Right to access to legal information and in particular to the legal authors’ scientific production: a comparison between French and Italian outlines

Abstract

The comparison between Italian and French panorama of instruments giving access to legal information, or laws on open access on legal information, appears deeply influenced nationally. Not for laws applied or publishing markets organizations, by the way similar, but for the approach to the idea of legal informatics and its practical applications. On the grounds, a tradition in the study and application of legal informatics in Italy, ancient of more than fifty years, allowed the evolution of some instruments that distinguished the offer, as for instance the bibliographic database DoGi, legal doctrine. Although, a comparison with the French panorama keeps to be valid, to underline useful suggestions to further improve Italian framework, which evolution can always be perfectible.