Editor’s note: This is the first in a 2-part series on issues of content permanence. Benjamin Keele of the William and Mary Law Library will be writing on data deletion principles for VoxPopuLI...
Prosumption: shifting the barriers between information producers and consumers One of the major revolutions of the Internet era has been the shifting of the frontiers between producers and consumers ...
In this post I describe the process and requirements that eventually led to the MetaLex Document Server, a server that hosts all versions of Dutch national statutes and regulations published since Ma...
The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, referred to as UELMA, is ready for introduction into state legislatures. It has undergone its final proofing and formatting process by the National Confere...
In the wake of a decisive victory at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu treated rival Japanese warlords to a simple but effective instrument of control, pioneered in the preceding Era ...
Over the past couple of years, there has been a great deal of discussion — particularly in relation to the Durham Statement [1] — about technical standards and preservation issues for law...
Farmland outside Matatiele My father was, as was his father before him, a country lawyer in a remote but very beautiful part of South Africa, in the foothills of the Maluti mountains on the border be...
A Copyright Will Protect You From Pirates - by Ioan Sameli - http://bit.ly/lJrePv. Licensed under a Creative Commons by-sa 2.0 license In 2008, the State of Oregon sent a takedown notice to Tim Stanl...
RIP, MIX, LEARN: FROM CASE LAW TO CASEBOOKS Like many projects, the Free Law Reporter (FLR) started out as way to scratch an itch for ourselves. As a publisher of legal education materials and develo...
“International Law is to law what Professional Wrestling is to wrestling,” or so claimed the commentator Stephen Budiansky. The political scientist George Downs and his co-authors once claimed that ...
How are free access to law (FAL) services being used throughout the world? And how can these services be made sustainable? This post describes a research effort devoted to answering those two questio...
Raise your hand if you’ve heard (or said) a variation of one of these tired truisms: “Politics is dominated by lobbyists and spending.” “Policy making has degenerated into a glorifi...
Indian Kanoon is a free search engine for Indian law, providing access to more than 1.4 million central laws, and judgments from The Supreme Court of India, 24 High Courts, 17 law tribunals, constitu...
In this article, I reflect on the legal frameworks that affect virtual worlds. In particular, I focus on the use of non-game three-dimensional online virtual worlds such as Second Life, for purposes ...
It’s tempting to begin any discussion of digital preservation and law libraries with a mind-blowing statistic. Something to drive home the fact that the clearly-defined world of information we’ve kno...
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