survey of state published legal information
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SURVEY OF STATE PUBLISHED LEGAL
INFORMATION
Sarah Glassmeyer, JD MLSResearch Fellow, Harvard Library Innovation Lab
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Hi.
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Why?
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Access to Information
is Access to Justice.
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http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2893959
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How?
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Total sites visited:• 51 Code sites• 50 Regulation sites• 105 Court websites
17-18 Data Points per website
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Major Conclusions
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Currently impossible to do anything but the most basic
legal research using government provided websites.
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There exists (at least) 14 different types of hurdles in Access to Legal Information.
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What do we mean when we say
“Access to Law”?
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What are the Impediments to
Access?
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Context
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Cost
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Citation
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http://www.aallnet.org/mm/Advocacy/access/citation/neutralrules
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8%
88%
2% 3%
Case Law
OfficialUnofficialMixedUnknown
Officialness of Online Version of Law
6%
90%
4%
Code
OfficialUnofficialUnknown
20%
60%
20%
Regulations
OfficialUnofficalUnknown
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Corporate Control
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92%
3% 1%4%
All Online Publishing
StateLexisState, LexisState, West
23%
10%65%
1%
Official Print
StateLexisWestn/a
Case Law Publishing
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Code Publishing
82%
14%
2%2%
Online Publication
StateLexisConwayLawriter
42%
35%
19%
4%
Official Print
StateLexisWestLexis/West
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Regulation Publishing
90%
4% 4% 2%Online Publishing
StateLexisWestLawriter 6
8%
32%
Official Print
StateOther/Unknown
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Copyright
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Copyright Notifications on Webpages
43%
57%
Case Law
YesNo
53%
47%
Code
yesno
30%
70%
Regulations
YesNo
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NCSL 2011 Survey for Codes
21%
47%
21%
11%
Copyright Claims on Code
No Copyright ClaimState ClaimsState Claims PartialShared with Pub-lisher
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http://copyright.lib.harvard.edu/states/
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http://copyright.lib.harvard.edu/states/
33 official state codes are annotated.
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http://copyright.lib.harvard.edu/states/
33 official state codes are annotated.3 of the annotated codes are published by the state.
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Content/Archives
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Ranges of archival materialsCase Law (earliest date available)• Range: 1778 – 2015• Median: 1997Code (earliest date available)• Range: 1839 – 2015• Median: 1994Regulations (earliest date available)• Range: 1956 – 2015• Median: 2000
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Types of Archives
29%
18%
53%
Code
Current year onlyCodeSession Law
21%
13%66%
Regulations
Current year onlyCodeRegister
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Container
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8%
85%
7%
Case Law
htmlpdfmixed
89%
7%
3%
Code
htmlpdfmixed
38%
30%
32%
Regulations
htmlpdfmixed
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Citators
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Currency
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/102040
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Correctness
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43%
57%
Case Law
DisclaimerNo Disclaimer
35%
65%
Code
DisclaimerNo Disclaimer
22%
78%
Regulations
DisclaimerNo Disclaimer
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Control
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8%
92%
Case Law
RestrictionNo Restriction
16%
84%
Code
RestrictionNo Restriction
22%
78%
Regulations
RestrictionNo Restriction
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Cataloging
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Conveyance
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Search
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16%
84%
Case Law
NoneAvailable
2%
53%45%
Code
NoneBasicAdvanced
26%
50%
24%
Regulations
NoneBasicAdvanced
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Impediment Wholesale RetailContext X
Cost X X
Citation X
Corporate Control X X
Copyright X
Content X
Container X X
Citators X
Currency X X
Correctness X X
Control X
Cataloging X
Conveyance X
Search X
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Further Questions and Thoughts…
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It is possible that current government publishing
efforts are doing more harm than good.
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What are the actual legal research needs of the public,
and what does an effective and sufficient legal information
collection look like?
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Should states outsource electronic legal information publication – maybe even designate these electronic
versions official?
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Do we want our states to concentrate on retail or
wholesale publication of legal information (or both)?
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What is the role of libraries in all of this?
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Usability and UX issues abound.
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How many people are turning to pay law sites for self-help?
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Other Things I’m working on…
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Topic Modelling
Bug Tracking
Random Acts of Freeing the Law
Project X
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Thank you!