LinkedLegislation Blog

I'm writing a book with +Grant. This may be a surprise to him. We've discussed the book, we're planning on it, we've even begun to flesh out many of the ideas in our blogs. But we hadn't said anything publicly about it until now. Grant's in Hong Kong this week for... [Read More]

Two obvious questions:1. What have I been up to while neglecting this blog for so long?2. What was so important that I'm back to blog again?I'll give away the second answer first: the U.S. House of Representatives (yes, that U.S. House) held its second annual Legislative Data and Transparency Conference.... [Read More]

Grant Vergottini and I were given the opportunity to write about our exploits with legal hackathons and legislative editors over at the VoxPopuLII blog.  Do go over there and disagree with us in the comments.  We welcome a heated discussion.

Tomorrow (July 20), there is going to be an "industry day" to discuss the U.S. House modernization project.  This includes projects from both the Office of Legislative Counsel (responsible for bill drafting) and the Law Revision Counsel (responsible for codifying legislation into the U.S. Code).  The project specifications describe goals for... [Read More]

Legislative transparency is catching on.  Exhibit 1: OpeningParliament.org, a site to gather tools and propel legislatures toward a more open, participatory model. The site launch was sparked conference hosted by the National Democratic Institute (NDI), Sunlight Foundation and the Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency (LANLT) last month in Washington. The site links to the... [Read More]