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). JurisPedia ran on the

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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 (

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), the 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. The site, one of the largest legal encyclopedias and online legal references, won the Dieter Meurer Prize for Legal Informatics for 2009. Since 2012, JurisPedia was member of the

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. 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". Jurispedia was last seen online in May of 2023.

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( United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, World Summit on the Information Society). * Esther Hoorn,
"Using the Wiki-Environment of Jurispedia in Legal Education
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, April 2006. Creative Commons-licensed websites MediaWiki websites Wiki communities Online encyclopedias Encyclopedias of law Free Access to Law Movement Multilingual websites Internet properties established in 2004

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