Ravel Law Explained

Ravel Law is a startup which offers free access to computer-assisted legal research. The firm has funded a major scanning project at the Harvard Law School library known as "Free the Law". The project aims to have the full collection of 40 million pages digitized by 2017.^[1] According to the initial announcement, access to the library during the first eight years will be granted to non-profit organizations and partners of Ravel Law before completely opening to the public.^[2] Ravel Law was acquired by RELX to be part of the LexisNexis suite of tools in June, 2017.^[3]

Business plan

In addition to basic free access to the public the firm offers more sophisticated plans to legal firms and researchers.

See also

• Free Access to Law Movement
• RECAP
• vLex

Further reading

• Laird . Lorelei . As governments open access to data, law lags far behind . ABA Journal . 17 March 2016 . 23 October 2023.
• Web site: Ziegler . Adam . 31 October 2015 . Caselaw Access Project Overview . Et Seq: The Harvard Law School Library Blog . Harvard Law School Library . 22 October 2023.

Notes and References

1. News: Erik Eckholm. Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age. October 29, 2015. The New York Times. October 28, 2015. The cases will be available at www.ravellaw.com. Ravel is paying millions of dollars to support the scanning..
2. Harvard Law Launches Project To Put Every Court Decision Online For Free. Mike. Masnick. TechDirt. 2015-10-30. 2015-11-05.
3. Rynkiewicz . Stephen . June 8, 2017 . LexisNexis acquires case analytics firm Ravel Law. ABA Journal. en. 2019-07-09.