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dgreisen
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About dgreisen
Open Law Library is taking the tools and techniques developed for programmers to publish software code – IDEs, linters, compilers, continuous integration/deployment, VCS, etc – and adapting and transforming them for use by lawyers to publish legal codes. Governments use our tools to save time and money and then publish their laws openly for the public.
Some our partners:
- https://regs.maryland.gov (github.com/maryland-dsd)
- https://law.mohican.com (github.com/mohican-nsn)
- https://code.dccouncil.gov (github.com/dccouncil)
- https://law.cityofsanmateo.org (github.com/cityofsanmateo)
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Comment #47949240
Regularization and refactoring is actually an integral part of most legal systems. Most jurisdictions in the US go through periodic (1-5 decade) "recodifications" of their law, whe…
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Comment #47947997
This is very cool, and exceptionally well-thought-out. I particularly like how they are working with the existing legal/legislative institutions to fix the issues at their source r…
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Comment #47554349
Our nonprofit, Open Law Library, is working on this exact problem. It is definitely not trivial, but it is very doable. We partner directly with governments to help them implement …
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Comment #40564327
SEEKING FREELANCER | DC | Remote DC Refers is a non-profit that helps people of modest means (200-400% poverty line) find affordable legal representation. We've built out a custom …
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Comment #37507859
It's fun seeing information science applied to different domains. This is very similar to the system that we've converged on over the last 100 years for legal codes with title.chap…
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Comment #31239357
SEEKING FREELANCER | Washington, DC, fully remote We are looking for a part-time (20-40hrs/mo) contractor to support our open source PyGLS (the Python Generic Language Server, http…
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Comment #30518218
SEEKING FREELANCER | DC | remote DC Refers is a non-profit that helps people of modest means (200-400% poverty line) find affordable legal representation. We are looking for a free…
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Comment #30516042
Open Law Library | Full Stack Python/Javascript/C# | Remote for Ukraine & Ukrainian Refugees | flexible hours Open Law Library is a nonprofit tech startup and open access legal pub…
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Comment #30503520
We've been thinking about that, and decided to err on the side of too lax than too stringent for exactly this reason. Wires to Ukrainian bank would be strong evidence. Red Cross pa…
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Comment #30503292
That is good to know. Unfortunately, we do not have any existing relationships.
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Ask HN: How can we pay Ukrainians to work for us?
Our US-based non-profit, Open Law Library, would like to offer positions to Ukrainian developers. We would ideally like to pay for services weekly in advance, rather than arrears, …
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Comment #21341580
Our nonprofit, Open Law Library, works with governments to do exactly this. For example, the DC Council uses our software to codify and publish their laws in xml and html on github…
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Comment #18590203
Open Law Library | REMOTE in USA | Head of Sales and Growth Open Law Library is a technology-driven nonprofit that is building the foundational government infrastructure for the ne…
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Comment #18533960
We take long-term access to the law very seriously. For the reasons you give, we rely only on native git operations. PRs are a convenient interface, nothing more.
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Comment #18533918
There are a number of technical limitations to gpg signatures. Your hypothetical attacker who has access to github can simply add his/her key and show up as a verified committer. g…
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Comment #18533550
It is. Ping me at dgreisen (at) openlawlib.org if you're interested in helping out.
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Comment #18530419
We have internal systems that allow us to audit/authenticate the repository. We will be deploying a cryptographic authentication framework based on TUF in Q1 2019 that will make it…
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Comment #18530399
We are in talks with several international governments. We would be delighted to help your country! The system does not in any way change the legislative process, so you cannot use…
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Comment #18529921
Even if the canonical copy were hosted on the Council's website, you would still be trusting the hosting provider, the DNS system, and the certificate authority - all private entit…
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Comment #18529803
As with most things in the law, it is complicated. The District legislative process shares many similarities to the federal government's. They pass laws, which are the official rep…
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Comment #18529711
Hi all, I'm a co-founder of Open Law Library, the non-profit that built the platform DC uses to codify and publish their laws. We were so excited when we saw a member of the public…
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Comment #13310534
This is one of the tools we are building at Open Law Library. Open Law Draft is a linter that finds common errors in draft bills right in Word as they are being drafted. Fixing the…
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Comment #13308829
There are several places where I strongly believe that access to the law can meaningfully improve access to justice. And I hope, through our work at Open Law Library, we can show t…
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Comment #13308612
Another co-founder of Open Law Library, here. This is precisely what we are doing - building a patch-based xml database of the law. However, we are building a general tool that can…
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Comment #12017410
Open Law Library | JS/Python dev; C# lead dev | openlawlib.org | U.S. REMOTE | $80-130k Open Law Library is a small nonprofit tech startup and open access legal publisher dedicated…