Building a commons for the common law: the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) four years on

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Kieran Hackshall at AustlII for development of many of the databases. Research on the copyright issues related to commons in legal information was assisted by Abi Paramaguru, Research Assistant to the Australian Research Council Linkage Project ‘Unlocking IP’.

Notes

¹See Annex I.

²Antigua & Barbuda; The Bahamas; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belize; Brunei; Dominica; The Gambia; Ghana; Grenada; Guyana; India; Jamaica; Malaysia; Maldives; Malta; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Sri Lanka; St Kitts & Nevis; St Lucia; St Vincent & Grenadines; Trinidad & Tobago; and (most recently) Rwanda. Canada has its own LII, but it has decided not to participate in CommonLII.

³G Greenleaf, P Chung and A Mowbray, ‘A New Home Online for Commonwealth Law: A Proposal for a CommonLII’ (2004) 2 JILT, 〈http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/jilt/2004_2/greenleafmowbrayandchung/〉.

⁴See ‘Commonwealth Supporting Institutions’ on the ‘Stakeholders’ page on CommonLII.

⁵The asterisk ‘∗’ is used to truncate words to their stems.

⁶This Project was presented by the Legal Editor of the Commonwealth Law Bulletin to the Thirteenth Ordinary Meeting of the CARICOM Legal Affairs Committee in September 2009, where it received widespread support and at which the nomenclature ‘CaribLII’ was first mooted.

⁷Including partner University funding from the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, the Australian National University, the University of Sydney, University of Technology, Sydney, and University of Western Sydney.

⁸See email addresses for authors.

⁹Montreal Declaration (2002) – Declaration on Free Access to Law, Montreal, 2002 (as amended), 〈http://www.worldlii.org/worldlii/declaration/〉.