The Australasian Legal Information Institute(AustLII), operated jointly by the law faculties at UNSW and UTS, received $693,818 from the Australian Research Council to develop the World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII).
Working in cooperation with an international consortium of free legal information providers, WorldLII provides a comprehensive global internet legal research facility. It is the largest online source of free legal information, providing access to more than 290 databases of case law, legislation, law reform and law journals.
"This is a better result than we planned for, so we are all very pleased as it will allow us to develop more extensively a lot of AustLII/WorldLII services," said AustLII co-director, Professor Graham Greenleaf.
"We are simultaneously extending the quantity and quality of AustLII as Australia's only national legal research infrastructure, and integrating it into the emerging WorldLII structure and standards. This will benefit all Australian legal researchers," he said.
AustLII will host the fifth international
'Law via the Internet' conference later this month on 27-28 November. The program features more than 40 papers by experts from 12 countries. Session topics will range from issues of global access to law, to practical issues of court computerisation and legal knowledge management, to technical issues in improving the quality of case law and legislation, to the social and educational impacts of law on the internet.
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