Nothing is preserved by default.
Explore the recordAn opinion belongs to the docket. An article belongs to the journal that ran it. A lecture belongs to the university that hosted it. Each institution preserves its own continuity, and none is responsible for the body of work that runs through all of them. Posterity Works assembles that body of work, verifies it against original sources, and places it where its survival is no longer contingent.
Published works in the founding archive, each one counted and sourced.
Thirty years of uninterrupted output, without a silent year.
Of them have no indexed source of record anywhere.
Dispersal
Each act of publication hands one piece of the work to a different custodian, on that custodian's terms and for the length of that custodian's attention. Nothing in the arrangement gathers the pieces back.
What is lost is rarely the writing itself, which usually survives somewhere. What is lost is the record: the single verified account of what a person wrote, which is the only form in which a body of work can be read as one thing.
Law reviews change hosts, renumber volumes and move back issues behind subscription walls. The article persists. The address that pointed to it does not.
Opinions are filed under the case, not under the author. A decade of them can move in one migration, without redirect and without notice to the person who wrote them.
Scholarly indexes attribute work to publications they recognize. Writing that appears outside those publications is never counted, and to a machine reading the record, was never written.
Repositories, faculty pages and personal sites persist for exactly as long as a budget or a business model does. None of them is a permanent address.
Each custodian is faithful to its own purpose. None of them is negligent. That is precisely the difficulty.
Consolidation
Two deliverables, and the continuing work of keeping them true. The archive is handed over as files held outright, not as an account held on loan.
Every published item located, dated and checked against the original. Titles corrected, duplicates reconciled, absent years reconstructed from library and court holdings. Where an item survives only in print, the entry records that, rather than inferring a link that was never there.
A site on your own domain holding the complete record, structured so that search engines and scholarly indexes can read and attribute it. It continues to function if this studio does not, which is the only test of independence worth applying.
The complete record, with a source and a date attached to every entry.
A copy or scan of each item, where rights and holdings permit one.
What the indexes hold, and, stated with equal clarity, what they do not.
The archive entire, as plain structured files, held outright and movable at any time.
Annual review, new work entered, broken addresses found and repaired.
Evidence
These are counted figures from the founding archive, not estimates. The writing exists. It was published, cited and taught. The systems built to index scholarship still cannot attribute most of it to a source of record.
This is not a judgment on the writing. It is a measurement of the infrastructure that was meant to hold it.
| 237 | Published works in the record |
| 1996–2026 | Years of continuous output |
| 11 | Works carrying a DOI |
| 223 | Works with no indexed source of record, out of 237 |
Showing all 237 works.
One mark per published work. Arrangement is not chronological. OpenAlex under-indexes law reviews, so the real gap is wider than shown here, not narrower.
Provenance
Posterity Works began with a single archive: thirty years of judicial opinions, law review articles, columns and lectures by Gerald Lebovits, a New York judge and law professor.
He is the founder's father. The work began for the reason such work usually begins, and it was carried out to a standard that does not depend on the relationship. Every figure on this page is drawn from that record and counted rather than claimed.
It remains the only completed archive.
The audit
Before anything is proposed or priced, we set down a written account of what the public record currently holds under your name: what is indexed, what is absent, what has already broken, and what will break next.
It is issued without charge and without expectation. Few people have ever seen their own record assembled in one place.
The engagement
Nothing is committed before the audit, and the audit is the stage that determines whether the rest of it is warranted.
A written account of the present state of your public record. Issued without charge. One week.
What can be recovered, what cannot be, and what the work will cost. A fixed fee, quoted once the audit is complete.
The archive is assembled, every entry checked against a source, and the site built on your own domain. Duration established in the proposal.
Annual review, new work entered, addresses repaired, exports refreshed. Annual, and discontinuable without loss of the archive.
Your name, where you have published, and roughly how far back it goes. That is sufficient to begin.
Correspondence is answered personally.