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Mendelson: Private Control Over Access to Public Law: Federal Regulatory Use of Private Standards

legalinformatics wrote 5 days ago: Professor Nina A. Mendelson of University of Michigan Law School has posted Private Control Over Acc … more →

Tags: articles and papers, CFR, code of federal regulations, Delegated legislation information systems, Free access to delegated legislation, Free Access to Law, Free access to regulations, Legal open government data, Legislative information systems

Freeing the DC Code: An Update5 comments

legalinformatics wrote 1 month ago: There have been several developments in recent weeks in the effort to make the District of Columbia … more →

Tags: Policy Materials, Data Sets, Hackathons, Tweet Archives, Free Access to Law, Ed Walters, Public access to legal information, Stephen Schultze, Carl Malamud

Knake on Democratizing Legal Education2 comments

legalinformatics wrote 1 month ago: Professor Renee Newman Knake of Michigan State University and the ReInventLaw Lab has posted Democra … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Policy Materials, clinical legal education, Public access to legal information, Connecticut Law Review, Access to Justice, Public Legal Education, Law Practice Innovation, Renee Knake

Analysing policy: focus on media regulation

madelinegreenfield wrote 1 month ago: This week the topic of discussion within the BCM subject was policy debates within the media. Before … more →

Tags: BCM310, Week 4

Save Spaces for Aussie Faces

ninavisaggio wrote 1 month ago: For this week’s topic, policy and media regulation, I am going to discuss my thoughts on the Save Sp … more →

Tags: BCM310, week4, media regulation

Schuman: U.S. House Convenes Second Public Meeting on Legislative Bulk Data

legalinformatics wrote 3 months ago: Daniel Schuman, Esq., of the Sunlight Foundation has posted House Convenes Second Public Meeting on … more →

Tags: Data Sets, Free Access to Law, Public access to legal information, Open legal data, Public access to legislative information, Bulk access to legal information, Daniel Schuman, Legal open government data, Thomas

Coglianese: Enhancing Public Access to Online Rulemaking Information

legalinformatics wrote 3 months ago: Professor Dr. Cary Coglianese of University of Pennsylvania Law School has published Enhancing Publi … more →

Tags: applications, articles and papers, Research residencies, Cary Coglianese, Citizens' participation in lawmaking, Citizens' participation in rulemaking, Electronic rulemaking, eparticipation, erulemaking

Three Efforts to Crowdsource Amendments to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in Honor of Aaron Swartz: Lofgren-Wyden, EFF, and ForktheLaw

legalinformatics wrote 3 months ago: At least three separate efforts to crowdsource amendments to the U.S. federal Computer Fraud and Abu … more →

Tags: applications, Policy Materials, projects, technology developments, Technology & Tools, Aaron Swartz, Aaron's Law, CFAA, Citizens' participation in lawmaking

Strauss on Private Standards Organizations and Public Law

legalinformatics wrote 4 months ago: Professor Peter L. Strauss of Columbia Law School has posted Private Standards Organizations and Pub … more →

Tags: articles and papers, CFR, code of federal regulations, Delegated legislation information systems, Free access to delegated legislation, Free Access to Law, Free access to regulations, Legal open government data, Legislative information systems

Mortgage Debt and the US Economy

charleshenryclarke wrote 5 months ago: This article by Zachary Goldfarb in Thursday’s Washington Post highlights the rift that exists … more →

Tags: Economics, Debt, recession, Economy, mortgage, Housing bubble, Dean Baker, CEPR, Mike Konczal

In the name of counter terrorism

tw1itteratti wrote 8 months ago: It is quite easy to become familiar with the facts about terrorism and counter terrorism. Google wil … more →

Tags: Culture, Countering-Terrorism, Politics, middle east, Libya, Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Bruce, Mill, Schuman, Tauberer & Wonderlich: Recommendations on Public Access to Legislative Data

legalinformatics wrote 8 months ago: Tom Bruce of the Legal Information Institute; Daniel Schuman, Eric Mill, and John Wonderlich, all of … more →

Tags: applications, Data Sets, Policy Materials, White Papers, #freeTHOMAS, Bulk access to legislative data, Bulk XML access to legislative data, Daniel Schuman, eric mill

Lulofs on Legal Open Data and freeTHOMAS

legalinformatics wrote 9 months ago: Meg Lulofs, JD, MSLIS, has posted has posted Open Data in a Librarian Hat: What’s Your Number … more →

Tags: Others' scholarly or sophisticated blogposts, Free Access to Law, VoxPopuLII, Legal open government data, Thomas, Open legislative data, #freeTHOMAS, Meg Lulofs, Megan Lulofs

Mahbubani in favour of liberal optimism toward China's world role

Europeman wrote 9 months ago: Yet another interesting China-related discussion on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS – had seen it b … more →

Tags: Politics, Culture, Education 2, International Relations, Fareed Zakaria, CNN, GPS, Kishore Mahbubani, liberal optimism

Leith on E-participation and E-participants: Solving the Patent ‘Crisis’

legalinformatics wrote 11 months ago: Professor Dr. Philip Leith of Queen’s University Belfast School of Law has published E-partici … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Administrivia, Patent information systems, (E)government, International Review of Law Computers and Technology, eparticipation, Beth Noveck, Philip Leith, Crowdsourcing patent information

Holmes on Low-Quality Free Legal Content1 comment

legalinformatics wrote 11 months ago: Nick Holmes of infolaw and FreeLegalWeb has published Wall of shame – vacuous and inaccurate free le … more →

Tags: Others' scholarly or sophisticated blogposts, Free Access to Law, Public access to legal information, nick holmes, Online legal publishing, Binary Law, Quality control of electronic legal information, Quality control in legal information systems, Quality control of free legal information

McDonald on Client-Centered Innovation in Access to Justice1 comment

legalinformatics wrote 11 months ago: Sean Martin McDonald, JD, MA, of FrontlineSMS and FrontlineSMS:Legal has posted The Future of Law is … more →

Tags: technology developments, Others' scholarly or sophisticated blogposts, applications, Law Practice Technology, VoxPopuLII, Legal communication, Access to Justice, ict4d, ICTD

Google Endorses freeTHOMAS: Free Public Access to U.S. Federal Legislative Data in Bulk XML2 comments

legalinformatics wrote 11 months ago: Google has announced its support for Congress’s providing free public access in bulk XML to U. … more →

Tags: Data Sets, Policy Materials, #freeTHOMAS, Bulk access to legislative data, Bulk XML access to legislative data, Daniel Schuman, Google, Google endorses #freeTHOMAS, Google supports #freeTHOMAS

Tauberer, Bruce, and Schuman Quoted: Congressional Data May Soon Be Easier to Use Online

legalinformatics wrote 11 months ago: David A. Fahrenthold has published Congressional Data May Soon Be Easier to Use Online, Washington P … more →

Tags: #freeTHOMAS, Bulk access to legislative data, Bulk XML access to legislative data, Daniel Schuman, Joshua Tauberer, Legal open government data, Legislative information systems, open government data, Open legislative data


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