Continued Support for Harvard Law’s Caselaw Access Project After Project Partner Acquired by LexisNexis

From a Statement on the Harvard Law School Library Blog:

Harvard Law School launched the Caselaw Project in 2015 to digitize the Harvard Law School Library’s complete collection of U.S. case law and to make the materials in that collection available online for free.
We’ve been able to undertake this ambitious project — covering 44,000 volumes — with the support of Ravel Law, a legal research and analytics platform. In the time since and according to a detailed agreement between them, Harvard Law School and Ravel Law together have digitized nearly 40 million pages of published court decisions, and today the work continues to convert those digital images into machine-readable text to allow searching as well as display.
This week Ravel was acquired by LexisNexis. LexisNexis has affirmed its commitment to continuing Ravel Law’s support for and fulfillment of the objectives of the Caselaw Access Project, including providing open access to all of the digitized cases.

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Includes Comment by Jonathan Zittrain, the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School, and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources.
See Also: LexisNexis Announces Acquisition of Ravel Law
LexisNexis is a RELX Group property. Other companies include Elsevier, Reed Business Info, and others. 

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