A report on the roundtable on Accessing Legal Information, at the Access to Knowledge Global Academy Workshop, held 18-19 January 2011 at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa, has been posted by Jake Gardener at the Yale Information Society Project. According to the report, the panelists were Mariya Badeva-Bright, Tom BruceRead… Read more »
A new data model for U.S. federal legislative information provided by the Library of Congress (LC) will be developed by The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School, led by director and co-founder Tom Bruce — a member of our community — according to an announcement on the LII Announce blog. This modelRead… Read more »
A new version 02 of the URN:LEX standard for legal identifiers has been posted. The new version is dated 1 October 2010, and expires 4 April 2011. The new version has been published by Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council (ITTIG/CNR); Italy, National Centre for ICT in PublicRead… Read more »
A new report on the free access to law movement, entitled Free Access to Law: Is It Here to Stay? Environmental Scan Report (2010) [URL updated 7 March 2011], has been published by a research team including the following members: Project Director – LexUM: Ivan Mokanov Director of LexUM: Daniel Poulin Research Coordinator – LexUM:Read… Read more »
Video and audio are available for Tom Bruce’s presentation on Technical Principles for Law.gov, given 18 June 2010 at the Harvard Law.gov Workshop at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The video and audio are provided by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. The presentation focuses on five proposedRead… Read more »
A new version of the URN:LEX standard for legal identifiers has been posted. The new version is dated 2 April 2010, and expires 4 October 2010. The new version has been published by Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council (ITTIG/CNR); Italy, National Centre for ICT in Public AdministrationRead… Read more »
Twitter tweets from the Cornell Law.gov Workshop are available at #lawgov. The goal of this invitation-only workshop — being held 22-23 March 2010 at the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York, USA — is to begin the development of metadata standards for a proposed distributed registry and repositoryRead… Read more »
[NOTE: These events are being tweeted on Twitter at #lawgov.] Here are upcoming events in connection with the Law.gov legal open government data project: April 28, 2010: Duke Law.gov Workshop, co-sponsored by Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and to be held at Duke Law School, Durham, North Carolina [added 11 MarchRead… Read more »
Here are upcoming events in connection with the Law.gov legal open government data project: February 24, 2010: Roundtable at Yale Law School, for members of the Yale Law School community, with Tom Bruce and Carl Malamud; February 24, 2010: Liberating Legal Information: The Law.Gov Movement: Panel Discussion at New York Law School; February 25, 2010:Read… Read more »
Videos are now available for all of the workshop panels and the Law.gov panel from Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency (POGW), a workshop held 21-22 January 2010 at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). Click here for a summary of the legal-information-related discussion at the workshop.