Publications
Books, standards, patents & press
Published work, standards, granted patents, open-source releases, and coverage and interviews elsewhere.
Books, papers, standards & patents
Oct 16, 2026Rethinking Legislative Drafting for the Age of AI (Bússola library)Republished in the Bússola Tech LegisTech LibraryArticleOct 13, 2026Akoma Ntoso Version 2.0, Part 2: Specifications (AKN 3.1) — OASIS StandardThe new OASIS Standard for machine-readable legal and legislative documents; co-editorStandardJun 9, 2025The Existing and Potential Uses of AI in Parliaments (natural language processing)Article in the Bússola Tech LegisTech LibraryArticle2025XSLTjsXSLT 1.0+ processor written in JavaScript, released as open source by XcentialOpen sourceDec 5, 2024Artificial Intelligence in Legislative Services: Principles for Effective ImplementationCo-author of Bússola Tech's multi-author book; launched December 2024 and presented in Washington, May 2025Book chapterOct 15, 2024US 12,118,293 — Extending change management in XML to group and nest changesChange sets: grouping and nesting changes in legislative XML. Sole inventor.PatentMay 21, 2024US 11,989,794 — System and method for document extraction and synthesisBill synthesis: generating amending documents from changes made in context. Sole inventor.PatentAug 29, 2018Akoma Ntoso Version 1.0 Part 1: XML Vocabulary (OASIS Standard)The international OASIS standard for legal documents; co-editor with Monica Palmirani, Fabio Vitali and Roger SperbergStandardNov 10, 2016The Pocket Guide to Akoma Ntoso — 2nd EditionA 146-page practical guide to the Akoma Ntoso standard for legal documentsBookMay 2015Contributions to the OASIS LegalDocML committeeMailing-list contributions, 2015–2018, including the Pocket Guide and the Akoma Ntoso namespaceStandards
2014Modelling the U.S. Code in USLM: A Derivative of Akoma NtosoPaper for JURIX 2014 on how the U.S. Code's XML model derives from Akoma NtosoPaper
2011Legislative Time MachinePaper presented at IRIS 2011, the International Legal Informatics SymposiumPaper
Sep 3, 2002OASIS Legislative XML committee call for participationAmong the proposers of an OASIS technical committee on legislative XMLStandardsPress, interviews & recognition
Oct 13, 2026Akoma Ntoso V2.0 approved as OASIS Standard (OASIS)OASIS announcement of the Akoma Ntoso 2.0 (AKN 3.1) approvalPressMay 21, 2025Bússola Tech LegisTech event in Washington, DC (Xcential)Write-up of the May 2025 event at the U.S. HousePressSep 29, 2021Grant Vergottini on the LEX2021 "Law as Code" summer schoolQ&A with Hudson Hollister on xcential.com about LEX2021 and Akoma NtosoInterviewSep 26, 2021BOSS Capital Partners invests in XcentialPress release on BOSS Capital Partners' investment in XcentialPress2013Fastcase 50, Class of 2013Named one of the Fastcase 50 legal innovators, with bioAward2013Making legislation readable – 3 ways (GovLoop)GovLoop on three ways to amend bills, including amendments in contextPressApr 23, 2012OASIS puts Akoma Ntoso on the standards track (Library of Congress)Library of Congress blog post citing an Akoma Ntoso markup of the U.S. CodePress2011RESTful API for California legislation (GovLoop)GovLoop on an unofficial RESTful API for California legislation, ahead of the 2011 California Law HackathonPress2011Should legal informatics technologies be open source? (GovLoop)GovLoop discussion prompted by the essay "To Go Open Source or Not?"Press
