Editorial standards
The promises behind every article here, written down so you can hold the library to them.
A promise kept privately is just a habit. These are public, so anyone can weigh an article against the list and say with reasons that it falls short.
Five to seven primary references
Articles are assembled out of statutes, regulations, agency material and decided cases. Five sources is the floor and seven the ceiling, and they are listed under the article, where each gets a line explaining what it settles. An alert written by a law firm does not qualify, and neither does an encyclopedia entry or a summary put out by a rival publication. Any sentence with no controlling text behind it comes out of the draft. It does not get softened until it sounds safer.
Each link goes to the text itself wherever the public can reach it: the statute on a government host, or in the version the Legal Information Institute at Cornell keeps; the regulation in the electronic code; the instructions an agency gives to filers; a court's own opinion.
Why you will not find a date, and what that costs
Articles are not stamped. Beneath a headline you get three things and no more: which field of law the article belongs to, roughly how long it takes to read, and which jurisdiction it covers.
The reason is this. An article reports the rule exactly as its cited source reports it. When that rule moves, the article gets repaired on the spot rather than reissued with a newer stamp on top of it. A stamp would tell you when the file was last touched, which is a different question from whether it is right. It would also be read as a promise nobody could honor: a fresh one looks like a guarantee, an old one looks like a warning, and both readings mislead.
Here is the honest cost of that choice, stated plainly. Nothing here promises how often an article is revisited, and a missing date tells you nothing at all about how current it is. If you need to know what the law required on some particular day, open the primary source cited under the article and read it there. The source is the authority; the article is a guide to it, written in the expectation that you will check.
No names, and no numbers about ourselves
There are no bylines, biographies, credentials or reviewer credits, and there are no testimonials, ratings or case results. Nor will you find figures about the site: not a total of articles, not a total of fields, not a readership. The collection keeps growing, so any figure printed here would be out of date almost at once.
Jurisdiction stated, never fudged
A few of these fields are federal all the way down. Alcohol beverage law is largely a state matter resting on a federal layer. International family law and cross-border litigation depend on treaties that different countries read differently. So every article names its jurisdiction, and inside the text a rule that varies is flagged as varying the first time it comes up. Where many states share an approach, the article calls it a common approach, never the national rule.
One link is paid for
Each article under immigration consequences of conviction carries a single paid link to an immigration law firm, marked as an outbound link. What the money buys is a place on the page. It buys no conclusion, no citation, no phrasing, and no decision about which articles get written. Nowhere else on this site is any placement paid for. You will meet the same disclosure on privacy and terms, ahead of meeting the link itself.
Photographs
One picture goes with each article, and no picture is used twice anywhere on the site. Three licenses are accepted and no others: Creative Commons Attribution, a public domain mark, and a dedication to the public domain. Since cropping and grading in the house style would amount to an adaptation, ShareAlike and NonCommercial images are turned away. Nothing is machine-generated or assembled from parts.
Every picture is there for atmosphere, and that is worth saying flatly: it proves nothing the article claims, and you should not read it as showing the company, agency, building or case under discussion. Who took each one, where it came from and which license it carries are all recorded at image credits.
Errors repaired inside the text
When something is wrong, the article itself changes. There is no separate register of edits. If the repair alters the substance — a threshold, a deadline, the forum, the standard applied on review, what follows from getting it wrong — the article says in its own words that the position moved. Sending a report is covered at corrections; the making of an article is described at how we work.