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Factual verification needed Cinema of Japan#Copyright status of Japanese films - factual verification needed (necessary for wikipedia image screenshots from Japanese films), official Japanese references would be great Florida v. J.L. - the article is being heavily edited by a generally unconstructive (and possibly though unlikely WP:COI) editor banned vandal. An editor who knows the facts of the case may want to make sure that nothing inappropriate is being done to the article. Chicken Wing (talk) 21:51, 7 June 2008 (UTC) The Doctrine of the General Talking Pictures Case - please check this new article for conformity to Wikipedia style Article clean up Attorney of record Biopiracy Case law Civil confinement Compelling state interest -- Cleanup needed, compelling interest section of First amendment is inconsistent with Compelling state interest Computer crime needs a rewrite Copyright Term Extension Act - needs a lot more cites, cleanup Insider trading -- especially international aspects J.D. - neutrality of editors in dispute (whether JD is graduate degree and whether doctorate degree). please comment. Jury nullification Merger guidelines -- desperately needs cleanup and expansion, very inaccurate Murder - needs cites, could become a GA with a bit of work Pendent party jurisdiction -- recently written stub, could use some work Toibb v. Radloff – court case – recently failed WP:GAN – needs a lot of work. Missing topics Legal certainty List of notable United Kingdom House of Lords cases - lots of redlinked cases Abby Rubenfeld - civil rights attorney, former chair of ABA IR&R section, and sister of Paul Rubens Computer assisted legal research or Computer based legal research Selective publication – a process by which courts (especially appellate courts) in common-law systems (such as the United States) decide which decisions should be published. If I understand correctly, only published decisions are binding precedent; rules vary as to whether unpublished decisions have persuasive authority, or have no precedential value at all. (draft stub) In need of elaboration Dualism (law) - I'm suprised this didn't have an article until i wrote a stub just now Assisted person Partnership (UK) Demonstrative evidence Immigration law Codicil Reciprocal agreement Trade Agreements Act of 1979 European Cooperative Society Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon - a now defunct white shoe law firm Edward B. Burling - a name partner of Covington & Burling Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises - landmark fair use case in the United States Article clean up and references needed Perjury - not worldwide, mostly lists, needs citations Co-signing - cleanup, cites, very incomplete as of now Doing business as - cleanup Testator Class action Equity (law) Indemnity Missing heirs Trusts United States v. Baker Contingency fee Clear and present danger Rational basis review - the article is confusing and inaccurate Postnuptial agreement Law of Palestine Assessment requests Current law articles on peer review Requested photographs Current featured content candidates Policy discussion: "Magistrates' Court" vs. "Magistrates Court" (on Wikiproject Australian Law's Policy talkpage but relevant to other jurisdictions too) Reopened assessment department The assessment department has been defunct but now has been reopened with various glitches fixed. There are still a few minor improvements needed and are discussed on the talk page of the assessment department. Input on the assessment scheme from members of this WikiProject are needed to reach a consensus on whether to adopt C-class or not - currently, there is no consensus.

Contents 1 Scope 1.1 The common law 1.2 The Philosophy of law 1.3 Missing/requested law-related articles 2 Participants 2.1 Active 2.2 Resting 3 Resources 4 Easy to find new bill lookup 4.1 Infoboxes 4.2 Userbox 4.3 Templates 4.4 Useful categories 5 Parentage 6 Descendant WikiProjects 6.1 By jurisdiction 6.2 By topic 7 Related WikiProjects 8 Similar WikiProjects 9 Structure 10 General strategy and discussion forums 11 Todo 12 Template 13 Assessment

Scope

This Wikiproject is aimed at creating a greater consistency among the law related articles. Key areas of concern include consistency in defining concepts across multiple jurisdictions and proper categorization of articles.

The common law

As a foundation for this effort, it is vital that we create a comprehensive explanation of the common law, which is shared by most English-speaking countries. The common law is clearly divisible into a number of key areas, each of which should be tackled and developed in turn. These areas are:

• Contract law
• Tort law
• Property law, including Real property, Wills and Trusts
• Criminal law
• Evidence

Each of these areas contains a wide array of long-established but nuanced doctrines, and each has a complex and ultimately fascinating history - making this a particularly worthy project for Wikipedia to conquer!

The Philosophy of law

A joint effort that can be undertaken between this project and Wikiproject Philosophy is to improve the quality of articles concerned with the philosophical questions about law itself. Key components of the philosophy of law include:

• Jurisprudence
• Natural law
• Legal realism
• Legal formalism
• Legal positivism
• Legal system
• The notion of rights

Missing/requested law-related articles

1. Wikipedia:Requested articles on Law
2. Skysmith's list of missing topics—Law & law enforcement

Participants

• This list is in alphabetical order for ease of reference. If you are no longer active, please move your sig to the Resting section.

