A comparative law wiki is a

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that allows users to create empirical

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datasets for the analysis of the world's myriad legal systems.

Examples

Over the past decade, there have been several attempts to create a global legal wiki, though as of April 2017 none have gained primacy. Examples include JurisPedia; Wex, the online legal encyclopedia created by

Cornell Law School Cornell Law School is the law school of Cornell University, a private university, private, Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York. One of the five Ivy League law schools, Cornell Law School offers four degree programs (Juris Doctor, JD, Maste ...

Legal Information Institute The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a non-profit public service of Cornell Law School that provides no-cost access to current American and international legal research sources online. Founded in 1992 by Peter Martin and Tom Bruce, LII ...

, and the World Encyclopedia of Law, by LAWi. Parallel efforts to create crowdsourced data structures to map global legal/regulatory authorities include projects like Intellipedia, an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the

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(IC).

Usefulness

Comparative law wikis are an efficient method of performing comparative legal analysis. Wikis are particularly useful for comparative global analysis because of the use with which sources from multiple jurisdictions can be gathered in one place.

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permits gathering up-to-date legal authorities from contributors who have local expertise, particularly knowledge of languages and administrative structures that background implementation of particular legal/regulatory norms. Comparative law wikis can also be useful for comparative study in federal legal systems, such as in the U.S., where 50-state law surveys are particularly useful.

References

{{jurisprudence Comparative law

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Legal systems Wiki communities

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