wikilaw

Among the problems that we face will be to get law students and lawyers to use Wikilaw as a resource. To accomplish this, we will need to prove that a wiki can be a viable legal research tool. It will be very necessary to stop people from incorrectly changing pages for obscure legal concepts and decisions, but this is a problem for Wikipedia in general and it is handled sufficiently well there. And since I believe that many legal professionals with a comprehensive knowledge of the law would use Wikilaw, and Law Professors would encourage their students to participate in it, we would not lack eyes to catch those who might mess it up. Also, because there are many different interpretations of the law, articles would have to be written to include all reasonable perspectives, and not just the one considered valid by the writer. This is where Wikisource would be useful, as individuals wishing to advocate for a specific viewpoint of a legal principle could post their article on Wikisource, and provide a shorter discussion of their arguments in the Wikilaw article on the concept. Additionally, there is the variation of the law depending upon jurisdiction. It may be worthwhile to start in one jurisdiction - say state level courts in California.