{"id":59,"date":"2009-05-14T06:17:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T11:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/2009\/05\/14\/two-really-simple-ideas\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T06:24:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T11:24:23","slug":"two-really-simple-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/2009\/05\/14\/two-really-simple-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Two really simple ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/files\/2009\/05\/bombs-pr.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"203\" height=\"150\" hspace=\"15\" \/>Lately, I&#8217;ve been tempted toward complicated prose that urges rethinking of legal-information fundamentals.\u00a0 Why? Because the idea of public access to law in a global digital society makes some fundamental rethinking necessary.\u00a0\u00a0 It would be swell to explore those notions in some longwinded way, but I&#8217;m both lazy and out of time.\u00a0 So instead I am going to offer two really simple propositions:<\/p>\n<p><em>1) Simple fairness demands that the public have free access to legal-information systems that embed the same functionality and quality as the most advanced systems commonly available within the public body that creates or issues that legal information.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2) Authority in legal text ought to be judged simply (and exclusively) on the basis of accuracy, currency, and other objective quality measures.\u00a0 The barter in &#8220;official status&#8221;\u00a0 is unnecessary. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please discuss in the comments.\u00a0 The fun, of course, lies in cataloging all the ways in which our current situation does not match those ideals, and why.\u00a0 Assuming, of course, that you think they <em>are<\/em> ideals.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been tempted toward complicated prose that urges rethinking of legal-information fundamentals.\u00a0 Why? Because the idea of public access to law in a global digital society makes some fundamental rethinking necessary.\u00a0\u00a0 It would be swell to explore those notions in some longwinded way, but I&#8217;m both lazy and out of time.\u00a0 So instead I <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/2009\/05\/14\/two-really-simple-ideas\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tbruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}