Wiki-Law

This is a proposal for a new Wikimedia sister project.

WikiLaw
Status of the proposal
Status	closed
Reason	No awnser since 2014
Details of the proposal
Project description	List all laws publically available, including Constitutional, Code, Regulations and Ordinance. Also Common Law and Case Law.
Is it a multilingual wiki?	Many language versions
Potential number of languages	Many
Proposed URL	wikilaw.org (?)
Technical requirements
New features to require	No
Development wiki	Yes, at the following url: http://editthis.info/law/Main_Page
Interested participants
Robert Harrison

Proposal

Ignorantia juris non excusat. I propose to create a comprehensive and free legal research wiki. It would be used to publish Common Law, Case Law, Statutes and Ordinance. (a free alternative to LexisNexis) My main focus will be in the English Language and US centric but this project could easily and logically be expanded to other politcal jurisdictions and languages.

--Robert Harrison (talk) 16:03, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Discussion

I am obviously not a lawyer, but I have a question: are laws themselves copyrighted/copyrightable? If they are in the public domain, you can upload them to Wikisource. πr² (t • c) 16:15, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

• In answer to your question, in the United States all legislation etc is in the public domain under the edict of government rule. James500 (talk) 14:29, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

For the sake of full disclosure, a similar project was proposed a while ago and I forgot about it until just recently. The previous proposal can be found at Wikilaw. Robert Harrison (talk) 16:51, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

How does this proposal contrast with The State Decoded project? -GChriss (talk) 05:07, 2 December 2012 (UTC)