The Library at LexBlog
Preserving and structuring for citation the published works of legal professionals worldwide
The Library delivers published works as data to platforms and applications used by legal professionals and the public.
Submit your publishingSecondary law, identified
For more than 20 years, legal professionals worldwide have published analysis online. Like law reviews and treatises, these works are secondary law. Yet unlike traditional legal sources, much of this work has lacked a consistent system for permanent preservation and citation.
The Library at LexBlog addresses that gap by preserving these published works and making them citable.
A permanent citation
A URL is an address, not a lasting citation. Websites change, firms merge, and publications disappear.
The Library created lexpid, a persistent identifier for the published works of legal professionals worldwide. Available at lexpid.org, each identifier connects to a preserved work, even when its original web address changes.
What a citation looks like
- Law review article
- Charles A. Reich, The New Property, 73 Yale L.J. 733 (1964)
- Published work in The Library
- Carolyn Elefant, Why AI may not be used for A2J in legal, My Shingle (Nov. 3, 2025) [lexpid.org/1048812]
- Original URL
- https://www.myshingle.com/?p=19107
How The Library delivers published works
The work
Every published work in The Library goes through the same six steps.
- 01. Find Identify legal professionals and their published works
- 02. Review Confirm the author and the source
- 03. Gather Collect published works
- 04. Preserve Keep a permanent copy of each published work
- 05. Structure Organize the work for citation
- 06. Deliver Supply data to recipients
Part of the answer
The law comes up in everyday matters, from a lease or a visa to a labor dispute or a merger. The published works of legal professionals help explain how the law applies to these situations, making their insight valuable to their colleagues and the public.
Data recipients
The Library delivers published works to legal platforms and applications, structured, attributed, and permanently linked for citation. Access through AI assistants is coming.
The Library does not permit its data to be used to train AI models.
Coming to AI assistants: Claude
Coming into The Library now
Take part
1 · Open Access · Free
Submit your publishing
Have your published works preserved and structured for citation in The Library at no cost.
What happens to your published works
- Preserved permanently
- Structured for citation
- Delivered as data to legal platforms
2 · Author Record
Support The Library and verify your authorship
An Author Record lets you claim and verify the record associated with your published works.
Your participation
- Claim your existing author record
- Verify your identity as the author
- Help sustain The Library’s preservation and citation system
For firms, take part for all your legal professionals. Talk with us.
Questions? Call 1-800-913-0988 or email library@lexblog.com.
Frequently asked questions
What does it mean for my published works to be data?
Your published works remain intact, as you wrote them. The Library preserves each work and structures it with information, such as the author, publication, date, subject, and citation. The text is also vectorized, so relevant works can be found by meaning, not just keywords.
This allows legal platforms and applications to find and use your published works while keeping them attributed to you.
Does the work need to have been published on the LexBlog publishing platform?
No. The Library accepts published works from legal professionals worldwide, regardless of where they were originally published. Works published on the LexBlog platform are automatically included in The Library.
How does The Library help my published works be found?
The Library preserves and structures your published works so legal platforms and applications can find and use them. Each work remains connected to its author and source, making the analysis available with information about where it came from.
What is a connector?
A connector allows an AI assistant or application to retrieve information from an external source. The Library has developed a connector that enables AI assistants to access preserved, structured published works, with author and citation information attached.
Access through Claude is coming.
Is my work used to train AI models?
No. The Library does not permit its data to be used to train AI models.
Instead, The Library delivers preserved published works as data that legal platforms can retrieve and use. Its connector will also allow AI assistants to retrieve relevant works, with attribution and citation information attached, without using those works to train their models.
Who can submit published works to The Library?
Legal professionals and organizations worldwide can submit their published works, including lawyers, law firms, law students, academics, law librarians, and bar associations. Participation is open to individuals and organizations of all sizes.
What does it cost to have our published works in The Library?
Nothing. The Library is Open Access. Legal professionals and organizations can submit their published works for preservation and citation at no cost. An Author Record is optional and available to those who support The Library.
What does it mean for my work to have a permanent citation?
A URL tells you where a published work is located. A permanent citation identifies the work even when that location changes. Websites are redesigned, publications close, and links stop working. A Harvard study found that half the links cited in United States Supreme Court opinions no longer led to the material originally cited.
Libraries and scholarly publishers have long used persistent identifiers to address this problem. The Library of Congress maintains authority records to distinguish authors, while scholars use ORCID identifiers to connect their identities to their research. Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) provide persistent references to scholarly publications.
The Library applies these established principles to the published works of legal professionals worldwide. Each work receives a persistent identifier through lexpid.org, connecting it to a preserved copy. An Author Record supplies the additional information needed to complete the citation to its author, following established legal practices.
Does The Library guarantee an AI assistant will cite me?
No. The Library preserves published works and structures them with author and citation information that AI assistants will be able to retrieve through its connector. An Author Record lets you claim and verify the record associated with your published works, but The Library cannot guarantee that an AI assistant will cite them.
How do I support The Library and protect myself?
You can support the Library by getting an Author Record. An Author Record lets you claim and verify the record associated with your published works, helping establish your identity as their author. Your support helps The Library preserve and structure for citation the published works of legal professionals worldwide.