Comparative law wikis are

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s that allow users to create empirical

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datasets for the analysis of the world's myriad

legal systems The contemporary national legal systems are generally based on one of four basic systems: civil law, common law, statutory law, religious law or combinations of these. However, the legal system of each country is shaped by its unique history and ...

. Wikis are adaptable to use by any cross-geographical comparative study, such as

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Examples

Over the past decade, there have been several attempts to create a global legal wiki, though as of April 2017 none have gained primacy. Examples include the World Encyclopedia of Law, by LAWi and

Wex Wex is a collaboratively-edited legal dictionary and encyclopaedia, intended for broad use by "practically everyone, even law students and lawyers entering new areas of law". It is sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute ("LII ...

, the online legal encyclopedia created by

Cornell Law School Cornell Law School is the law school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York. One of the five Ivy League law schools, it offers four law degree programs, JD, LLM, MSLS and JSD, along with several dual-deg ...

Legal Information Institute The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a non-profit, public service of Cornell Law School that provides no-cost access to current American and international legal research sources online alaw.cornell.edu The organization is a pioneer in the del ...

. Parallel efforts to create crowdsourced data structures to map global legal/regulatory authorities include projects like

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, an online system for collaborative

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used by the

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(IC).

Usefulness

Comparative law wikis are an efficient method of performing comparative legal analysis. Wikis are particularly useful for comparative global analysis because of the use with which sources from multiple jurisdictions can be gathered in one place.

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permits gathering up-to-date legal authorities from contributors who have local expertise, particularly knowledge of languages and administrative structures that background implementation of particular legal/regulatory norms. Comparative law wikis can also be useful for comparative study in federal legal systems, such as in the U.S., where 50-state law surveys are particularly useful.

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Comparative law

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