Legal Information Institute

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Legal Information Institute (LII)
Peter Martin and Tom Bruce
URLlaw.cornell.edu
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJanuary 1, 1992; 32 years ago (1992-01-01)
Current statusAvailable

The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a

unique visitors per year.[8]

Since its inception, the Legal Information Institute has inspired others around the world to develop namesake operations.[6] These services are part of the Free Access to Law Movement.

History

LII was established in 1992 at Cornell Law School by

United States Supreme Court decisions and the US Code.[2] Its original mission included the intent to "carry out applied research on the use of digital information technology in the distribution of legal information,...[and t]o make law more accessible."[9]
In the early years of LII, Bruce developed
IRS has distributed its IRS Tax Products DVD[13] with LII's version of 26 USC (Internal Revenue Code).[14]

LII Supreme Court Collection and LII Bulletin

LII has an extensive collection of law from the Supreme Court of the United States.[15] It hosts all Supreme Court decisions since 1990 and over 600 historic Supreme Court pre-1992 decisions in web form (by party name, by authoring justice, and by topic).[16]

The LII Supreme Court Bulletin is LII's free Supreme Court email-based subscriber and web-based publication service.[17] The Bulletin provides subscribers with two distinct services.[18] The first is a notification service. LII Bulletin emails subscribers with timely notification of when the US Supreme Court has handed down a decision.[19] It also provides subscribers links to the full opinions of those cases on the LII site.[19]

The second service of LII Bulletin is a preview and analysis service for upcoming Supreme Court cases. Subscribers to the Bulletin receive legal analysis of upcoming Supreme Court cases with the intention of providing sophisticated yet accessible previews of the cases.[18] LII selectively recruits second- and third-year students of the Cornell Law School to comprise the LII Bulletin editorial board.[18] The Bulletin editorial board is responsible for every aspect of the journal's management, from selecting decisions for commentary to researching, writing, editing, and producing the journal content in HTML.[20]

Wex Legal Dictionary and Encyclopedia

LII publishes the Wex Legal Dictionary/Encyclopedia.[21] It is a freely available legal reference, but editing is restricted. Once vetted, and subject to approval, qualified legal experts are allowed to post and edit entries on legal topics within Wex.[22] Wex has since 2020 been continuously edited and supplemented by the Wex Definitions Team, a group of supervised Cornell Law student editors.[23]

Similar institutions

See also

References

  1. ^ Wex:Espanol
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-1-59140-999-1
    .
  3. ISBN 978-0-7546-4903-8
    .
  4. ISBN 0-7890-1177-8
    .
  5. ISBN 1-4180-1689-6
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  6. ^ a b Myers, Linda, Cornell University Chronicle (04/20/00). "CU Law Institute Web Site has Latest Legal Information". Retrieved 2008-06-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link).
  7. ISBN 1-57588-683-9
    .
  8. ^ "About the LII". Legal Information Institute. 23 August 2011.
  9. ^ a b "LII:Overview". Retrieved 2010-03-04.
  10. ^ "The World Wide Web History Project - Web History Day: Pioneering Software and Sites". Retrieved 2010-03-04.
  11. ISBN 978-0-7506-8949-6
    .
  12. ISBN 978-0-19-286207-5
    . tom bruce cello.
  13. ^ "IRS DVD Link". Archived from the original on 2008-09-17. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
  14. ^ "LII Announce: Nothing sure but..." Retrieved 2010-03-04.
  15. ISBN 0-7656-1630-0
    .
  16. ISBN 0-19-532568-0
    . legal information institute and cornell.
  17. ^ Crawford, Franklin Cornell University Chronicle (09/17/2007). "Cornell Legal Information Institute posts previews of Supreme Court cases". Retrieved 2010-03-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link).
  18. ^ a b c Bruce, Tom, B-Screeds (03/03/09). "The LIIBULLETIN: believe it or not". Retrieved 2010-03-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link).
  19. ^
    ISBN 1-58852-117-6
    .
  20. ^ "liibulletin: The LII Supreme Court Bulletin". 18 December 2007. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
  21. ^ "Wex". Legal Information Institute.
  22. ^ "liibulletin: Editorial Contributions". Retrieved 2010-03-03.
  23. ^ "Wex Definitions Team". LII / Legal Information Institute. 2020-05-18. Retrieved 2024-03-01.

External links

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