Carl Malamud recently announced the creation of Law.Gov ("a proposed registry and repository of all primary legal materials of the United States").  Co-convenors in the project include Harvard Law School’s own Lawrence Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain, former Harvard Law School Library Director Terry Martin and the Robert Crown Law Library of Stanford Law School.  See Law.Gov: America’s Operating System, Open Source for Carl’s announcement on O’Reilly Radar.