President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
Director: Edward W. Felten. The Center is sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Promotes an informed public discussion of digital technologies. addresses digital technologies as they interact with policy, markets and society.
The Computational Legal Studies Blog is an attempt to disseminate legal studies that employ a computational or complex systems component. We hope this venue will serve as a coordinating device for those interested in using such techniques to consider the development of legal systems and/or implementation of more reasoned public policy.
This public resource provides information about 400,000 bills introduced in the U.S. Congress, currently 1947-2002, along with extensive information about each bill's progress and sponsor. It is used by researchers to study legislative institutions and behavior; by policy experts to study issue attention in Congress; and even by citizens studying their family histories (the dataset provides the only digitized records of tens of thousands of private bills introduced between 1947 and 1972). organized in a format that facilitates quantitative studies. the only digitizedsource for information about the 200,000 bills introduced between 1947 and 1972.
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society's "Fair Use Project" ("the FUP") was founded in 2006 to provide legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of "fair use" in order to enhance creative freedom.