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s, won the Dieter Meurer Prize for Legal Informatics for 2009. Since 2012, JurisPedia is member of the

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. On 10 March 2014, the French version of Jurispedia and the Bar Association of Paris have signed an agreement to take part in the creation of the "Great Library of Law".

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). * Esther Hoorn,
"Using the Wiki-Environment of Jurispedia in Legal Education
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