{"id":1517,"date":"2015-10-29T16:35:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T16:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2015-10-29T16:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T16:35:38","slug":"harvard-law-school-launches-free-the-law-project-with-ravel-law-to-digitize-us-case-law-provide-free-access-harvard-law-today-29-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/10\/29\/harvard-law-school-launches-free-the-law-project-with-ravel-law-to-digitize-us-case-law-provide-free-access-harvard-law-today-29-october-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Law School Launches \u201cFree the Law\u201d Project with Ravel Law To Digitize US Case Law, Provide Free Access &#8211; Harvard Law Today, 29 October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLibraries were founded as an engine for the democratization of knowledge, and the digitization of Harvard Law School\u2019s collection of U.S. case law is a tremendous step forward in making legal information open and easily accessible to the public,\u201d said Jonathan Zittrain, the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School, and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources. \u201cThe materials in the library\u2019s collection tell a story that goes back to the founding of America, and we\u2019re proud to preserve and share that story,\u201d said Zittrain, who also holds appointments as Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Professor at Harvard\u2019s John F. Kennedy School of Government.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/today.law.harvard.edu\/harvard-law-school-launches-free-the-law-project-with-ravel-law-to-digitize-us-case-law-provide-free-access\/\">Harvard Law School Launches \u201cFree the Law\u201d Project with Ravel Law To Digitize US Case Law, Provide Free Access &#8211; Harvard Law Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLibraries were founded as an engine for the democratization of knowledge, and the digitization of Harvard Law School\u2019s collection of U.S. case law is a tremendous step forward in making legal information open and easily accessible to the public,\u201d said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/10\/29\/harvard-law-school-launches-free-the-law-project-with-ravel-law-to-digitize-us-case-law-provide-free-access-harvard-law-today-29-october-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}