JurisPedia, the shared law, is an academic project accessible on
the Web and devoted to systems of law as well as legal and
political sciences throughout the world. The project aims to
offer information about all of the laws of every country in the
world. Based on a Wiki, JurisPedia combines the facility of
contributions on that platform with an academic control of those
insertions a posteriori. This international project is the
result of a free collaboration of different research teams and
law schools. The different websites are accessible in eight
languages (Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German,
Spanish and Portuguese). In its seven years of existence, the
project has grown to more than 15000 entries and outlines of
articles dealing with legal systems of thirty countries. In
2007, Hughes-Jehan approached my colleagues and I, then running
the Southern African Legal Information Institute, to host the
English language version of JurisPedia. We were excited at the
opportunity to work with JurisPedia