User:Openlaws/sandbox

OpenLaws.eu aims at opening access to existing legal information systems and proactively involving and integrating the OpenLaws target groups, i.e. communities of individuals and businesses, legal professionals and public bodies. Open innovation, mass customization, big data analysis and social networking services are already highly successful in other markets and should be introduce by the OpenLaws project in the legal domain on a European scale. Based on open data, open source software and open innovation principles OpenLaws will be adding a “social layer” to the existing “institutional layer” of legal information systems.

OpenLaws will help Europe to innovate in the legal field, provide better access for individuals, businesses, legal experts and public bodies, and create a network between them. OpenLaws is well in line with the European e-Justice Action Plan and the Europe 2020 growth strategy, including the Digital Agenda and the Innovative Union.

Organisation
The OpenLaws consortium consists of an interdisciplinary group of highly qualified universities and SMEs from leading e-government member states. The Leibniz Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam and the University of Sussex are specialized in legal informatics, comparative law and governance. The London School of Economics and Political Science will cover the socio-economic part, while the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences will provide the system architecture. The Italian software SME Alpenite srl and the Austrian BY WASS GmbH, who are building the Austrian mobile legal information system together, will be in charge of the implementation, the dissemination and the user community engagement.

History
In the Commission Implementing Decision of November 14, 2013 on the award of grants for the Specific Programme Civil Justice call for proposals for action grants JUST/2013/JCIV/AG, the European Commission ranked the OpenLaws project #1 on the basis of the evaluation results of all submitted projects.