http://www.droit.org/ is, above all, a meeting place for jurists and information experts to discuss the significance and possibilities for a

French Web site devoted to serving the public's and professionals' needs in law-oriented (public-sector) information.

The pages presently shown are experimental in content.  An editorial committee is discussing what 'droit.org' should become.

Droit.org is the initiative of an association, which draws mainly on the resources of the "Centre de Recherches en Informatique" (Research Center on Information) of the Ecole des Mines (School of Mines) of Paris.

For all questions about the project, write to: webmaitre@droit.org

Communiqué of January 7th, 1999

The site http://www.droit.org/ intends to bring together diverse individual and group initiatives dedicated to making available legal material which applies to France: the constitution, treaties, laws, decrees, decisions and circulars, as well as jurisprudence.

These documents are not exclusively French but more and more European and international.

Droit.org intends to become THE portal for French law, without claim of exclusivity.

Offering access to various documents already available on official and private sites, it makes a vital addition: a proprietary search engine, based on a text's position in a hierarchy of texts.

Droit.org seeks to become a meeting ground where jurists and information experts can pool their knowledge to offer a quality service, at no cost to its users.

An editorial committee is in formation.  You may offer your candidature by writing to: webmaitre@droit.org

In this way you can contribute to building the first genuine Web site dedicated to French law.