Legal Information Institute#Wex Legal Dictionary and Encyclopedia

LII was established in 1992 at Cornell Law School by Peter Martin and Tom Bruce with a $250,000 multi-year startup grant from the National Center for Automated Information Research.{{cite web|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/lii.html |title= LII:Overview |access-date=2010-03-04}} The LII was originally based on Gopher and provided access to United States Supreme Court decisions and the US Code. Its original mission included the intent to "carry out applied research on the use of digital information technology in the distribution of legal information,...[and t]o make law more accessible."

In the early years of LII, Bruce developed Cello the first web browser for Microsoft Windows.{{Cite web

| title = The World Wide Web History Project - Web History Day: Pioneering Software and Sites

| url=http://1997.webhistory.org/historyday/abstracts.html#tom

|access-date = 2010-03-04 }}{{cite book | last = He | first = Jimin | title = Internet resources for engineers | publisher = Elsevier | year = 1998 | pages = 34 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=T6F9GSJOgzoC&q=tom+bruce+cello&pg=PA34 | isbn = 978-0-7506-8949-6 }} Cello was released on 8 June 1993.{{cite book | last = Gillies | first = James |author2=Cailliau, R. | title = How the Web was born: the story of the World Wide Web | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2000 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/howwebwasbornsto00gill/page/235 235] | url = https://archive.org/details/howwebwasbornsto00gill | url-access = registration | quote = tom bruce cello. | isbn = 978-0-19-286207-5 }} In 1994 LII moved from Gopher to the Web. Since 2007 the IRS has distributed its IRS Tax Products DVD{{cite web |url=http://www.ntis.gov/products/irsdvd.aspx/ |title=IRS DVD Link |access-date=2010-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917133303/http://www.ntis.gov/products/irsdvd.aspx |archive-date=2008-09-17 |url-status=dead }} with LII's version of 26 USC (Internal Revenue Code).{{cite web|url=http://blog.law.cornell.edu/blog/2010/01/06/nothing-sure-but/ |title= LII Announce: Nothing sure but... |access-date=2010-03-04}}

LII has an extensive collection of law from the Supreme Court of the United States.{{cite book | last = Trinkle| first = Dennis A. |author2=Scott A. Merriman | title = The History Highway: A 21st-Century Guide to Internet Resources | publisher = M.E. Sharpe | year = 2001 | pages = 338 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=unxWZysEnWsC&q=%22legal+information+institute%22+and+%22cornell%22&pg=PA338 | isbn = 0-7656-1630-0}} It hosts all Supreme Court decisions since 1990 and over 600 historic Supreme Court pre-1992 decisions in web form ([https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/topic.htm/ by party name], [https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/author.htm by authoring justice], and [https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/topic.htm by topic]).{{cite book | last = Hall | first = Kermit |author2=John J. Patrick | title = The pursuit of justice: Supreme Court decisions that shaped America | publisher = Oxford University Press US | year = 2006 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/pursuitofjustice0000hall/page/244 244] | url = https://archive.org/details/pursuitofjustice0000hall | url-access = registration | quote = legal information institute and cornell. | isbn = 0-19-532568-0}}

The [https://www.law.cornell.edu/bulletin/ LII Supreme Court Bulletin] is LII's free Supreme Court email-based subscriber and web-based publication service.{{Cite web | last = Crawford

| first = Franklin Cornell University Chronicle (09/17/2007)

| title =Cornell Legal Information Institute posts previews of Supreme Court cases

| url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept07/Law.LII.Preview.html

|access-date = 2010-03-04 }}. The Bulletin provides subscribers with two distinct services.{{Cite web | last = Bruce | first = Tom, B-Screeds (03/03/09) | title =The LIIBULLETIN: believe it or not | url=http://blog.law.cornell.edu/tbruce/2009/03/30/the-liibulletin-believe-it-or-not/ |access-date = 2010-03-03 }}. The first is a notification service. LII Bulletin emails subscribers with timely notification of when the US Supreme Court has handed down a decision.{{cite book | last = Ambrogi | first = Robert | title = The essential guide to the best (and worst) legal sites on the Web | publisher = ALM Publishing | year = 2004| pages = 333 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4oETB8_EbIC&q=%22legal+information+institute%22+%22cornell%22&pg=PA333 | isbn = 1-58852-117-6}} It also provides subscribers links to the full opinions of those cases on the LII site.

The second service of LII Bulletin is a preview and analysis service for upcoming Supreme Court cases. Subscribers to the Bulletin receive legal analysis of upcoming Supreme Court cases with the intention of providing sophisticated yet accessible previews of the cases. LII selectively recruits second- and third-year students of the Cornell Law School to comprise the LII Bulletin editorial board. The Bulletin editorial board is responsible for every aspect of the journal's management, from selecting decisions for commentary to researching, writing, editing, and producing the journal content in HTML.{{cite web|url=http://topics.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert |title=liibulletin: The LII Supreme Court Bulletin |date=18 December 2007 |access-date=2010-03-03}}

LII publishes the Wex Legal Dictionary/Encyclopedia.{{cite web|url=http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/|title=Wex|work=Legal Information Institute}} It is a freely available legal reference, but editing is restricted. Once vetted, and subject to approval, qualified legal experts are allowed to post and edit entries on legal topics within Wex.{{cite web|url=http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/editorial_contributions |title=liibulletin: Editorial Contributions |access-date=2010-03-03}} Wex has since 2020 been continuously edited and supplemented by the Wex Definitions Team, a group of supervised Cornell Law student editors.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020-05-18 |title=Wex Definitions Team |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/lii/about/lii_staff/wdt |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=LII / Legal Information Institute |language=en}}

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