Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information Book and eBook (Volume 3)
Copyright © 2021 By Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee
Book Citation
Leesi Ebenezer Mitee, Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information, Volume 3, Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series (Publisher: Koinonia Legal Research and Book Publishing, Tilburg, The Netherlands 2020)
Book Title
Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information
Book Series
Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series
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ISBN 9789083108513 (eBook) – eBook or e-Book (digital or electronic book that you can read on your mobile phone, tablet, eReader, laptop, desktop computers, etc.)
ISBN 9789083108582 (Paperback)
Publisher: Koinonia Legal Research and Book Publishing, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Book Author
Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee
Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee is an Associate Professor of Law. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) with specialisation in international human rights law, legal information technology (an aspect of legal informatics, which is the application of information technology to legal processes and legal information systems), indigenous customary law, and indigenous rights; Master of Laws (LLM) in comparative access to public legal information in the United Kingdom and Nigeria; postgraduate professional legal practice certificate (BL); Bachelor of Laws (BL); Higher National Diploma (HND) in Town & Country planning (Urban & Regional Planning); Member, Nigerian Bar Association; Fellow, Society for Advanced Legal Studies (United Kingdom); Member, Internet Society (United States); Member, American Indigenous Research Association (United States)
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Table of Contents (Chapters)
Chapter 1: Historical Overview of the Provision of Web-Based Access to Public Legal Information
Chapter 2: The Indispensability of Web-Based Global Access to Official Public Legal Information and Matters Arising from the Coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) Pandemic Lockdown
Chapter 3: The Proposal for a New Official Public Legal Information Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) for Easy Identification of the Reliable Versions of the Laws Published Online
Chapter 4: The Proposal for Nationally Networked One-Stop Official Public Legal Information Websites for the Optimal Findability and Management of Online Law Databases
Chapter 3: The Proposal for a New Official Public Legal Information Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) for Easy Identification of the Reliable Versions of the Laws Published Online
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
Chapter 4: The Proposal for Nationally Networked One-Stop Official Public Legal Information Websites for the Optimal Findability and Management of Online Law Databases
Chapter Abstract
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 nationally networked one-stop official public legal information websites (‘the NOPLI system’) is developed in this chapter, and argued to be the definitive solution to the global problems outlined. The NOPLI system guarantees the availability of the whole stock of the legal information of a legislative jurisdiction on one single website (the NOPLI for that jurisdiction) and also easy accessibility of all the NOPLIs of a country via an exhaustive index. Therefore, the NOPLI 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 NOPLI 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
Books and eBooks in the Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series
Volume 1: Developments in Human Rights Law and the Proposed Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information: The New Human Rights-Advocacy Approach and the Ten Criteria for the Formal Recognition of New Human Rights (click here)
Volume 2: The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access (click here)
Volume 3: Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information (click here)
Volume 4: A Model Empirical Study of the Current State of Governmental Provision of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information (click here)
Information on the availability of all the books in the Series is available on The Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Advocacy (HURAPLA) website (https://publiclegalinformation.com) that also contains valuable public legal information resources. Contact email: info@koinonialegal.com
Copyright © 2021 By Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee
Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee is an Associate Professor of Law. He holds a multidisciplinary PhD in international human rights law, legal information technology (aspects of legal informatics), indigenous customary law, and indigenous rights and LLM in transborder comparative analysis of free access to public legal information. He is a former legal research national consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the 1998 PCASED project that provided the juridical foundations for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) 1998 Moratorium which culminated in a regional multilateral treaty: ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and other Related Matters 2006. He devised the <.officiallaws) official public legal information generic top-level domain (gTLD) system for easy identification of the reliable versions of the laws published online worldwide; developed the system of nationally networked one-stop official public legal information websites (the NOPLIW system) for the optimal findability and management of online law databases; invented the human rights-based public access-adequate huricompatisation model of ascertainment of indigenous customary law (huricompatisation); formulated the new human rights-advocacy approach (NHRAA) that consists of a set of ten onerous criteria for the formal universal recognition of new human rights; and pioneered the global advocacy of the formal universal recognition of the right of free access to public legal information as a substantive or stand-alone human right in 2017 (https://publiclegalinformation.com). His New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series consists of 22 (twenty-two) modern academic article-style independent but interconnected chapters of the following four books:
Developments in Human Rights Law and the Proposed Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information: The New Human Rights-Advocacy Approach and the Ten Criteria for the Formal Recognition of New Human Rights (Volume 1) — ISBN 9789083108520 (eBook) and 9789083108506 (paperback);
The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access (Volume 2) — ISBN 9789083108568 (eBook) and 9789083108544 (paperback);
Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information (Volume 3) — ISBN 9789083108513 (eBook) and 9789083108582 (paperback); and
A Model Empirical Study of the Current State of Governmental Provision of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information (Volume 4) — ISBN 9789083108551 (eBook) and 9789083108537 (paperback).
The Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Advocacy (HURAPLA) website (https://publiclegalinformation.com) contains details of the availability of these books and valuable legal information resources.
Email: info@koinonialegal.com | Website: https://publiclegalinformation.com