The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is adding mobile apps — please see:
U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) Adding Mobile Apps
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Congressional Lawmaking: A Perspective On Secrecy and Transparency
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) late last year put out an interesting report on lawmaking in the U.S. Congress:
Congressional Lawmaking: A Perspective On Secrecy and Transparency
Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog.
Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.
Authentication of Primary Legal Materials and Pricing Options
Always worth reading is Intersect Alert, the one published by the SLA San Francisco Bay Region Chapter (and not to be confused with Chuck Bartowski’s Intersect).
This item about a new California Office of Legislative Counsel white paper is from the most recent issue:
Authentication of Primary Legal Materials and Pricing Options
“The recent passage of the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA) has brought to the forefront the issue of costs of authenticating primary legal materials in electronic format. This white paper briefly reviews five methods of electronic authentication. These methods are based on trustworthiness, file types, effort to implement, and volume of electronic documents to be authenticated. Six sample solutions are described and their relative costs are compared. The white paper also frames the legal landscape and background of authentication for primary legal materials in electronic format, and provides context and points to applicable resources. The aim of this collective effort is to promote the understanding of costs related to authentication and invite further discussion on the issue.”
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/docs_pdfs/CA_Authentication_WhitePaper_Dec2011.pdf
Nonpartisan research organization MapLight reveals money’s influence on politics
The non-profit organization MapLight has posted webpages as to the U.S. Congress and certain state legislatures (California and Wisconsin) regarding money’s influence on politics:
See also here.
Hat tip to Resource Shelf.
LexisNexis Updates Free Caselaw and Forms from lexisONE Community to LexisNexis Community
LexisNexis has recently updated its free caselaw and forms access from lexisONE Community to:
For links to some other free legal research resources (for caselaw, statutes, regulations, etc) online, take a look too at:
Brief Guide to Low/No Cost Online American Legal Research
Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.
Revised (5th Edition) of “Locating the Law”
The Public Access to Legal Information (PALI) Committee of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SOCALL) has posted online its handy and valuable:
Locating the Law: A Handbook for Non-Law Librarians
Fifth Edition, Revised (2011)
Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.
Indian Legal Research Sites
A roundup of free Indian legal research resources:
Indian Kanoon
http://www.indiankanoon.org/
Full-text access to Supreme Court and state court case law.
Legal Information Institute of India
http://liiofindia.org/
part of wonderful WorldLII consortium and the Free Access to Law Movement.
India Legal Information Institute
http://www.indlii.org/
LegalSutra – Law Students’ Knowledge Base
http://legalsutra.org/
This site provides student generated class outlines and commentaries on specific legal issues.
LawKhoj
http://lawkhoj.com/
Indian legal search engine.
AdvocateKhoj Law Library
http://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/index.php
links to legislation, case law, legal conferences, information about Indian law schools, and attorney directories.
hat tip to Rob Richards and Anoop Vincent.
Stanford’s China Guiding Cases Project
On December 20, 2011, the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China released its first batch of guiding cases (指导性案例). This happened slightly more than a year after the Court issued the Provisions of the Supreme People’s Court Concerning Work on Guiding Cases (最高人民法院关于案例指导工作的规定) in November 2010.
The first batch of guiding cases consists of two civil cases and two criminal cases. The China Guiding Cases Project (CGCP), an initiative of Stanford Law School founded by Dr. Mei Gechlik in early 2011 and advised by leading experts including justices from the U.S. Supreme Court and China’s Supreme People’s Court, is pleased to release its translation of 王志才故意杀人案 (WANG Zhicai, an intentional homicide case) (Guiding Case No. 4) (attached).
About the CGCP
The CGCP aims to advance knowledge and understanding of Chinese law and to enable judges and legal experts both inside and outside of China to contribute to the evolution of Chinese case law through ongoing dialogue on the guiding cases. The CGCP intends to make these cases quickly and easily accessible to English-speaking audiences outside China on its searchable website http://cgc.law.stanford.edu. Visitors to the website will be able to post their thoughts about the cases and commentaries in Chinese and English, while “Question and Answer” sessions will permit readers and commentators to have more in-depth dialogues, again in Chinese and English.
To mark this historical moment in the development of the Chinese legal system, the CGCP will take the following steps this month:
Launch the CGCP website (http://cgc.law.stanford.edu) on Monday, January 9, 2012. Translations of the other three guiding cases will be available then. In addition, Judge JIANG (Michael) Heping, Chief Judge of the First Civil Division of the Dongguan Municipality No. 2 People’s Court in Guangdong Province, has contributed to the CGCP a commentary on Guiding Case No. 2. Judge JIANG’s court has been identified as a Court for National ADR Initiatives by the Supreme People’s Court. The Chinese and English versions of Judge JIANG’s commentary will also be posted on the CGCP website.
Hold a public event on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 12:45 – 2 p.m., at Stanford Law School. Dean Larry Kramer will commemorate the official launch of the CGCP and the public release of our official products.
To keep abreast of CGCP announcements and updates, please subscribe to the China Guiding Cases Project mailing list by visiting https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/chinaguidingcasesproject. Just enter your email address in the space provided and then click “Subscribe”.
The CGCP Team
Stanford Law School
Release of Initial Guiding Cases from the Supreme People’s Court of China
The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) of China has released its first four guiding cases : two contract law and two criminal law cases.
上海中原物业顾问有限公司诉陶德华居间
Shanghai Zhongyuan Property Consultants Ltd. v. De-Hua Tao
This is a contract law opinion.
吴梅诉四川省眉山西城纸业有限公司买卖
Wu Mei v. West Side Paper Co., Ltd. Sichuan Meishan
Also a contract law case.
潘玉梅
Panyu Mei, Ning Bribery Case
王志才故意杀人案
Wang Intentional Murder Case
The SPC statement explaining the concept of guiding cases and links to the four cases in Chinese is available at :
http://www.chinacourt.org/html/article/201112/21/472164.shtml
The court announcement and additional information in Chinese can be found at:
http://www.court.gov.cn/xwzx/fyxw/zgrmfyxw/201112/t20111220_168538.htm
http://www.court.gov.cn/xwzx/jdjd/sdjd/201112/t20111220_168539.htm.
Stay tuned to Legal Research Plus for news about English translations and commentary on the initial batch of SPC Guiding Cases.
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 House
Location:
Auditorium, National Law University, Delhi
Sector-14, Dwarka, New Delhi-110078 India
Main Theme:
International Conference on Access to Legal Information & Research in the Digital Age
(29 Feb-02 March 2012)
Sub Themes:
* Legal Education and Research: Current Development in Digital Age
* Role of ICT in Development of Comparative Jurisprudence
* International Law and Globalization in Digital Age
* Current Trends in Legal Publishing :IPR Issues & Challenges
* Licensing for Digital Resources
* Best Practices of Information & Knowledge Management in Libraries
* Open Access Initiatives and Scholarly Publishing
* Free Access to Law Movement: National & International Perspective
* Access, Authorization and Authentication of Digital Web Information
* Role, Relevancy and Research: Online Legal Databases
For additional information contact the Conference Convener, Priya Rai:
Ms. Priya Rai
Deputy Librarian,
Justice T.P.S.Chawla Library,
National Law University Delhi,
Sec-14 Dwarka, New Delhi-110078
Tel: 011-24533441,09811260504
icalirda2012@gmail.com
http://www.nludelhi.ac.in
hat tip to Aru Satkalmi.
