Trans-European access to national case law: the Caselex project

ABSTRACT

Starting from the description of the reasons why the transnational access to case law is important especially in the context of European legal systems, some major information systems providing access to this type of data are presented. Then, Caselex (Case Law Exchange), a project financed by the EU Commission aiming at deploying a service equipped with a variety of semantic tools facilitating the transnational and multilingual access to national case law, is highlighted. It has been developed by a strong public-private partnership and has as major targets legal professional categories as well as citizens.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
          Subjects: Web-based services

General Terms:
Documentation

Keywords:
European case law, public-private partnership, semantic retrieval tools, transnational access to legal information