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.
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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 Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing the implications of the Internet and new information technologies for law and society, guided by the values of democracy, human development, and social justice.
Justia you follow cases of interest for free, and publishes some case files online. Justia's working with Cornell University to throw some Web 2.0 tools into the mix, including wiki pages for decisions, automated tracking of citations to decisions, and tools to track what briefs a particular attorney has written.
list of known directives with links where available. As discussed in NSPD 1, this new category of directives replaces both the Presidential Decision Directives and the Presidential Review Directives of the previous Administration.
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.
Steve Schultze, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. interested in how telecommunications policy changes in the context of the internet.
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.