelli- gent technology to support legal practice both in the private and in the public sec- tor. It applies Arti cial Intelligence (AI) techniques to problems in legal theory, legal knowledge management and the eld of law in general. In this capacity, it partici- pates in many (inter)national research initiatives and maintains strong ties to the international research community and government agencies. The Leibniz Center has participated in and coordinated numerous national and European (applied) research projects and has coordinated various European Commission sponsored projects including the 6th framework project ESTRELLA, the Leonardo project TRI- AS and the eParticipation project SEAL.

  • System architecture
    Salzburg University of Applied Sciences

    Salzburg University of Applied Sciences System architecture

    http://www.fh-salzburg.ac.at

    The school of Information Technologies and Systems Management (ITS) of Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (SUAS) offers two BA and three MA programs to a total of 350 students and is focused on software engineering, systems engineering, network technologies, and the cross-cutting application eld of eHealth. SUAS’s staff comprises faculty with long track records in ICT research, mathematical and biomedical modeling. SUAS has participated in several EU projects and is eager to extend its competences in the fields of self-adaptive software systems and symbiotic system architectures.

  • Sustainability model
    London School of Economics

    London School of Economics Sustainability model

    http://www.lse.ac.uk

    The LSE is regarded as one of the world‘s leading academic institutions and remains a specialist single-faculty constituent college of the University of London, the only such institution in Britain. The aim of LSE‘s Media and Communications Department is to keep pace with rapid change in media, technology and society demands through dynamic and imaginative re- search. Based on the results from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, on grade point average the department is rated third-best in the UK.

  • State-of-the-art research
    University of Sussex

    University of Sussex State-of-the-art research

    http://www.sussex.ac.uk

    Law at Sussex was rated 16th in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Research within the Sussex Law School is organised around thematic research groups, supporting research by hosting conferences and workshops, engaging in interdisciplinary research and collaborative projects. Law’s expansion has enabled the development of new research areas, notably information law, pursuing an am- bitious research agenda. The Information Law cluster runs two major EC projects, Internet Science and openlaws, led by Professor Marsden.

  • Software development
    Alpenite

    Alpenite Software development

    http://www.alpenite.com

    Alpenite is an IT software consulting and system integration company with head- quarters in Venice, Italy. The major areas of expertise of Alpenite are in portals, mobile applications, e-commerce websites and business intelligence, using open source technologies and integrating with enterprise components where needed. Alpenite has developed strategic relationships with open source vendors and has competencies in the main open source products available on the market.

  • Legal informatics and business model
    BY WASS - openlaws

    BY WASS - openlaws Legal informatics and business model

    https://www.openlaws.com

    BY WASS has initiated the openlaws project. The focus of the company is to innovate in the legal sector. BY WASS has developed the RIS:App, the offcial mobile interface for the award-winning Austrian legal information system. The top-ranking app is based on Austrian Open Government Data and was downloaded over 50,000 times. Considering that there are only 5,000 lawyers in Austria, BY WASS has successfully proven that a user-friendly legal service with added value can attract many users – including average citizens – in a short period of time. BY WASS is shareholder in the openlaws.eu project spin-off company openlaws gmbh.

openlaws.eu Events

The openlaws.eu has organized workshops in the areas of open data, open innovation and open source software. These events were aiming at bringing key stakeholders in the domain of legal technology together.

LAPSI Workshop

September 2014, Amsterdam

The EC funded openlaws.eu project and the LAPSI thematic network project joined forces for a workshop on open legal data for Europe. About 25 participants from academia, government, business and civil society discussed what the drivers are for opening up legal data for re-use in different jurisdictions and what barriers (perceived or real) exist.

Open Code Camp

March 2015, Salzburg

The main purpose of the code camp was to give students the opportunity to get a hands-on experience with the openlaws.eu platform. The aim was to get early feedback from a small community. We have made the initial platform available, so students could experiment with the code. Given the diversity of the projects, no fair evaluation criteria could be established. All concepts and prototypes were eligible to participate in the prize draw.

