Hacking the law system: open legal data in Europe What can opening access to law achieve? The answer is simple, it can result in a better and wider legal knowledge, which means a “better informed citizenry”. Openlaws.eu is a DG Justice project intended to give citizens better access to legislation, case law and commentary in the UK, Netherlands and Austria. Professor Chris Marsden will discuss the benefits that might come out of a wider legal knowledge, including: more litigation, more mediation, better consumer contracts, lower contract costs, better spread of liabilities, better protection for those whose rights are abused.