Introduction to the New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series
Copyright © 2020 By Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee
Book Series
New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series
Book Formats
eBook or e-Book (digital or electronic book that you can read on your mobile phone, tablet, eReader, laptop, desktop computers, etc.)
Paperback
ISBN
Volume 1 (ISBN 9789083108520 (eBook) ISBN 9789083108506 (Paperback), Volume 2 (ISBN 9789083108568 (eBook) ISBN 9789083108544 (Paperback), Volume 3 (ISBN 9789083108513 (eBook) ISBN 9789083108582 (Paperback), Volume 4 (ISBN 9789083108551 (eBook) ISBN 9789083108537 (Paperback)
Publisher
Koinonia Legal Research and Book Publishing, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Book Author
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)
Introduction to the Book Series
The innovative New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series consists of four books that contain twenty-two modern academic article-style independent but interconnected chapters of original, multidisciplinary, law-reform, and policy-relevant research on free local, regional, national, and global access to all formats (physical and digital or electronic) of all categories of public legal information (i.e. all laws and law-related public documents, including indigenous customary law that is usually unwritten or oral and therefore inherently inaccessible). The books are as follows: 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); The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access (Volume 2); Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information (Volume 3); and A Model Empirical Study of the Current State of Governmental Provision of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information (Volume 4).
The legal materials or sources that require free adequate access by all persons (including persons with disabilities) and corporate organisations include the following: primary legislation (statute law or statutory law); secondary legislation (regulations, subsidiary legislation, subsidiary instruments, or delegated legislation), administrative memoranda, and executive orders; decisions and judgments of all levels of courts and tribunals from all the tiers of government (local, state or regional, and federal or national); legislative bills, resolutions, and other public documents that are directly related to the law-making function of the legislature; value-added publications that aid understanding and navigation of laws (e.g. annotations, summaries, indexes, and digests); decisions and judgments of regional and international courts; regional and international legal instruments (treaties, conventions, protocols, resolutions, declarations, etc.); and the comments, reports, and other documents on matters relating to regional and international legal instruments.
The New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series also provides the juridical foundation for the pioneering proposal for the formal universal recognition of the right of free access to public legal information as a substantive or stand-alone human right. The proposal includes the right’s specific enabling binding United Nations Convention on the Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information for its adequate protection, promotion, and actualisation.
Legal and technological innovations in the New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series include 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; the pioneering advocacy of the formal universal recognition of the right of free access to public legal information as a substantive or stand-alone human right; and the human rights-based public access-adequate huricompatisation model of ascertainment of indigenous customary law. The others are 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 and for enhanced global access to those laws, and 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.
Volumes and Chapters of the Books in the 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
ISBN 9789083108520 (eBook) ISBN 9789083108506 (Paperback)
Chapter 1: Key Terminology and the Multidisciplinary Nature of the Concept of Free Access to Public Legal Information
Chapter 2: Historical Overview of the Provision of Access to Public Legal Information
Chapter 3: An Innovative Analysis of the Persistent Global Problem of Inadequate Access to Public Legal Information and its Root Cause
Chapter 4: The Existence of Free Access to Public Legal Information as a Legal Right
Chapter 5: The Fundamental Theoretical Underpinnings of the Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information
Chapter 6: A Review of the Literature on the Existing Status of the Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information as a Human Right
Chapter 7: The New Human Rights-Advocacy Approach and the Ten Criteria for the Formal Universal Recognition of New Human Rights
Chapter 8: The Proposal for the Universal Recognition of the Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information as a Substantive Human Right
VOLUME 2
The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access
ISBN 9789083108568 (eBook) ISBN 9789083108544 (Paperback)
Chapter 9: The Meaning and Forms of Indigenous Customary Law
Chapter 10: The Right of Public Access to Indigenous Customary Law and the Concept of Ascertainment
Chapter 11: The Human Rights-Based Approach as a Conceptual Framework and a Universal Mechanism for the Management of Social Projects
Chapter 12: Huricompatisation as the New Human Rights-Based and Public Access-Adequate Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law
Chapter 13: The Legal Framework for the Implementation of the New Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law Projects
VOLUME 3
Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information
ISBN 9789083108513 (eBook) ISBN 9789083108582 (Paperback)
Chapter 14: Historical Overview of the Provision of Web-Based Access to Public Legal Information
Chapter 15: The Indispensability of Web-Based Global Access to Official Public Legal Information and Matters Arising from the Coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) Pandemic Lockdown
Chapter 16: 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 17: The Proposal for Nationally Networked One-Stop Official Public Legal Information Websites for the Optimal Findability and Management of Online Law Databases
VOLUME 4
A Model Empirical Study of the Current State of Governmental Provision of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information
ISBN 9789083108551 (eBook) ISBN 9789083108537 (Paperback)
Chapter 18: Historical Overview of Governmental Provision of Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information
Chapter 19: An Empirical Study of the Current State of Governmental Provision of Free Access to Nigerian Legislation
Chapter 20: An Empirical Study of the Current State of Governmental Provision of Free Access to the Judgments of Nigerian Courts
Chapter 21: An Empirical Study of the Current State of Governmental Provision of Public Access to Indigenous Customary Law in Nigeria
Chapter 22: A Critical Assessment of the Existing Legal Framework for Governmental Provision of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information
The Main Keywords for the Resources in the Book Series
Human right of free access to public legal information, Huricompatisation customary law ascertainment, New human rights-advocacy approach ten criteria for recognising new human rights, Human right of free access to law, United Nations convention on free access to law, Ignorance of inaccessible law is an excuse, Ignorance of the law is no excuse, Human rights-based approach (HRBA), Nationally networked one-stop official public legal information websites, Official public legal information generic top-level domain (.officiallaws gTLD)
Updates and Information on all the Books in the Series
Information on the availability of all the current and future books (both eBook and paperback editions) in the New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series is available on the Koinonia Legal Research and Book Publishing website (website address below) that is secured with industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology. The website also contains valuable resources on different aspects of the right of free access to public legal information plus regional and international human rights law.
Book publisher: Koinonia Legal Research and Book Publishing, The Netherlands
Website: https://publiclegalinformation.com
Contact email: info@koinonialegal.com
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