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Sunday, 13th June 2010

Heads-Up: Live Tuesday (June 15th): Law.Gov Workshop: Access to the Raw Materials of Our Democracy

UPDATE: This event is over but it's available on video along videos from other workshops and keynotes from Carl Malamud.

On Tuesday June 15, 2002, a full day of panels with Carl Malamud and many other VIP's in legal information arena about the Law.gov idea that Malamud publicly announced for the first time last October.

Mr. Malamud wants to develop a, "distributed, open source, authenticated registry and repository of all primary legal materials in the United States."

The workshop will take place at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC beginning at 10:00am EDT (that's 7:00am PDT/14:00 GMT).

Details and Links to Video Stream Here

Some of Those Who Will Also Be Joining Mr. Malamud:

+ Peter W. Martin, Co-Founder, Cornell Legal Information Institute
+ Erika V. Wayne, Deputy Law Librarian, Stanford Law School
+ Beth Noveck, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Executive Office of the President
+ David Mao, Deputy Law Librarian of Congress

+ Ray Mosley, Director, Office of the Federal Register
+ Michael Wash, CIO, Government Printing Office
+ The Govpulse.US Team
+ Harlan Yu, Co-Creator, FedThread.Org

+ Tim Stanley, CEO, Justia
+ Mike Walsh, President and CEO, US Legal Markets/Global Legal Solutions, LexisNexis Group
+ Ed Walters, CEO, Fastcase

+ Vivek Kundra, Chief Information Officer, Executive Office of the President
+ Tim O'Reilly, CEO, O'Reilly Media
+ Vinton G. Cerf, Senior Vice President, Google

Topics range from" "Primary Legal Materials and the States" to "Primary Legal Materials and the Private Sector" to "Government as Platform." Were very interested to listen to what Mike Walsh from LN, Tim Stanley from Justia, and Ed Walters from FastCase have to say.

There will also be a live Twitter stream. Search the hashtag: #lawgov.

Details and Links to Video Stream Here

See Also: Public.Resource.Org (Mr. Malamud's Home Page Listing Many of the Projects He's Involved With)

If Law.gov is going to become reality, Carl Malamud is the person to do it. One of his many accomplishments is getting the SEC to make the EDGAR database accessible for free, online.

Source: Center for American Progress
Hat Tip: Cory D. at BB

See Also: Law.gov and Primary Legal Documents: Discussions in New Haven and New York City (March 10, 2010)

See Also: Live Blog: Law.gov Workshop at Stanford (January 12, 2010)

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