Abstract
For a legal system to succeed, its laws must be available to the public it governs. This article looks at the methods used by different governments throughout history to publicize legislation and the rulers’ possible motivations for publication. It concludes by discussing how the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act provides the next logical step in this long tradition of publicizing the law.
Document Type
Article
Publication Information
111 Law Library Journal 165-195 (2019)
Repository Citation
Dingledy, Frederick W., "From Stele to Silicon: Publication of Statutes, Public Access to the Law, and the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act" (2019). Library Staff Publications. 133.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/libpubs/133
Comments
Winner of the Law Library Journal Article of the Year Award (2020), awarded by the American Association of Law Libraries.