About WorldLII

What is WorldLII?

• Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
• British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
• Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)
• Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII)
• Legal Information Institute (Cornell) (LII (Cornell))
• Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII)
• Wits University School of Law (Wits Law School)

For further details, see the WorldLII brochure.

The LIIs, meeting in Montreal in October 2002, adopted the Montreal Declaration on public access to law.

WorldLII comprises three main facilities: Databases, Catalog and Websearch.

WorldLII Databases

WorldLII provides a single search facility for databases located on the following Legal Information Institutes: AustLII; BAILII; CanLII; HKLII; LII (Cornell); and PacLII.

WorldLII also includes as part of this searchable collection its own databases not found on other LIIs. These include databases of decisions of international Courts and Tribunals, databases from a number of Asian countries, and databases from South Africa (provided by Wits Law School).

Over 270 databases from 48 jurisdictions in 20 countries are included in the initial release of WorldLII. Databases of case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, law journals, and other materials are included.

WorldLII welcomes enquiries concerning the possible inclusion of other databases on WorldLII or on one of its collaborating LIIs.

WorldLII Catalog and Websearch

The WorldLII Catalog provides links to over 15,000 law-related web sites in every country in the world. WorldLII's Websearch makes searchable the full text of as many of these sites as WorldLII's web-spider can reach.

WorldLII welcomes enquiries from law librarians and other legal experts who are interested to become Contributing Editors to the WorldLII Catalog.

Operation of WorldLII

The provision of the WorldLII service is coordinated by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), which maintains WorldLII's user interface, the WorldLII Catalog and Websearch, and the databases located only on WorldLII.

Technical enhancements to WorldLII are being developed jointly by the cooperating Legal Information Institutes.

Contacting WorldLII

General contact: feedback@worldlii.org

AustLII/WorldLII Co-Directors:

• Professor Andrew Mowbray, UTS <andrew@austlii.edu.au>
• Professor Graham Greenleaf, UNSW <graham@austlii.edu.au>
• Philip Chung, AustLII Executive Director <philip@austlii.edu.au>

Mail: WorldLII, c/- AustLII, UTS Faculty of Law, PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia

Telephone: +61 2 9514 4921
Fax: +61 2 9514 4908