Open Source Software Workshop

June 2015, Vienna

openlaws organized a dedicated workshop on Open Source Software (OSS). OSS plays a key role in research-driven projects. To guarantee sustainable results, the process of innovation has to reach beyond organizational boundaries. The combination of internal and external knowledge and motivation unleashes new potentials and opens paths to new ways of success. It is Open Source Software that establishes this link. Thus, OSS is a building block, which cannot be neglected by academia, industry or the public sector. OSS gains also importance from a European perspective, which becomes obvious by the emphasis of the European Commission on their Open Source Strategy for 2017. The openlaws.eu – Open Source Workshop aimed at bringing international professionals from academia, industry, and the public sector together to exchange experience, findings, and ideas in the realm of Open Source Software.

Open Innovation Workshop

September 2015, London

openlaws.eu organized a dedicated workshop on open innovation. Open Innovation is an important component of the foreseen European Innovation System, where all stakeholders need to be involved and create seamless interaction and mash-up for ideas in innovation ecosystems. An open collaboration between public bodies, legal professionals, businesses, citizens, publishers, universities and NGOs may lead to an entirely new environment for providing, accessing and understanding legal information. Open data and open source software support this trend.

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Linked Open Data Workshop

December 2015, Braga

Radboud Winkels organized an openlaws.eu workshop with a focus on linked open data. More and more legal data is freely available in electronic form. It concerns legislation, case law and possibly others like legal commentaries. Most of the sources of law available online are stand-alone web services or databases, containing one type of documents, not linked to other sources. For instance, the Dutch portal for case law – rechtspraak.nl – contains a (small) part of all judicial decisions in the Netherlands. Case citations in these decisions are sometimes explicitly linked, references to legislation are not. From earlier research we know that professional users of legal documents would like to see and have easy access to related ones from other collections.

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Legal Data Integration Seminar & Legal Hackathon

February 2016, Salzburg

The leading topic of the IRIS 2016 conference was “Networks”. Networks are systems whose structure can be described as a graph; a set of elements (nodes) which are connected together by links (edges). The relations are therefore varied, may be redundant and can have different meanings weightings). In law the cooperation structure determines the network structure. “Cooperation” is understood as the purposeful interaction of actions of living creatures, people or organizations for better achieving a common goal through division of labour. Without cooperation no system building exists. 50 students participated in the openlaws.eu hackathon, working in the following domains:

  • Text and data mining

  • Visualization

  • Search technology

  • Mapping the law

Big Open Legal Data Conference

March 2016, Brussels

In the final Big Open Legal Data (BOLD) Conference, the participating universities and SMEs from the openlaws.eu project presented their results and provided an outlook to the future of openlaws:

  • Prof. Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam, Coordinator, Welcome and Introduction on EU Project openlaws.eu, (incl. openlaws.eu information video and short demo)

  • Invited Talk: Toon Vanagt, Chairperson Open Knowledge Belgium, Open Data and Law The Belgian Perspective

  • Chris Marsden, Mireille van Eechoud, Legal, Social and Business Aspects of Re-use of Legal Information – A Comparative Country Analysis

  • Paolo Dini, Socio-Economic Analysis of Big Open Legal Data – A Governance and Multi-Stakeholder Framework Questions and Answers

  • Matteo Zanioli, Thomas Heistracher & Eduard Hirsch, openlaws.eu Architecture and Prototype Implementation – Building an Innovative Legal Information System

  • Radboud Winkels, The Bold and the Enriched: A series of analysis steps to get more out of legal data Methods for Enriching Big Open Legal Data

  • Clemens Wass, Beyond openlaws.eu – openlaws as an ODI start-up

Deliverables (public)

openlaws deliverables are published on Zenodo. Zenodo is built and developed by researchers, to ensure that everyone can join in Open Science. 

The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for EC funded research. CERN, an OpenAIRE partner and pioneer in open source, open access and open data, provided this capability and Zenodo was launched in May 2013.

In support of its research programme CERN has developed tools for Big Data management and extended Digital Library capabilities for Open Data. Through Zenodo these Big Science tools could be effectively shared with the long­-tail of research.

