Finding the laws that govern us

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Anurag Acharya <acha () google com>
> Date: November 18, 2009 1:16:42 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Finding the laws that govern us

> Hi Dave: earlier this week, we extended Google Scholar to allow  
> anyone anywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S.  
> federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts. We hope  
> that this addition to Google Scholar will empower the average  
> citizen by helping everyone learn more about the laws that govern us  
> all. As we worked to build this feature, we were struck by how  
> readable and accessible these opinions are. Court opinions don't  
> just describe a decision but also present the reasons that support  
> the decision. In doing so, they explain the intricacies of law in  
> the context of real-life situations. And they often do it in  
> language that is surprisingly straightforward, even for those of us  
> outside the legal profession. In many cases, judges have gone quite  
> a bit out of their way to make complex legal issues easy to follow.  
> For example, in Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court  
> justices present a fascinating and easy-to-follow debate on the  
> legality of internment of natural born citizens based on their  
> ancestry. And in United States v. Ramirez-Lopez, Judge Kozinski, in  
> his dissent, illustrates the key issue of the case using an imagined  
> good-news/bad-news dialogue between the defendant and his attorney.
>
> More detailed announcement is at: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/finding-laws-that-govern-us.html
>
> The service itself is at: http://scholar.google.com/
>
> anurag



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