We build open source tools used at Harvard and beyond that preserve and expand access to knowledge.
Learn more about the lab on the LIL website.
Our Projects
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Perma.cc
Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite.
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H2O Open Casebook
H2O is a platform for creating, sharing, and remixing open course materials.
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Caselaw Access Project
The Caselaw Access Project offers free, public access to over 6.5 million decisions published by state and federal courts throughout U.S. history.
Our Team
Read our staff bios on the LIL website.
Research Fellows
Sankalp Bhatnagar
Research Fellow
Sankalp Bhatnagar gained his first exposure to legal design in a seminar on law, justice, and design at Harvard Law School, after which he taught and led efforts to advance the field and its directions at Northeastern University School of Law. He is joining the Library Innovation Lab as a research fellow for the academic year to carry out a new project in partnership with NuLawLab, where he is a senior researcher and has previously been a research resident. Sankalp is designing a workbook of exercises for people in the future tasked with crafting and choosing between legal alternatives by cataloging the capabilities of great lawyers and judges in the past.
LIL Blog Posts
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WARC-GPT “on tour”: Talk transcript and slide decks
Over the past couple of months, my colleague Kristi Mukk and I had the opportunity to talk about WARC-GPT and the concept of Librarianship of AI to the greater GLAM community: In March, at an event organized by Harvard Library about AI at Harvard Library. In April, at the 2024 Web Archiving Conference […]
June 28, 2024
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Student Note: ChatGPT Ate My Homework. Can LLMs Generate Compelling Case Briefs?
The Library Innovation Lab welcomes a range of research assistants and fellows to our team to conduct independently-driven research which intersects in some way to our core work.
The following is a reflection written by Chris Shen, a Research Assistant who collaborated with members of LIL in the spring semester of 2024. Chris […]June 10, 2024
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Announcing the COLD French Law Dataset
May 23, 2024