Professor Barbara A. Bintliff of the University of Texas School of Law has posted The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act Is Ready for Legislative Action, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
In this post, Professor Bintliff — who is the Reporter for the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA) — explains the provisions of UELMA — a new, proposed, uniform, U.S. state statute requiring states that enact it to authenticate, preserve, and provide permanent public access to legal information that those states publish in electronic formats. The statute is intended to “ensur[e] the trustworthiness of online legal resources and preserv[e] … electronic [legal] publications to provide for continuing accessibility.”
The post also examines the policy principles that inform the Act — especially the Act’s “outcomes-based” approach, intended to accommodate technological change and to afford states substantial flexibility in complying with the Act — as well as the origins of the Act in the American Association of Law Libraries’ 2007 National Summit on Authentication of Digital Legal Information.
Professor Bintliff explains that UELMA is scheduled to be introduced into a number of U.S. state legislatures in January 2012.
This post will be of interest to policy makers responsible for digital legal information resources, the government and legal technology communities, the legal community, legal information professionals, and advocates of improved public access to legal information.
Tags: AALL, American Association of Law Libraries, Authentication of digital legal information, Authentication of electronic legal information, Barbara Bintliff, Digital legal publishing, Legal informatics standards, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, NCCUSL, Preservation of digital legal information, Preservation of electronic legal information, Public access to legal information, UELMA, Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, Uniform Law Commission, VoxPopuLII
February 6, 2012 at 4:07 pm |
ABA votes to support UELMA http://bit.ly/zHiDjb @ABAJournal Feb. 6, 2012
February 10, 2012 at 12:22 am |
[...] In this post, the authors describe the National Inventory of Legal Materials, an effort by U.S. law librarians to create a listing of all legal information resources in the United States, in order to facilitate efforts to authenticate, preserve, and make those resources more accessible to the public. The inventory is related to several projects, including the Law.gov legal open government data movement and AALL’s efforts to authenticate and preserve digital legal information, including the effort to persuade states to enact the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA). [...]
March 9, 2012 at 4:03 pm |
MT @ndiipp UELMA bills introduced in four state legislatures: CA, CO, RI, TN: http://t.co/RmPXjOFO
April 19, 2012 at 7:39 pm |
April 17, 2012 RT @UniformLaws #UELMA in Colorado passes Senate and is progressing to become the first enactment of the act
April 19, 2012 at 7:41 pm |
April 17, 2012 RT @UniformLaws MT @ndiipp: CA, CO, CT, MN, RI, TN introduced Electronic Legal Material Act this yr #authenticity #egov #uelma @uniformlaws @LawLibCongress