JurisPedia

JurisPedia
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Type of site
Wiki-based online encyclopedia
Available inMultiple
Created byAfrican Legal Information Institute, Can Tho University, Université du Québec à Montréal, Institut für Rechtsinformatik [de], Paul Cézanne University
URLjurispedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationRequired to edit or create content
LaunchedOctober 2004
Current statusUnresponsive
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license

JurisPedia (/ˈʊərɪsˌpdiə/) is a wiki-based online encyclopedia of academic law in many languages,[1] currently available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. It was started in October 2004, inspired in part by Wikipedia and the Enciclopedia Libre (University of Seville). JurisPedia runs on the MediaWiki software, but it is not a Wikimedia Foundation project.

JurisPedia was developed on the initiative of the African Legal Information Institute, the Faculty of law of the Can Tho University (Vietnam), the team of JURIS (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada), the Institut für Rechtsinformatik [de] of Saarland University (Germany), the Institut de Recherche et d'Études en Droit de l'Information et de la Communication (IREDIC) of Paul Cézanne University.[2]

The site, one of the largest legal encyclopedias and online legal references, won the Dieter Meurer Prize for Legal Informatics for 2009.[3][4]

Since 2012, JurisPedia is member of the Free Access to Law Movement.[5]

On 10 March 2014, the French version of Jurispedia and the Bar Association of Paris have signed an agreement to take part in the creation of the "Great Library of Law".[6][7]

  1. ^ "Law Practice Tips and Tricks Entertain a Crowd in 1 Hour". ABA Journal. 13 April 2011.
  2. ^ Fodden, Simon (12 March 2007). "About Jurispedia". Jurispedia. Archived from the original on 4 September 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  3. ^ Fodden, Simon (5 October 2009). "JurisPedia Wins Legal Informatics Prize". Slaw.
  4. ^ "Dieter Meurer Förderpreis Rechtsinformatik". EDV-Gerichtstag (in German). Archived from the original on 10 April 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
  5. ^ "Members of the Free Access to Law Movement (FALM)". Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  6. ^ "The Great Library of Law". Bar Association of Paris (in French). Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  7. ^ "Article:The Bar Association of Paris launches «Great Library of Law »". Bibliofrance.org (in French). Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014.