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Legal Hacking: Upcoming Events
Several legal hacking events — i.e., meetings at which developers engage in coding or other development activities leading to the creation of new legal technologies, or enter their new legal...
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Mill on Data for Better Bill Searching
Eric Mill of Sunlight Labs has posted Data for Better Bill Searching, on the Sunlight Labs Blog. Here is an excerpt: I’ve put up a dataset on Github that maps popular search terms to bills in Congress....
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Walters Revives Public Library of Law
Ed Walters of Fastcase has revived the Public Library of Law (PLoL) — a source of free, full text U.S. legal resources — according to a post by Greg Lambert entitled As LexisOne Goes Dark, Fastcase’s...
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Bommarito on Updated Michigan Compiled Laws (MCL) XML
Michael J. Bommarito II of Computational Legal Studies has posted Updated Michigan Compiled Laws (MCL) XML, on his blog. Here is an excerpt from the post: Last August, I released an XML copy of the...
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Tennison on the UK Open Standards Consultation and Legislation.gov.uk
Jeni Tennison of TSO has posted UK Open Standards Consultation, on her blog, Jeni’s Musings. In this post, Ms. Tennison responds to the UK Government’s consultation on open standards for government...
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Tauberer: Open Government Data: The Book
Dr. Joshua Tauberer of GovTrack has published Open Government Data: The Book (Civic Impulse LLC, 2012). Here is the abstract: This book is about the principles behind the open government data movement...
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Bommarito: Visualization of Reading Level Frequency by Congressional Bill Stage
Michael J. Bommarito II of Computational Legal Studies has posted Visualization of Reading Level Frequency by Congressional Bill Stage, on his blog. Here are excerpts from the post: Here’s a fun...
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Bommarito on Building an AWS CloudSearch Domain for the U.S. Supreme Court
Michael J. Bommarito II of Computational Legal Studies has posted Building an AWS CloudSearch domain for the Supreme Court, on his blog. Here is a summary of the post: It should be pretty clear by now...
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Legal Hacking Is a Movement
Legal hacking is a movement. On Twitter, the hashtag for legal hacking news is #legalhack. Several legal hacking events — i.e., meetings at which developers engage in coding or other development...
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Harris Wins 2012 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award
Marci Harris of POPVOX has won a 2012 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award. The award citation reads: Harris introduced an innovative, distributed solution for online, grassroots advocacy. The...
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To Be Published in May 2012: Rubin, ed.: Legal Education in the Digital Age
Professor Edward L. Rubin of Vanderbilt University Law School has edited Legal Education in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in May 2012). Here is the table of contents: Part I....
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McMillan on The Need for Court E-Forms Identification (Metadata) Standards
James E. McMillan of the National Center for State Courts has posted The Need for Court E-Forms Identification (Meta-Data) Standards, Court Technology Bulletin, 18 April 2012. In this post, Mr....
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Davies on the History of West Publishing and Westlaw
Professor Ross E. Davies of the George Mason University School of Law has published How West Law Was Made: The Company, its Products, and its Promotions, Charleston Law Review, 6(2), 231-282 (2012)....
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Prebble and Caldwell: Zotero – A Manual for Electronic Legal Referencing
Professor Dr. John Prebble and Julia Caldwell of Victoria University Wellington Faculty of Law have published Zotero – A Manual for Electronic Legal Referencing (2012) (Victoria University Wellington...
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Gastil on Juries, Judges, and the Determination to Reach a Verdict
Professor Dr. John Gastil of the Penn State University Department of Communication Arts and Sciences has posted Juries, Judges, and the Determination to Reach a Verdict, at Jury and Democracy. In this...
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DGT-TM-2011, Parallel Corpus of All EU Legislation in Translation, Expanded...
The DGT Multilingual Translation Memory of the Acquis Communautaire: DGT-TM — a parallel corpus of all European Union legislation, called the Acquis Communautaire, translated into all 22 languages of...
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Hershowitz on Legislative Standards and the International Legislation...
Ari Hershowitz of Tabulaw has posted Legislative Standards and the International Legislation Unhackathon, at the Tabulaw Blog. Here is an excerpt from the post: The International Legislation...
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Mandelbaum on How XML Can Improve Transparency and Workflows for Legislatures
Andrew Mandelbaum of the National Democratic Institute has posted How XML Can Improve Transparency and Workflows for Legislatures, on the NDItech/democracyworks blog. In this post, Mr. Mandelbaum...
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Posts and Videos on Legal Hacking Events
Several posts and videos have been published about the legal hacking events — the Brooklyn Law School Legal Hackathon (held 15 April 2012); and the Georgetown Law Center Iron Tech Lawyer Competition,...
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New from Sunlight Labs: Scout: Alert Service for U.S. Legislation and...
Eric Mill of Sunlight Labs has posted Scout, in Open Beta, on the Sunlight Labs Blog. In this post, Mr. Mill describes Scout, a system for creating online notifications for U.S. federal and state...
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