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Abandoning Law Reports For Official Digital Case Law, Peter W. Martin
Abandoning Law Reports For Official Digital Case Law, Peter W. Martin
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
In 2009, Arkansas ended publication of the Arkansas Reports. Since 1837 this series of volumes, joined in the late twentieth century by the Arkansas Appellate Reports covering the state's intermediate court of appeals, had served as the official record of Arkansas's case law. For all decisions handed down after February 12, 2009, not books but a database of electronic documents “created, authenticated, secured, and maintained by the Reporter of Decisions” constitute the “official report” of all Arkansas appellate decisions.
The article examines what distinguishes this Arkansas reform from the widespread cessation of public law report publication that occurred during the …