Innovative Web-Based Access to Global Public Legal Information: Technological Mechanisms for Optimal Findability and Management of Online Databases

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The details about Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee’s upcoming book (with its companion eBook edition), Innovative Web-Based Access to Global Public Legal Information: Technological Mechanisms for Optimal Findability and Management of Online Databases (a product of his 628-page, 187,724-word innovative multidisciplinary PhD thesis), are as follows:

Book title: Innovative Web-Based Access to Global Public Legal Information: Technological Mechanisms for Optimal Findability and Management of Online Databases

Book author: Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) with specialisation in International Human Rights Law, Legal Informatics (the application of information technology to legal processes and legal information systems), Indigenous Customary Law, and Indigenous Rights; Master of Laws (LLM); Postgraduate Professional Legal Practice Certificate (BL); Bachelor of Laws (BL); Higher National Diploma (HND) in Town & Country Planning

Number of Pages: 200 pages (pre-printing estimate)

Book formats: Print book (hardcover and paperback); eBook or e-Book (digital or electronic format)

Book series: The Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series, Volume 2

The three books in The Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series are as follows:

Book Chapters: The abstracts of two of the chapters of the book are presented below.

Abstract of Chapter Two of the Book

This chapter examines the use of a new legal information generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) as a viable tool for easy identification of official legal information websites (OLIWs) and enhancing global public access to their resources. This intervention is necessary because of the existence of unofficial legal information websites with issues of reliability and the overdependence on Internet search engines (despite their limitations) as the only means of finding and accessing OLIWs. The existing findability difficulties create technical unavailability of available online legal information. This chapter proffers a workable solution to these problems through its proposal for the creation of <.officiallaws> regulated official legal information gTLD by ICANN. It develops a Legal Information Domain Name System (LIDNS) exclusively for the OLIWs of governments and intergovernmental organisations (IGOs) based on the proposed gTLD. The LIDNS extends the ramification of Internet governance within the ICANN framework in respect of official legal information as a universal public brand. The chapter argues that the gTLD will facilitate easy identification of official sources of online legal information to avoid the risk of relying on unreliable legal resources, enable direct access to OLIWs without the laborious use of Internet search engines, and enhance their findability even when the search option is used. It concludes that the resultant improved access to the available official online legal information will promote the people’s right of free public access to legal information globally. This will help people to know the laws they are bound to obey (ignorance of which is no excuse), enhance justice under the right to a fair trial, and facilitate national and transnational legal research. It will also promote transparency and accountability in governance and engender the holistic actualisation of the environmental, economic, and social components of sustainable development, among other benefits.

Keywords: Right Of Free Access To Public Legal Information, Official Public Legal Information Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD), Public Legal Information Domain Name System (LIDNS), United Nations World Legal Information Organization (UNWLIO), Legal informatics, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Internet Governance, Free Access To Law Movement (FALM), Legal Information Institutes

Abstract of Chapter Three of the Book

This chapter identifies the publishing of fragments of legal information on multiple, isolated official legal information websites (OLIWs) as the major factor underlying the existing problems in locating the available official online legal information of all levels of government (national, state, and local). Given this situation, knowledge of the administrative divisions and legal system of a country is often necessary to perform any reliable search for the websites of each legislature, court, government department or agency that contain legal information. Such knowledge usually requires research, which is more demanding should a person wish to know the laws of other countries for transnational academic research, business transactions, migration, tourism, etc. Examination of the OLIWs of the 60 countries included in this study reveals the existence of this problem in both developed and developing countries. As a response, a novel system of official networked one-stop legal information websites (‘the ONOLIWs system’) is developed in this chapter, and argued to be the definitive solution to the global problems outlined. The ONOLIWs system guarantees the availability of the whole stock of the legal information of a legislative jurisdiction on one single website (the ONOLIW for that jurisdiction) and also easy accessibility of all the ONOLIWs of a country via an exhaustive index. Therefore, the ONOLIWs system will provide optimum access to the official online legal information of any country, the aggregation of which is seamless access to global legal information. It will thereby promote good knowledge of the law, which has many benefits for individuals, organisations, and the state itself. Governments at all levels, intergovernmental organisations (IGOs) that create legal information, and developers of their OLIWs will benefit immensely from the ONOLIWs concept, its implementation mechanism, and the policy framework proposed in this chapter.

Keywords: Right Of Free Access To Public Legal Information, Official Networked One-Stop Legal Information Websites, Law Website Design, Official Public Legal Information Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD), Public Legal Information Domain Name System (LIDNS), United Nations World Legal Information Organization (UNWLIO), Legal informatics, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Internet Governance, Free Access To Law Movement (FALM), Legal Information Institutes

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