2008 Issue Briefs and Reports

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• Public Policy Positions of The American Association of Law Libraries

  December 23, 2008

• The Pro-Library Copyright Agenda

  December 2008

• Public Access to the Published Results of Publicly Funded Research Will Benefit the Economy, Science, and Health

  To the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  January 2008

• Moving Toward a 21st Century Right-to-Know Agenda: Recommendations to President-elect Obama and Congress

  November 2008

• Updating the Law Governing the Privacy of Electronic Communications

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  Liberty and Security: Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress
  November 2008

• Promoting Government Transparency

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  Liberty and Security: Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress
  November 2008

• National Security Letters and Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  Liberty And Security: Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress
  November 2008

• Reform of the National Security Surveillance Laws and Procedures

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  Liberty and Security: Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress
  November 2008

• Preventing Over-classification and Retroactive Classification and Promoting De-classification of Government Documents

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  Liberty and Security: Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress
  November 2008

• Reforming the State Secrets Privilege

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  Liberty and Security: Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress
  November 2008

• Assertion of Executive Authority in National Security Matters

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  Liberty and Security: Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress
  November 2008

• Executive Privilege and Congressional Oversight

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  Liberty and Security: Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress
  November 2008

• Signing Statements

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  Liberty and Security: Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress
  November 2008

• Restore efficiency and openness to the Freedom of Information Act process

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  National Security Archive
  November 2008

• Reform the Classification System

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  National Security Archive
  November 2008

• Ensure that presidential records are handled in accordance with the law and Congress' intent

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  National Security Archive
  November 2008
  

• Achieving the Potential: The Future of Federal e-Rulemaking

  Committee on the Status and Future of Federal e-Rulemaking
  2008

• Managing the Public's Records for Accountability and History

  AALL's Comments and Recommendations to the Obama-Biden Transition Team
  November 2008

• Libraries & Government: Issues, Services and Strategies

  Current E-Government Policy Issues
  ALA Annual Conference
  by Mary Alice Baish
  June 30, 2008

• Issue Brief - Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press & Sage Publications v. Georgia State University

  AALL Issue Brief 2008-1
  Revised June 27, 2008

• Issue Brief - The TEACH Act

  AALL Issue Brief 2008-2
  April 2008