ABSTRACT
The past few years have seen great changes in the legal publishing industry and in the manner in which legal information is produced, stored, disseminated and used. A new landscape of legal information has emerged along with the convergence of two factors. The term political economy itself has many meanings. Political economy has both a positive and normative side. Phelps notes the critical nature of normative political economy; the prevailing reward structure and underlying economic mechanisms are not taken as given. Rob Richards reports on the state of concentration in the legal publishing industry in his discussion of the development of the “Legal Publishers’ List,” a resource maintained at the University of Colorado Law Library. John Joergensen looks at potential problems facing non-profit and governmental internet publishers in the context of the effort at Rutgers-Camden to electronically publish New Jersey state case law in cooperation with the Administrative Office of the Courts.
