Free Law Project

Free Law Project
Free Law Project Logo showing "Hammerman" and organization name
Free Law Project Logo
Abbreviation FLP
Motto Providing Free Access to Legal Materials
Formation 2013-09-24
Founders Michael Lissner, Brian Carver
Founded at Emeryville, CA
Type 501(c)(3)
46-3342480
Registration no. C3594588
Executive Director
 Michael Lissner
Michael Lissner, Brian Carver
Website free.law

Free Law Project is a United States federal 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides free access to primary legal materials, develops legal research tools, and supports academic research on legal corpora.[1] Free Law Project has several initiatives that collect and share legal information, including the largest collection of American oral argument audio,[2] daily collection of new legal opinions from 200 United States courts and administrative bodies, the RECAP Project, which collects documents from PACER, and user-generated Supreme Court citation visualizations.

Free Law Project was founded in 2013[3][4] by Michael Lissner and Brian Carver with board members Thomas R. Bruce and Jerry Goldman.[5]

Initiatives

Free Law Project has a number of initiatives, including:

  • CourtListener.com, which provides a searchable and API-accessible website with 900,000 minutes of oral argument recordings, more than eight thousand judges, and more than three million opinions. All of the opinions on CourtListener are interlinked by a citator, and the graph of citation is available via an API.
  • RECAP Project, which allows users to automatically search for free copies of documents during a search in the fee-based online US legal database PACER, creating a free alternative database at the Internet Archive and CourtListener.
  • Judge and Appointer Database, which provides biographical and electoral information about more than 8,000 American judges and appointors.
  • Database of Reporters, which provides information about more than 400 legal reporters.

All of Free Law Project's work is open source and available online.

References

  1. ↑ "Free Law Project". Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  2. ↑ "Milestone: CourtListener has 365 Days of Continuous Oral Argument Listening". 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  3. ↑ "Non-Profit "Free Law Project" Formed to Create an Open Legal Ecosystem". Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  4. ↑ "Free Law Project provides access to legal materials and research for public". 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  5. ↑ "Welcoming Thomas Bruce and Jerry Goldman to our Board". 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
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