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New Zealand statutes on GitHub
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...
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Mill: Sunlight Foundation releases Congress API
Eric Mill of the Sunlight Foundation points us to Sunlight Congress API released yesterday. Here is a description: A live JSON API for the people and work of Congress, provided by the Sunlight...
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Kuhlman: legal-markdown Ruby gem
Casey Kuhlman, Esq., of Watershed Legal Services has posted legal-markdown to GitHub. Here are excerpts from the readme: This gem was built specifically to empower the creation of structured legal...
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White House publishes Open Data Policy memorandum on GitHub, enabling...
Among the interesting features of the White House’s new Open Data Policy is that the memorandum that provides policy guidance to agencies in complying with the policy (M-13-13) was published on GitHub,...
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Bruce on GitLaw
Tom Bruce of the Legal Information Institute has posted GitHub: It Ain’t Magic Pixie Dust, at his blog, b-screeds. Here are excerpts: These days, people are sticking legislation into GitHub at a...
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Jones: Scripts for retrieving and processing UN treaty data
Zach Jones of the University of Georgia has set up a GitHub repository of “scripts that allow the retrieval of the United Nations’ Treaty Collection, and transformation of the retrieved data”. HT...
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Schulman: latex4lawyers: Comments to administrative agencies
Attorney Ross Schulman of the Computer and Communications Industry Association has created latex4lawyers, “a LaTeX source for common file classes needed by lawyers,” which currently covers comments to...
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Mitchell: New version 7.0 of ClinicCases released: Open source legal case...
Professor R. Judson Mitchell of Loyola University New Orleans has released version 7.0 of his ClinicCases open source case management system. Judson says this new version “adds support for locking and...
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Zvenyach: Annotating the Law
V. David Zvenyach has posted slides of his presentation entitled Annotating the Law, given last week at the iAnnotate 2014 Conference, held in San Francisco, California, USA. The presentation describes...
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Zvenyach: Coding for Lawyers
V. David Zvenyach has released a book entitled Coding for Lawyers. The book currently covers regular expressions, Markdown, HTML, data types, using arrays, and coding in Python. The GitHub repository...
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