October 9, 2006
Project Posner ::
legal — tagged judges, legal, public domain and tech
10:00 am
Reading Boing Boing this morning, I came across a post about Project Posner, a searchable database of all of Judge Posner’s opinions dating back to when he first started his job at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals back in 1981. According to the site’s About page:
While Posner’s books and popular writings are easily available to the public, his opinions are difficult or expensive for the public to access, let alone search. This site, for the first time, collects almost all of his opinions in a single searchable and easily readable database.
So it has just as much to do with freely accessible information as it does with legal geekery. My kind of site!
But in all seriousness, Judge Posner is one of the few icons out there whose ideas I find off the wall and crazy (remember that time he tried to apply his Law and Economics theory to criminal law?) but whose opinions I deeply respect. Plus he exudes a confidence in his legal writing that I can only hope to one day begin to approach.
