Joel just updated the site with a new feature that allows you to follow the activity in an area of law in Spindle Law.  Just roll over the text of any branch in the tree (on the page for that branch) and click “follow.”  After confirming, you’ll be signed up to receive an email notification whenever anyone adds to, edits, comments on, vouches for, rejects, or nominates for deletion that branch, its authorities, its descendant branches, or their authorities.  Whenever you contribute yourself, you follow by default  (but can decline to follow by unchecking a check box, and can always unfollow), so you’ll be able to keep up on everything that’s happening in that section.

In areas in which the law tends to share a common structure across multiple jurisdictions, we like to put authorities for different jurisdictions together.  Take a look, for example, at the evidence law rule in some jurisdictions that there is a social worker-client privilege and, on the other hand, the rule of some other jurisdictions that there is no such privilege.  (You have to sign in first to see what I’m talking about.)

This makes it easy for researchers in the law of one jurisdiction to see how courts in other jurisdictions have addressed the same issues.