Legal Tools

Being a tool of computer-assisted legal research, the LTD provides access to all relevant case law, legislation (statutes and treaties), preparatory works as well as academic writings.

[7] As a consequence, courts, publishers (for example, the Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher) and other online services (such as Lexsitus[8] and the CMN Knowledge Hub)[9] hyperlink to the LTD-PURLs.

The International Criminal Court links in its main public decisions to the LTD. For example, the judgement of the trial chamber in the case of Germain Katanga included 538 hyperlinks.

The creators of the Case Matrix, Morten Bergsmo and Ralph Hecksteden,[18] won the 2008 Dieter Meurer Prize for Legal Informatics for its innovative qualities.

Morten Bergsmo founded the Project[22] when he served as the Senior Legal Adviser of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (2002-2005),[23] and he has been the LTP Co-ordinator since.

[26] The European Union and Finland have been the main donors to the ICC Legal Tools Project.