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The First U.S. LawI'm looking forward to the Data Transparency conference today in Washington, DC, organized by +Hudson Hollister. You already know this if you've been following this blog, or my tweets (@arihersh), or have had the good fortune to speak with me about legislative data recently.I will be presenting... [Read More]

I've been meaning to organize these papersI have been invited to speak [join a breakout panel on legislation] at the Data Transparency conference (2013) in Washington, D.C. next week. My message will be quite simple so that everyone can then focus on the other, very impressive, speakers: Now is the time... [Read More]

It's my birthday today. Maybe that's what makes me optimistic, despite evidence of a catastrophic climate change singularity, politicians and pundits still fiddling with Wiener while the planet burns, an immigration debate where rebuilding the Berlin wall on our border takes precedence over rebuilding our economy. Maybe that's why I... [Read More]

Creating a data-friendly reference for legal texts can be far from straightforward, as I pointed out in reference to the Supreme Court's decision this week to overturn DOMA section 3 (aka 1 USC 7).As  Tim Arnold-Moore pointed out in response to my last post on unique identifiers, not all issues can be addressed... [Read More]

The "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA) Section 3 has been struck down. That may not be news to you by now.  If you ask me, striking it down was the easy part. Much harder is defending the Act on the grounds that the Supreme Court should show deference to the... [Read More]