Rationing Justice in the 21st Century: Technocracy and Technology in the...
More than fifty years since the creation of a federal Legal Services Program with the mission to “marshall the forces of law to combat the causes and effects of poverty,” a growing proportion of the...
View ArticleThe U.S. Government Manual in XML: A Case Study of a Data.gov Open Data Set
A central tenet of the open data movement is that, to the extent permitted by law, data—especially data collected or produced by government agencies—should be published without restrictions on access...
View ArticleLaw Libraries and the Future of Public Access to Born-Digital Government...
As government publications have shifted from print to electronic, mechanisms for guaranteeing the public’s right to access government information have not kept pace. Because legal resources are among...
View ArticleUsing SKOS to Create a Legal Subject Ontology for Defense Agency Regulations
This article describes a linked data project of the Rutgers University Law Library. The library uses Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to provide subject indexing and enhance information...
View ArticlePrivatization of Government Information As Primitive Accumulation
This essay examines privatization of government publishing through the lens of capital accumulation by dispossession, an updated and expanded version of Marx’s account of primitive accumulation. It...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence, Automation, and Proletarianization of the Legal...
Recent advances in computer programming, broadly categorized as "artificial intelligence," ("Al") have renewed debates over machines as viable replacements for human lawyers. Some prominent lawyers and...
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