We’ve had our introduction video professional translated into Mandarin. You can watch the video below.
April 2016
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Addison Cameron-Huff is an award winning developer (2013 semi-finalist for LinkedIn Hackathon, 2010 winner of PayPal’s annual X Innovate Conference Hackathon, 2010 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Hack Day, 2009 winner of Yahoo! Open Hack New York City, 2008 winner of Yahoo! Open Hack Day at Waterloo), an Ontario-licensed technology lawyer and an entrepreneur (ca, FlatLaw.ca, ParentInterview.com, SummerhillDesign.com).
Nachshon Goltz teaches at York University, has authored peer reviewed papers & book chapters in the field of technology and law Nachshon is finalizing his PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and is an Ontario and Israeli lawyer. As a lawyer, Nachshon has consulted to the Israeli court system in its computing project, a multi-million international project including companies as IBM, Microsoft and other leading technology corporations.
The majority of legal research is conducted within a single jurisdiction. But in an increasingly global world there’s sometimes a need for legal research that crosses borders. How can searches be conducted across several countries or even the world?
Global-Regulation’s search engine is one answer. It can be used to search for the majority of the digitally published laws (translated into English) for almost 50 countries worldwide. The search engine allows for comparison across jurisdictions and filtering by country/date.
Alternative to Global-Regulation include:
We’ve used the Global-Regulation global law analytics tool to analyse world climate change laws: https://www.global-regulation.com/analytics.php?q=climate+change.
It’s interesting to note that in recent years the United Kingdom and the European Union have been the most active legislators in the area of climate change.
You can explore the data yourself by going to https://www.global-regulation.com/analytics.php?q=climate+change. If you’d like to see the specific laws (and filter by country or year) you can use the regular search: https://www.global-regulation.com/search.php?blog.
We’re very pleased to announce the launch of our newest feature: a global legislation analytics tool. The best way to understand the tool is to try it out for yourself: https://www.global-regulation.com/analytics.php?q=cement+import.
The analytics tool runs a given search across our entire database and then for each individual country in the database to produce an analytics report that summarizes all of the statistical information we have available on the laws (primarily derived from word counts for individual laws and number of laws).
The available graphs (as of April, 2016) are:
- Number of laws by country
- Percentage of laws that match the search, by country
- Approximation of legal complexity, by country and by continent/region
- Heatmap of legal complexity, by country
- A timeline of laws passed (excluding the US), by country
The analytics service returns the top 10 individual matches by jurisdiction so the user can get a better feel for the data that went into the graphs. The analytics are powered by the same search engine as the basic search tool and we encourage users to explore the data first in the search tool and then move over to the analytics to get a global picture.
The analytics are run on our entire database, currently over 1.3 million laws from 47 countries (and many provinces/states within the US & Canada).
You can run your own analytics search here: https://www.global-regulation.com/analytics.php. Subscribers can run an unlimited number of searches, guest users are limited to 10 searches for free.
Example analytics graph: “university endowment”
Example: laws that mention “climate change” since 1990 (non-US)
Russia legislation is now searchable through Global-Regulation.com. The laws are converted to PDF and then translated from Russian into English.
Here’s an example search for “vodka”: https://www.global-regulation.com/search.php?year=&country=Russia&province=All&start=0&q=vodka&advanced=false. Alcohol consumption in Russia stays among the highest in the world
Here’s another example for banks: https://www.global-regulation.com/search.php?year=&country=Russia&province=All&start=0&q=banks&advanced=false.
As with all Global-Regulation searches, clicking the search result sends the user to the official publication.
San Marino legislation is now searchable through Global-Regulation.com. The laws are converted to PDF and then translated from Italian into English.
Here’s an example search for “stamp taxes”: https://www.global-regulation.com/search.php?year&country=San+Marino&province&start&q=stamp+taxes&advanced=false. San Marino has quite a few laws about stamps and is a favoured country of stamp collectors.
Here’s another example for banks: https://www.global-regulation.com/search.php?year&country=San+Marino&province&start&q=bank&advanced=false.
As with all Global-Regulation searches, clicking the search result sends the user to the official publication.
Interview with Monica Bay Fellow at CodeX, Stanford Uni.