Brian Carver

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  • Brian Carver's Details
    • Title: Assistant Professor
    • Institution: UC Berkeley School of Information
  • Brian Carver's presentations
    • Building a Free, Open Source Legal Citator
    • Putting the Law Online: Balancing Litigant Privacy and Access to the Law

  Brian W. Carver is Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information where he does research on and teaches about intellectual property law and cyberlaw. He is also passionate about the public’s access to the law. In 2009 and 2010 he advised an I School Masters student, Michael Lissner, on the creation of CourtListener.com, an alert service covering the U.S. federal appellate courts. After Michael’s graduation he and Brian continued working on the site and have grown the database of opinions to include over 750,000 documents. In 2011 and 2012, Brian advised I School Masters students Rowyn McDonald and Karen Rustad on the creation of a legal citator built on the CourtListener database. The site is provided at no cost to the public, all of the site’s code is licensed under open source licenses, and all the documents can be downloaded in bulk through an API.