Spindle Law offers many ways to join our effort of crowd-sourcing the law.   If you have expertise in an area of law, you are encouraged to start mapping out that law by adding topics and rules to the tree along with new authorities, as Nick recently did with forum non conveniens. In addition, you can comment on a rule of law or a particular case.   But perhaps the easiest way to start  is to give your input on existing authorities.  Some authorities are missing details like a pin cite or its disposition, whereas completed authorities need to be vouched for by the community for standing for the rule.

We recently released a new feature on Spindle Law that we call “contribution suggestions” that will help you find these authorities.    As you browse  topics and rules, you’ll see a box with a random selection of rules from within the area of law you are are browsing.  Clicking on one of those rules will bring you to an authority for that rule that either is missing some information or hasn’t been vouched for at least twice.   You’ll see question marks where an authority needs information which you can then fill in by hovering over the authority and clicking the “edit” link.   If the authority is complete and you’ve read the source and can vouch that it stands for the rule, you again hover over the authority and click the “vouch” link.

To see a full list of rules with authorities that need your input, click on the the “view more suggestions” link.   From there, you can also switch to another area of law for finding contribution suggestions.

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