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Vol. 111, No. 2 Spring 2019 LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL LIBRARY LAW LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Vol. 111, No. 2 Spring 2019 Pages 161–276 111, No. 2 Spring 2019 Pages Vol. ARTICLES From Stele to Silicon: Publication of Statutes, Public Access to the Law, and the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act [2019-9] Frederick W. Dingledy 165 A Library Design Bookshelf [2019-10] Stephen G. Margeton 197 Sustainable and Open Access to Valuable Legal Research Information: A New Framework [2019-11] Alex Zhang and James Hart 229 0023-9283(201921)111:2;1-G Vol. 111, No. 2 LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Spring 2019 American Association of Law Libraries Editorial Staff Editor: Tom Gaylord Publications Manager: Heather Haemker Production: ALA Production Services 2018–2019 Association Officers Femi Cadmus, President; Michelle Cosby, Vice President/President-Elect; Luis Acosta, Secretary; Jean L. Willis, Treasurer; Gregory R. Lambert, Immediate Past President; Elizabeth G. 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Margeton 197 Sustainable and Open Access to Valuable Alex Zhang 229 Legal Research Information: A New Framework James Hart [2019-11] Review Article Keeping Up with New Legal Titles [2019-12] Susan Azyndar 225 Susan David deMaine IMF eLibrary New Lower Subscription Rates for 2019 Global information for the legal community • User-friendly platform • Extensive archive to 1945 • Instant access to IMF analysis • Research covering topics on taxation, inequality, regulatory a airs, and more… eLibrary.imf.org/freetrial INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Vol. 111:2 [2019-9] From Stele to Silicon: Publication of Statutes, Public Access to the Law, and the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act* Frederick W. Dingledy** 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 pub- licize 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. Introduction .........................................................165 Mesopotamia and Babylonia ...........................................167 Dynastic China .......................................................168 Ancient Greece .......................................................170 Rome . .................................................................172 The Monarchy .....................................................172 The Republic ......................................................173 The Empire ........................................................174 The Byzantine Empire and Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis ................177 England .............................................................179 Virginia .............................................................183 Modern Foreign and International Views ................................188 The U.S. Federal Government ..........................................189 The Internet, Public Access to the Law, and UELMA ......................192 UELMA ..........................................................192 Delaware ..........................................................193 Conclusion ..........................................................194 Introduction The laws of a country are necessarily connected with every thing belonging to the people of it; so that a thorough knowledge of them, and of their progress, would inform us of every thing that was most useful to be known about them.1 * © Frederick W. Dingledy, 2019. ** Senior Reference Librarian, William & Mary Law School. The author would like to thank Benjamin J. Keele and Sunil Rao for their invaluable help. 1. 1 William Waller Hening, The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia i (photo. reprt. 1969) (1823), quoting 1 Joseph Priestley, Lectures on History, and General Policy 155 (1793), https://archive.org/details/lecturesonhis00prie. 165 166 LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Vol. 111:2 [2019-9] ¶1 Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar, nicknamed Caligula, was never known for his good behavior. For one, he exhausted his entire inheritance of 27 million gold pieces in under a year.2 To replenish his treasury, Caligula imposed taxes on almost any conceivable good or service. Originally, many subjects did not pay the new taxes because information on them passed only by word of mouth. In response, Caligula posted a copy of the new laws in public—in a location so high and in print so tiny that no one could read them.3 ¶2 As Judge Jeffrey Sutton aptly noted about Caligula’s actions, deliberately hid- ing the letter of the law from a country’s people is “not a good idea. How can citizens comply with what they can’t see?”4 ¶3 Legal philosopher Lon L. Fuller argues that a legal system can go awry in at least eight ways. Two are a failure to publicize the rules its subjects are expected to follow and a failure to make those rules understandable.5 Even if not many people actually read the published laws, Fuller says, publication is still important. People who read the law can help model the behavior of those who do not. Laws must be published so that they may be subject to public criticism.