Reports and Issue Briefs

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

• Public Policy Positions of The American Association of Law Libraries
  December 23, 2008

• The Pro-Library Copyright Agenda of the Library Copyright Alliance
  December 2008

• Public Access to the Published Results of Publicly Funded Research
  January 2008

• Moving Toward a 21st Century Right-to-Know Agenda: Recommendations to President-elect Obama and Congress
  November 2008

• Liberty and Security: Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress
  November 2008
  Including:
  
  • Updating the Law Governing the Privacy of Electronic Communications
  • Promoting Government Transparency
  • National Security Letters and Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act
  • Reform of the National Security Surveillance Laws and Procedures
  • Preventing Over-classification and Retroactive Classification and Promoting De-classification of Government Documents
  • Reforming the State Secrets Privilege
  • Assertion of Executive Authority in National Security Matters
  • Executive Privilege and Congressional Oversight
  • Signing Statements

• National Security Archive Recommendations
  November 2008
  Including:
  
  • Restore efficiency and openness to the Freedom of Information Act process
  • Reform the classification system
  • Ensure that presidential records are handled in accordance with the law and Congress' intent

• 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
  2008

Public Access to Presidential Records and Claims of Executive Privilege
AALL Issue Brief 2007-1 [ PDF ]
March 2007, Updated May 2009

Network Neutrality
AALL Issue Brief 2008-3 [ PDF ]
December 2008

The TEACH Act
AALL Issue Brief 2008-2 [ PDF ]
April 2008

Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press
& Sage Publications v. Georgia State University
AALL Issue Brief 2008-1 [ PDF ]
April 2008

National Security Letters
AALL Issue Brief 2007-2 [ PDF ]
March 2007

State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources
March 2007