AustLII in 2010: A Snapshot at Age 15

Greenleaf, Graham; Mowbray, Andrew; Chung, Philip

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2350570

AustLII in 2010: A Snapshot at Age 15

Australasian Legal Information Institute, Sydney, November 2010

12 Pages Posted: 7 Nov 2013

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Graham Greenleaf

University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law

Andrew Mowbray

University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law

Philip Chung

University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law

Date Written: November 5, 2010

Abstract

This brief monograph, prepared for the 15th anniversary of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) in 2010, gives an overview of how AustLII operates and what it accomplished in its first 15 years. It is structured as follows: (i) Fundamentals: Mission; Scope; Access statistics; Governance and funding; Staff and equipment (ii) AustLII’s Australian content - Case Law: Scope and currency of current case law; Historical coverage; Citation practices; Legislation; Treaties and other international agreements; Legal scholarship (iii) AustLII’s Citator (LawCite) (iv) AustLII’s international projects - Assisting development of new LIIs; Multi-country free access law portals: WorldLII, CommonLII, AsianLII; Searching databases in Asian languages; The International Law Library on WorldLII; The WorldLII Catalog.

Keywords: AustLII, Australia, legal information systems, free access to legal information, public domain

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Greenleaf, Graham and Mowbray, Andrew and Chung, Philip, AustLII in 2010: A Snapshot at Age 15 (November 5, 2010). Australasian Legal Information Institute, Sydney, November 2010. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2350570 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2350570