The Free the Law project involves the digitization of Harvard Law’s entire case law collection, which will be available for free on Ravel. After eight years, the digitized collection will be available in bulk to anyone.

The press release is here. Ravel’s announcement on its blog (and accompanying video) is here.

Further details were published on Harvard Law Library blog, Et Seq.

The New York Times article announcing the project is here.

Seton Hall law professor Brian Sheppard had a more skeptical take (as to the “access to justice” angle, at least) here.

Ravel Law is one of several entrants in the legal research market to come out of Silicon Valley in recent years. Its newest feature is Judge Analytics, and an upcoming webinar (Thursday, April 16 at 11AM Pacific) promises to introduce it to anyone interested. It will be conducted by Jean O’Grady, who writes more about it here.