Today I learnt about Wex, a freely available online legal
dictionary and encyclopaedia, written by legal experts. It’s hosted by the
Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
It’s aimed at “law novices” but can be handy for those
researchers who want to do a quick web search rather than refer to the tried
and trusted hardcopy dictionaries and encyclopaedias we librarians tend to
prefer.
To ensure quality of entries, contributors are currently
limited to those in the “selective author pool”. There is no hard and fast rule
about who may contribute, but preference is given to legal academics and
distinguished practitioners, and those with legal qualifications.
The entries are quite comprehensive and sometimes links are
provided to the relevant entry in Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary, which
can be useful for non/new-lawyers. You can search and browse, as you’d expect.
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