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¶
1 citation across 1 artifact.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
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¶
This reference passed the adversarial substantiation pipeline: it was checked to exist and to support the claim it is attached to. See how references were verified.
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