Workstream 1: Mapping Open Law: Resources and Institutional Partners

  • State-of-the-art report for legal, social and business aspects of re-use of legal information [SUSS] (1.1.d1)
  • Case study 1: European institutions [SUSS, UVA] (1.2.d2)
  • Case study 2: UK [SUSS] (1.2.d3)
  • Case study 3: Austria [SUSS, BYW] (1.2.d4)
  • Case study 4: Netherlands [SUSS, UVA] (1.2.d5)
  • Synthesis report [LSE,SUSS] (1.3.d1)
  • Comparative country report: White paper on the OpenLaws.eu open innovation community [SUSS,LSE] (1.3.d2)

Workstream 2: Socio-Economic and Technical Analysis

  • Analysis of legal networks [UVA, BYW] (2.1.d1)
  • Requirements for enrichments tools [UVA] (2.2.d1)
  • Final specification and vision of enrichment tools [UVA, SUAS] (2.2.d3)
  • Socio-economic framework for BOLD stakeholders [LSE, SUSS, BYW] (2.3.d1)
  • BOLD socio-economic and governance framework [LSE, SUSS, BYW] (2.3.d2)
  • Final BOLD business models for stakeholders [BYW] (2.4.d2)

Workstream 3: BOLD ICT Platform design and development

  • Initial architecture and data model specification [SUAS] (3.2.d1)
  • Open API interface specification [ALP] (3.2.d2)
  • User Experience Design [SUAS] (3.3.d1)
  • First OpenLaws.eu Portal release [ALP] (3.6.d1)
  • Second OpenLaws.eu Portal release [ALP] (3.6.d2)
  • Third OpenLaws.eu Portal release [ALP] (3.6.d3)

Workstream 4: Dissemination and User Community Engagement

  • Leaflet [BYW] (4.1.d1)
  • Information brochure [BYW] (4.1.d2)
  • Handbook for stakeholders [BYW] (4.1.d3)
  • Infographic [BYW] (4.1.d4)
  • Project website and social media presences [UVA] (4.1.d5): openlaws.eu, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
  • Promotional video [BYW] (4.1.d6)
  • Big data user activity and metadata report [BYW, SUAS] (4.3.d1)
  • Overview on scientific publications [UVA] (4.4.d1)
  • Conferences activity report [BYW] (4.4.d2)
  • BOLD Vision 2020 [BYW, UVA, SUSS, LSE, SUAS] (4.4.d3)
See Deliverables on Zenodo

Overview on Scientific Publications

  1. Dini, P. and Kioupkiolis, A. (2014). Community Currencies as Laboratories of Institutional Learn- ing: Emergence of Governance through the Mediation of Social Value, Inaugural WINIR Confer- ence, Greenwich, London, UK, 11-14

  2. Lampoltshammer, Th. & Wass, C. (2014). EU Project openlaws.eu. CeDEM2015.

  3. Littera, G, Sartori, L., Dini, P. and Antoniadis, P (submitted). From an Idea to a Scalable Working Model: Merging Economic Benefits with Social Values in Sardex. Under review with the International Journal of Community Currency Research

  4. Littera, G., Sartori, L., Dini, P. and Antoniadis, P. (2014). From an Idea to a Scalable Working Model: Merging Economic Benefits with Social Values in Sardex, Inaugural WINIR Conference, Greenwich, London, 11-14

  5. Marsden, C. (2013). Twenty Years of the Public Interest: Big Open Legal Data. Law via the Internet Conference, September 26-27.

  6. Salamanca, O. & Eechoud, M. van (2014). Open Legal Data for Europe. Workshop report. 7 pages.

  7. Sartori, L and Dini, P (submitted). Sardex, from complementary currency to institution: A micro-macro case study. Under review with Stato e Mercato.

  8. Wass, C. (2015). OpenLaws.eu – Stakeholder Framework. Proceedings of IRIS 2015. Feb 2015, Salzburg, pp.

  9. Wass, C. & Lampoltshammer, Th. (2015). Europäische Schnittstellen zur Rechtsinformation. Souhrada Festschrift, 8 pages.

