Academic Research

• International Litigation Under the United States Code, Smit, H. (1965). Columbia Law Review, 65(6), 1015-1046. This paper discusses and reviews the International Litigation under the United States Code. 
• United States Code, Act, R. F. (1980). Title 15 (Commerce and Trade). This Chapter codifies the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, commonly known as SCRA. 
• A mathematical approach to the study of the united states code, Bommarito II, M. J., & Katz, D. M. (2010). Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 389(19), 4195-4200. This paper approaches the study of the United States Codes of Law from a mathematical perspective. It formalizes a representation of the United States Code and suggests that the Code is a hierarchically organized document that contains language and explicit citations between its provisions. This formalization is then used for measuring aspects of the Code as codified in 2008, 2009 and 2010. It helped in characterizing the actual changes in the Code over time. The study finds that in the recent past, the Code has grown in its amount of structure, interdependence, and language.
•  Lost laws: what we can't find in the United States code, Tress, W. (2009). Golden Gate UL Rev., 40, 129. This paper identifies certain shortcomings of the current version of the United States Codes of Laws. The issues the paper identifies are- some laws are relegated to notes and appendices; certain laws are considered to be temporary and hence left out; the authority of the language in the Code varies from Title to Title. The paper traces the development of the United States Code and looks at its problematic structure and restricted content in the context of that background. It proposes certain measures to resolve some of the issues and to develop a new electronic version of the Code. 
• The United States Code, Prima Facie Evidence, and Positive Law, Whisner, M. (2009). Law Libr. J., 101, 545. Different subject matters related to the United States Code is discussed in this paper. It looks into the circumstances when the courts turn to the United States Statutes at Large over U.S.C. The background against which the first edition of the U.S.C was published is discussed. It is also discussed that when it was first adopted, it was decided to be used only as prima facie evidence of the laws. The paper discusses the progress in enacting titles as positive law and the new titles that are being used in the current versions. 
• Properties of the United States code citation network, Bommarito, M., & Katz, D. (2009). This paper investigates the properties of the United States Code's citation network. It examines the directed degree distribution of the network. The results suggest for outdegree distribution, the power-law model is a plausible fit but for indegree distribution, it is not a fit. The paper constructs a model to understand this result. The model is developed on the assumption that the probability of citation is a per-word rate. 
• Law is code: a software engineering approach to analyzing the united states code, Li, W., Azar, P., Larochelle, D., Hill, P., & Lo, A. W. (2015). J. Bus. & Tech. L., 10, 297. This article analyzes the evolution of the United States Code from its beginning. It uses a quantitative, unbiased and software-engineers approach in this analysis. The structure of the U.S Code, its strengths and vulnerabilities are analyzed and discussed. The article also provides some insight into the new ways of thinking about individual laws. The paper argues the computational approaches to the law can increase efficiency and improve access to justice. Computer Crime: The Ribicoff Amendment to United States Code, Title 18, McLaughlin, G., & Ribicoff, A. (1978). Crim. Just. J., 2, 217. It provides the details of the Title 19 Chapter 4 Subtitle II Part I of the United States Code of Laws. 
• United States Code, GOV, C. (2016). This is an Editorial Reclassification that notifies the elimination of Title 50, Appendix of United States Code. It says the Appendix to the said title is being eliminated and most of the provision that is not obsolete is being transferred to new Chapters 49 to 57 of Title 50, War and National Defense. Some other provisions are transferred to other titles of the Code. 
• United States Code, Code, U. S. (26). Subtitle F. It provides the details of the Title 19 Chapter 4 Subtitle II Part I of the United States Code of Laws. 
• The Need for a New United States Code, Angell, R. S. (1956). The Library Quarterly, 26(4), 318-330. The article attempts to develop some general considerations on the function and content of catalog entries and based on that it tries to find out whether there is a need for a new United States Code. 
• Statutory Interpretation of Ambiguous Criminal Statutes: An Analysis of Title 18, Section 207 (c) of the United States Code, Frensilli, B. (1989). Geo. Wash. L. Rev., 58, 972. This article analyzes the Title 18, Section 207 (c) of the United States Code. The Ethics in Government Act passed by the Congress in 1978 made amendments to this section in an attempt to place greater restrictions on the lobbying activities of former government officials. In 1987, disputes arose between the government and a former government official over the interpretation of the statute. This article analyzes the section under the light of this dispute. 
• The United States Code: Its Accuracy, Accessibility, and Currency, LeFevre, P. G. (2012). Admin. & Reg. L. News, 38, 10. The article, written by a former director of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives discusses the present status of the code and its future in terms of three qualities that matter most to the users- accuracy, accessibility, and currency.