Active

1. 28USC1344 05:20, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
2. Aboutmovies 02:16, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
3. Anthøny 19:27, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
4. Alex756 21:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
5. --Allen B. (talk) 17:11, 6 May 2008 (UTC) (wills, trusts and property law)
6. Amazanne 05:46, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
7. Ambi
8. Andy123(talk) 03:25, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
9. AnnaAniston
10. Assawyer 13:21, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
11. Bamkin 14:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
12. BballJones 22:53, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
13. bd2412 ^talk (civil procedure, First Amendment, intellectual property, especially trademark)
14. Bearian 17:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
15. Ben stephenson 03:07, 9 November 2007 (UTC) = Land Law, Equity & Trusts, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Administrative Law, Tort Law, European Community Law (current LLB. student, Newcastle University)
16. Bencherlite 15:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
17. BenWilson (talk)
18. Bjsiders 21:20, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
19. BramleyBarn 13:36, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
20. Briefer (talk) 13:32, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
21. Burnsie510 (talk) 05:29, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
22. Cdogsimmons 02:47, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
23. CharacterZero | Speak 17:35, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
24. Charles8854 (???) 12 October 2006 (???)
25. Chart123 (talk)
26. Chaser T
27. Cheapestcostavoider (talk)
28. Chicken Wing - I've created several law-related pages and keep them on my watchlist.
29. Chris nelson
30. Chunky Rice17:02, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
31. ClauLeo (talk) 21:45, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
32. CloudNine (talk) 11:28, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
33. colobikeguy - Patent Law, Bankruptcy Law, Federal Civil Procedure Law, New York Civil Procedure Law, International Criminal Law, Shrimp Law, Shrimp Soup, Shrimp Martini...
34. Cool Hand Luke 15:39, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
35. CoulterTM (UTC)
36. Crzrussian 20:23, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
37. CyclePat 02:54, 31 December 2006 (UTC) : "Does the probative value outweight its prejudicial impact" - David Paciocco
38. Dana Powers
39. Davodd 21:52, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
40. Doug. 06:56, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
41. Diego Buonvino
42. dr.ef.tymac 21:24, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
43. Dustingc 21:29, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
44. Eastlaw 09:28, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
45. EECavazos 04:56, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
46. Elliotreed 17:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
47. Erechtheus 01:53, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
48. FitzColinGerald - Anything related to arbitration and collective bargaining interests me greatly.
49. Francis Davey
50. Gilgamesh79 02:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
51. GregAsche (talk)
52. Hacienda 23:48, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
53. InMyHumbleOpinion (talk) 07:04, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
54. InvisibleDiplomat₆⁶₆ 09:28, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
55. Izehar
56. JackLee – mostly Singapore law.
57. JCO312 16:33, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
58. Jersyko·talk
59. Jet123 17:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
60. Jawesq ^talk 18:52, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
61. Jlofgren
62. Jpe|ob 14:18, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
63. J.R. Getsinger —Jrgetsin 02:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)—
64. kawaputra^torque 05:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
65. Legis 10:56, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
66. Lemonsawdust 09:37, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
67. Liverpool Scouse
68. Lquilter - copyright, intellectual property, freedom of expression articles; categorization
69. Luis1972 14:32, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
70. Markdsgraham 11:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC) - Hoping to take a go at the merger guidelines, and then at Canadian Supreme Court cases as they are released.
71. Matthew Proctor
72. Mhs5392
73. Miranda
74. Mmmbeer
75. Mrees1997
76. Mr Senseless - Law firm articles, article maintenance and technical issues
77. Must_WIN 23:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
78. Necessaryx
79. Neo-Jay 03:42, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
80. NewYork1956
81. Newyorkbrad 21:27, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
82. ozoneliar T 18:08 Friday, 2006-07-14 T (UTC)
83. PassionoftheDamon (talk) 01:47, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
84. PhishRCool ^{Talk Contribs} 22:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
85. User:Piotrnikitin
86. Politics rule 15:03, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
87. PullUpYourSocks
88. Redkern
89. User:Regicollis
90. reppin the bay15:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
91. Richwales (talk) 22:15, 6 August 2008 (UTC) – primarily immigration and citizenship articles
92. RidG 23:56, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
93. Russ (talk)
94. Rodhullandemu - UK Criminal Law & Procedure
95. Ronels ^talk 13:55, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
96. FactsOnly 12:10, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
97. Rsradford - USA constitutional law
98. Ryan Luck
99. Sebisthlm (talk) 11:05, 17 February 2008 (UTC), Swedish & EC law
100. Scienter 18:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
101. Scythian77
102. Skittleys (talk) 02:38, 7 July 2008 (UTC) all, particularly lawyer administration and regulation
103. Sumple (Talk) 09:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
104. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire!
105. TheronJ 20:44, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
106. THF 22:01, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
107. Tyciol (talk) 23:41, 12 October 2008 (UTC) Monitoring ongoing free speech/media issues
108. ukexpat ^talk --ukexpat 14:23, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
109. Justin 03:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC) – anti-discrimination, limitation of speech & press, undue burden; esp. abortion, same-sex
110. Vicjm 00:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
111. Vlad fedorov 09:23, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
112. Walshga 09:22, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
113. Wikidea 08:46, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
114. Wikidemo 07:47, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
115. Whilding87 18:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
116. Willrgby 23.44, 6 June 2008 (GMT)
117. Willstansfield 22:02, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
118. xDanielx ^T/_C 05:33, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
119. Yu Ninjie 21:43, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
120. Zilonis 20:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
121. Zoticogrillo (talk) 21:59, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
122. Souli~ 18:41, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
123. Juice07 12:53, 3 December 2007 (GMT)
124. --TommyBoy (talk) 04:20, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
125. Mediterraneo (talk) 20:35, 6 April 2008 (UTC): law firm history, e.g. Davis Polk & Wardwell, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, Salans, Watson, Farley & Williams
126. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 19:41, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
127. --Harac (talk) 16:10, 30 October 2008 (UTC), IHRL, IHL, ICL (especially ICTY), ECtHR, Bosnian constitutional law
128. Reliable♪ Forever^talk 23:37, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Resting

