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27 Feb 2012, 3:08 am
Published: Monday, February 27, 2012 Author: Brett Broesder, GoLocalProv MINDSETTER™ A Same-Sex Marriage Bill will be introduced in Rhode Island this year, according to Marriage Equality Rhode Island. With recent polls showing that a majority of voters support legalizing Same-Sex Marriage – in addition to Maryland on the cusp of becoming the eighth state in the nation to legalize marriage equality – the issue is at the forefront of local and national news. That said, Rhode Island politicians… [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 9:22 pm
Luca Arnaudo of the Italian Competition Authority and LUISS Guido Carli, has posted Cognitive Law: An Introduction on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
“Over the past decades cognitive neuroscience has achieved major results in better understanding the neural basis of human behavior. Economics has been the first social science interested and able in using some of these results for its own purposes, mainly because of the renewed interest towards psychology fostered by behavioral economics researches.… [read post]
29 Dec 2012, 12:51 pm
Professor Peter L. Strauss of Columbia Law School has posted Private Standards Organizations and Public Law, on SSRN.
Here is the abstract:
Simplified, universal access to law is one of the important transformations worked by the digital age. With the replacement of physical by digital copies, citizens ordinarily need travel only to the nearest computer to find and read the texts that bind them. Lagging behind this development, however, has been computer access to standards developed by private… [read post]
17 May 2013, 7:53 am
Professor Nina A. Mendelson of University of Michigan Law School has posted Private Control Over Access to Public Law: The Puzzling Federal Regulatory Use of Private Standards, forthcoming in Michigan Law Review.
Here is the abstract:
To save resources and build on private expertise, federal agencies have incorporated private standards into thousands of federal regulations – but only by “reference.” An individual who wishes to read this binding federal regulatory law cannot access… [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 8:13 am
On Friday, S. 510, the food safety bill, was declared dead. Last nite (Sunday), the Associated Press reported the bill may finally pass in the final hours of the 111th Congress. The New York Times report can be linked here. The text of what I understand will be headed to a final vote in the House on Tuesday and signed into law by the President can be linked here.
We'll have more analysis in the days to come. Here's a preview of how the FDA's new mandatory recall power may play out. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 11:27 am
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has posted a convenient and informative table report showing significant state sentencing and corrections legislation enacted January 1, 2009 – December 31, 2009:
Significant State Sentencing and Corrections Legislation in 2009
“Policy information is based on NCSL’s Criminal Justice Program enactment research, powered by Statenet” (a legislative and regulatory information [...] [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 9:18 am
I just learned that developer Brenda Wallace has posted many New Zealand statutes to GitHub.
The statutes appear to have been posted in 2010, and it’s unclear whether they have been updated since.
This repository is another example of GitLaw.
HT @legify_law
Filed under: Data sets Tagged: Free access to law, Free access to legislation, Free access to legislative data, GitHub, GitHub and legislation, GitHub for law, GitHub for legislative documents, GitLaw, Legislative data, Legislative data… [read post]
26 Oct 2012, 4:53 pm
Michael Curtotti and Dr. Eric McCreath, both of Australian National University Research School of Computer Science, presented a paper entitled Enhancing the Visualization of Law, at LVI 2012: Law via the Internet Conference, 9 October 2012, at the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
Here is the abstract:
This paper reviews the state of the art in online visualization of legislation. It reviews practice, particularly in public good and official sites. The review… [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 2:34 pm
This entry has been corrected to reflect that some of the provisions in the Food Safety Modernization Act, most significantly the preventative controls section, will be phased in over time.
Today the House passed and sent to the President for his signature a bill to overhaul the current regulations on food safety, which were established over 70 years ago. Among other things, the bill will impose new record-keeping requirements on companies, require most FDA-regulating entities to maintain food… [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 2:34 pm
Today the House passed and sent to the President for his signature a bill to overhaul the current regulations on food safety, which were established over 70 years ago. Among other things, the bill will impose new record-keeping requirements on companies, require most FDA-regulating entities to maintain food safety plans, require the FDA to develop a traceability pilot project, and give the FDA broad authority to mandate recalls, regulate food and ingredients that are imported, conduct regular… [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 6:35 am
As many of you know, the 82nd Texas Legislature is currently in full swing. The following notable bills affecting alternative dispute resolution in Texas were filed this session:
Senate Bill 218, authored by Senator Nelson and referred to the Senate Committee on Jurisprudence, relates “to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship and the operation of the child protective services and foster care systems.” The bill would affect mediated agreements in family law… [read post]
31 Dec 2012, 1:48 pm
Karen Suhaka of LegiNation has posted How long is too long? Not long enough? Just right?, at BillTrack50 Political Eye Candy.
