Oregon Legal Research Blog

Published on: February 26, 2014

When “The Law” Isn’t “The Law”: UELMA and the Oregon Revised Statutes

By Laura Orr

…Materials Act. Few have executed the act, but some are in the process. Oregon’s UELMA is codified at ORS 192.715 et seq. (but does not include court documents, only statutes…

Published on: August 15, 2013

Official (and unofficial) Oregon Legal Citation Style Manuals

By Laura Orr

1) For documents cited in Oregon court filings I recommend starting with the free, official, and online OJD Appellate Court Style Manual. You can link to that PDF, but…

Published on: August 6, 2014

Wonk Alert: Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society

By Laura Orr

From Gallagher Blogs: “History of Securities Regulation: Check out the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society, a virtual museum with lots of fascinating content: a timeline, original documents, oral…

Published on: December 24, 2012

Your Congress and Tax Dollars at Work: 2012 CRS Report on Gun Legislation

By Laura Orr

…their elected officials. Our members of Congress have not made CRS Reports freely available through any publicly accessible government database. You cannot find them at Congress dot gov, Thomas, or at…

Published on: December 12, 2005

By Laura Orr

Portland City Records Online: The Portland Auditor’s Office has gone online with Efiles, a database of city records, resolutions, historical documents and photos. Link to it here….

Published on: February 23, 2006

By Laura Orr

…If you share electronic documents with clients or even just communicate with them via cell phone, this survey could save you both a lot of time troubleshooting problems….

Published on: April 14, 2006

By Laura Orr

…libraries can serve members of the public productively and lawfully is at the American Judicature Society’s website. Their Pro Se forum resource pages are full of useful documents….

Published on: May 18, 2006

By Laura Orr

…to Law Online and the Century of Lawmaking, will give you access to great stores of legal history and documents. They also recently added a Global Legal Monitor service….

Published on: May 22, 2006

By Laura Orr

…such as whether or not Presidential Signing Statements are a sign of the Apocalypse or whether or not there is perfect indexing software for all those scanned office documents….

Published on: May 27, 2014

Which Version of Dred Scott, Plessy, or Bush v. Gore Do You Want?: U.S. Supreme Court Rewrites (ur, edits) Past Opinions

By Laura Orr

…HARV. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2014)). See also, Victor Li article, “Who owns the law? Technology reignites the war over just how public documents should be,” ABA Journal, June 1,…