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.
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.
Bloomberg Law (BLAW) has won the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) 2012 new product award, recognizing BLAW’s innovation in providing access to legal information.
Please see:
BLOOMBERG LAW NAMED 2012 NEW PRODUCT OF THE YEAR BY THE AALL
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Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog here.
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.
A most interesting and valuable case study of savings for the public purse in Canada from the use of open data — by exposing a large tax fraud involving charitable receipts – is:
Case Study: How Open Data Saved Canada $3.2 Billion
by David Eaves
As Eaves writes, in essence, “the power of open data” is “the power to find problems in complicated environments, and possibly even to prevent them from emerging.”
Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog, referring in turn to Pew Internet’s Susannah Fox, The Power of Data and the Power of One.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) came out in December 2009 with a new and helpful report:
Lobbying the Executive Branch: Current Practices and Options for Change
The report addresses, among other things:
Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog.
Cross-posted in Law Library Blog.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (UK) starts up today.
It will be an independent institution and take over the jurisdiction of Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, as well as the devolution jurisdiction of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
The intent of the new high court is to “provide greater clarity” in the UK’s “constitutional arrangements by further separating the judiciary from the legislature.”
Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog.
Law Librarian Blog today features an interesting post about items missing from the U.S. National Archives, likely through employee theft.
See Missing Items from US Archive, Found Item in UK Archive.
See also the National Archives webpage Missing Historical Documents and Items.
And see the U.K. National Archives news item Lost Page of American History Found at The National Archives about a rare print of America’s Declaration of Independence (dated 4 July 1776), named after printer John Dunlap (1747-1812) — one of only 26 known copies in the world — recently found among files at the British Archives at Kew.
Nice to have some redundancy, even if all the way across the Pond!
Sunlight Labs, creator of OpenCongress, has started a new wiki project for obtaining data files for legislation,
legislators and votes in each of the 50 states. Volunteers are welcome!
Hat tip to today’s Law Librarian Blog.
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, a full-service, national law firm of approximately 700 attorneys with offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco and Washington, DC, has issued legal research guidelines that calls for using Loislaw before turning to LexisNexis and Westlaw.
Hat tip to today’s Law Librarian Blog, in turn acknowledging Legal Writing Prof Blog.
