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. 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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). * 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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