Stopping for a Carnegie Librarie
The Carnegie Corporation of New York recently mailed $10,000 checks to roughly 1,500 historic Carnegie libraries, a surprise outreach that underscores the organization’s renewed commitment to the institutions Andrew Carnegie built a century ago. President Dame Louise Richardson framed the effort as a celebration of libraries as democratic equalizers, echoing Carnegie’s own language about libraries as "cradles of democracy." The author of the piece draws a parallel, noting that the legal profession has generated over two million pieces of practitioner content in the past twenty years, suggesting a modern, AI‑enhanced legal library could be built on that foundation. The article positions this initiative as both a nostalgic revival and a blueprint for digital knowledge sharing.
Who Should We Be Talking To
LexBlog is launching the LexBlog Library, a structured, citable repository of over two million pieces of legal practitioner publishing. The platform treats practitioner insights as secondary law, positioning them alongside traditional scholarly sources for citation by judges, researchers, and AI...
Who Remembers When Section 230 Was Something?
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act turned 30, marking three decades of legal immunity for online hosts. The provision let early legal message boards and listservs operate without fear of publisher liability, fostering user‑generated discourse. Over time, that shield...