Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/HLS edit-a-thon

The inaugural HLS Legal Editathon will be held on Wednesday, April 16, at Harvard Law School. Wikipedians, law students, and anyone interested will be working together to create, edit, and improve articles on legal topics, including cases, concepts, and people.

After the editathon proper in the afternoon, those interested can walk over to nearby Cambridge Common for a celebratory drink.

Event details

 * Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2014 from 2 to 7 p.m. If you can't join us for the entire editathon, no problem! Come for as long or little as you like.
 * Venue: Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA 02138. In between the Harvard Square and Porter Square stops on the MBTA Red Line.
 * Find us at: Conference Room, 2nd floor.
 * Cost: Free
 * Participants: This event is open to anyone, especially those with an interest in or some knowledge about the law. You don't need any Wikipedia editing experience to participate. We'll be having a brief orientation at the start of the editathon and tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers throughout the event.
 * RSVP by signing your username below! If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.


 * What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light snacks and drinks will be provided.
 * Twitter Hashtag: #HLSeditathon

Likely attendees
(sign up by editing the page and entering four tildes ~. This will automatically put in your username.)
 * Hallmark (talk) 22:13, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * KeSerra (talk) 19:24, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
 * PacificWonderland (talk) 22:24, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
 * NotJJWatt (talk) 23:28, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Online participants
If you cannot make it to our event in Cambridge, but would still like to participate, you are invited to do so remotely! Please add your name to the participant list below and include your contributions in the section. And be sure to use the Twitter hashtag #HLSeditathon if you tweet about this event!

Suggested Legal Articles & Topics
The following is a sampling of suggested Wikipedia articles to create or add upon. However, feel free to come up with your own ideas!

Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.

For pages on legal concepts, think about the history of that concept, any major cases interpreting it, and any seminal law review articles discussing it. For pages on court cases, think about the facts and holding of the case, subsequent history, historical significance, and any concurrences or dissents. For pages on people (such as law professors, practitioners, and judges), think about notable cases they were involved in or influential ideas they helped spread.

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Concepts

 * Compulsory term
 * Warranty of habitability
 * See the brief section under Implied warranty
 * Stream of commerce
 * Prosecutorial discretion
 * Redirects to Enforcement discretion, which has almost nothing on prosecutorial discretion in the U.S.)

Cases

 * Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co.
 * See the brief section under Necessity (tort)
 * Hobson v. Hansen (education/civil rights suit decided by DC Circuit Judge J. Skelly Wright)
 * 
 * Ellison v. Brady (9th Circuit decision that set the "reasonable woman" precedent in sexual harassment law)
 * 
 * Bundy v. Jackson (DC Circuit decision recognizing "hostile environment" sexual harassment)
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 * Knox v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 (2012 Supreme Court case on compelled speech)
 * Federal Election Commission v. Beaumont (2003 Supreme Court case on campaign finance)
 * Young v. Community Nutrition Institute (1986 Supreme Court case)
 * United States v. O'Hagan (1997 Supreme Court case on breach of fiduciary duty in securities trading)
 * Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972 Supreme Court case on freedom of speech)
 * Tunkl v. Regents of the University of California
 * Motor Vehicles Manufacturers Association v. State Farm

People

 * Joseph W. Singer (professor at Harvard Law School)
 * Robert Ellickson (professor at Yale Law School)
 * Carol M. Rose (professor at Yale Law School)
 * Stewart Macaulay (professor at University of Wisconsin Law School)
 * Eduardo M. Peñalver (professor at University of Chicago Law School, incoming dean of Cornell Law School)

Concepts

 * Abuse of rights
 * Duty of disclosure
 * Enterprise liability
 * Category:Legal term stubs

Cases

 * Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth
 * Javins v. First National Realty Corp.
 * Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.
 * Category:United States case law stubs

People

 * Henry Friendly
 * Shirley Abrahamson
 * Category:American jurist stubs

WikiProjects
Wikiprojects are communities of editors organizing strategic editing of curated topics on Wikipedia:

Articles worked on

 * Pennzoil
 * Spottswood William Robinson III
 * Javins v. First National Realty Corp.
 * Bundy v. Jackson
 * Public Citizen v. Department of Justice
 * Nectow v. City of Cambridge
 * Ybarra v. Spangard
 * Drennan v. Star Paving Co.
 * Robert Ellickson
 * Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth
 * Kerans v. Porter Paint Co.
 * Tunkl v. Regents of the University of California
 * Motor Vehicles Manufacturers Association v. State Farm