openlaws.eu – Building Your Personal Legal Network

Authors

  • Clemens Wass -- to be completed

Keywords:

openlaws, legal technology, legal tech, open data, open innovation, big data, linked data, network, graph database, visualization, collaboration, personalization, mass-customization, legislation, case law, contract management, compliance, cloud, semantics

Abstract

openlaws is building an international online legal information platform.Users can organize legislation, case law and private legal data (e.g. contracts) in apersonalized legal network. Data is linked, analyzed and visualized for increasedproductivity. The service makes legal research easier for experts and helpsbusinesses to fulfill legal and contractual obligations. Citizens benefit from freeaccess to legislation and case law.

Author Biography

  • Clemens Wass, -- to be completed
    to be completed

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Published

2017-07-13

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2017): Special Issue on "Journées européennes d'informatique juridique 2016"

Section

Legal Services Based on Free Access to Legal Information

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