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Introducing and Integrating Free Internet Legal Research into the Classroom
“Introducing and Integrating Free Internet Legal Research into the Classroom” University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-05 JOOTAEK LEE, University of Miami – School of Law The Global...
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Keeping up with the federal courts with CourtListener
The CourtListener.com From the website: The goal of the site is to create a free and competitive real time alert tool for the U.S. judicial system. At present, the site has daily information regarding...
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Codifying Commonsense – the Law.gov Principles
I am very pleased and proud to add my signature to the LAW.GOV PRINCIPLES AND DECLARATION just posted at public.resource.org. These principles coalesced during the fifteen Law.gov workshops and have...
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“Abandoning Law Reports for Official Digital Case Law”
“Abandoning Law Reports for Official Digital Case Law” Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-01 PETER W. MARTIN, Cornell Law School In 2009, Arkansas ended publication of the Arkansas Reports....
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Open Access Law Journals –“One Journal at a Time”
Judy Janes and Marissa Andrea just published a good article on open access law journals. Their article, “One Journal at a Time,” includes a few paragraphs providing “a brief history of open access.”...
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Michael Hart, Father of Project Gutenberg
Today’s New York Times includes the lengthy obituary: “Michael Hart, a Pioneer of E-Books, Dies at 64.” The obit tells the story of the fascinating history of Project Gutenberg, which was born when Mr....
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ICALIRDA Conference 2012 – Legal Information in India
International Conference on Access to Legal Information & Research in the Digital Age (ICALIRDA 2012) February 29 – March 2, 2012 Organizers: National Law University, Delhi SAARC Law Mohan Law...
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Selling others’ briefs
Following up on George’s post “A pair of lawyers . . . sue West and LexisNexis for reproducing their court filings,” I took a second look at a directed research paper a student did for me a couple of...
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Legal Information Institute for China?
The Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) have been spearheading the free access to law movement throughout the world. Until recently, China has been conspicuously absent from the family of LIIs;...
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A plea to scholars
Dear scholars, Please pay attention to where you place your scholarship. Are you aware of the cost of some journal subscriptions? One example, of many, is the Journal of Law & Society. The...
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Ineffective Assistance of Library: The Failings and the Future of Prison Law...
By Jonathan Abel, in Volume 101, Issue #5 of The Georgetown Law Journal (June 2013). Here’s the abstract: The prison law library has long been a potent symbol of the inmate’s right to access the...
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Free Law Project from CourtListener
We here at Stanford are big fans of CourtListener. We use it to, among other things, identify recent cases that cite our faculty; those alerts come to us faster than those from some other services....
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Free Law Project Improves with API
Our good friend Pablo Arredondo shares this great free law development: Those pursuing better legal technology will find new wind in their sails with the release of the first-ever application...
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WeCite Project’s win-win opportunities
Analyzing how a given opinion has been impacted by subsequent decisions is an essential part of legal research. Consequently, the work of the Free Law movement cannot stop with making opinions freely...
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