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White House publishes Open Data Policy memorandum on GitHub, enabling...
Among the interesting features of the White House’s new Open Data Policy is that the memorandum that provides policy guidance to agencies in complying with the policy (M-13-13) was published on GitHub,...
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Slides: Legal Informatics Research Today: Implications for Legal Prediction,...
I’ve posted slides of my presentation entitled Legal Informatics Research Today: Implications for Legal Prediction, 3D Printing, and eDiscovery, given 16 May 2013 at CICL 2013: The Fifth Conference on...
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Haapio & Passera: Visual Law: What Lawyers Need to Learn from Information...
Helena Haapio, LL.M., of Lexpert Ltd., and Stefania Passera, M.A., of Aalto University School of Science, have posted Visual Law: What Lawyers Need to Learn from Information Designers, at VoxPopuLII....
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Mendelson: Private Control Over Access to Public Law: Federal Regulatory Use...
Professor Nina A. Mendelson of University of Michigan Law School has posted Private Control Over Access to Public Law: The Puzzling Federal Regulatory Use of Private Standards, forthcoming in Michigan...
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Abstracts: Bayesian Analysis in Law: Papers presented at Conference: The Many...
Abstracts have been posted of papers presented at the Conference: The Many Faces of Contemporary Philosophy and Theory of Law, held 23-24 March 2013, at Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland. The...
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Raman: Ethnographic study of Indian land record digitization project
Bhuvaneswari Raman of the French Institute of Pondicherry has published The Rhetoric and Reality of Transparency: Transparent Information, Opaque City Spaces and the Empowerment Question, Journal of...
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Hoekstra: Dataset: A Network Analysis of Dutch Regulations
Dr. Rinke Hoekstra of the Leibniz Center for Law has posted a dataset entitled A Network Analysis of Dutch Regulations. Here is the description: This fileset contains two networks (CSV files) of...
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FuzzyLaw: Collection of lay citizens’ understandings of legal terminology
The Cardiff University Centre for Language and Communication has made available FuzzyLaw, an online collection of “lay-people’s explanations of legal terms.” Here is the description from the project’s...
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May 22: House Legislative Data and Transparency Conference 2013
The U.S. House of Representatives will hold its second Legislative Data and Transparency Conference, 22 May 2013, in Washington, DC. Click here for the conference agenda. Click here for live video of...
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Mill: Integrating the US’s Documents
Eric Mill of the Sunlight Foundation has posted Integrating the US’ Documents, at the Sunlight Foundation Blog. Here is an excerpt: A few weeks ago, we integrated the full text of federal bills and...
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Vergottini: XML, HTML, JSON – Choosing the Right Format for Legislative Text
Grant Vergottini of Xcential Group has posted XML, HTML, JSON – Choosing the Right Format for Legislative Text, at Legix.info. Here are excerpts: I find I’m often talking about an information model and...
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Harper: Cato’s “Deepbills” Project Advances Government Transparency
Jim Harper, Esq., of the Cato Institute has posted Cato’s “Deepbills” Project Advances Government Transparency at Cato at Liberty. Here is an excerpt: So with software we acquired and modified for the...
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Legal informatics papers @ CeDEM 2013
At least two papers on legal informatics were presented this week at CeDEM 2013: International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government, held 21-25 May 2013, Danube University Krems, Austria:...
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Bennett: Citations, Out of the Box: Adapting Zotero for legal and...
Professor Frank Bennett of Nagoya University Graduate School of Law has just published a new book entitled Citations, Out of the Box: Adapting Zotero for legal and multilingual research (free version...
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Schweighofer and Hötzendorfer: Electronic identities – public or private
Professor Dr. Erich Schweighofer and Walter Hötzendorfer, both of the University of Vienna, have published Electronic identities – public or private, International Review of Law, Computers &...
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Greece’s land records problem
The New York Times has published an article on enormous problems with Greece’s land records: Suzanne Daley, Who Owns This Land? In Greece, Who Knows? Here are excerpts: In this age of satellite...
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Petition to Prohibit Copyright in Sources of Law
Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org has posted The Edicts of Government Amendment, a petition calling on the U.S. Congress to amend U.S. copyright law to expressly prohibit copyright in sources of law....
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Tauberer: Open Government Data Maturity Model
Dr. Joshua Tauberer of GovTrack has posted Open Government Data Maturity Model as part of his book, Open Government Data. Here is the description of the model: We live in a resource-constrained world...
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Call for Papers: Journal of Open Access to Law
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 27 June 2013 — has been issued for The Journal of Open Access to Law – JOAL. Here are excerpts from the call: Call for Papers: Journal of Open Access to...
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Feteris: The role of the judge in legal proceedings: A Pragma-dialectical...
Professor Dr. Eveline T. Feteris of University of Amsterdam has published The role of the judge in legal proceedings: A Pragma-dialectical analysis, Journal of Argumentation in Context, 1(2), 234-252...
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