Curated repository of Case Law and Scholarship data from around the world in a Django based website.

⚠️ This project, CC’s Legal Database, is undergoing reimplementation using Django.

• Heroku Dev Site
• develop branch
• Posts in the Outreachy May 2020 round: CC Legal Database series

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

See CONTRIBUTING.md. It contains some general instructions that should be followed when contributing to any of the Creative Commons open-source repositories.

To follow these instructions, Python 3 and Pipenv are required.

Install dependencies with pipenv.

pipenv install --dev

Copy .env.template and set environment variables (like DJANGO_DEBUG_ENABLED=True for local development and testing) and secret keys in a .env file.

cp .env.template .env

After setting variables run the migrations to create the database (we use Postgresql in this case).

pipenv run python manage.py migrate

The next step is to create an admin account for Django admin.

pipenv run python manage.py createsuperuser

Finally you can start a development server with:

pipenv run python manage.py runserver

and see a local version of the website following http://127.0.0.1:8000/ on the browser.

After made code changes and before commit, check code style.

pipenv run black .
pipenv run flake8

See deploy_to_heroku.md.

The following information is deprecated and will be removed once the production site is live.

Visit the legacy website: CC Legal Database [Beta]

Google Sheet:

• Caselaw - Primary Data

Google Sheets:

• Caselaw - Cases Form Responses (for copying from, do not edit; Restricted Access)
• Caselaw - Scholarship Form Responses (for copying from, do not edit; Restricted Access)

Note: These Google Sheets are the results of people completing the Google Forms.

• Creative Commons Legal Database -- Cases
• Creative Commons Legal Database -- Scholarship

• LICENSE (Expat/MIT License)