1. Non Curat Lex - Resting since November 2006
2. Tarun Jain - Resting since April 2008

Resources

Easy to find new bill lookup

statesurge id also put these in new pages Rankun (talk) 01:04, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Userbox

*Participants are encouraged to add this box to their User Page using {{User WikiProject Law}} or by adding WikiProject Law to their Babel code.

Templates

Common law

Contract law Tort law Property law Wills Trusts and estates Criminal law Evidence

v • d • e

Try these:

• {{Civil procedure (United States)}} - (preview)
• {{Companies law}} - (preview)
• {{Competition law}} - (preview)
• {{Conflict of laws}} - (preview)
• {{Contract law}} - (preview)
• {{Criminal law}} (Criminal law) - (preview)
• {{Criminal defenses}} - (Criminal defenses) (preview)
• {{CrimPro-I}} (Criminal procedure - charging and investigating crimes) - (preview)
• {{Criminal procedure (trial)}} (Criminal procedure - criminal trials and convictions) - (preview)
• {{Environmental law}} - (preview)
• {{Evidence law}} - (preview)
• {{Family law}} - (preview)
• {{Intellectual property}} - (preview)
• {{Patent law}} - (preview)
• {{Patentability}} - (preview)
• {{Tort law}} - (preview)
• {{Property law}} - (preview)
• {{USConlaw}} (U.S. Constitutional Law) - (preview)
• {{US fed civ pro}} (U.S. federal civil procedure doctrines) - (preview)
• {{Wills, trusts, estates}} - (preview)
  

Additionally, a general "Law and Legal systems" template can be added to the bottom of any law-related site. It currently needs categories added, especially with regard to non-U.S. legal systems:

• {{Law}} (Law and Legal Systems) - (preview)

Useful categories

• Category:Law stubs - find law-related stubs to expand
• Category:Case law stubs - find case law stubs to expand
• Category:Law school stubs - find law school stubs to expand
• Category:Statute stubs - find legislation stubs to expand
• Category:Jurist stubs - find law-related bio stubs to expand
• Category:Crime stubs - find crime stubs to expand

Parentage

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Council

Descendant WikiProjects

Proposal for additional descendant projects moved to the talk page.

By jurisdiction

• WikiProject International law
• WikiProject Australian law
• WikiProject Canadian law

By topic

• WikiProject Cyberlaw
• WikiProject Law Enforcement
• WikiProject Human rights
• WikiProject Treaties
• WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court Cases

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Taxation
• WikiProject Animal rights
• Drug Policy
• Criminal justice
• Crime & Criminal Biography
• Terrorism

Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject Politics
• Elections and Referenda
• Organized Labour

Structure

Discuss the format for each article based on the WikiProject. Include various categories applicable to the topic.

General strategy and discussion forums

• Categorization discussion
• Cleanup discussion

Todo

• Look for articles that need cleaning up.
• Comment and expand upon Wikipedia:Manual of Style (legal)

Template

I have created a template to allow us to categorise legal articles by quality and by importance. By typing {{WikiProject Law}} on the talk page, you get:

	Law portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Law, an attempt at providing a comprehensive, standardised, pan-jurisdictional and up-to-date resource for the legal field and the subjects encompassed by it.
???	This article has not yet received a quality rating on the assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received an importance assessment on the assessment scale.

Assessment

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Law/Assessment

Legal articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	4	5	4	5	2	20
	A	1	1	4	1		7
	GA	1	2	13	10	6	32
	B	45	69	83	75	30	302
	C	1	1	3	2	5	12
	Start	63	177	430	594	289	1553
	Stub	15	125	493	936	285	1854
	List	2	2	1	667	61	733
	Assessed	132	382	1031	2290	678	4513
	Unassessed	26	20	22	19	2560	2647
	Total	158	402	1053	2309	3238	7160

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