Wikisource:WikiProject Law

"If either statutes or decisions could be made private property, it would be in the power of an individual to shut out the light by which we guide our actions."

- Justice McLean

WikiProject Law aims to improve Wikisource's collection of law related source texts, including judicial opinions, statutes, and legal scholarship.

[[Image:Nuvola apps kdmconfig.png|20px]] Participants
You can join this project by adding your name to the participants list and placing the User WikiProject Law template on your user page.
 * Slaporte (talk)
 * LegalSkeptic (talk)
 * BD2412 T 02:50, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Htonl (talk)
 * Wabbit98 (talk) *project slave, it never seems to end
 * Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (talk)
 * 20:54, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
 * James500 (talk) 06:12, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Technolalia (talk) 16:18, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Apt-ark (talk) 04:02, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Reboot01 (talk) 21:03, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Ratte (talk) 19:35, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
 * 廣九直通車 (talk) 13:13, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
 * El Dubs (talk) 05:37, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
 * EthanLee (talk) 18:26, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Sliz42 (talk) 13:48, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Chromodyne (talk)
 * I'm mender (talk) 22:44, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Nuvola apps korganizer.svg-do

 * Identify digital sources for law texts
 * Improve templates for statutes and judicial opinions
 * Add and wikify texts
 * Identify copyright issues for categories of law texts.

Nuvola filesystems folder template.png Templates

 * WikiProject Law — header for talk pages of pages being worked on
 * /Table of citation templates/ — a complete template of all citation templates used
 * WikiProject US Supreme Court — header for talk pages of Supreme Court pages being worked on (from WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
 * USSCcase — navigation and info for title page of a U.S. Supreme Court case. See page for usage info (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
 * USSCcase2 — Navigation and info for each document of the case. See page for usage info (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
 * Case — navigation and info for title page of a non-Supreme Court case. This is the same as USSCcase, except that it does not add any category automatically, so you will have to add your own.
 * Case2 — Navigation and info for each document of the case.
 * CaseCaption — Creates a caption for the syllabus (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
 * Article — Formats and creates span id for each clause in a constitution, treaty, or other legal document (translated from Turkish Wikisource)

License templates

 * PD-EdictGov - license for edicts of a government, local or foreign; public domain in the United States.
 * PD-in-USGov - license for edicts of the United States federal government; public domain in the U.S.
 * PD-USGov - shorter license statement for edicts of the U.S. government

Tools
Use this tool to turn legal citations into interwiki links.
 * WIkifyCite Tool - running here, documentation and source here.

Related projects on Wikisource

 * United States Statutes at Large
 * WikiProject NZ Law
 * WikiProject UK Law
 * WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases
 * Portal:United States case law
 * Portal:United States copyright case law
 * WikiProject US Code
 * WikiProject United States Executive Orders
 * WikiProject Academic Papers/Law and Category:Legal scholarship
 * Internship project at New Law College, Pune working on (Laws of India)