Ravel Partners with Harvard Law to Make Case Law Free and Searchable

A recent New York Times article highlights the collaboration between Ravel and Harvard Law School’s Library to make all case law freely accessible. The collaboration is going to create a complete, searchable database of American case law that will be offered free on the Internet, allowing instant retrieval.

Harvard’s Law School Library collection includes nearly every state, federal, territorial and tribal judicial decision since colonial times. Ravel is a newer electronic legal research platform that uses analytics technology to help add value to a search by identifying, contextualizing and interpreting legal information and cutting down search time.  Ravel offers free accounts to law students.

Complete state results will become publicly available this fall for California and New York, and the entire library will be online in 2017.