  10. Wass, C., Sageder, C. & Lampoltshammer, Th. (2015). openlaws.eu – Offene Rechtsinformation. OGD DACHLI OpenX, 3 pages.

  11. Wass, C. & Lampoltshammer, Th. (2014). Neue Standards für Gesetze und Entscheidungen: ECLI und ELI. Jus IT 4/2014, p. 155.

  12. Wass, C. (2013). Open Data as an Opportunity for Legal Information Services. Proceedings of the 16th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2013. 21-23 Feb. 2013, Salzburg, Austria.

  13. Wass, C., Dini, P., Eiser, T., Heistracher, Th., Lampoltshammer, Th., Marcon, G., Sageder, Ch., Tsiavos, P., Winkels, R. (2013). OpenLaws.eu. Proceedings of the 16th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2013. 21-23 Feb. 2013, Salzburg, Austria.

  14. Winkels, R. (in press). Exploiting the Web of Law. Post-proceedings of Complexité et politiques publiques, France.

  15. Winkels, R. and Boer, A. (submitted). “May it please the lawyer”: A Recommender System for the Legal Domain. Submitted to RecSys 2016, Boston, 2016.

  16. Winkels, R. and Boer, A. (2016). Two Experiments in Finding Relevant Case Law. Accepted for First Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe (CELSE2016), Amsterdam, June 21-22, 2016.

  17. Winkels, R. (2016). A Hybrid Method for Finding Relevant Case Law. Proceedings of IRIS 2016. Feb 2016, Salzburg.

  18. Winkels, R. (2015). Experiments in finding relevant case law. Pre-Proceedings of NAiL 2015. Dec 2015, Braga.

  19. Winkels, R. (2015). The OpenLaws project: Big Open Legal Data. Proceedings of IRIS 2015. Feb 2015, Salzburg, pp. 189-196.

  20. Winkels, R., Boer, A., Vredebregt, B. & Someren, A. van (2014). Towards a Legal Recommender System. In R. Hoekstra (ed). JURIX 2014: The Twenty-Seventh International Conference. Volume 6, 271 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 169-178. Best Paper Award.

Read Papers on Zenodo

Conference Activities of openlaws.eu

  1. EUCases Workshop 2014

  2. IFCLA 2014

  3. Forum Alpbach – Legal Symposium 2014

  4. openlaws.eu: BOLD Workshop on LAPSI 2014

  5. LAPSI 2.0 Conference 2014

  6. Share PSI 2014

  7. JURIX 2014 (best paper prize)

  8. WU Executive Academy – DSG Event (invited talk)

  9. IRIS 2015

  10. openlaws.eu: Code Camp

  11. openlaws.eu: ODI Lunchtime Lecture

  12. BILETA

  13. Code X FutureLaw Conference 2015

  14. CeDEM 2015 and Share PSI

  15. ATELIER COMPLEXITÉ ET POLITIQUES PUBLIQUES, 2E ÉDITION

  16. ACLE Workshop on Legal Structures (invited talk)

  17. EUCases Workshop 2015

  18. 4. OGD D-A-CH-LI Konferenz – Open X

  19. openlaws.eu: BOLD Workshop on Open Source Software

  20. IACL Conference 2015 

  21. eGOVIS 2015

  22. SEMANTICS

  23. openlaws.eu: BOLD Workshop on Open Innovation

  24. iKNOW 2015 (invited talk)

  25. ODI Summit 2015

  26. Verwaltungsmanagementtag (VMT) Linz

  27. OpenCon 2015

  28. European Data Forum (EDF) 2015 (invited talk)

  29. Contacta 2015 

  30. WU Executive Academy: 21st Century Entrepreneurship (invited talk)

  31. UNDP Workshop

  32. Jurix 2015 – Open Data Workshop

  33. Salzburg University, Faculty of Law (invited talk)

  34. Publication Office (invited presentation)

  35. IRIS 2016 and openlaws.eu Hackathon (Data Integration Seminar)

  36. eDay – Austrian Chamber of Commerce

  37. openlaws.eu: Final BOLD Conference

  38. Access to and Reuse of EU Legal Information Conference (invited talk)

 
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