The post shows mean, median, and maximum word counts for legislative bills in the 50 U.S. states, with maps.
Ms. Sukaha describes her method for producing the word-count statistics and maps as follows:
I use a commercial mapping package. The counts are just done in SQL, since I’ve parsed all the bills into XML.
HT @BillTrack50 (here and here) and @Smoodle
Filed under:… [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 1:13 pm
We're nearly down to the wire on whether the 111th Congress will send S.510, the food safety bill, to the President for signature into law. I'm told it could happen by the weekend.
No matter what happens in Congress, food law is changing and changing faster than it ever has. The ABA Food Supplements Subcommittee and Products Liability Committee of the Section of Litigation is organizing a day-long CLE February 17 at Coke world headquarters in Atlanta. I'll be co-moderating a panel titled,… [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 6:50 pm
Please join us for our sixth trade secrets webinar of the year entitled Trade Secrets and Non-Compete Legislative Update.
The webinar will be September 20, 2012 from noon to 1:00 p.m. central.
The past year has seen significant statutory changes to several jurisdictions’ laws regarding trade secrets and restrictive covenants and pending legislation proposed in additional jurisdictions. As trade secrets and non-compete laws continue to evolve from state to state in piecemeal fashion, companies… [read post]
14 Aug 2011, 8:18 am
Michael J. Bommarito II of Systematic Global Macro and Computational Legal Studies has posted an XML version of Michigan Compiled Laws — the official codification of Michigan legislation — for bulk download.
According to his post, Mr. Bommarito also “improved the underlying data [of the code] by adding tags and correcting indentation as best as possible.”
Mr. Bommarito says that this effort was prompted by Ari Hershowitz’s effort to organize a hackathon to create better digital versions of… [read post]
21 May 2012, 7:43 am
An Open Legislation Hackathon will be held 2 June 2012, at Queen’s Printer British Columbia, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, according to this announcement.
According to the announcement, the event is sponsored by “the Queen’s Printers Association of Canada (QPAC) and the Open Data Society of BC.”
Here is the description of the event:
It’s a chance to build mobile or online applications using legislative data from across the provinces of Canada.[...]
The goal is… [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 7:33 pm
Caroline Turnbull-Hall of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Richard Thomas have published Length of Tax Legislation as a Measure of Complexity (UK Office of Tax Simplification 2012).
Here is the abstract:
In his seminal Hardman lecture, Adam Broke pointed to the length of tax legislation, the language used, the drafting style and the diversity of taxes as all contributing to the complexity of the UK tax
code.
To this list could also be added political pressures and policy initiatives, both of which impact… [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 11:33 am
President Obama recently signed the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, containing more than $17 Billion in tax credits designed to stimulate employment. The Act also includes $20 Billion for highway and transit infrastructure programs as well. One of the most important provisions for businesses is a tax credit for hiring from the ranks of the unemployed.
Under the Act, when an employer hires a “qualified employee” the employer is excused from paying the normal Social… [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 3:55 pm
President Obama signed into law today the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
Companies with facilities subject to FDA jurisdiction should take immediate steps to review and, where necessary, modify SOPs, policies and procedures.
For example, given the FDA's expanded access to business records, companies should set SOPs that anticipate (before a crisis occurs) what records they may have to turn over and what they may not. Food companies should take steps to protect confidential and proprietary… [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 10:00 am
As many of you know, when an employee is terminated the employee may be eligible to continue their participation in the company sponsored health plan through what is often referred to as COBRA. COBRA is a federal law that allows workers who leave their jobs to continue their former employer’s health insurance coverage for up to 18 months. Ordinarily, though, individuals must pay the entire premium, plus an administrative fee, making COBRA unaffordable for many unemployed workers. The economic… [read post]