Sentences with phrase «primary legal materials»

All of our law school libraries have extensive collections of primary legal materials and law journals.

By primary legal materials, I mean materials that we, as citizens and taxpayers, bought and paid for.

A close second is the way that the public pays twice for primary legal materials: once when they are created, a second time when they are accessed.

With my belief in access to justice and to legal information, I can't help supporting initiatives to make primary legal material and legal scholarship freely available online.

Its databases contain the most comprehensive set of British and Irish primary legal materials available for free and in one place on the internet.

These documents cover a wide spectrum of subject matter from primary legal material to agriculture, commerce, medicine, natural resources and many more.

Talk to the people involved in this free - access movement and you quickly realize that some of them have set their sights on far more than just primary legal materials.

Most surprising is the extent to which many primary legal materials remain outside the public domain.

Primary legal materials need to be authentic and digitally signed.

If this initiative is ever realized, there's no need to stop with primary legal materials.

Providing the back file and ongoing release of primary legal materials is really the job of those institutions of government that make the law.

Authentication and Preservation of State Electronic Legal Materials Act: The Uniform Law Commission has also been developing uniform legislation on state primary legal material in electronic form, such as statutes and regulations, administrative codes and registers, and case law.

BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) provides free access to the most comprehensive and up - to - date collection of British and Irish primary legal materials on the internet with 90 databases covering 7 jurisdictions.

Federal and state statutes are online, as are growing bodies of other primary legal materials, from federal regulations to municipal ordinances.

An active program of education, training, and documentation should be undertaken to help governmental bodies that issue primary legal materials learn and use best current practices

Over the past six months, a series of workshops and symposia have explored the so - called Law.gov campaign, an effort to put all U.S. primary legal materials in the public domain.

Sure it's a different kettle of fish, but I enjoyed this article from the US perspective: Ending Copyright Claims in State Primary Legal Materials: Towards an Open Source Legal Operating System

Site includes primary legal materials, articles, and useful links to Pacific law sites, particularly relating to the islands of the Western Pacific.

BAILII provides access to the most comprehensive set of British and Irish primary legal materials available for free and in one place on the internet.

I agree with Sarah and Kristin that the value of citation tools and reference managers can be so much better exploited for primary legal materials drawn from databases or open - web sources, including CanLII, so they are cited as what they are.

We are convinced that this is the best way to guarantee the preservation of at least one print copy of essential primary legal materials in Toronto for the future.

I won't pretend to speak for Bob, but I doubt that he thinks of West or Lexis as simply the Kobe Beef primary legal materials.

What gets me is that we have to pay to read primary legal materials, which as public record, we own, AND, we have to pay them to read their precious secondary materials that are necessary for us to understand what the primary materials mean.

This is the second loss this year for Public Resource in its efforts to make primary legal materials freely available to the public.

By 2000, the online site had grown to cover primary legal materials for all 50 states, all federal appellate courts, the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register.

Primary legal materials means all materials that have the force of law and are part of the law - making process, including: briefs and opinions from the judiciary; reports, hearings, and laws from the legislative branch; and regulations, audits, grants, and other materials from the executive branch.

Like its Canadian counterpart CanLII, BAILII seeks to make access to primary legal materials free to everyone via the Internet.

By primary legal materials, we mean all materials that have the force of law and are part of the law - making process including: briefs and opinions from the judiciary; reports, hearings, and laws from the legislative branch; and regulations, audits, grants, and other materials from the executive branch.

The Committee notes the comment that «It is... clear that in those countries that do not restrict the copyright of primary legal materials, a majority worldwide; there is no glut of bogus legislation.»

What if a free legal research site could post cases and other primary legal materials and ask its users to help enhance, explain and explicate those materials?

In this category, the Committee had included primary legal materials.

(BAILII) provides access to the most comprehensive set of British and Irish primary legal materials that are available for free and in one place on the internet.

Hein users get enhanced access to primary legal materials and citation analysis, while Fastcase users get access to a significant body of secondary legal materials.

a report documenting exactly what it would take to create a distributed registry and repository of all primary legal materials in the United States.

Helping to seed this brewing perfect storm is a growing movement to create a public repository of all primary legal materials in the United States.

The primary legal materials, and the methods used to access them, should be authenticated so people can trust in the integrity of these materials.

An active program of research and development should be sponsored by governmental bodies that issue primary legal materials to develop new standards and solutions to challenges presented by the electronic distribution of definitive primary legal materials.

Limitations on access through terms of use or the assertion of copyright on primary legal materials is contrary to long - standing public policy and core democratic principles and is misleading to citizens.

His belief is that all primary legal materials produced by the government should be readily available to the public.

Have GPO take the lead in making all primary legal materials produced by the U.S. readily available to the public.

Law.Gov is an idea, an idea that the primary legal materials of the United States should be readily available to all, and that governmental institutions should make these materials available in bulk as distributed, authenticated, well - formatted data.

Primary legal materials should be made available using bulk access mechanisms so they may be downloaded by anyone.

In doing so, they did not find convincing the traditional argument that copyright is needed to provide incentives to authors since the government, in their role as the promulgator of primary legal materials, does not need the incentives to do so provided by copyright law: