Peter W. Martin has been a law professor since 1972, and Dean from 1980 to 1988, at Cornell Law School. [1] In 1992, together with Thomas R. Bruce, he co-founded the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law. [1] He graduated from Cornell University and Harvard Law School. [1]
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The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a non-profit public service of Cornell Law School that provides no-cost access to current American and international legal research sources online. Founded in 1992 by Peter Martin and Tom Bruce, LII was the first law site developed on the internet. LII electronically publishes on the Web the U.S. Code, U.S. Supreme Court opinions, Uniform Commercial Code, the US Code of Federal Regulations, several Federal Rules, and a variety of other American primary law materials. LII also provides access to other national and international sources, such as treaties and United Nations materials. According to its website, the LII serves over 40 million unique visitors per year.
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