Legal Research

LAW.GOV

By Terrye Conroy

Wouldn?t it be great if we had free access to all U.S. legislative, regulatory, and judicial resources?

Well, according to the new Law Librarian of Congress, Roberta I. Shaffer in her holiday letter:

?The Law Library is pursuing the registration of the ?LAW.GOV? domain where researchers throughout the world will be able to find authoritative local, state, national, foreign and international legal and legisla­tive information. The Law Library envisions hosting the site and collaborat­ing with federal agencies, state, local, and foreign national governments, and international organizations to maintain a ?one-stop? URL?.

For more information on the proposed repository of United States primary legal materials, visit http://resource.org/law.gov/. Of course, access is not complete without assurance that these materials are authentic. Visit the American Association of Law Libraries? website to read about its authentication initiative. To view a digitally signed and certified document, browse the Public and Private Laws from the 110^th Congress forward on the Government Printing Office?s website. (Post-TC)

Full post as published by Cocky Law Blawg on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).