Type of site database Owner OYEZ Project | Available in English Created by Jerry Goldman Commercial No | |
The Oyez Project at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law is an unofficial online multimedia archive of the Supreme Court of the United States, especially audio of oral arguments. The website "aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since [...] October 1955." The website also includes biographical information of both incumbent and historical justices of the Court and advocates who have argued before the court. The website is run by Jerry Goldman, a research professor of law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
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Government and private support
According to the website, the Oyez Project received technological support from National Science Foundation and grants from National Endowment for the Humanities. The project is also supported by various academic institutions such as Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the legal web portal FindLaw, and the law firm Mayer Brown, among others.
Currently Jerry Goldman is seeking to sell the Oyez Project. He estimates it is "worth well over $1 million", but he hopes the buyer will not put the project behind a paywall. Harvard Law School has offered to pay the project's operating costs, but not Goldman's price.
Recognition
Oyez.org is listed by the Supreme Court as an authentic, although unofficial online source to access the court's information. Oyez.org was featured as "Website of the Week" by Voice of America on 30 January 2006.
The old version of the Oyez database was awarded the Silver Gavel Award for New Media by American Bar Association in 1998. Its founder, Jerry Goldman, was given a medal award in 1997 by EDUCAUSE.