Law.gov is an attempt to create a distributed registry and repository of primary legal materials. Carl is participating in a number of workshops this winter and spring at law schools, NGOs, courts, and governmental agencies; his goal is to figure out what the main obstacles and objections will be in promoting broad legal access through a repository such as law.gov.
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At our NYLS panel, Helen, who has written a great new book called Privacy in Context, wondered how public legal materials changed when they were taken out of dusty physical court archives and released online.
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During my talk, I mentioned my sympathy to the stronger (latter) notion of Helen’s that information leads a very different life once it’s released online. danah boyd, for one, has carefully catalogued and beautifully narrated the numerous advantages and problems of the persistence, searchability, replicability, and aggregation of online information.
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