Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations¶
Zittrain, J. L., Albert, & Lessig, L. (2014). Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations. Harvard Law Review Forum, 176-199.
Cited by¶
2 citations across 2 artifacts.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Domain-specific¶
Mechanisms¶
- Resolution Link Checker
- The problem — link rot, and its quieter cousin reference rot, where the link resolves but the content has changed — is well documented in legal scholarship, and services like Harvard's Perma.cc exist to counter it.
This sourceDocuments link and reference rot in legal citations and describes Perma as preserving records against both failure modes.
- The problem — link rot, and its quieter cousin reference rot, where the link resolves but the content has changed — is well documented in legal scholarship, and services like Harvard's Perma.cc exist to counter it.
Verification¶
Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.
Does it back the claim? Read against the text for 1 of 2 citations: 1 supported. Each verdict is shown under its citation below, with what in the work backs the sentence.
Was it audited? Yes. A second, independent pass read the citation against the article text and recorded a verdict.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
See how references were verified.
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