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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A modest improvement to WARC-GPT
I just made a minor change to WARC-GPT, the tool Matteo Cargnelutti wrote for querying web archives with AI. I’ll explain a little bit of the background, and what the change is for. What are we trying to do here The basic idea is that we want to combine web archives with […]
April 4, 2024
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New Endeavors at the Library Innovation Lab
This month, the Library Innovation Lab celebrated the full and unqualified release of the Caselaw Access Project data. We took the opportunity to gather and look to the future at Transform: Justice on March 8th. The event reminded us of what we already knew: the open legal data movement is alive and […]
March 29, 2024
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Transitions for the Caselaw Access Project
The Library Innovation Lab is excited to announce that the original limitations on the data available for the Caselaw Access Project expired this month, and that data can now be fully released without restriction on access or use. As part of our original collaboration agreement with Ravel Law, Inc. (now part of LexisNexis) for […]
March 26, 2024