Wecome, Wex - An Almost-Wiki for Legal Information

The Blawgosphere is taking keen notice of Wex ("everyone's resource for law learning"), a spin-off of Cornell’s Legal Information Institute aimed at creating a freely-accessible, collaborative legal encyclopedia and dictionary.

Wex is starting off with over 130 dictionary-type entries (from "ALR" to "Writ of Error") and 126 encyclopedia-style articles addressing such diverse topics as contracts, the Geneva Conventions, the insanity defense, pollution, real property, and trademark law.

Is Wex a Wiki? Not quite. Wex actively seeks collaborators, but anyone who wants to participate will need to solicit an invitation via Wex's editorial contributions page.

[Thanks to Slaw for the tip!]