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Voelker on GitHub for Laws and Legal Documents
Abe Voelker of the Wisconsin Court System has posted GitLaw: GitHub for Laws and Legal Documents – a Tourniquet for American Liberty, at his blog. In this post, Mr. Voelker advocates creating a...
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Moore on an Open Version Control System for Legislation
David Moore of Participatory Politics Foundation (PPF) has posted Yes, let’s stride towards an open VCS for legislation (or, GitHub for laws on OC), at the OpenCongress Blog. David’s post is a response...
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GitLaw in Germany: Deutsche Bundesgesetze- und verordnungen im Markdown auf...
German federal laws and regulations appear to have been marked up in Markdown format and placed on GitHub, at https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze#german-federal-laws-and-regulations. According to the...
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Wonderlich on Legislative Collaboration and Version Control
John Wonderlich of the Sunlight Foundation has an interesting new post entitled On Legislative Collaboration and Version Control, at the Sunlight Foundation Blog. He writes: Proponents of applying...
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French Constitution and Codes Available in Bulk on GitHub
Full text of the French Constitution and Codes, in ASCII .txt format, have been made available for bulk download on GitHub, by Legifrance. Respecting the Constitution, texts available include:...
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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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Draft Tunisian Constitution, on GitHub
The draft Tunisian constitution has been placed on GitHub, in a browsable format, by the the user “mtimet” (on Twitter: @dmtimet), whom I haven’t been able to identify. The data and code for this...
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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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Regards Citoyens: How GitLaw turns the French parliamentary process into open...
Regards Citoyens — a French parliamentary monitoring organization — has posted How GitLaw turns the French parliamentary process into open data, at the Sunlight Foundation Blog. Here are excerpts from...
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Hagan: Githubbing Law: Open-source legal doc repositories
Margaret Hagan of Stanford University has posted Githubbing Law: Open-source legal doc repositories, at Open Law Lab. Here are excerpts from the post: […] So could the Github model be applied to legal...
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