version 0.1 of AuthoritySpoke is released and available on pip. This version focuses on selecting text from statutes and constitutions. github.com/mscarey/Author…

AuthoritySpoke v. 0.2 is posted. This version adds new ways to compare and combine legal rules, explanations for some answers, and more documentation github.com/mscarey/Author…

Here are the slides about AuthoritySpoke I presented yesterday at HTX Legal Hackers. Thanks for inviting me! slideshare.net/mscarey/automa…

AuthoritySpoke 0.3 is out. This version adds the ability to import and export legal rule annotations from JSON using a schema, and it adds an "Explanation" class that shows why one rule is considered to imply or contradict another. github.com/mscarey/Author…

I made a new AuthoritySpoke tutorial, using the "Beard Tax Act" example legislation. Find it with other Rules as Code models at github.com/mscarey/exampl…. cc: Meng Weng Wong, Jason Morris (he/him)💻⚖️🇨🇦, Hamish

AuthoritySpoke v0.3.4 is a bugfix release. Major bugs in loading JSON rule annotations are now fixed. github.com/mscarey/Author…

I published version 0.4 of AuthoritySpoke, the Python library for legal authority automation. The big change is that legislation is now loaded from a web API, not from XML files. Documentation: authorityspoke.readthedocs.io

I released a new legaltech Python library called Legislice. Use it to download, compare, and export passages from the United States Code and the Constitution. Documentation: legislice.readthedocs.io

Here's a blog post about the latest release of the Legislice Python package: "Exploring the Network of Statute Citations" pythonforlaw.com/2020/11/18/leg…

I published version 0.5 of AuthoritySpoke. I think this version has a more useful way of representing legal facts. A blog post on Python for Law describes the changed interface: pythonforlaw.com/2021/01/25/pyt…

Version 0.5.0 of Legislice has been released. This version is better at identifying and merging overlapping statute quotations. Docs: legislice.readthedocs.io

I posted another short guide about the tools I've been writing. "Using Context to Automate Legal Comparisons and Explanations" pythonforlaw.com/2021/04/09/con…

Version 0.7 of AuthoritySpoke is out. This version adds a YAML format for loading data about legal rules. Here's the new section of the documentation: authorityspoke.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guid…

I posted a short retrospective about making data models for legal rules pythonforlaw.com/2021/05/24/des…

Legislice version 0.6 is published. This version switches to Pydantic for serialization and hopefully makes quoting legislative text a little more intuitive. github.com/mscarey/legisl…

AuthoritySpoke version 0.9 is out. This release adds data validation and serialization with Pydantic. pythonforlaw.com/2021/10/27/ser…

AuthoritySpoke finally supports Python 3.10. Please report any issues! github.com/mscarey/Author…

#LegalRuleML Core Specification V1.0 from the OASIS LegalRuleML TC approved as a Committee Specification oasis-open.org/news/announcem…