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Free Law Project offers public an open book on case law

Although case law is technically public domain, the legal decisions that interpret and apply statutory law are often scattered across the Internet, locked up in proprietary systems, and only available by paying exorbitant fees. A new non-profit launching this week aims to make these legal materials easily and freely available to all.

School of Information assistant professor Brian Carver and alumnus Michael Lissner (MIMS 2010) founded the Free Law Project to support open access to the law and to develop open-source legal research tools.

The projects open-source software tools include:

Carver and Lissner say that despite a growing movement promoting public access to the text of legal statutes, it can be difficult or impossible for the public to find the court decisions that interpret and apply those laws.

In many cases, it isnt enough to know the statute, explained Carver. You also need to know how it has been interpreted and applied over many years of case law. Carver practiced law before joining the School of Information, where he studies intellectual property law and legal informatics.

Since the birth of this country, legal materials have been in the hands of the few, denying legal justice to the many, said Lissner, co-founder of the Free Law Project. With this project, we hope to ease difficulty many have when engaging in a legal dispute, whether they are lawyers or pro se litigants.

The project builds on work done by CourtListener, which began as a School of Information masters degree project in 2009 before maturing into a powerful legal research platform that serves thousands of people each week, and has seen its traffic double since July 2013.

CourtListener maintains a growing repository of court decisions, along with advanced tools for searching and analyzing the documents. Today CourtListener archives nearly a million legal opinions from 331 jurisdictions, including real-time updates from all US appellate courts, appellate court archives back to the 1940s or earlier, a growing archive of state appellate court decisions, and complete US Supreme Court records from 1754 to the present.

The Free Law Project will continue CourtListeners effort to archive court decisions, and will also promote new open-source technologies for legal research.

Unlike most other legal research services, the Free Law Project is committed to the open-source software movement. Not only can users download CourtListeners entire collection of legal documents, they can also download all the software that runs the site, and can freely edit or re-use that software.

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AdaCore Launches Free, Online Ada Educational Resource for the Software Development Community

NEW YORK & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

AdaCore today launched AdaCore University - a free, web-based resource center for anyone interested in learning about, or how to program in, the Ada programming language. The new website offers pre-recorded courses and other learning materials on Ada, with access to AdaCores GNAT Ada toolset for writing and running example programs. It also utilizes the latest in website design and learning tool features. Students at all levels of experience and expertise can begin writing programs quickly and can proceed at their own pace.

AdaCore University courses educate through examples, allowing students to see, understand and experiment with most features of the Ada programming language. Drawing on the experience and teaching credentials of Ada experts, such as AdaCore founders and New York University Emeritus Professors Robert Dewar and Edmond Schonberg, the courses explain Adas technical concepts with insight into the rationale and usage of particular features.

The initial curriculum includes two courses:

Both of these modules, and all future courses, provide sources and installation instructions for all learning materials and tools. The courses cover the latest version of the Ada language (Ada 2012), and students have access to AdaCores GNAT Ada development environment and programming tools. The AdaCore University website also hosts a number of technical papers on Ada, offering insight into particular aspects of the languages design and usage.

AdaCore University is an ongoing, live project that will be expanded to include more advanced courses on Ada, and SPARK 2014 an Ada-based programming language designed for high-integrity software (i.e., where reliability is essential and where safety and/or security certification may be required).

For more information on AdaCore University please visit http://u.adacore.com.

About AdaCore

Founded in 1994, AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, a state-of-the-art programming language designed for large, long-lived applications where safety, security, and reliability are critical. AdaCore's flagship product is the open source GNAT Pro development environment, which comes with expert on-line support and is available on more platforms than any other Ada technology. AdaCore has an extensive world-wide customer base; see http://www.adacore.com/home/company/customers/for further information.

Ada and GNAT Pro see a growing usage in high-integrity and safety-certified applications, including space-based systems, commercial aircraft avionics, military systems, air traffic management/control, railroad systems, and medical devices, and in security-sensitive domains, such as financial services. The SPARK Pro toolset, available from AdaCore, is especially useful in such contexts.

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