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Margaret Hagan
Personal blog · openlawlab.compoliticswriting
Margaret Hagan writes Open Law Lab, a personal blog at openlawlab.com about politics and writing. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Margaret Hagan's Open Law Lab site for an immigration infographic and a 2014 review of open-source legal document repositories. Comments cite these as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMmigration-Law-Comic-Terry-Colon-Reason.jpg3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-14
What Hacker News says?
It seems that many people believe that there's a way to immigrate into this country for 'normal' people. This infographic from Reason Magazine, of all places, is fairly accurate and quite enlightening: http://www.openlawlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMmigra...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMmigration-Law-Comic-Terry-Colon-Reason.jpg
on “Immigration is about talent, not costs”Submitted How do we make a good taxonomy of legal problems? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionImmigration enforcement is easy. Jail every CEO and executive team that hires undocumented immigrants, and fine the company or individual $100 per hour of work from undocumented labor. If you have a threat of jail time or bankruptcy, you won't hire undocumented workers. If you are a farmer who uses undocumented workers, same thing. Put the onus on wealthy citizens for doing the wrong thing and have real consequences…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMmigration-Law-Comic-Terry-Colon-Reason.jpg
on “Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%”Submitted Githubbing Law: Open-source legal doc repositories (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion2014 review of open-source legal doc repos, with screenshots of each site, and ideas for improvement, http://www.openlawlab.com/2014/08/05/githubbing-law/
Comment linking /2014/08/05/githubbing-law/
on “GitHub for Lawyers (2013)”Submitted Does virtual court mean more or less meaningful participation by litigants? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe chances are rather low, with a nasty latency even in the best cases. http://www.openlawlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMmigra...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMmigration-Law-Comic-Terry-Colon-Reason.jpg
on “Outsmart MIT- and Get Deported”This one has a handful of contracts: https://commonpaper.com/committee > Agreements are created by a committee of dozens of attorneys representing technology vendors, procurement teams, boutique firms, and Big Law ... Say goodbye to combing through the same clauses over and over and hello to structured, easily negotiated agreements that get everyone on the same page There were also some open-source term sheets, this…
Comment linking /2014/08/05/githubbing-law/
on “Ask HN: Open-Source Legal Documents?”