LinkedLegislation Blog

Plans for the California laws hackathon are moving forward, with some sponsorships secured, thanks to Philip Ung (@philrung) at Common Cause (@CommonCauseCA). Generally updates are added at https://code.google.com/p/calaw/wiki More details soon...Also wanted to note that my California laws site (calaw.tabulaw.com) is down, due to an Amazon Web Services interruption.  I will restore it... [Read More]

[Edit: Sign up to join us here (Facebook event)]It's true, California's laws now come with an unofficial RESTful API. This is a great boost for California Law Hackathon plans: now programmers can dive right in and develop innovative ways of presenting and navigating the data in their favorite format- JSON, XML, RDF among others.  If you want... [Read More]

This Sunday, August 7 at 1pm PST, we are having a virtual + in-person planning meeting for the hackathon, with a twitter hashtag #CaLawHack.I've set up a collaborative editor at https://rasa.tabulaw.com/p/calaw [archived] so we can jot notes for the planning meeting itself.Look for more details on govfresh.com, where Luke Fretwell... [Read More]

So it's not quite Wikileaks, and it's actually officially sanctioned by California's Legislative Counsel. But an email I recently received on Sunlight Foundation's OpenStates listserv could be the first step to fully opening up California's legislation to the public. In the world of legislative transparency, this counts as exciting stuff.I've... [Read More]

Last week's NYT OpEds on law school reform continue to reverberate in the legal community - especially among law students and recent graduates.One answer for graduates, as I suggested, is to proactively define and promote their own expertise.  Another is for this generation of new graduates to join with other... [Read More]