AfricanLII or the African Legal Information Institute is a project to support the establishment and operation of independent national Legal Information Institute projects in
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
. AfricanLII is a project of the Democratic Governance and Rights Unit, Department of Public Law,
University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...
. AfricanLII was incubated at the
Southern Africa Litigation Center (SALC) from October 2010 to March 2013.
Since 2012, AfricanLII has been member of the
Free Access to Law Movement
The Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) is the international movement and organization devoted to providing free online access to legal information such as case law, legislation, treaties, law reform proposals and legal scholarship. The movement b ...
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Members of the Free Access to Law Movement (FALM)
(accessed 3 November 2012)
See also
* Jurispedia
JurisPedia is a wiki-based online encyclopedia of academic law in many languages, currently available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. It was started in October 2004, inspired in part by Wikipedia and the Enciclo ...
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External links
Official website
Legal research institutes
Free Access to Law Movement
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