{"id":7532,"date":"2018-08-17T12:57:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T12:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7532"},"modified":"2018-08-17T12:57:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T12:57:06","slug":"linked-link-rot-in-the-law-causes-and-remedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/08\/17\/linked-link-rot-in-the-law-causes-and-remedies\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Link rot in the law. Causes and remedies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1983,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/kevin.lexblog.com\\\/2018\\\/08\\\/15\\\/link-rot-law&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250522235202\\\/https:\\\/\\\/kevin.lexblog.com\\\/2018\\\/08\\\/15\\\/link-rot-law\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 22:17:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-25 17:27:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-20 14:41:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-23 22:41:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-27 09:01:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-10 05:13:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 01:38:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 20:16:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 20:16:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevin.lexblog.com\/2018\/08\/15\/link-rot-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Link rot in the law. Causes and remedies &#8211; Real Lawyers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>How bad is link rot?<\/p>\n<p>A 2014\u00a0Harvard Law School study\u00a0study by\u00a0Jonathan Zittrain, Kendra Albert and\u00a0Lawrence Lessig, determined that approximately 50% of the URLs in U.S. Supreme Court opinions no longer link to the original information.\u00a0They also found that in a selection of legal journals published between 1999 and 2011, more than 70% of the links no longer functioned as intended.<\/p>\n<p>Any number of things cause link rot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Eye-Opening for me. Link-rot is something I deal with daily on this blog and in my bookmarks or saved pages. When you have legal cases referencing URLs that are dead, that\u2019s scary.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Link rot in the law. Causes and remedies &#8211; Real Lawyers: How bad is link rot? A 2014\u00a0Harvard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-08-17T12:57:14Z","apple_news_api_id":"d46f96be-1342-458d-a543-94d3ee475643","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-08-17T12:57:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A1G-WvhNCRY2lQ5TT7kdWQw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Xu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8140,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2019\/12\/15\/linked-bankruptcy-everything-i-wanted-to-link-to-but-didnt-volume-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":7532,"position":0},"title":"Linked Bankruptcy: Everything I wanted to link to but didn&#8217;t (volume 3)","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Volumem 1 and Volume 2 Sigh, here we are again. 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