The Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) is the international movement and organization devoted to providing free online access to legal information such as case law, legislation, treaties, law reform proposals and legal scholarship. The movement began in 1992 with the creation of the Legal Information Institute (LII) by Thomas R. Bruce and Peter W. Martin at Cornell Law School. Some later FALM projects incorporate Legal Information Institute or LII in their names, usually prefixed by a national or regional identifier.
FALM has 54 members as of October 2014, as listed on the FALM website. The FALM site also provides the coverage (geographical area or political grouping) for which each member provides databases, and the year in which it became a member of FALM, as well as links to member sites.
The 54 current members are:
AbyssiniaLaw (AbyssiniaLaw)African Law Library (African Law Library)African Legal Information Institute (AfricanLII)Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII)Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)Botswana E-laws (Botswana e-Laws)Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations (Cardiff Index)Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII)CyLaw (Cylaw)Institut Francais d’information Juridique (Droit.org)Free Law Project (FLP)Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)GlobaLex (GlobaLex)Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII)Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Information Projects (IALS Information Projects)Institute of Law & Technology (IDT) – see UAB Institute of Law and TechnologyInstituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (IIJ-UNAM)IIJusticia (IIJusticia)Irish Legal Information Initiative (IRLII)Institute of Legal Information Theory & Techniques (ITTIG)Jersey Legal Information Board (JLIB)Juristisches Internetprojekt Saarbrücken (JIPS)JuriBurkina (JuriBurkina)JuriNiger (JuriNiger)JurisPedia (JurisPedia)Juriste.ma (Juriste.ma)Kenya Law Reports (KenyaLaw)Korean Legislation Research Institute (KLRI)Kathmandu School of Law (http://www.ksl.edu.np/ KSL])The LawPhil Project (LawPhil)LexUM (Lexum)Liberia Legal Information Institute (LiberLII)Legal Information Institute (LII (Cornell))Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India)Legal Information System of the Federated States of Micronesia (LIS-FSM)Malawi Legal Information Institute (MalawiLII)Namibia Legal Information Institute (NamLII)New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII)Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII)The Rutgers University School of Law - Newark Law Library (Rutgers Law Library - Newark)Samoa Legal Information Institute (SamLIISouthern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)Sierra Leone Legal Information Institute (SierraLII)Swaziland Legal Information Institute (SwaziLII)Taiwan Legal Information Institute (TaiwanLII)Thai Law Reform Commission (TLRC)Ugandan Legal Information Institute (ULII)World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)Zambia Legal Information Institute (ZamLII)Zimbabwe Legal Information Institute (ZimLII)For details of any additional new members since the date of this list, see the FALM website.
In October 2002 the meeting of LIIs in Montreal at the 4th Law via Internet Conference, made the following declaration as a joint statement of their philosophy of access to law. There were some further modifications of the Declaration at the Sydney meeting of LIIs in 2003 and at the Paris meeting in 2004.
Representatives present at the 4th Law via the Internet Conference in Montreal on 3 October 2002:Australasian Legal Information InstituteBritish and Irish Legal Information InstituteLexum/Canadian Legal Information InstituteHong Kong Legal Information InstituteLegal Information Institute (Cornell)Pacific Islands Legal Information InstituteUniversity of the West Indies Faculty of Law LibraryWits University School of LawRepresentatives present at the 5th Law via the Internet Conference in Sydney, November 2003,Australasian Legal Information InstituteBritish and Irish Legal Information InstituteLexum/Canadian Legal Information InstituteHong Kong Legal Information InstitutePacific Islands Legal Information InstituteSouth African Legal Information Institute