Openlaw is a project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School aimed at releasing case arguments under a copyleft license, in order to encourage public suggestions for improvement.
Berkman lawyers specialise in cyberlaw—hacking, copyright, encryption and so on—and the centre has strong ties with the EFF and the open source software community.
"We deliberately used free software as a model," said Wendy Seltzer, who took over Openlaw when Lessig moved to Stanford.
Among the drawbacks to this approach: the arguments are made in public from the start, so Openlaw can't spring a surprise in court.
This modified article was originally written by New Scientist magazine (see https://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/copyleft/) and released under the copyleft license.