Institutional Reports
Report of the Society on the State of Primary Legal Authority, MMXXV
The first annual report of the Real Law Society on the condition of the public legal record.
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Bibliographic Record
Metadata.
- Series
- Institutional Reports
- Volume
- Report No. 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publication Date
- MMXXV
- Document Type
- Institutional Report
- Status
- In Press
- Authors
- The Real Law Society, by its Editorial Committee
- ISBN
- 978-1-959000-12-3
- Permanent Identifier
- report-on-the-state-of-primary-legal-authority-mmxxv
- Subjects
- Institutional report · Legal authority · Public record
- Keywords
- Institutional report, Legal authority, Public record
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Abstract
On the scope of the work.
The first annual report of the Real Law Society on the state of primary legal authority — the accessibility of statutes and regulations, the integrity of the published record, and the condition of the recorded instrument.
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Editorial Description
On the structure of the volume.
The report is issued under the imprint of the Society and speaks for the institution. It is intended as a permanent record of the condition of the public legal record at the close of MMXXV.
Part I addresses the accessibility of statutes and regulations at the federal level and in the several states, with attention to the official versions and the costs of access.
Part II treats the integrity of the published record of judicial opinions — what is reported, what is unreported, and what is sealed.
Part III addresses the recorded instrument: the condition of the registry, the standards of indexing, and the costs of public access.
The report closes with a series of recommendations to which the Society holds itself bound in the work of the coming year.
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Series
Institutional Reports
Annual reports, white papers, and policy statements of the Society on the state of primary legal authority.
Institutional reports speak for the Society. They are issued under the imprint of the institution and reviewed by the standing editorial committee.
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Related Schools
The faculty of the work.
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Related Library Divisions
The divisions of the archive consulted in the preparation of this work.
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Statutes
Codified federal and state statutory law, organized by title and chapter.
III
Regulations
The Code of Federal Regulations and state administrative codes.
V
Judicial Opinions
Selected opinions of the federal and state courts of record.
VII
Historical Documents
Founding-era charters, antecedent instruments, and treaty texts.
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Preferred Citation
On citing this work.
The Real Law Society, Report of the Society on the State of Primary Legal Authority, MMXXV, Real Law Society Institutional Reports No. 1 (1st ed. MMXXV).
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Editorial Notes
On revision and review.
Prior editions of this work, where any, are retained in the institutional archive of the Society. Citations in the present edition have been verified against the controlling source as of the date of publication.
The work was reviewed by faculty of the relevant School before issue and is subject to revision as the governing instruments change. The Press accepts no instruction from outside the institution.
Issued by the Editorial Committee of the Society. Subsequent annual reports will be published in successive volumes of this series.
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