LinkedLegislation Blog

My previous post introduced a proof-of-concept modern display for the United States Code, and five design principles that I propose for the official web publication of laws and regulations: hierarchical navigation, keyword and citation search, section-level display, history and text comparison (version management), copy and paste. This post describes the... [Read More]

From the Code of Hammurabi to the United States Code, statutory law is naturally built for web display. And yet until today no web site has done true justice to the law. Tl;dr, compare for yourself, the official site for the United States Code (uscode.house.gov) and my new unofficial reconception... [Read More]

Reviving LinkedLegislation at linkedlegislation.org [Read More]

I’ve done a lot of thinking about the original sources of U.S. federal law. And I’m fortunate to work with the people who draft, amend, organize, and analyze the law. Much of the law is published in fragments distributed across paper volumes and across various federal websites. Publication of the... [Read More]

In my previous post, I discussed how to define similarity for bills in Congress. Given a new bill, which other bills are similar, and how are they related?We're building applications to let researchers look up any bill and get a list of similar bills. To do this, we separate the... [Read More]