University of Washington (UW) School of Law Associate Professor Kathryn A. Watt’s subject, thought-provoking paper is here.
Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog.
Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.
A helpful resource on current U.S. federal and state legislative activity — which has been around a while (since October 2011, actually, per this posting) — is the American Association of Law Libraries’ (AALL’s):
Legislative Action Center (LAC)
Content at the LAC frequently includes convenient “Advocacy One-Pagers” — see, for example:
The LAC is helpfully searchable too, per the following layout:
Search within Government Relations
Cross-posted on Legal Research Plus.
Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.
Legislative Research & Intent LLC (LRI) has launched an
and California legislative history and legislative intent research is reportedly available to academic patrons (law school faculty and students) at no charge.
Content is described as follows:
Carolina Rose
Carolina C. Rose, J.D., President
Legislative Research & Intent LLC
1107 9th Street, Suite 220
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 442-7660 Phone
(800) 530-7613 Toll Free
(916) 442-1529 Fax
Carolina.Rose@lrihistory.com
www.lrihistory.com
has very kindly provided the following updated information about LRI’s offer here.
Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) earlier this month released and posted a valuable new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)-related report:
Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog.
Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.
The 3rd and 4th [summer] Boulder Conferences on Legal Information 2011 and 2012 created the COACh [Context, Objectives, Activity & Checklists] template to function as a legal research-activity/lesson-planning framework.
Please see here.
The 5th summer Conference on Legal Information is scheduled to be held at the University of Washington School of Law, July 11-13, 2013 — please see here.
Third Branch News of the United States Courts has today posted the following:
Access to Court Opinions Expands
Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.
The U.S. Library of Congress has added — among other things — the Congressional Record to Congress.gov.
Please see here.
Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.
From the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO):
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) recently enhanced the U.S. Statutes at Large collection on FDsys by adding descriptive metadata for public laws, private laws, concurrent resolutions, and presidential proclamations. For approximately 32,000 individual documents, the enhancements allow researchers improved searchability and retrieval by searching such metadata fields as title, SuDocs classification number, date, category, etc. The U.S. Statutes at Large collection includes volumes 65-115, covering the 82nd -107th Congresses, from 1951-2002.
The additional descriptive data was added by both manual and automatic processes. A team of GPO staff members from Library Services and Content Management (LSCM), including catalogers and automation librarians, added descriptive metadata for titles, public law numbers, and dates.
…
In 2011, GPO announced the release of digitized volumes of the U.S. Statutes at Large, in partnership with the Library of Congress. The U.S. Statutes at Large is the permanent collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress.
To browse U.S. Government publications at FDsys, please see here.
Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.
An interesting recent brief report of Internet For Lawyers is:
Are All Citator Services Created Equal? A Comparison of Google Scholar, Fastcase, Casemaker, LexisNexis, WestlawNext, and Bloomberg
by Carole A. Levitt and Mark Rosch (2012)
Hat tip to the January/February 2013 issue of The Internet Guide for the Legal Researcher Newsletter.
Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.
As part of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the U.S. Department of Treasury pilot project to provide permanent public access to the Treasury Library’s digital content, the Official Register of the United States is now available on GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) at <www.fdsys.gov>. The Official Register of the United States: 1829, 1835-1837, 1841-1861; 1879-1891, 1895-1907, 1911-1921, 1925-1926, 1929-1934, 1936-1959, contains information about the Federal workforce, including the name of every employee, their job title, state or country of birth, the location of their post, and their annual salary.
See the “Civil Service Commission” as “Government Author” at:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/govauth.action
Three additional historical U.S. Government information titles will be released in Fiscal Year 2013. These titles are:
* An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States: 1793; 1797; 1805-06; 1808-09; 1812-1828; 1830-1890. This publication documents detailed statements of receipts and expenditures of the U.S. Government appropriations, including balances of the current and previous fiscal years, payments during the year, sums carried to surplus funds, and balances unexpended at the end of the year.
* Combined Statement of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States: 1872-1983, which contains fiscal year receipts and expenditures of the Government by appropriations.
* Internal Revenue Cumulative Bulletins: 1919-2008. This is a consolidation of all items of permanent nature published in the Internal Revenue Bulletins (IRB). IRBs are the authoritative instrument of announcing official rulings and procedures of the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Decisions, Executive Orders, Tax Conventions, legislation, court decisions, and other items of general interest.
Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.
