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Causes: Crime & Law, Public Interest Law
Mission: Free law project is a california non-profit public benefit corporation and a federally-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity whose specific purposes are primarily:to provide free, public, and permanent access to primary legal materials on the internet for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes to the benefit of the general public and the public interest; to develop, implement, and provide public access to technologies useful for legal research; to create an open ecosystem for legal research and materials; to support academic research on related technologies, corpora, and legal systems; and to carry on other charitable activities associated with these purposes, including, but not limited to, publications, meetings, conferences, trainings, educational seminars, and the issuance of grants and other financial support to educational institutions, foundations, and other organizations exclusively for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes as allowed by law.
Programs: 1. Relaunched the recap project, an initiative for gathering and sharing court documents. 2. Hit one million minutes of oral argument audio available on our website. 3. Gathered all judicial opinions available for free via the pacer system and made them available and searchable to the public for free. 4. Worked with georgia state university to study the gig economy.