Online article about the development of the Legal Information Institutes written by Graham Greenleaf who is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and Co-Director of AustLII. The article was published in 2008 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The article covers the early years of the LIIs from 1992 to 2000 with the establishment of the first Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. There is also information on the Free Access to Law Movement (FALM), a loose affiliation of legal information institutes, looking at membership, aims and standards. There are also sections on the funding of free access to law and the privacy and copyright issues to be considered with the provision of open content. The development of the LII networks from 2002 to 2007 focuses on the multi-LII networks including the World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) and the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII). The second part of the article provides a directory of LIIs giving descriptions and links to each legal information institute along with references for further reading. The guide was updated in 2018 with the involvement of Dr Philip Chung who is Associate Professor of Law at UNSW Australia and Exective Director, AustLII and Andrew Mowbray who is Professor of Law and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), and Co-Director, AustLII.
Legal Information Institutes and the Free Access to Law Movement
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