Monday, May 22, 2006

idea for a nonprofit

49 can't be wrong

A nonprofit dedicated to promoting uniformity of law throughout the 50 states. There are numerous examples where ONE state differs from the other 49 in some minor point of law (for instance, there's one state that requires 3 witnesses to a will instead of 2). 49cantbewrong.org would lobby each random state to change their idiotic ways.

Monday, May 01, 2006

Law topic ideas

Gotta post these somewhere, so:

1) Wiki version of 3L epiphany's Taxonomy of Law Blogs. The wiki could allow people to add/delete their own blogs from the list-- even students, who are not listed because there are too many and their blogs are often 20% law, 80% something else-- and even debate restructuring the taxonomy.

2) Has there been any attempt to create a free, nonprofit alternative to Westlaw and Lexis? Cornell hosts Supreme Court cases online, but without pagination, are useless for purposes of citation. Wiki Law may be trying to tackle too many things at once, although it has potential. What is needed may be a simple Wiki site that lists judicial opinions with pagination of their respective reporter. The common law wiki?