An Operating System for Law: Online Cases
By Eriq Gardner IP Law & Business March 31, 2008
This is an article that will have great appeal for all law librarians.
Carl Malamud has been bothered for 25 years by the fact that U.S. case law is locked away from the public's eyes. As a wonkish graduate student at the Indiana University School of Business in the 1980s, he was forced on occasion to sneak into the law school library to look something up -- because the library was for law professors and law students only.
on law.com http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1206700930604
2 comments:
Pretty interesting article. I remember the original EDGAR database, but did not connect Malamud being behind it and the UTSPO database.
Malamud was not behind these databases; he came after the databases were created by the government after major work by others. He takes credit for getting them made available free to the public, though many others were involved in the same effort.
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