Articles Posted in February, 2018

With ‘Hadfield Challenges,’ Global Legal Hackathon Urges Participants to Address ‘Problems Worth Solving’

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With the Global Legal Hackathon — the world’s largest-ever coordinated hackathon — less than two days away, organizers have issued a set of “Hadfield Challenges” urging participants to address one of 10 “problems worth solving” in the realms of access to justice, administration of justice, and consumer rights.

Gillian Hadfield

The…

Invective and Intrigue Within the Free Law Movement Over RECAP Changes

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Disagreement over recent changes to a program designed to provide public access to federal court documents has developed into a feud of sorts between two advocates for free and open access to government information – and implicated in it is a cast of characters that includes the man who created the original version of Facebook,…