Tag: Link Rot
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Federal Court Libraries Preserving Internet Citations in Opinions
It’s a rare Internet user that has not experienced the frustration of a bad web link. Nothing is more frustrating than coming across a link that leads nowhere. This “link rot” occurs over time as information is removed from web sites or moved to another online location. Unfortunately, the original URL remains the same in…
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What’s Rotten About Legal Scholarship, and How to Cure It: A Georgetown Symposium
When Supreme Court justices cite Internet sources in their opinions, how do they ensure the integrity of those sources for future legal scholars? The answer, unfortunately, is not very well, as illustrated by this dose of digital schadenfreude visited upon Justice Alito. This was the central problem explored by a one-day conference at Georgetown University…
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