Projects
AltLaw
AltLaw.org provides the first free, full-text searchable database of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate case reports. It is a resource for attorneys, legal scholars, and the general public.
The law is meant to belong to the people, but it can be surprisingly hard to find. Case reports, a major part of the laws of the United States, are hard to get at, and even when on the Internet, rarely searchable. To get full access you generally need either a library of law reports, or an expensive subscription to an online database, which can cost hundreds of dollars per hour. AltLaw is a small effort to change that—to make the common law a bit more common.
LawCommons
LawCommons.org is the home for the open-source development of AltLaw and a resource for anyone interested in improving access to legal information on the web.
Keep Your Copyrights
KeepYourCopyrights.org is a resource for authors, musicians, and other creators of works. It is designed to help creators hold on to their copyrights, to license their rights on author-friendly terms, and in general to encourage creators to take a more active role in managing the life of their creative work.
This site encourages a proactive attitude toward copyright management. It provides tutorials on copyright law written by Columbia professors, and example language from real publishing contracts, with detailed explanations and ratings for “creator-friendliness.”
Project Posner
The purpose of ProjectPosner.org is to make freely and easily available to the public Richard Posner’s largest and greatest body of work—his judicial opinions.
For lawyers and those interested in law, Posner’s opinions have a particular substantive value. One thing that distinguishes the opinions is the effort to try and get at why a given law actually exists, and an effort to try and make sense of the law. That can make them more useful than most case reports.
Finally, some of the opinions are funny.
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